Paxman, David. “Lancashire Spiritual Culture and the Question of Magic”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, 2001, pp. 223-43. 228
Thomas Shadwell
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Standard Name: Shadwell, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Margaret Cavendish | She was buried, after a stately funeral procession all the way to London, in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 7 January 1674. Her husband wrote an inscription praising her books as well as... |
| Friends, Associates | John Dryden | Of these female disciples, Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, and the younger Elizabeth Thomas
enjoyed personal friendships with JD
. But his career was conspicuous for professional enmities as well as friendships. His feud with Thomas Shadwell |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | Written in rhyming couplets, the drama keeps up a very fast pace with short, rapidly shifting scenes. The opening scene, taken directly from Thomas Shadwell
's 1692 drama The Volunteers, or the Stockjobbers, transforms... |
| Literary responses | Aphra Behn | The Tory content of this play (with that of The Roundheads) moved the Whig Thomas Shadwell
to attack AB
as a literary whore. At the same time the same charge was levelled against her... |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | She appeared in Thomas Shadwell
's adaptation of Shakespeare
's Timon of Athens. She seems to have had some provincial acting experience too, and is recorded on stage at Nottingham on 23 April 1717... |
| Author summary | Aphra Behn | It is difficult to summarise AB
's immense and complex importance for the history of women's writing. Virginia Woolf
said she deserved from all women a tribute of flowers because she was the first to... |
| Textual Production | Jean Marishall | JM
published at Edinburgh, by subscription, her play, Sir Harry Gaylove; or, Comedy in Embryo, after long and unsuccessful efforts to get it performed. The character-name in her title had been used by... |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon
in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane
which may have been... |
Timeline
17 August 1612: The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted...
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17 August 1612
The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted in the execution of seven women and one man.
Sedley, Stephen. “Wringing out the Fault”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 27-31.
28
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
December 1672: The comedy Epsom-Wells, by Thomas Shadwell,...
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December 1672
The comedy Epsom-Wells, by Thomas Shadwell
, pushed back the boundaries of what was acceptable on stage, by presenting minor characters fresh from having sex.
Hughes, Derek. “The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the prostitute and the playwright in Aphra Behn criticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 149-64. 158
By about September 1679: Thomas Shadwell's comedy The Woman Captain...
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By about September 1679
Thomas Shadwell
's comedy The Woman Captain was first performed on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
October 1682: John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic...
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October 1682
John Dryden
anonymously published his mock-heroic satire Mac Flecknoe (probably written in 1676).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
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