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THOMAS SHADWELL (c. 1642-1692)

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THOMAS See also:SHADWELL (c. 1642-1692)  , See also:English playwright and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born about 1642, at Santon See also:Hall, See also:Norfolk, according to his son's See also:account . He was educated at See also:Bury St See also:Edmund's School, and at See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he was entered in 1656 . He See also:left the university without a degree, and joined the See also:Middle See also:Temple . In 1668 he produced a See also:prose See also:comedy, The Sullen Lovers, or the Impertinents, based on See also:Les FtIckeux of See also:Moliere, and written in avowed 'See also:imitation of See also:Ben See also:Jonson . His best plays are See also:Epsom See also:Wells (1672), for which See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Sedley wrote a See also:prologue, and the See also:Squire of See also:Alsatia (1688) . Alsatia was the cant name for Whitefriars, then a See also:kind of See also:sanctuary for persons liable to See also:arrest, and the See also:play represents, in See also:dialogue full of the argot of the See also:place, the adventures of a youngheir who falls into the See also:hand of the sharpers there . For fourteen years from the See also:production of his first comedy to his memorable encounter with See also:Dryden, See also:Shadwell produced a play nearly every See also:year . These productions display a genuine hatred of shams, and a rough but honest moral purpose . They are disfigured by indecencies, but See also:present a vivid picture of contemporary See also:manners . Shadwell is chiefly remembered as the unfortunate Mac See also:Flecknoe of Dryden's See also:satire, the " last See also:great See also:prophet of tautology," and the See also:literary son and See also:heir of See also:Richard Flecknoe: " The See also:rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Dryden had furnished Shadwell with a prologue to his True Widow (1679), and in spite of momentary See also:differences, the two had been apparently on friendly terms . But when Dryden joined the See also:court party, and produced See also:Absalom and Achitophel and The See also:Medal, Shadwell became the See also:champion of the true-See also:blue Protestants, and made a scurrilous attack on the poet in The Medal of See also:John Bayes: a Satire against Folly and Knavery (1682) . Dryden immediately retorted in Mac Flecknoe, or a Satire on the True Blue See also:Protestant Poet, T.S .

(1682), in which Shadwell's personalities were returned with See also:

interest . A See also:month later he contributed to See also:Nahum See also:Tate's continuation of Absalom and Achitophel satirical portraits of Elkanah See also:Settle as Doeg and of Shadwell as 0g . In 1687 Shadwell attempted to See also:answer these attacks in a version of the tenth satire of See also:Juvenal . At the Whig See also:triumph in 1688 he superseded his enemy as poet See also:laureate and historiographer royal . He died at See also:Chelsea on the 19th of See also:November 1692 . His son, CHARLES SHADWELL, was the author of The See also:Fair Quaker of See also:Deal and other plays, collected and published in 1720 . A See also:complete edition of Shadwell's See also:works was published by his son Sir John Shadwell in 1720 . His other dramatic works are—The Royal Shepherdess (1669), an See also:adaptation of John See also:Fountain's Rewards of Virtue; The Humorist (1671); The See also:Miser (1672), adapted from Moliere; See also:Psyche (1695); The Libertine (1676); The Virtuoso (1676),; The See also:history of See also:Timon of See also:Athens the See also:Man-hater (1678),—on this Sakespearian adaptation see O . Beber, Shadwell's Bearbeitung See also:des . . . Timon of Athens (See also:Rostock, 1897) ; A True Widow (1679) ; The Woman See also:Captain (168o), revived in 1744 as The Prodigal; The See also:Lancashire Witches and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish See also:Priest (1682) ; Bury Fair (1689) ; The Amorous See also:Bigot, with the second See also:part of Teague O'Divelly (169o) ; The Scowerers (1691) ; and The See also:Volunteers, or Stockjobbers, published posthumously (1693) . SHAFI`Y [Mahommed See also:ibn Idris ash-Shafi'il (767-820), the founder of the Shafi'ite school of See also:canon See also:law, was born in A.H .

150 (A.D . 767) of a Koreishite (Quraishite) See also:

family at See also:Gaza or See also:Ascalon, and was brought up by his See also:mother in poor circumstances at See also:Mecca . There, and especially in intercourse with the See also:desert tribe of Hudhail, he gained a knowledge of classical Arabic and old Arabian See also:poetry for which he was afterwards famous . About 170 he went to See also:Medina and studied canon law (figh) under Malik ibn Anas . After the See also:death of Malik in 179 See also:legend takes him to See also:Yemen, where he is involved in an 'Alid See also:conspiracy, carried prisoner to See also:Bagdad, but pardoned by See also:Harun al-Rashid . He was certainly pursuing his studies, and he seems to have come to Bagdad in some such way as this and then to have studied under IIanifite teachers . He had not yet formulated his own See also:system . After a See also:journey to See also:Egypt, however, we find him in Bagdad again, as a teacher, between 195 and 198 . There he had great success and turned the See also:tide against the I.Ianifite school . His method was to restore the See also:sources of canon law which See also:Abu IIanifa, had destroyed by inclining too much to speculative See also:deduction . Instead, he laid equal emphasis upon the four—Koran_, tradition, See also:analogy, and agreement . See further, under See also:MAHOMMEDAN LAW .

In 198 he went to Egypt in the See also:

train of a new See also:governor, and this See also:time was received as the leading orthodox authority in law of his time . There he See also:developed and somewhat changed the details of his system, and died in 204 A.D . 820) . He was buried to the See also:south-See also:east of what is now See also:Cairo, and a great See also:dome (erected c . A.D . 1240) is conspicuous over his See also:tomb . See F . Wiistenfeld, Schdfa'iten, 31 ff.; M . J. de See also:Goeje in ZDMG. xlvii . 1o6 ff.; C . Brockelmann, Geschichte, i . 178 ff.; M'G. de Slane's transl. of Ibn Khallikan, ii .

569 if., Fihrist, 209, See also:

Nawawi's Biogr . Dict . 56 if . (D . B .

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