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Otway, Thomas - 1652–85, English dramatist, educated at Winchester and at Oxford. After failing as an actor, Otway wrote his first play, Alcibiades, produced in 1675. Later plays include the rhymed heroic tragedy Don Carlos (1672); an adaptation of Racine, called Titus and Berenice, (1676); and an adaptation of Molière, called The Cheats of Scapin. (1676). His two greatest plays are |
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The Complete Works of Thomas Otway, Vol. 1 (Includes "Alcibiades," "Don Carlos," "Titus and Berenice," and "The Cheats of Scapin") » Read Nowby Thomas Otway, Montague Summers. 239 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...THE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY Edited by MONTAGUE SUMMERS THE FIRST VOLUME containing...forgotten until Sir Edmund Gosse in his delightful...
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The Complete Works of Thomas Otway, Vol. 2 (Includes "Friendship in Fashion," "The History and Fall of Caius Marius," "The Orphan," and "The Souldiers Fortune") » Read Nowby Thomas Otway, Montague Summers. 372 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...THE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY Edited by MONTAGUE SUMMERS THE SECOND VOLUME containing...at his Royal Highness the DUKES Theatre Written by...
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Venice Preserved » Read Nowby Thomas Otway, Malcolm Kelsall. 116 pgs.
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Drama as Rhetoric/Rhetoric as Drama: An Exploration of Dramatic and Rhetorical Criticism ("And Now for Application: Venice Preserv'd and the Rhetoric of Textual Application" begins on p. 64) » Read Nowby Steven Hart, Stanley Vincent Longman. 144 pgs.
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Divided Nation, Divided Self: The Language of Capitalism and Madness in Otway's Venice Preserv'd, in Studies in the Literary Imagination » Read Nowby Debra Leissner. 14 pgs.
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Next to Shakespeare: Otway's Venice Preserv'd, and The Orphan, and Their History on the London Stage » Read Nowby Aline Mackenzie Taylor. 332 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...consists of a critical analysis of Thomas Otway's plays, The Orphan and Venice...V. The Reputation of Thomas Otway 245 The Legend...to Shakespeare Introduction THOMAS...
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Shakespeare Improved: The Restoration Versions in Quarto and on the Stage (1927) ("Otway's The History and Fall of Caius Marius" begins on p. 292) » Read Nowby Hazelton Spencer. 408 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS THOMAS BETTERTON SHAKESPEARE IMPROVED THE...Cockpit. 13 His principal actor was Thomas Betterton, then about twenty-five...
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Critics, Values, and Restoration Comedy (Discussion of Thomas Otway begins on p. 116) » Read Nowby John T. Harwood. 180 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...man to maturity. I deal with Otway and Shadwell because they raise...helpful. Alice E. Randall and Thomas J. Musial helped me define...briefly but favorably cites Thomas...
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The Designs of Carolean Comedy ("Shadwell and Otway, 1678-85" begins on p. 229) » Read Nowby Eric Rothstein, Frances M. Kavenik. 296 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...old doctrines of macro- and microcosmic correspondences. Kings became answerable to the law as well as to God, and in Keith Thomas words, "In place of a natural world...
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The Neglected Muse: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Tragedy in the Novel (1740-1780) ("Thomas Otway" begins on p. 48) » Read Nowby Robert Gale Noyes. 187 pgs.
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Otway in the Waste Land: A Dog Story, in American Notes & Queries » Read Nowby David Bergman. 4 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...to examine here one possible allusion to Thomas Otway The Soldiers Fortune in "The Burial of the...and Poets . New York: Farrar, 1957 . Otway, Thomas. The Works of Thomas...
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English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780) (1914) (Chap. VI "Dryden, Lee, and Otway") » Read Nowby George Henry Nettleton. 366 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...1660, of letters patent conferring upon Thomas Killigrew and Sir William DAvenant the...to become extinct. Like DAvenant, THOMAS KILLIGREW 1612- 1683 is a link between...to...
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