— IICHA . «til. P42 LIVE AND J Engliſh Dramatick Potts. ALSO An Exact ACCOUNT of all the PLAYS Places where. Acted, the Dates when vations on moſt of, the ſaid Plays. , - e Wh: A Flr col "up . and continued down to this Time, by a Careful Hand. .. By Charles G —_ .__— | LON D ON: Printed for Nich. Cox, and Wiliam Turner, and are to | } beſold ar the #/bire Horſe withour Temple-Bar. 1699. ———_— Printed, and the Perſons to whom | Dedicated ; with Remarks and Obſer- RACTERS | 1 | —_ P— ——— i. — Y_ -» that were ever yet Printed in the Eng-| liſh Tongue ; their Double Titles, the Firſt begun by Mr. Langbain, improv'd| |- | ——— T H E Epiſtle: Dedicatory, -I O | CHARLES CASAR, Eſq; © F Bonnin oton in He rtfordſhire. Honoured Sir, Have long had an Ambition to lay ſome- thing at your Feet that might be wor- thy your Protecion, ' but deſpairing to produce any thing my ſelf deſerving of - that Honour, and impatient of m | known how Proud I am of being in the Crowd of your Admirers, I cou'd not but lay hold. of this Opportunity, where the Merie of the Sub- jet, and Aſſiſtants I have had, might in ſome Meaſure attone for what is deficient in my Performance, I offer, Sir, to your ae: | Az this re j F 4 # b bv Ns \ o } 1 % ” The Epiſtle Dedicatory. this Hiſtory of the Lives and Works of all the Dramatick Poets of your Native _ Country, _of Which few Nations have produc'd fo great a Number under fo very little Encouragements. But to ſhew them, . Sir; | the more Worthy your Patronage, I ſhall lay down a ſhort Account of what Value their Art has. beeo, 'in the.moſt Polite and Politick}j_ as.well as moſt ſuccel: ul Go- . vernment in the World. Athens, Rome , and France will furniſh me with: the Proofs I want. Athens gave Birth and Perfettion to the Art, and. ſetmms, like the true Mother, to have been moſt fond of it, and therefore gave its profeſſors the greateſt Encou- ragement, The Value that Government had tor, both” is evident 'from. theſe two Tnſtances.: Sopboctes,” as a Rewatd' of his Antigone, 'had the Government of the City and Iſland of Samos confer'd upon him : And on the Death of 'Eupo- lis in a Sea-Fight, there was a Law publiſh'd, that ng Poet tor the: Future ſhou'd go to the Wars; ſo great a Lofsthey thought the Death of 'one Po6et'to the Commonwealth | "Thus we fee that Athens that was the moſt Yopalous and Trading City of Greece; and which froduc'd braver, better,” and more learned Men *thaq all Greece beſides, prove, by the Encourage- P » ” 'ttieot flie gave Prarmatick etry, that it was the - Opinion of the Wiſdom'of thar State, that Plays 949" \We _ W- '4i-- $4 , | T7 were ut ES . NN The Epiftle Dedicatory, were ſo 'far-from' being deſtruRive of Thduſlry and good 'Morals, that'they were equally con» a to'the Honour and Advantage cf 'its'Pegs ple, ns i a 1+: [ b-- WTWIS ww .0- I=S4 To lay'nothin 5 'of the Care that wastaken of the'Poers,- and hs Eſteem'they were in among the: Greateſt' and* Brayeſt 'of the! Old Romany ; I ſhall 'only mention the” Great Mecenas,, who laid the Foundation of the' greateſt* Monarchy that ever was in "the 'World; *who form'd as Great and Politick Deſigns, did as Great Servi- ces to his Prince as, any Man whatever ; and and who indeed eftabliſh'd the greateſt Emperor over the moſt Free and Polite People in the Unt- verſe; Mzcenas | ſay, thought Poetry ſo-worthy his peculiar Care, that we-owe the belt of the Roman Poets to hin}, and his: Name