from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Thomas Otway (1652-1685)

(English Restoration dramatist, died in poverty)

Works

Otway, Thomas. Alcibiades. Heroic play. 1675.

_____. Don Carlos. Heroic play. 1676.

_____. Cheats of Scapin. Comedy. 1677? Based on Molière.

_____. Titus and Berenice. Heroic play. 1676. (Based on Racine's Bérénice ).

_____. Friendship in Fashion. Comedy. 1678.

_____. Caius Maius. Rev. version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

_____. The History and Fall of Caius Marius. Drama. 1680.

_____. The Orphan. Tragedy 1680.

_____. The Poet's Complaint of His Muse. 1680.

_____. The Souldier's Fortune. 1681.

_____. Venice Preserv'd, or a Plot Discover'd. Tragedy. 1682.

_____. Venice Preserved. In Restoration Plays. Ed. Sir Edmund Gosse. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1912. 1962. 237-310.*

_____. The Atheist.Drama. 1684.

_____. Windsor Castle. 1685.

_____. Otway's Orphan and Venice Preserv'd. Ed. Charles F. McClumpha. Boston, 1908.

_____. Works. 1692.

_____. Works. 2 vols. 1712.

_____. Complete Works. Ed. Montague Summers. 3 vols. 1926.

_____. Works. Ed. J. C. Gosh. Oxford, 1932.

Criticism

Armistead, Jack. Four Restoration Playwrights: A Reference Guide to Thomas Shadwell, Aphra Behn, Nathaniel Lee, and Thomas Otway. Boston, 1984.

Ham, Roswell G. Otway and Lee. New Haven, 1931.

Hauser, David R. "Otway Preserved: Theme and Form in Venice Preserv'd." Studies in Philology 55 (1958): 481-93.

McBurney, William H. "Otway's Tragic Muse Debauched: Sensuality in Venice Preserv'd." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 58 (1959): 380-399.

Johnson, Samuel. "Thomas Otway." In Johnson, Lives of the English Poets. London: Dent, 1925. 1.141-44.*

Lefèvre, André. "Racine en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle: 'Titus and Berenice' de Thomas Otway." Revue de littérature comparée 34 (1960): 251-57.

Santoyo, Julio César. "Moratín, traductor de Thomas Otway: Venice Preserved." In Santoyo, Historia de la traducción: Quince apuntes. León: Universidad de León, 1999. 151-62.*

Taylor, Aline M. Next to Shakespeare: Otway's Venice Preserved and The Orphan and their History on the London Stage. Durham (NC), 1950.

Internet resources

"Thomas Otway." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Otway

2015