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 by	Thomas Shadwell
Date premiered	1672
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy

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.