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Thomas Otway, the Glossary

Thomas Otway (3 March 165214 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).^[1]

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Alcibiades (play)

Alcibiades is a 1675 tragedy by the English writer Thomas Otway, based on the life of the Athenian statesman and general Alcibiades.

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Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland

Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland PC (16 February 1656 – 24 May 1694) was an English nobleman and politician.

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Anti-Catholicism

Anti-Catholicism, also known as Catholophobia is hostility towards Catholics and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and its adherents.

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Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.

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Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter.

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César Vichard de Saint-Réal

César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692) was a French polyglot.

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Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth

Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1657 – 17 October 1680), was the illegitimate son of King Charles II of England and Catherine Pegge.

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Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Thomas Otway and Charles II of England are 1685 deaths.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædes, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

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Don Carlos, Prince of Spain

Don Carlos, Prince of Spain is a 1676 tragedy by the English writer Thomas Otway.

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Dorset Garden Theatre

The Dorset Garden Theatre in London, built in 1671, was in its early years also known as the Duke of York's Theatre, or the Duke's Theatre.

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Elizabeth Barry

Elizabeth Barry (1658 – 7 November 1713) was an English actress of the Restoration period.

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Elkanah Settle

Elkanah Settle (1 February 1648 – 12 February 1724) was an English poet and playwright.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (short:; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German polymath and poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, physician, lawyer.

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Friendship in Fashion

Friendship in Fashion is a 1678 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Otway.

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Glossophobia

Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking.

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James II of England

James VII and II (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685.

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Jean Racine

Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.

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John Downes (prompter)

John Downes (died c. 1712) worked as a prompter at the Duke's Company, and later the United Company, for most of the Restoration period 1660–1700.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. Thomas Otway and John Dryden are English male dramatists and playwrights.

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John Riley (painter)

John Riley, or Ryley, (1646 – March 1691) was an English portrait painter.

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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Midhurst

Midhurst is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.

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Nell Gwyn

Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Panegyric

A panegyric is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing.

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Paul Scarron

Paul Scarron (c. 1 July 1610 – 6 October 1660) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Popish Plot

The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Scapin the Schemer

Scapin the Schemer (Les Fourberies de Scapin) is a three-act comedy of intrigue by the French playwright Molière.

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St Clement Danes

St Clement Danes is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London.

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Sussex

Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.

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The Cheats of Scapin

The Cheats of Scapin is a 1676 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Otway.

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The History and Fall of Caius Marius

The History and Fall of Caius Marius is a tragedy written by English writer Thomas Otway.

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The Orphan (play)

The Orphan or The Unhappy Marriage is a domestic tragedy, written by Thomas Otway in 1680.

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Theophilus Cibber

Theophilus Cibber (25 or 26 November 1703 – October 1758) was an English actor, playwright, author, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber. Thomas Otway and Theophilus Cibber are English dramatists and playwrights and English male dramatists and playwrights.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Otway

Also known as Otway, Thomas.

, William Shakespeare, Winchester College, Woolbeding.

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