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Thomas Otway
1652Mar, 3

Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway, English playwright and author (d. 1685)
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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