The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot.
An Author yet living, he was a Westminster Scholar, and lately a Student in Cambridge, who has given the Town two new Plays in Appearance, at least two new Titles, the first in Order, and writing, is,
The Mock Marriage, a Comedy, 4 to. acted at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden, by his Majesty’s Servants, 1696. This Author has given us no Proof of his Talent in Flattery, for he has dedicated neither of those Plays he has appeared in; but he has that part of a Poet however, of flattering himself (as indeed every Man does more or less) in defending what the Town has once condemned, for tho’ a bad Play may take, yet we hear very few Instances that a good one miscarried; ’tis true, this is like other general Rules, not without its Exception. This particular Play met with pretty good Success, for the Season of the Year, considering it the first Essay of a young Writer, unacquainted with the Town.
The Unhappy Kindness; or, A Fruitless Revenge, a Tragedy, 4 to. acted at the Theatre Royal, 1696. This Play is only the Wife for a Month of Fletcher’s alter’d, tho’ he has thought fit to retain its greatest Faults, in the Character of the Wife, whose Behaviour to her Husband, to provoke him to ease her of her Maiden-head, is by no means agreeable to the Modesty of the Sex, which is a Sin against the Manners.