The dramatick works of Thomas Shadwell, esq.
Contributors: Shadwell, John, Sir, 1671-1747.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 22084-85.
Publisher: Printed for J. Knapton, ... and J. Tonson
Published: 1720
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Shadwell, Thomas, -- 1642?-1692
Notes: Errors in pagination: v. 1, page 95 misnumbered 45; v. 2, page 192 misnumbered 292; v. 3, pages 65, 243 and 269 misnumbered 95, 234, and 26 respectively, page 279 unnumbered; vol. 4, page 67 misnumbered 97.

General title appears in vol. 1 only (as added title-page) Each vol. and each play with special title-page.

Dedication signed by his son, John Shadwell.

Epsom-wells has prologue by Sir Charles Sedley; The true widow has prologue by John Dryden; The Lancashire witches, and Tegue o Divelly the Irish priest has epilogue by Elizabeth Barry; The volunteers, or, The stock-jobbers has prologues by Thomas D'Urfey and Thomas Shadwell.

Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.

Includes adaptations of Molière, John Fountain, Claude La Rose, sieur de Rosimond, Shakespeare, etc.

[cont.] The amorous bigot: with the second part of Tegue o Divelly (Drury Lane, ca. March 1689) The scowrers (Drury Lane, ca. December 1690) The volunteers, or, The stock-jobbers (posthumous, Drury Lane, November 1692)

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 2 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 22084-85

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Some account of the author and his writings. The sullen lovers: or, The impertinents (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 2 May 1668) The humourists (Lincoln's Inn Fields, December 1670) The royal shepherdess (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 25 February 1669) The virtuoso (Dorset Garden, 25 May 1676); title: v. 2. Psyche: a tragedy (Dorset Garden, 27 February 1675) The libertine: a tragedy (Dorset Garden, June 1675) Epsom-wells (Dorset Garden, December 1672) The history of Timon of Athens, the man-hater (Dorset Garden, ca. January 1678); title: v. 3. The miser (Theatre Royal, January 1672) A true widow (Dorset Garden, 21 March 1678) The Lancashire witches, and Tegue o Divelly the Irish priest (Dorset Garden, ca. September 1681) The woman-captain (Dorset Garden, ca. September 1679); title: v. 4. The squire of Alsatia (Drury Lane, May 1688) Bury-fair (Drury Lane, ca. April 1689)