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Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).
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Venice Preserv'd is an English Restoration play written by Thomas Otway, and the most significant tragedy of the English stage in the 1680s. It was first staged in 1682, with Thomas Betterton as Jaffeir and Elizabeth Barry as Belvidera. The play was soon printed and enjoyed many revivals through to the 1830s.
George Tabori (1914–2007, Hungary/England/United States/Germany) in English and German; Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941, India) in English; Habib Tanvir (1923–2009, India) in Urdu; Jean Tardieu (1903–1995, France) Henry Taylor (1800–1886, England) Bernard J. Taylor (living, South Africa/United States) Samuel Taylor (1912–2000, United ...
Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson , was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy .
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.
Thomas William Robertson (9 January 1829 – 3 February 1871) was an English dramatist and stage director known for his development of naturalism in British theatre. Born to a theatrical family, Robertson began as an actor, but he was not a success and gave up acting in his late 20s.