Epsom Wells

1672 play

Epsom Wells

Written by| Thomas Shadwell
Date premiered| 1672
Place premiered| Dorset Garden Theatre, London
Original language| English
Genre| Comedy

Epsom Wells is a 1672 restoration comedy by the English writer Thomas Shadwell. It was the first in a line of plays set in spa towns.[1] The incidental music was composed by Nicholas Staggins. In the 1690s Henry Purcell scored a new staging of the play. It was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The cast included Henry Harris as Rains, Thomas Betterton as Bevil, William Smith as Woodly, Cave Underhill as Justice Clodpate, Anne Gibbs as Lucia, Mary Betterton as Mrs Jilt, James Nokes as Bisket and Edward Angel as Fribble.[2]

It continued to be revived well into the eighteenth century.

## References

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1. ^ Orr p.200
2. ^ Van Lennep p.201

## Bibliography

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* Cavert, William The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
* Orr, Bridget. British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
* Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.

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List of compositions

Opera|

* Dido and Aeneas (1689)
* Dido's Lament
* discography
* Dioclesian (1690)
* King Arthur (1691)
* "Fairest Isle"
* The Fairy-Queen (1692)
* The Indian Queen (1695)

Choral|

| Sacred|

* "Remember not, Lord, our offences" (c. 1679–82)
* "Hear my prayer, O Lord" (c. 1682)
* "Rejoice in the Lord alway" (c. 1683–85)
* Ode to St. Cecilia (1692)
* Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695, "Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts")

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Secular|

* Come Ye Sons of Art (1694)

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Incidental|

* "Music for a While" (1692)
* "Nymphs and Shepherds" (1692)
* "Britons, Strike Home!" (1695)
* Theodosius (1680)
* Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681)
* A Fool's Preferment (1688)
* The Massacre of Paris (1689)
* Amphitryon (1690)
* Distressed Innocence (1690)
* Sir Anthony Love (1690)
* The Richmond Heiress (1691)
* Epsom Wells (1693)
* The Female Virtuosos (1693)
* The Canterbury Guests (1694)
* The Fatal Marriage (1694)
* Love Triumphant (1694)
* Abdelazer (1695)
* Bonduca (1695)
* The Rival Sisters (1695)

Family|

* Daniel Purcell
* Edward Purcell
* Edward Henry Purcell

Related|

* The Moor's Pavane
* "Lillibullero"

Category

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Restoration comedy

Playwrights|

* Aphra Behn
* Susanna Centlivre
* Colley Cibber
* William Congreve
* John Dryden
* Thomas d'Urfey
* George Etherege
* George Farquhar
* Edward Howard
* James Howard
* Robert Howard
* Thomas Otway
* Charles Sedley
* Thomas Shadwell
* Thomas Southerne
* Richard Steele
* John Vanbrugh
* George Villiers
* William Wycherley

Notable plays|

* The Cutter of Coleman Street (1661)
* The Adventures of Five Hours (1663)
* The Comical Revenge (1664)
* The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
* She Would If She Could (1668)
* An Evening's Love (1668)
* Sir Solomon Single (1670)
* Love in a Wood (1671)
* The Rehearsal (1671)
* Epsom Wells (1672)
* Marriage à la mode (1672)
* The Country Wife (1675)
* Love in the Dark (1675)
* The Country Wit (1676)
* The Plain-Dealer (1676)
* The Man of Mode (1676)
* Tom Essence (1676)
* A Fond Husband (1677)
* Friendship in Fashion (1678)
* Squire Oldsapp (1678)
* Tunbridge Wells (1678)
* A True Widow (1678)
* The Woman Captain (1679)
* The London Cuckolds (1681)
* Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681)
* The Royalist (1682)
* City Politiques (1683)
* Dame Dobson (1683)
* A Commonwealth of Women (1685)
* Sir Courtly Nice (1685)
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* The Fortune Hunters (1689)
* The English Friar (1690)
* Sir Anthony Love (1690)
* Love for Money (1691)
* The Wives Excuse (1691)
* Greenwich Park (1691)
* The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692)
* The Volunteers (1692)
* The Canterbury Guests (1694)
* The Married Beau (1694)
* Love for Love (1695)
* Love's Last Shift (1696)
* The Relapse (1696)
* The Campaigners (1698)
* Love and a Bottle (1698)
* The Constant Couple (1699)
* The Way of the World (1700)
* Sir Harry Wildair (1701)
* The Lying Lover (1703)
* The Careless Husband (1704)
* The Recruiting Officer (1706)
* The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

Characters|

* Fop
* Spark
* Rake

Related people|

* Charles II
* Jeremy Collier
* Thomas Hobbes
* Marquis de Sade
* Molière
* James II and VII
* Georg Monck
* John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

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* Comedy of manners
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* Hedonism
* The Libertine (1994)
* The Libertine (film)
* Libertinism
* Lincoln's Inn Fields
* Mode
* Restoration of Charles II
* Second Anglo-Dutch War
* Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
* Wit

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