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Thomas Otway

1652 - 1685

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Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Otway has received more than 109,590 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Otway is the 2,947th most popular writer, the 2,159th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 244th most popular British Writer.

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  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Otway ranks 2,947 out of 7,302. Before him are Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Jean-Sifrein Maury, Vince Gilligan, Michael Ondaatje, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, and Charles Kingsley. After him are Gerard Reve, Alfred Andersch, Isabella di Morra, Hervé Bazin, Paul Gallico, and Tudor Arghezi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1652, Thomas Otway ranks 9. Before him are Michel Rolle, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Boris Sheremetev, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental, and Cornelis de Bruijn. After him are Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Johann Ernst Glück, Jan Brokoff, Pavao Ritter Vitezović, and Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard. Among people deceased in 1685, Thomas Otway ranks 12. Before him are Juan Carreño de Miranda, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and Michel Le Tellier. After him are Francisco Herrera the Younger, John Pell, and Francisco Rizi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Otway ranks 2,159 out of 8,785. Before him are Lewis Gilbert (1920), John Leslie (1766), Edmund Gunter (1581), Maryam d'Abo (1960), Steve Jones (1955), and Charles Kingsley (1819). After him are Claude Choules (1901), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), and Angela Carter (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Otway ranks 244. Before him are John Fletcher (1579), Walter Pater (1839), Dodie Smith (1896), Jack Higgins (1929), David Gemmell (1948), and Charles Kingsley (1819). After him are Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Richard Baxter (1615), Wilfred Owen (1893), John Cleland (1709), and Lytton Strachey (1880).

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