Author:Thomas Shadwell

Thomas Shadwell
(1642–1692)

Thomas Shadwell

Works

Prose

• Epistle to the Tories (1682)
• Some Reflections upon the pretended Parallel in the play called the Duke of Guise (1683), co-authored with Thomas Hunt

Translations

• Tenth Satire of Juvenal

Plays

• The Sullen Lovers (1668)
• The Royal Shepherdess (1669)
• The Humorists, a comedy (1671) (external scan)
• The Miser (1672)
• Epsom Wells (1672)
• Psyche (1675)
• The Virtuoso (1676)
• The Libertine: a tragedy (1676) (external scan)
• Timon of Athens (1678)
• A True Widow (1679)
• The Woman Captain (1680)
• The Lancashire Witches (1681)
• Squire of Alsatia, a comedy (1688) (external scan)
• Bury Fair (1689)
• The Amorous Bigot (1690)
• The Scowrers (1691)
• The Volunteers (1693) (posthumous, with a dedication to the queen, signed by the widow, and a prologue by D'Urfey).

Poetry

• The Medal of John Bayes: a Satire against Folly and Knavery (168x)
• A Lenten Prologue refused by the Players’ (in reply to the 'Medal' (1683)
• A Congratulatory Poem on His Highness the Prince of Orange's Coming into England (1689)
• A Congratulatory Poem to the most Illustrious Queen Mary, upon her arrival into England (1689)
• Ode to the King on his Return from Ireland (1690)
• Ode on the Anniversary of the King's Birth (1690)
• Votum Perenne: a Poem to the King on New Year's Day (1692)

Works about Shadwell

• "Thomas Shadwell", in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (1698), by Gerard Langbaine
• "Thomas Shadwell", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Shadwell, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Shadwell, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Shadwell, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)