Thomas Otway

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Thomas Otway (born March 3, 1652 in Trotton , † April 4, 1685 in London ) was an English playwright at the time of the Stuart Restoration .

After he left Christ Church College in Oxford without a degree, he tried his hand at a playwright in London. However, he lived and died in poverty. Theophilus Cibber reported in his book Lives of the Poets around 70 years later for the first time that Otway finally choked on a piece of bread that he had bought from a begging Guinea .

His most successful and best-known pieces are The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage (1680) and Venice Preserv'd, or a Plot Discover'd (1682). The latter is the model for Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Saved Venice (1905). Otways The History and Fall of Caius Marius (1680) adapted William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet .

The Works of Mr Thomas Otway was first published in 1712.

literature

  • Hugh Chisholm (Ed.) (1911). "Otway, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition), Cambridge University Press .
  • Gruber, Elizabeth. "'Betray'd to Shame': Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She-Tragedy". Connotations (2006): 158-171.
  • Hughes, Derek. "Human Sacrifice on the Restoration Stage: The Case of Venice Preserv'd". Philological Quarterly 88.4 (2009): 365-384.
  • Hughes, Derek. "Human Sacrifice and Seventeenth-Century Economics: Otway's Venice Preserv'd". SEDERI: Journal of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies 12 (2001): 269-279.
  • Kewes, Paulina. "Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play". A Companion to Restoration Drama . Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2008. 355-377.
  • Klingler, Helmut: The artistic development in the tragedies of Thomas Otway. (= Vienna Contributions to English Philology, Vol. LXXIV) Vienna / Stuttgart (Braumüller) 1971.
  • Leissner, Debra: "Divided Nation, Divided Self: The Language of Capitalism and Madness in Otway's Venice Preserv'd." Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 32.2, 1999.
  • Luis-Martínez, Zenón. "Seated in the Heart: Venice Preserv'd between Pathos and Politics". Restoration and 18th Century Theater Research 23.2 (2008): 23-42. P
  • Munns, Jessica: Restoration politics and drama: the plays of Thomas Otway, 1675-1683. University of Delaware Press, 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Otway, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ See e.g. B. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 42
  3. ^ German 1996 by Simon Werle , Verlag der Autor
personal data
SURNAME Otway, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English playwright during the Stuart Restoration
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Trotton
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1685
Place of death London