Gabriel Odingsells (1690–1734) was a British playwright. He attended

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. In 1725 he wrote a comedy ''

The Bath Unmasked ''The Bath Unmasked'' is a 1725 comedy play by the British writer Gabriel Odingsells. The action takes place in the fashionable spa town of Bath. Staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London it lasted for six performances, considered a ...

'', set in the city of

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, which appeared at

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. This was followed by ''

The Capricious Lovers ''The Capricious Lovers'' is a 1725 comedy play by the British writer Gabriel Odingsells. The play revolves around a vain militia colonel.Freeman p.282 The original cast at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields included John Hippisle ...

'' also staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields. His 1730

ballad opera The ballad opera is a genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later. Like the earlier '' comédie en vaudeville'' and the later ''Singspiel'', its disti ...

Bayes's Opera ''Bayes's Opera'' is a 1730 ballad opera by the British writer Gabriel Odingsells.Nicoll p.347 It was part of a boom in ballad operas that followed in the wake of the success of John Gay's ''The Beggar's Opera''. The original Drury Lane cast incl ...

'' was performed at

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. In 1734 he apparently committed suicide.Gagey p.152

References

Bibliography

* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992. * Gagey, Edmond McAdoo. ''Ballad Opera''. Columbia University Press, 1937. * Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell''. SIU Press, 1978. * Williams, Sarah F. ''Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads''. Routledge, 2016. 18th-century English people English dramatists and playwrights 1690 births 1734 deaths {{England-writer-stub