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Thomas d urfey biography of barack

Born in Devon in 1653, a penchant for fine apparel and wistful poetry coursed through D'Urfey's veins.

This e-book is volume 5 of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy, published in six volumes in 1719-20 by J. Tonson, London.

[X-Info] Dates and performances of Thomas D'Urfey's plays.

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Name	Born	Died	Information
Uber, Christian Benjamin more...	20 Sep. 1746 Breslau	1812 Breslau	German composer
Uber, (Christian Friedrich) Hermann more...	22 Apr. 1781 Breslau	2 Mar. 1822 Dresden	German composer
Ubieta, Enrique more...	1934 Havana, Cuba		Cuban-born composer, now resident in the US, Ubieta has written original music for sju films; has composed more than 70 works, including chamber, vocal, and symphonic music; and has created various innovations in music
Uccellini, Marco more...	c. 1603 Italy	1680 Parma	Italian composer
Ucelli, Carolina	1810 Italy	1855	two of her operas were produced at the Theatre Pergola in Florence in 1832
Uchihashi, Kazuhisa more...	1959 Osaka, Japan		Japanese guitarist and composer
Udbye, Martin Andreas more...	18 Jun. 1820 Trondheim	10 Jan. 1889 Trondheim	Norwegian composer
Ufki, Ali more...	c.1610 Lvov, Poland	1675	born Wojciech Bobowski in 1610, was a Polish Christian • Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON Cavalier Soldier, Frans Hals, 1624 EDWARD DUTTON rescues a larger-than-life character from undeserved obscurity In an extreme reaction against the Puritanism that preceded it, the English Restoration was characterized by all that the gentlemen of the time held dear: flamboyant dress, sexual licence, more poetry than is necessarily healthy, unashamed snobbery, and a rabid attachment to King and tradition. Nobody better epitomized these attitudes than the bawdy song writer and children’s nursery rhymist, Thomas D’Urfey. Quite how the man who stuttered the immortal lines, ‘All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it’ could have been so comprehensively forgotten by history should make us wonder what historians are smoking. D’Urfey deserves his very own Restoration. Born in Devon in 1653, a penchant for fine apparel and wistfu • Shee Spy Twenty years ago, when Maureen Duffy first published The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640-89, Behn was still known principally as the celebrated but largely unread founder of women’s writing, the figure who had been hymned but effectively dismissed by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own (1929). ‘All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,’ Woolf wrote, only to declare Behn’s actual writings to be so much cheerful hack-work, of interest only as the hack-work of a woman. Since Duffy set about contesting this verdict, however, things have changed, and the appearance of this vastly fatter life of Behn (together with the completion of Janet Todd’s seven-volume edition of The Works of Aphra Behn for Pickering and Chatto) confirms the scribbler’s accession to the status of a fully-fledged Author. Todd’s labours complete