Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Aphra Behn | AB
was intimate with the writers' and artists' circles of her day. She befriended Thomas Otway
, and allowed him to act in her first play, when he was an insecure youth of nineteen. She... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | The dedication relates how a masculine natal Genius visited the new-born poet, making her mother half-afraid of that aspect strange and wild, / As with immortal hand he touch'd th'unconscious child! The mother does not... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The title-page quotes lines from Thomas Otway
about a massacre of children by soldiers; chapter one quotes Milton
on the torments of a bad conscience. The story is set in the tenth and eleventh centuries... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | |
| Occupation | Anna Eliza Bray | |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | It ran for six nights, making it a success, and giving its author (according to custom) the entire theatre profits on the third and sixth nights. The young and nervous actor Thomas Otway
had a... |
| Textual Features | Mary Pix | The dedication mentions the Countess's experience of travel, and of suffering with her husband. The two widows of the play are differentiated as they are a good and a bad mother. Several motifs familiar from... |
| Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | CT
's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare
, Dryden
, Otway
, and Nathaniel Lee
. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 87 |
| Textual Production | Eglinton Wallace | The full title reads A Supplement to The conduct of the King of Prussia &c. investigated; Observations upon the present state of English politics; and a plan for altering the mode of carrying on the... |
| Textual Production | Mrs Showes | The title-page bears a quotation from Thomas Otway
. |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | Thomas Otway
contributed the prologue. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press. 2: 257n3 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Blamire | SB
's imaginative sympathy with the poor and uneducated, shown in many of her poems, is vividly present in We've hed sec a Durdum, a ventriloquized report of local festivities which include low-life entertainments... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Aphra Behn | Despite her own endemic poverty, AB
lent Otway
, who was near death and too poor to eat, £5. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 152, 175 |
Timeline
24 January 1671: Jean Racine's Bérénice, first produced on...
Writing climate item
24 January 1671
Jean Racine
's Bérénice, first produced on stage the previous year, was published.
About 9 February 1682: Thomas Otway's she-tragedy Venice Preserved...
Writing climate item
About 9 February 1682
Thomas Otway
's she-tragedyVenice Preserved had its first performance.
3 December 1716: The new Prince of Wales requested a special...
Building item
3 December 1716
The new Prince of Wales
requested a special performance of Otway
's Venice Preserved including the Nicky Nacky scenes, which it had become usual to cut.
12 August 1752: Justice John Fielding defined the crime of...
Building item
12 August 1752
Justice John Fielding
defined the crime of apprentices caught putting on an unlicensed play as mere unlawful assembly; they got off with a reprimand.
Texts
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, et al. Familiar Letters. Samuel Briscoe, 1697.