Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692
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found: nuc89-60153: His The volunteers, or, The stock-jobbers [MI] 1693(hdg. on CSt rept.: Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692; usage: Tho. Shadwell)
found: LC data base, 2/12/90(hdg.: Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692; usage: Thomas Shadwell)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 30 July 2020(Shadwell, Thomas; c. 1640-1692; playwright and poet, was born in Norfolk, either at Santon Hall or Broomhill House, Weeting; about 1655, Shadwell attended the grammar school in Bury St Edmunds; on 17 December 1656 he matriculated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he left Cambridge without taking a degree, and entered the Middle Temple on 7 July 1658; he studied there and then travelled, visiting Ireland for four months; Shadwell's first play, The sullen lovers, was premiered on 2 May 1668 by the Duke's Company; after the revolution of 1688, Shadwell was awarded the posts of poet laureate and historiographer royal; he died on 19 or 20 November 1692)
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