is palſs'd from a Proper to a Common Name for all Gene- rous Patrons, 'Tis yet freſh in our Memories what that Mg- ſter jo Politicks, the great Richelzew has done for theſe Politer Studies in France. - The Theatres, the Academy remain a glorious Monument'ot it ; and yer no Man could have fled with a better Pretence'to the Mitltilicity of Affairs, no Man ever diſparching -more- Buſineſs, or' fofming more Suzceſsfal, and Serviceable Deſigns for his Mafter's' Advantage, and the preſent and fyc- cexding Glory and Grandeur of France ; for to | "<=" 3 his The Epiftle Dedicatory. his Counſels the French Monarchy owes all that Terror and Power, with which we have ſeen all Europe (o lately ſtruggle with : And yet this great and buſy Polititian could find a time in ſpight of the Weight of the whole Adminiſtra- tion of France, to take Care of the Muſes, and tkought-it an Honour to himſelf and Country for the laſting Advantage of learned Men and Poets. He took Care of the Reformation of the Stage, and by his Order the Abbe Hedeline, compos'd a Piece of the whole Art of the Stage. | But- our Nation, alas! Furniſh'd with as brave a People, and a greater Genius tor Poetry than cur Neighbours, has never yet been ſo hap- py, as to find in the Adminiſtration, any Man with Soul enough, to think the Care of the Muſes worth their Thoughts ; and yet the World will never be induc'd to beheve, that they are wiſer or greater Politictans than Mecenas or Rj- chelien. | This Neglect of their Science has forc'd the Poets, who had nothing to expe from. the Go- © wernment, to make the moſt Noble and uſeful School of Yertue, degenerate into a meer Di- verſion ; that they. might Pleaſe an Andience, whence they cou'd only hone for their Support. And this has laid the Stage open to the "oY H4 ults | The Epiſtle Dedicatory. faults of thoſe whom either Biggottry, ntreſt, or Hypocriſy have made its Enemies. | *Tis not therefore the ſupine and criminal Negle& of the Great Men (I mean the Mini- ſters) of our Nation, that we are to form the Eſteem that is due to this Science by ; but the Care and valuethe moſt refin'd and moſt ſucceſsful Polititians in the World have Diſcover'd for it; If the Engliſh States- Mex come ſhort of this, ris to be I5ok 'd on by all Men of true Senſe, as their Defect and Infamy, not their Wiſdom. Wherefore, tho' the Publick has not yet thought fit to take this into its Conſideration and Prote&tion, yet I had reaſon” to think a Man of Mr. Cejar's Qualifications, cou'd not but be pleas'd to extend his Proteion to thoſe, whoſe Bufineſs it 1s to celebrate the Vertues that gain you the general Eſteem. You that forſook the lower Pleaſures of Fortune and Youth, for the Purſuit of Honour and Glory in the War ; You, Sir, that in your A@tions have ſhown the Hero, have a nearer Reaſon than other Men, to take care of the Peets, whoſe task it is to cele- brate the Heroes Deeds, and to tranſmit them in their moſt engaging Form to Poſterity, for their Honour and Imitation. Carmen amat quiſq; carmina digna gerit. A 4 ' You The Epiſtle Dedicatory. You, Sir, that have added to your Birth and Fortune fo ſtrong and general a Love, that your Wit, Sweetneſs of Temper, and Honour, defeat that Envy which Merit uſually raiſes, will natu- rally take care of thoſe, whoſe Imployment it is to diſtinguiſh betwixt the Pretence, and Reality ; the Man of true Senſe and Bravery, and the Flaſhy Opiniator, and the vain