1. Thomas Otway was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd.
11 Facts About Thomas Otway
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Humphrey later became rector of Woolbeding, a neighbouring parish, where Thomas Otway was brought up and expected to commit to priesthood.
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Thomas Otway was educated at Winchester College, and in 1669 entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a commoner, but left the university without a degree in the autumn of 1672.
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Thomas Otway seems to have flirted with Otway, but had no intention of permanently offending Rochester, her lover.
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In 1678, driven to desperation, Thomas Otway obtained a commission through Charles, Earl of Plymouth, a natural son of Charles II, in a regiment serving in the Netherlands.
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Thomas Otway is said to have emerged from his retreat at the Bull on Tower Hill to beg for bread.
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Thomas Otway ate too hastily, and choked on the first mouthful.
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In 1675 Thomas Betterton produced Otway's first play, Alcibiades at the Dorset Garden Theatre, where all but one of his plays would eventually be produced.
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Thomas Otway made a great improvement in Don Carlos, Prince of Spain.
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In 1680, Thomas Otway published The Poets Complaint of his Muse, or A Satyr against Libells, in which he retaliated against his literary enemies and critics.
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The story is founded on the Histoire de la conjuration des Espagnols contre la Venise en 1618, by the Abbe de Saint-Real, but Thomas Otway modified the story considerably.