SHADWELL, THOMAS

1642?–1692, English dramatist and poet. His plays, written in the tradition of Jonson's comedy of humours, are distinguished for their realistic pictures of London life and for their frank and witty dialogue. They include The Sullen Lovers (1668), Epsom Wells (1672), and The Squire of Alsatia (1688). His devotion to Jonson instigated his feud with Dryden, whom he succeeded as poet laureate in 1689. Shadwell attacked Dryden in The Medal of John Bayes (1682) and was himself lampooned in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe.

See his works (ed. by M. Summers, 5 vol., 1927).

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Thomas Shadwell: His Life and Comedies
Book by Albert S. Borgman; New York University Press, 1928
Subjects: Fiction, Shadwell, Thomas--1642?-1692
...Alfred E., A Literary LinA between Thomas Shadwell and Chris. tion Felix Weisse , 71 n...Shadwell, 7 . Shadwell, Sarah, 15 n. Shadwell, Susan, sister of the dramatist, 7 , 8 . Shadwell, Thomas, of Linedon, Staffordshire, arms...
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The Complete Works: Of Thomas Shadwell
Book by Montague Summers, Thomas Shadwell; The Fortune Press, 1927
Subjects: Poetry
THE MISER, A COMEDY. ACTED By His Majesties Servants AT THE Theater Royal. Written by THOMAS SHADWELL. LONDON, Printed for Thomas Collins and John Ford, at The Middle Temple-gate in Fleet- street, 1672.
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Thomas Shadwell
Book by George Saintsbury; T.F. Unwin, 1907
Subjects: Drama
...her familys was gone when Shadwell ceased to write. He himself...two. His son, Sir John Shadwell, was a physician of repute; Charles Shadwell, a dramatist of the next...perhaps some other relation to Thomas. The community of profession...
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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Book by Thomas Jefferson; Capricorn Books, 1959
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas--1743-1826--Biography, Presidents--United States--Biography
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON January 6, 1821 A T the age...of the parish. He had three sons; Thomas who died young, Field who settled on...settled on the lands I still own, called Shadwell, and joining my present residence...
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Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography
Book by Merrill D. Peterson; Oxford University Press, 1975
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas--1743-1826, Presidents--United States--Biography
...his own farms at Fine Creek and Shadwell, and was frequently away from...one-room plantation schoolhouse Thomas and his sisters and cousins learned...old when the family returned to Shadwell, Thomas was promptly placed in a classical...
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Late Shadwell and Early Bourgeois Comedy
Journal article by J. Douglas Canfield; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 46, 2005
Subjects: Dramatists, Literary criticism, Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-92), Theater
Late Shadwell and Early Bourgeois Comedy...later twentieth century, Thomas Shadwells reputation was...myself wrote: The comedies of Shadwell-starting in 1681 with The...played by the imposing Thomas Betterton), lectures Wildish...
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The Jeffersons at Shadwell
Journal article by Peter S. Onuf; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Jeffersons at Shadwell (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Onuf The Jeffersons at Shadwell. By Susan Kern. New...important new study of Thomas Jeffersons parents...the home they made at Shadwell, and the family they...take seriously, but for Thomas Jefferson it evoked the lost world of his parents Shadwell, a place where white...
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But Loads of Sh -- Almost Choked the Way: Shadwell, Dryden, Rochester, and the Summer of 1676
Journal article by Kirk Combe; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 37, 1995
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...Restoration Playwrights: A Reference Guide to Thomas Shadwell, Aphra Behn, Nathaniel Lee, and Thomas Otway (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984 ), 5-6, 8-9. 5 The Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell , ed. Montague Summers ( 1927 ; rpt...
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Theatrical Space and Scientific Space in Thomas Shadwell's Virtuoso
Journal article by John Shanahan; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 49, 2009
Subjects: Science--Portrayals, Shadwell, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation, Shadwell, Thomas--Works, The Virtuoso (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...seen previously were also by Thomas Shadwell: The Tempest (20 June 1674...472-94; Albert S. Borgman, Thomas Shadwell: His Life and Comedies (New...be from The Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell, ed. Montague Summers, 5 vols...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Colonial American Stage
Journal article by Odai Johnson; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 108, 2000
Subjects: Expenditures, History, Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), Presidents, Theater, Tickets
Thomas Jefferson and the Colonial...IN the winter of 1763 Thomas Jefferson, age nineteen, at home at Shadwell from his studies at...was lost to a fire at Shadwell on 1 February 1770...theater has yet included Thomas Jefferson as a source...
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Thomas Neale
Magazine article by D.W. Hayton; History Today, Vol. 53, June 2003
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers--Achievements and awards, Lotteries, Lottery industry--History, Neale, Thomas--Achievements and awards
Thomas Neale. by D.W. Hayton The Revolution...specialising in finding schemes for investment. Thomas Neale (1641-99), the son of a Hampshire...had become involved in property deals in Shadwell and Tunbridge Wells and in organising the...
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Dryden in His Time & Ours
