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A Short Biography of Thomas Shadwell

Author Name:

Thomas Shadwell

Born As:

Other Names:

Thomas Shadwell

Born:

1642

Died:

1692




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Dramatist and poet                          
Selected  Works:

The Royal Shepherdess - 1669, an adaptation of John Fountain's Rewards of Virtue
The Humorist - 1671
The Miser - 1672, adapted from Molière
Psyche - 1675
The Libertine - 1676
The Virtuoso - 1676
The history of Timon of Athens the Man-hater - 1678 -on this Shakespearian adaptation see O Beber, Shadwell's Bearbeitung des Timon of Athens - Röstock, 1897
A True Widow - 1679
The Woman Captain - 1680, revived in 1744 as The Prodigal
The Lancashire Witches and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest - 1682
Bury Fair - 1689
The Amorous Bigot, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly - 1690
The Scowerers - 1691
The Volunteers, or Stockjobbers, published posthumously - 1693.
                          
                          
Appointed Poet Laureate in 1689.