Charles Shadwell (playwright)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:More citations needed Charles Shadwell (Template:Floruit 1710 – died 1726) was an English playwright of the 18th century, date of birth unknown. He was the son of Thomas Shadwell, the playwright and Poet Laureate.[1]
He served in the army during the War of the Spanish Succession, before becoming the supervisor of the excise in Kent.[2]
Shadwell was the author of the comedy The Fair Quaker of Deal staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1710 and The Humours of the Army (1713).[2]
From 1715 to 1720 he was the resident playwright at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, the leading Irish theatre at the time.[3] In 1719, his tragedy Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught was staged at Smock Alley, and with the comedy Irish Hospitality, and other plays, collected and published in 1720.[4]
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- Edwards, Philip. Threshold of a Nation: A Study in English and Irish Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1979.