Thomas Killigrew
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Thomas Killigrew was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England.
Detail from a portrait of Thomas Killigrew by Anthony van Dyck, circa 1635
Thomas Killigrew and (possibly) Lord William Crofts by Anthony van Dyck
Print of Thomas Killigrew, after a portrait by William Sheppard
The Rover (play)
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The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts, written in mixed prose, song lyric, and verse by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The
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…all three are closet dramas, ten-act double plays never intended for the stage. Yet oddly enough, Aphra Behn adapted Thomaso for her successful The Rover (1677). The tragedy The Pilgrim, apparently never performed, borrows its plot from James Shirley's The Politician and reveals many allusions to…
Masked Revellers by Giuseppe Bonito
2012 performance of The Rovers at Hudson Warehouse
Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670