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See also:SOUTHERNE, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (166o-1746) , See also:English dramatist, was See also:born at Oxmantown, near See also:Dublin, in 1660, and entered Trinity See also:College in 1676. Two years later he was entered at the See also:Middle See also:Temple, See also:London. His first See also:play, The See also:Persian See also:Prince, or the Loyal See also:Brother (1682), was based on a contemporary novel. The real See also:interest of the play See also:lay not in the See also:plot, but in the See also:political significance of the personages. Tachmas, the " loyal brother," is obviously a flattering portrait of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II., and the villain Ismael is generally taken to represent See also:Shaftesbury. The poet received an See also:ensign's See also:commission in Princess See also:Anne's See also:regiment, and rapidly See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:captain, but his military career came to an end at the Revolution. He then gave himself up entirely to dramatic See also:writing. In 1692 he revised and completed Cleomenes fcr See also:Dryden; and two years later he scored a See also:great success in the sentimental See also:drama of The Fatal See also:Marriage, or the See also:Innocent See also:Adultery (1694). The piece is based on Mrs Aphra See also:Behn's The See also:Nun, with the addition of a comic
underplot. It was frequently revived, and in 1757 was altered by See also:David See also:Garrick and produced at See also:Drury See also:Lane. It was known later as See also:Isabella, or The Fatal Marriage. The See also:general spirit oI his comedies is well exemplified by a See also:line from See also:Sir See also:Anthony Love (1691)—" every See also:day a new See also:mistress and a new See also:quarrel." This See also:comedy, in which the See also:part of the heroine, disguised as Sir Anthony Love, was excellently played by Mrs See also:Mountfort, was his best. He scored another conspicuous success in Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1696). For the plot of this he was again indebted to the novel by Mrs Behn. In his later pieces " Honest Tom Southerne " did not secure any great successes, but he contrived to gain better returns from his plays than Dryden did, and he remained a favourite with his See also:con-temporaries and with the next See also:literary See also:generation. He died on the 22nd of May 1746.
His other plays are: The Disappointment, or the See also:Mother in See also:Fashion (1684), founded in part on the Curioso Impertinente in See also:Don Quixote; The Wives' Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves (1692); The Maid's Last See also:Prayer; or Any, rather than fail (1692); The See also:Fate of See also:Capua (1700); The Spartan See also:Dame (1719), taken from See also:Plutarch's See also:Life of See also:Aegis; and See also:Money the Mistress (1729).
See Plays written by Thomas Southerne, with an See also:Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (1774).
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