Magazine article by R.J. Stove; New Criterion, Vol. 25, October 2006
Subjects: Dryden, John--Criticism and interpretation, Dryden, John--Influence, Literary themes, Literature--Themes, motives, Poetic techniques, Poetics
...his onslaught upon the hack poet and opium-eater Thomas Shadwell) could well have been written around 1676, and it...The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. <br/ When Charless brother...
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Modigliani at the Royal Academy
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 288, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Modigliani, Amedeo--Criticism and interpretation, Modigliani, Amedeo--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Exhibitions
...plays of the prosaic seventeenth-century dramatist Thomas Shadwell that the opium he desperately took to raise his imagination...As that expert on the subject of opium-taking, Thomas De Quincey, remarked towards the end of his Confessions...
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Casanova Meets Viagra
Magazine article by Charles Glass; New Statesman, Vol. 127, June 5, 1998
Subjects: Casanova, Giacomo--Conduct of life, Viagra (Medication)--Evaluation
...Don Juan is a beguiling character, taking different forms in the hands of artists from Moliere, Byron, Gluck and Thomas Shadwell to George Bernard Shaw. Only Faust recurs as often in theatre, opera, ballet, novels and poetry. In this degraded...
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When Is 'Science on Stage' Really Science? Not Very Often, despite the Claims of a Lively New Book
Magazine article by Carl Djerassi; American Theatre, Vol. 24, January 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Science on Stage: From 'Doctor Faustus' to 'Copenhagen' (Book)--Book reviews
...three centuries encompassed by this bullish statement are a total of seven plays by Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Shadwell, Goethe and Ibsen, plus a sole 18th-century contestant, the hapless farce Three Hours After Marriage (ascribed...
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Monticello's Renewal Makes a Perfect Gift; Enhancements Include New Displays, Vistas
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 6, 2006
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas
...Jefferson, 1803 CHARLOTTESVILLE Thomas Jefferson had a thing about birthdays...Dan Jordan, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the organization...the third presidents father. Thomas, born in nearby Shadwell in 1743, inherited the hilltop...
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Irish Rewrite Record Books
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 3, 2006
...Weale 14-16, G Shadwell lost to W Thomas 15-22. Wales...Mitchell 11-27, W Thomas lost to W Wood...C Craig bt G Shadwell 19-16, J Ross...Mellors 26-14, G Shadwell bt W Wood 29...C Craig bt W Thomas 17-16. Overall...
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The Champions!
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 7, 2005
...17 Wales bt England 116-96 (Wales won 19-3 on points. Rink Scores (Welsh skips first): R Weale bt G Shadwell 19-18, W Thomas lost to M Walton 17- 18, A Atwood drew with G Burgess 15-15, M Weaver bt A Thomson 22-16, D Wilkins...
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London's Finest Pies. but No One Knew They Were Eating Sweeney Todd's 160 Victims; NEW BOOK AND MOVIE TELL STORY OF DEMON BARBER
Newspaper article by Peter Haining; The Mirror (London, England), August 29, 1998
...knocking him out. One of the chairs early victims was Thomas Shadwell, a Beadle employed by St Bartholomews hospital to keep...for 30 years service which he showed to Sweeney Todd. Shadwell was never seen again but his watch was found in the...
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' Poetry Is in Your Everyday Life, Your Memory, in What People Say on the Bus .. or Just What's in Your Heart' WORLD EXCLUSIVE Our New Poet Laureate's First Interview
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 2, 2009
...Poets Laureate, the full list.. 1668 John Dryden 1688 Thomas Shadwell 1715 Nicholas Rowe 1718 Rev Laurence Eusden 1730 Colley...1813 Robert Southey 1843 William Wordsworth 1785 Rev Thomas Warton 1850 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1896 Alfred Austin...
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Shadwell, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHADWELL, THOMAS 1642? 1692, English dramatist and poet. His plays, written in the...instigated his feud with Dryden, whom he succeeded as poet laureate in 1689. Shadwell attacked Dryden in The Medal of John Bayes (1682) and was himself lampooned...
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Jefferson, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JEFFERSON, THOMAS 1743 1826, 3d President...on Apr. 13, 1743, at "Shadwell," in Goochland (now in...controversial, in 2000 the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation...1945); K. Lehmann, Thomas Jefferson, American Humanist...
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Betterton, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BETTERTON, THOMAS bet rt n, 1635? 1710, English actor...adaptations of Shakespeare by Dryden, Shadwell, Tate, and himself. Betterton managed...Westminster Abbey. See R. W. Lowe, Thomas Betterton (1891, repr. 1972); B...
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English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...became models for English poets. Sir Thomas Wyatt was the most successful sonneteer...more prominent of this group were Thomas Churchyard , George Gascoigne...were the plays of George Farquhar , Thomas Shadwell , and Sir John Vanbrugh . John Dryden...
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Poet Laureate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to John Dryden in 1670. Drydens successors have been Thomas Shadwell (1688 92), Nahum Tate (1692 1715), Nicholas Rowe...Cibber (1730 57), William Whitehead (1757 85), Thomas Warton (1785 90), Henry Pye (1790 1813), Robert...
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