A True Widow

A True Widow
Written by	Thomas Shadwell
Date premiered	21 March 1678
Place premiered	Dorset Garden Theatre, London
Original language	English
Genre	Restoration Comedy

A True Widow is a 1678 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Shadwell. It was first staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. The names of the original cast are unknown. The prologue was written by Shadwell's colleague John Dryden.^[1] It was published the following year and dedicated to Charles Sedley.

References

Bibliography

• Canfield, J. Douglas. Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
• Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.

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Restoration comedy

Playwrights

• Aphra Behn
• Susanna Centlivre
• Colley Cibber
• William Congreve
• John Dryden
• Thomas D'Urfey
• George Etherege
• George Farquhar
• Edward Howard
• James Howard
• Robert Howard
• Thomas Otway
• Charles Sedley
• Thomas Shadwell
• Thomas Southerne
• Richard Steele
• John Vanbrugh
• George Villiers
• William Wycherley

Notable plays

• The Cutter of Coleman Street (1661)
• The Adventures of Five Hours (1663)
• The Comical Revenge (1664)
• The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
• She Would If She Could (1668)
• An Evening's Love (1668)
• Sir Solomon Single (1670)
• Love in a Wood (1671)
• The Rehearsal (1671)
• Epsom Wells (1672)
• Marriage à la mode (1672)
• The Country Wife (1675)
• Love in the Dark (1675)
• The Country Wit (1676)
• The Plain-Dealer (1676)
• The Man of Mode (1676)
• Tom Essence (1676)
• A Fond Husband (1677)
• Friendship in Fashion (1678)
• Squire Oldsapp (1678)
• Tunbridge Wells (1678)
• A True Widow (1678)
• The Woman Captain (1679)
• The London Cuckolds (1681)
• Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681)
• The Royalist (1682)
• City Politiques (1683)
• Dame Dobson (1683)
• A Commonwealth of Women (1685)
• Sir Courtly Nice (1685)
• Bellamira (1687)
• A Fool's Preferment (1688)
• The Squire of Alsatia (1688)
• Bury Fair (1689)
• The Fortune Hunters (1689)
• The English Friar (1690)
• Sir Anthony Love (1690)
• Love for Money (1691)
• The Wives Excuse (1691)
• Greenwich Park (1691)
• The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692)
• The Volunteers (1692)
• The Canterbury Guests (1694)
• The Married Beau (1694)
• Love for Love (1695)
• Love's Last Shift (1696)
• The Relapse (1696)
• The Campaigners (1698)
• Love and a Bottle (1698)
• The Constant Couple (1699)
• The Way of the World (1700)
• Sir Harry Wildair (1701)
• The Lying Lover (1703)
• The Careless Husband (1704)
• The Recruiting Officer (1706)
• The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

Characters

• Fop
• Spark
• Rake

Related people

• Charles II
• Jeremy Collier
• Thomas Hobbes
• Marquis de Sade
• Molière
• James II and VII
• Georg Monck
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Related articles

• Bedlam
• Chocolate houses
• Comedy of manners
• Court
• Dorset Garden
• Drury Lane
• Fleet Prison
• Hedonism
• The Libertine (1994)
• The Libertine (film)
• Libertinism
• Lincoln's Inn Fields
• Mode
• Restoration of Charles II
• Second Anglo-Dutch War
• Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
• Wit

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