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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


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    Thomas Shadwell: His Life and Comedies (1928) » Read Now

    by Albert S. Borgman. 272 pgs.

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    ...THOMAS SHADWELL HIS LIFE AND COMEDIES THOMAS SHADWELL HIS LIFE AND COMEDIES By ALBERT S. BORGMAN...in the literary history of the seventeenth century is Thomas Shadwell...
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    Thomas Shadwell (includes "Sullen Lovers" and "The Squire of Alsatia") » Read Now

    by Thomas Shadwell, George Saintsbury. 462 pgs.

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    ...THE MERMAID SERIES THOMAS SHADWELL -iv- Monument to Shadwell in...Sculpt. THE MERMAID SERIES THOMAS SHADWELL EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION...author it is certainly useful...
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    The Poets Laureate (Chap. 3 "Thomas Shadwell") » Read Now

    by Kenneth Hopkins. 295 pgs.

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    ...DRYDEN 21 3 THOMAS SHADWELL 32 4 NAHUM...Laureate was appointed. This was Thomas Shadwell. Deprived of the income from...from some better writer. 3 Thomas Shadwell IN...
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    The Designs of Carolean Comedy ("Shadwell and Otway, 1678-85" begins on p. 229) » Read Now

    by Eric Rothstein, Frances M. Kavenik. 296 pgs.

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    ...into Good Qualities" 1684-95 and Shadwell The Woman-Captain both portray wives...comfortably go to Dorset Gardens to see Shadwells libertine Don John pulled down to...of...
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    But Loads of Sh -- Almost Choked the Way: Shadwell, Dryden, Rochester, and the Summer of 1676, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now

    by Kirk Combe. 38 pgs.

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    ...1676 Kirk Combe 1 Thomas Shadwell -- the Rodney Dangerfield of...inferior available to him -- Thomas Shadwell. 33 I have demonstrated above...swayed into a mean opinion of...

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