Thomas Southerne

(1660-1746)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746 DNB: Southerne, Thomas (1660–1746), playwright LBT ID: ThSouth1746 VIAF ID: 64038088 LOC ID: n50047289	B/BAP: 1660 DIED: 1746-05-26
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Irish playwright educated at Trinity College, Dublin; his Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave (1696), an adaptation of Behn's novel, was long performed.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Southerne: Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, 16 December 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, 24 February 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1801 Found 1: ¶ 10 Letters: 1822 Letters: 1823