Thomas Shadwell

(1640 c.-1692)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692 NRA: Shadwell Thomas (1640-1692) Restoration Dramatist DNB: Shadwell, Thomas (c.1640-1692), playwright and poet LBT ID: ThShadw1692 VIAF ID: 76363406 LOC ID: n50001450	B/BAP: 1640 DIED: 1692-11-20
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English poet who succeeded John Dryden as poet laureate; Dryden mocked him in MacFleckno (1682).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Shadwell: Walter Scott to Thomas Scott, 19 November 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Coleridge. Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1808-09 Found 1: ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829