Otway, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
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...tragedies The Orphan (1680) and Venice Preserved (1682). Otway brought a sentimental pathos and romantic beauty to the formal...