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Shadwell, Thomas c.1642-1692
English dramatist
Born at Broomhill House, Brandon, Suffolk, he was educated at Cambridge and at the Middle Temple, London. He achieved success with the first of his 13 comedies, The Sullen Lovers (1668). He also wrote three tragedies. Dryden, grossly assailed by him in the Medal of John Bayes (1682), heaped ridicule on him in MacFlecknoe ('Shadwell never deviates into sense'), and as 'Og' in the second part of Absalom and Achitopel. His works exhibit talent and comic force. He succeeded Dryden as Poet Laureate in 1689.
Bibliography: M W Alssid, Thomas Shadwell (1967)
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