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If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.Thomas Otway
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.Thomas Otway
3 Quotes & Sayings By Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway was a professional playwright and poet best known for his tragicomedies. He was born in Cambridge, England in 1653, the son of a prosperous architect. Otway’s father died when he was only eight years old, and his mother remarried Thomas Stanley who became a wealthy man himself. In 1668, Otway joined the King's Musick as a violist, playing the viola da gamba
In 1672 he served as an ensign in the English army during the king’s reign, and at the end of his service he traveled to Italy where he performed under royal patronage. In 1674 he married Anne Bracegirdle and shortly after, they moved to France where Thomas performed with great success before returning to England in 1679. The couple had two children, both of whom died at young ages.
In 1683 Otway returned to Italy where he stayed for five years, performing on stage in London’s Drury Lane Theater. While there he published several works including A Tragedy of Caligula (1688), Oedipus (1689), and Cleomenes (1691). Otway returned to England where he continued to perform on stage until his death in 1713 at age sixty-three.