Thomas Shadwell  

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Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642 – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.

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A complete edition of Shadwell's works was published by another son, Sir John Shadwell, in 1720. His other dramatic works are:

• The Royal Shepherdess (1669), an adaptation of John Fountain's Rewards of Virtue
• The Humorist (1671)
• The Miser (1672), adapted from Molière
• Psyche (1675)
• The Libertine (1676)
• The Virtuoso (1676)
• The history of Timon of Athens the Man-hater (1678),--on this Shakespearian adaptation see O Beber, Shadwell's Bearbeitung des Timon of Athens (Röstock, 1897)
• A True Widow (1679)
• The Woman Captain (1680), revived in 1744 as The Prodigal
• The Lancashire Witches and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest (1682)
• Bury Fair (1689)
• The Amorous Bigot, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly (1690)
• The Scowerers (1691)
• The Volunteers, or Stockjobbers, published posthumously (1693).