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    Thomas Southerne (12 February 1660 – 26 May 1746) was an Irish dramatist. Thomas Southerne, born on 12 February 1660, in Oxmantown, near Dublin, was an...
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    of the European romance novel. In the event, the Irish playwright Thomas Southerne adapted the novel Oroonoko into the stage play Oroonoko: A Tragedy...
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    success was jump-started by a popular 1695 theatrical adaptation by Thomas Southerne, which ran regularly on the British stage throughout the 17th and 18th...
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  • breeches roles. Her greatest success was as the main character Lucia in Thomas Southerne's Sir Anthony Love, where Lucia partakes of the freedom of the roistering...
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    Marriage-Hater Matched (1692), The Campaigners (1698) Thomas Otway – Friendship in Fashion (1678) Thomas Southerne – Sir Anthony Love (1690), The Wives Excuse (1691)...
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    the Theatre Royal by His Majesties servants" by Richard Norton and Thomas Southerne.[dead link] Cleomenes I Themistocles Thermopylae Medism "Xenophon,...
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    capacity for projecting pathos was an inspiration to playwrights Thomas Otway and Thomas Southerne in the three famous tragic roles they wrote for her: Monimia...
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  • Havergal Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company Oroonoko Lieutenant Governor Thomas Southerne Philip Prowse Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company Indian Summer Cathal...
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    Bussy D'Ambois by Thomas D'Urfey (1691) Mrs Sightly in The Wives Excuse by Thomas Southerne (1691) Mirtilla in Love for Money by Thomas D'Urfey (1691) Cleora...
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    Aphra Behn's 1688 novel Oroonoko, and its subsequent dramatisation by Thomas Southerne, reset Othello's enslavement in the context of the then-current Atlantic...
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  • Labor's Lost Biron, a character in the tragedy The Fatal Marriage, by Thomas Southerne; the husband of Isabella, and brother of Carlos Byron (disambiguation)...
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  • The Impartial Critick – John Dennis 1694 The Fatal Marriage (play) – Thomas Southerne 1696 Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon starts writings his Memoirs...
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    published in the English language. In 1696 it was adapted for the stage by Thomas Southerne and continuously performed throughout the 18th century. In 1745 the...
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    1713) May 22 – Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (b. 1660) June 14 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698) July 2 – Thomas Baker, English...
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  • Venice Preserv'd William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate – Coriolanus Thomas Southerne – The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother Pedro Calderon de la Barca...
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    sensation playing the title role in Garrick's adaptation of a play by Thomas Southerne, Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage. So good was she that "Her pathetic...
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  • Purcell Thomas Shadwell – The Volunteers Thomas Southerne – The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail John Dennis, Poems in Burleseque Thomas Fletcher...
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  • novelist Oliver St. John Gogarty, poet and surgeon Jo Shapcott, poet Thomas Southerne, dramatist Bram Stoker, author, known for Dracula Jonathan Swift, satirist...
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  • (b. 1633) 1742 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672) 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (b. 1660) 1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German...
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  • – Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia Thomas Shadwell – The Scourers Thomas Southerne – Sir Anthony Love "W. C." – The Rape Reveng'd, or...
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  • Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April John Vanbrugh...
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  • (printed, staged in 1721) Charles Johnson – The Female Fortune Teller Thomas Southerne – Money the Mistress Leonard Welsted – The Dissembled Wanton Richard...
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  • The Fate of Capua (category Plays by Thomas Southerne)
    The Fate of Capua is a 1700 tragedy by the writer Thomas Southerne. In Ancient Capua the rival Roman and Cartheginian factions vie for influence. The original...
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    The Wives Excuse (category Plays by Thomas Southerne)
    Cuckolds Make Themselves is a 1691 comedy play by the Anglo-Irish writer Thomas Southerne. The title is sometimes written more grammatically as The Wives' Excuse...
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  • Ravenscroft – The Canterbury Guests Elkanah Settle – The Ambitious Slave Thomas Southerne – The Fatal Marriage (adapted from Aphra Behn's The Nun) Joseph Williams...
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  • Hippolyte Hélyot, French church historian (died 1716) February 12 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (died 1749) March 28 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch writer...
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  • in Sir Anthony Love by Thomas Southerne (1690) Sly in Edward III by William Mountfort (1690) Maggot in The Scowrers by Thomas Shadwell (1690) Old Zachary...
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  • Rochester (possible author) – Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery Thomas Southerne – The Disappointment, or the Mother of Fashion Pedro Calderon de la...
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    Spartan Hero by John Dryden (1692) Wishwell in The Maid's Last Prayer by Thomas Southerne (1693) Ximena in Love Triumphant by John Dryden (1694) Wikimedia Commons...
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  • anonymously) – Win Her and Take Her, or Old Fools will be Medling: a comedy Thomas Southerne – The Wives Excuse John Wilson – Belphegor, or the Marriage of the...
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