Charles Shadwell was an English playwright of the 18th century, date of birth unknown, dead in 1726. He was the son of Thomas Shadwell, the playwright and Poet Laureate.[1]
He served in the army during the War of the Spanish Succession, before becoming the supervisor of the excise in Kent.[2]
Shadwell was the author of the comedy The Fair Quaker of Deal staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1710 and The Humours of the Army (1713).[2]
From 1715 to 1720 he was the resident playwright at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, the leading Irish theatre at the time.[3] In 1719 his tragedy Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught was staged at Smock Alley, and with the comedy Irish Hospitality, and other plays, collected and published in 1720.[4]
References
- ^ Aitken, George Atherton (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. pp. 340–343.
- ^ a b Crowther, Michelle (25 February 2023). "Charles Shadwell (1672-5?-1726)". Kent Maps Online. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ Edwards p.198
- ^ Shadwell, Charles (1720). The works of Mr. Charles Shadwell in four volumes. Dublin: printed for George Risk and Joseph Leathley, and Patrick Dugan.
Bibliography
- Edwards, Philip. Threshold of a Nation: A Study in English and Irish Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1979.
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