Otway

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Otway [ˈɒtweɪ]

(Biographies / Otway, Thomas (1652-1685) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) Thomas. 1652-85, English dramatist, noted for The Orphan (1680) and Venice Preserv'd (1682)

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Paul and Amsterdam and Cape Otway on the Australian coast.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

In tragedy the overdrawn but powerful plays of Thomas Otway, a man of short and pathetic life, and of Nathaniel Lee, are alone of any importance.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

She answered exactly to that picture drawn by Otway in his Orphan.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

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