Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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 | Elizabeth Thomas | |
| 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... |
| names | Mary Renault |
|
| 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 | 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, 1986. 87 |
| 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 Production | Aphra Behn | Thomas Otway
contributed the prologue. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols. 2: 257n3 |
| 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
. |
| 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, 1987. 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.
Walton, Charles Leonard, and Jean Racine. “Introduction”. Bérénice, Oxford University Press, 1965, pp. 9-52.
9
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.
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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1.1: 306
3 December 1716: The new Prince of Wales requested a special...
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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.
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1.2: 424
12 August 1752: Justice John Fielding defined the crime of...
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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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 315
Texts
Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of et al. Familiar Letters. 1st ed., Samuel Briscoe, 1697, 2 vols.
Otway, Thomas. Venice Preserv’d. J. Hindmarsh, 1682.