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Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway was a British playwright, poet, writer and translator (1652–1685). He was born at Trotton with Chithurst and died at London.

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Identity

Thomas Otway is recorded as playwright, poet, writer and translator. Thomas Otway is recorded with the citizenship of United Kingdom. Open Library catalogues 175 works under this name.

Holdings and surviving copies

Where material relating to Thomas Otway is held.

Tragedy of Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered. By Thomas Otway. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatresroyal CoventGarden and DruryLane ... with the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson; and a Critique, by R. Cumberland, Esq (1817) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. The Works of Thomas Otway,: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters. With a Sketch of His ... (1812) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes. Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters (1757) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. The works of Thomas Otway, with notes and a life of the author by T. Thornton (1813) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Thomas Otway - The Soldier's Fortune (BBC R3 1981) (1981) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Thomas Otway: With an Introduction and Notes (1888) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Thomas Otway may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Thomas Otway is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q955217.

Catalogued works

37 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

Venice Preserv'd. The Orphan. The Soldiers' Fortune. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Alcibiades. The works of Mr. Thomas Otway. The atheist: or, The second part of The souldiers fortune. Libertine plays of the Restoration. The atheist. Select poems of Thomas Otway. Windsor castle, in a monument to our late sovereign K. Charles II. of ever blessed memory. The orphan or, The unhappy-marriage. Titus and Berenice. Die Verschwörung wider Venedig. A supplement to the works of the most celebrated minor poets ... The souldiers fortune. The cheats of Scapin. The soldier's fortune. Friendship in fashion. Venice preserved. Venice preserved; or A plot discovered. Venice preserv'd, or A plot discovered. Freundschaft nach der Mode. The history and fall of Caius Marius. The atheist, or The second part of the soldier's fortune. Venice preserved, a tragedy in five acts ... Venise sauvée, tragédie. The epilogue. The prologue and epilogue to the last new play, Constantine the Great. Venice preserv'd, or, A plot discover'd. Prologue to a new play, called Venice preserv'd, or, The plot discoverd. The prologue to The city heiress, or, Sir Timothy Treatall. Don Carlos Prince of Spain. Orphan, or Unhappy marriage. Otway's Venice preserved. The orphan, or, The unhappy marriage. Restoration Plays.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Otway, Thomas, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Otway, Thomas (1652–1685), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Otway, Thomas (1616–1693), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. The political relevance of a love story: Thomas Otway’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Шаги, 2024. La Bérénice anglaise de Thomas Otway, ou Racine sans Aristote, Etudes Epistémè, 2021. Lecture de Venice Preserv’d, or A Plot Discover’d de Thomas Otway (1682): les ressorts de la conspiration, Etudes Epistémè, 2002.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1652Thomas Otway born at Trotton with Chithurst.
  2. 1652Thomas Otway was born in 1652 at Trotton with Chithurst.
  3. 1685Thomas Otway died at London.
  4. 1685Thomas Otway died in 1685 at London.
  5. 1757The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes. Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters (1757) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  6. 1757The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes. Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1812The Works of Thomas Otway,: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters. With a Sketch of His ... (1812) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  8. 1813The works of Thomas Otway, with notes and a life of the author by T. Thornton (1813) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  9. 1813The works of Thomas Otway, with notes and a life of the author by T. Thornton digitised by Internet Archive.
  10. 1817Tragedy of Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered. By Thomas Otway. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatresroyal CoventGarden and DruryLane ... with the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson; and a Critique, by R. Cumberland, Esq (1817) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  11. 1817Tragedy of Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered. By Thomas Otway. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatresroyal CoventGarden and DruryLane ... with the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson; and a Critique, by R. Cumberland, Esq digitised by Internet Archive.
  12. 1888Thomas Otway: With an Introduction and Notes (1888) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  13. 1888Thomas Otway: With an Introduction and Notes digitised by Internet Archive.
  14. 1888Thomas Otway digitised by Internet Archive.
  15. 1981Thomas Otway - The Soldier's Fortune (BBC R3 1981) (1981) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  16. 1981Thomas Otway - The Soldier's Fortune (BBC R3 1981) digitised by Internet Archive.

Connections

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Died at

  • LondonPlace

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Sources

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  1. 1.

    Open Library author record for Thomas Otway (Internet Archive), 175 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  2. 2.

    Otway, Thomas (1616–1693), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Otway, Thomas (1652–1685), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Otway, Thomas, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming Thomas Otway.

    open access index · Unverified

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  6. 6.

    Internet Archive, 27 digitised items catalogued under Thomas Otway as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 127 works naming Thomas Otway.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  8. 8.

    “Thomas Otway”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q955217: Thomas Otway

    authority record · Unverified · Wikidata

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