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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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Austrian composer (d. 1741) Jeanne Dumée, French astronomer (d. 1706) Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (d. 1746) 1661 January 15 – James Barry, Irish politician...
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Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught George Sewell – Sir Walter Raleigh Thomas Southerne – The Spartan Dame William Taverner – 'Tis Well if it Takes Francis...
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Lies A-Bleeding (adapted from Fletcher's Philaster) Thomas Scott – The Mock Marriage Thomas Southerne – Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: a tragedy (adapted...
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The Spartan Dame (category Plays by Thomas Southerne)
The Spartan Dame is a 1719 tragedy by the Irish writer Thomas Southerne. It was inspired by a story from Plutarch's Life of Aegis and was originally written...
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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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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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adaptations are The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery, by Thomas Southerne (1694); Isabella, or, the Fatal Marriage, by David Garrick (1757);...
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The Disappointment (play) (category Plays by Thomas Southerne)
Or, The Mother In Fashion is a 1684 comedy play by the Irish writer Thomas Southerne. It was first performed by the United Company at the Theatre Royal...
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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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