Boaſter of his. own Deeds. From you therefore I hope, Sir, a favourable Reception, when I ſhelter all our Dramatick Writers under the ProteQion of your Name ; for in you we ſhall find a Manly, yet Modeſt Me- rit Worthy at once, and negligent of Fame. . Wit without Opiniatreture ; but balanc'd with a true and penetrating Judgment ; Bravery which has nobly diſtinguiſh'd. you from the Remiſneſs of the Inglorious Youth of the Ape, witneſs your Voluntary Campaigns in Flanders ; a Ge- werofity that gets you the Eſteem of all Men, while the fordid are the Contempt and Laughter of Mea of Senſe. I need be no farther particular in the Enume- ration of your Vertues, ſince where ever Gene- roſity goes juſtly to the making up of a Chara- Cter, there can be no Vertue wanting. On this Vertue —_ - Ap A G I - The Epiftle Dedicatory. Vertue, Sir, it is that I depend for your Pardon for the Preſumption of this Dedication, which hope [ ſhall gain with the greater eaſe, becauſe I, have kept clear of the Crime of Dedications, Flattery, having confin'd my ſelf much within the Compaſs of ſevere Truth, and the Sentiments of, Sir, Toar moſt Devoted, Famble, and Obedient Servant, &c. THE 2:8 E PREFACE. Do not trouble the Reader with this Preface becauſe "tis the Mode to ſay ſomething before ev'ry Book ; but becauſe there is a Neceſſity of. premiſing a Word or two gs to the, following ready been ſeen. 1 ſhall take no notice of Mr. Winſtanley's or My. Phillips's, for one I never ſaw, and the other I could not read, and Mr. Langbain has diſcovered their Defe#s ſufficient to juſtify his andertaking a more perfe# Work ; and which he indeed in the laſt Edi- tion .he has pretty near accompliſh'd. I muſt own that bis Urderta- king has ſavd me a great deal of Trouble, but then he js every where ſo partial, that he deſtroys the Chara#er of a Critick and Hiſtorian at once, whoſe Obje ought always to be Truth ; whereas Mr. Langbain ſeems every where to gratify ſome private Pique, and” ſeldom to regard the Merit of the Perſon he refles upon. This I have every where awided , and diſftinguiſhd betwixt the Deſert and Defe# of the Authyw. Mr. Langbain is farther gene- rally miſtaken in his Cenſures as a critic , he ſeems to have . known nothing of the Matter, to have had little or no Taſte of Dramatich Poetry : and a Stranger to our Stage wou'd from bis Recommendation make a very odd and ridiculous Collefion of our Engliſh Plays. He often commends, Shirley, Heywood, &c. and will ſcarce allow My. Dryden a Poet; whereas the former have left us no Piece that bears any Proportion to the latter; the All for Love of Mr. Dryden, were it nt for the falſe Moral, wou'd be a Maſterpiece that few of the Ancients or Moderns ever equal'd ; and Mr. Shirley, and My. Heywood have not left enough in all their Wri- tings to compoſe one tolerable Play, according to the true Model and Deſign of a Play. Mr. Langbain has in many of the Lives, ſwell'd them out 'with interlarding them with tedious Copies of Verſes little ts the purpoſe in Hand, which I was obliged to- avoid for Two Reaſons ; Firſt I de» fign'd to give the Reader as compendious an Account of our Drama- tick Writers as I coud, and ſo to bring my Book to an eaſier Price than Mr. Langbain's And mm I was, Secondly, farc'd t6 leave - Us ous Treatiſes, and the other Eſſays of this Nature, that have al-. ' - — _— » . 