Career
He is remembered for his popular songs and his burlesques of the serious plays of John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, and Sir William Davenant. By profession, Duffet was a milliner. He maintained a shop in the New Exchange in London.
Virtually nothing is known of his life apart from his surviving works.
A Thomas Duffet confessed to forgery in 1677. This may have been the author
Duffet"s plays show a close familiarity with the lower and criminal classes of London society, perhaps suggesting first-hand knowledge. Duffet"s collection New Poems,, Prologues and Epilogues was published in 1676 by the bookseller Nicholas Wolfe.
