Epsom Wells

Epsom Wells is a 1672 restoration comedy by the English writer Thomas Shadwell. It was the first in a line of plays set in spa towns.[1] The incidental music was composed by Nicholas Staggins. In the 1690s Henry Purcell scored a new staging of the play.

Epsom Wells
Written byThomas Shadwell
Date premiered1672
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy

It continued to be revived well into the eighteenth century.

References
  1. Orr p.200

Bibliography
  • Cavert, William The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Orr, Bridget. British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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