5 Al hee «Ws —_—_— *%S -.z< " = —— > PRE The PREFACE. out all that was Superfluons : And this the rather, becauſe F had ſeve« ral Lives and Remarks to add to this Edition, which he cou'd give no Account of, fome of .the Authors having appear d ſince his time, and others, by the Advantage of the ingenious Mr. Aſh's admirable Col- leftion of Engliſh Plays, I have met with, which he never ſaw ; all which has render d this more Perfe# in its Kind than his cou'd be : be» ſides, writing after him, I have endeavoured to avoid his Faults, and pteſerve his Beauties.. Next I have to inform the Reader, that the following Pzece is not i writ all by one Hand, as will, T believe, be perceived in the Reading. And laſtly, I find on the peruſal of it, ſomething in the Book , which I muſt differ from in the Preface, and that is in the Account of Mr. Oldmixon's Amintas, where 'tis remark'd, that Paſtoral is a Modern Invention, when in reality, the Ancients had a fort of Dramatich Per- formance not unlike it, that is, their Satyrs, which mght be ſaid tobe ſomething of a nature with our Paſtoral ;, but if we may gueſs at what is loft by what remains of that kind, it was alſo ſomething difſerent. In the Cyclops of Euripides, we find the Shepherds were the major part of the Dramatis Perſonz; for ſuch was Polyphemus, Silenus, and the Chorus : But the CharaFer of Ulyfles hightned the Play, and gives a greater Force to the Paſſions ;, "tis not the Love of Po- lyphemus, but his Cruelty we ſee, and the Dexterity and Wiſdom of Ulyſſes. Of this fort of Prem, My. Dacier in his. Preface to the Satyrs of Horace, will give you ſomething a fuller Account. And as this takes its Riſe from Antiquity, ſo Farce, mn. ſome Meaſure, may derive it ſelf from the Pantomimi 3 at leaſt that fort of Farce which the Italian Players in Paris us'd to a ; tho' the Mimi and the Panto- mimi were efteem'd for their admirable Expreſſion of Nature in Affi- on and Dancing; but our Farce is ſomething beyond Nature, and Ex- travagant to a Degree of Nauſeouſneſs, to all gond Judges. T have lately read My. Congreve's Love for Love over, and am of Opinion, that the Contrivance of the Marriage of Tattle and Mrs. Frail is highly probable, tho' the Refleftions on that Play do ſeem not to admit it as abſolutely ſo. Laſtly, 1 have to advertiſe the Reader, that on the Peruſal of the laſt Sheets of this Book, T found that in the Remark on Beauty in Diſtreſs, one of my Aſſiſtants has ſeem'd to imply, that the Author is ' more a Comick than Tragickh Poet; \ Pcannot agree with him, for I think 'tis an extraordinary Effort for the firſt Undertaking in Tragedy, in which moſt have fail'd in their firſt Attempt : I ſay this, leaſt any thing my Friend ſaid, ſhould ſeem a leſſening of that Performance of the - Author, which he aſſures me he never meant, T HE ” : || " ye * , a Je ' 6” \ % OF THE. : Known Authors. 4 | c Lexander William, Earl] gArew, Lady Elizabeth 14 | | A of Sterline page I Cafew ' Thomas Totd. | . Armin Robert » 4 | Carlell,” Eſq; Lodowick '15 Carlifle James Tbid. l. B. Carpenter Richard 16 | Cartwright George thid. Aily Abraham 5 | Cartwright William Thi. ! Bancroft John Ihid.| Chamberlain Robert 17 Banks John 6 | Chamberlain William © 1bid. Barnes Barnaby 71 Chapman George 18 Baron, Eſq, Robert 8 | Cibber Colley 19 Beaumont Francis Tbid.| Cockain, Sir Aſton 21 Redloe William Thid.| Congreve William Thid. Behn Aphara Ibid. | Cook, E/q, Edward 25 Belchier Dawbridgecourt 10| Cook John - 26 Bernard Richard ' Thid.