Charles Shadwell (playwright)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:More citations needed Charles Shadwell (Template:Floruit 1710 – died 1726) was an English playwright of the 18th century, date of birth unknown. He was the son of Thomas Shadwell, the playwright and Poet Laureate.<ref>Template:Cite DNB</ref>

He served in the army during the War of the Spanish Succession, before becoming the supervisor of the excise in Kent.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Shadwell was the author of the comedy The Fair Quaker of Deal staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1710 and The Humours of the Army (1713).<ref name=":0" />

From 1715 to 1720 he was the resident playwright at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, the leading Irish theatre at the time.<ref>Edwards p.198</ref> In 1719, his tragedy Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught was staged at Smock Alley, and with the comedy Irish Hospitality, and other plays, collected and published in 1720.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Bibliography

• Edwards, Philip. Threshold of a Nation: A Study in English and Irish Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1979.

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