} Corey-John © Ihid. Boothby, Mrs. Frances 11| Cotton, Eſq; Charles Ttid. Boyle Roger, Earl of Orrery. 1b,| Cowley Abraham 27 Brandon Samuel 12] Cox Robert | 28 Breton Njcholas Teid.\ Crown John Tod, Erewer Anthony Ibid. | APA Brome Alexander Thid. | D. Erome Richard - 13 Bourn Ruben Ibid, Ancer ie 21 FF tirkhead Henry 14 Daniel Samuel -* Ibid. . Birnel, Eſz, Henry, Ibid. D'Avecnant, S7r-William '32 + D Avenant The Authors Names. DAvenant, Dr. Charles Py 35 | Granvile, Eq; Goorge P. 5s Davenport Robert | Green A Ibid. Dauborn _ Th Green Robert _ Day ;Joþn DEE me wy, 'Deckar*Thomas * Ihid: | ' Denham, "hop I | wi "Dennis: af ' Dilke Dopget Thomas | . Dover John * * Drake, Dr. 7k den, Eſq, John Drden' Funtor, John © et Thomas D'Urfey Thomas E. Ihi Ccleſton Edward —_ $3 \'H kins Charles. Thid Etheridge, Sir George Ibid. bay ard, Eſq; 74 Howard, Eſq, = | 7s F. A Howard, Sir Robert Thid. | Howell, Eſq; JE. 76 Ane, Sir Francis "94 | Fanſhaw, Str Richard Tbid. L- Falkland Henry,Lord Viſcount . 55 | 6 Field Nathaniel - Ibid. | TEvorn Thomas 75 - Filmer, Dr. Edward Thid. In Thomas 77 'Fiſhbourn $6 | Johnſon Benjamin . Thid. Flecknoe Richard , Ibid. | Jones John 8 Fletcher John $7 o_ Thomas « Thid. Ford John 61 | Joyner William | 32 Ford Thomas «+ 62 | Fountain John Thid, K. Fraunce ——_ A Thid. =Y che Freeman, Sir Ralp =_ grew H 82 'Fulwell Ulpian :\K Killigrew Thomas lhid. © OTH S9 * | Killigrew, Sir william 83 G. Kifk e Kneyet Ralph +." "= | Kid Thomas - f T. *Acey Johx ? L Lena John 8 The Authors Names, Lee Nathaniel Lilly Jobn Lodge Thomas Lower, Sir William Lupon Thomas M. Achin Lewis Maidwell L. Maine, Dr. Jaſper Manley, Mrs. Delarivier Manuch Coſmo Markham Gervaſe Marlow Chriſtopher Marmion Shakerly Marſton John Maſon John Mafſenger Philip May Thomas Mead Robert Medbourn Matthew Meriton Thomas Middleton Thomas Milton John Montague, Eſq; Walter Motteux Peter MNountford William N « TAbs Thomas Naſh Thomas Nevile Alexander Nevile Robert Newcaſtle, Duke Newcaſtle, Dutcheſs Newton Thomas Norton Thomas Nuce Thomas 0 Twa Thomas ['®, Oldmixon John » pag. 85 o id. Palo: John | hs Peaps Peel George Philips, Mrs. Catharine Pix, Mrs. Mary Pordage, Eſq; Daniel d.| Porter Henry Porter Thomas Powel George Preſton Thomas Preſtwich Edmund .$ & Quite Francis ; R d. Th Anton Thomas Ravenſcroft Edward Rawlins Thomas Revet Edward Richards Nath. id. | Rider William 106 tbid, I07 107 109 Rowley William Rowley Samuel Rutter Joſeph Rymer Thomas Ss, 'd. ome Tho. ſee Norton Sampſon William Sandys, Eſq; George ' Saunders Charles Scot Thomas Settle Elkanah Shadwell, Eſq; Thomas Shakeſpear William Sharp Lewis Sharpham Edward Shepheard, S. Sherburn, Eſq; Ed. Pag. 110 ibid, ibid, tbid, III I12 tbid, ibid, II ibid, I14 114 Shipman, Eſq, Tho, Pag. 130 | Webſter John pag, 146 Shirley Henry . 131 | Weſton, Eſq; John 147 Shirley James ibid. | Whitaker ibid. _— Sir Charles 134 | Wild, Dy. Robert 148 Smith John ibid. | Willan Leonard ibid, Smith William ibid. | Wilkins George tid. Southern Thomas x35 | Wilmot Robert ibi. Stanley, Eſq; Thomas 137 | Wilſon John ibid. Stapleton, Sir Robert tbid. | Wilſon Robert 149 Stephens John - tbid. | Wood Nathaniel ibid. Strode William tbid. | Wright John ibid. Studley }. 138 | Wright Thomas tbid. Suckling, Sir John ibif. | Wychetly ibid. Swinhoe Gilbert. 139 Fo T. | Y arriogton Robert 150 Ate, Eſq, Natum JOE BEG Fa FOOTE >: T L__ John 140] Y Taytor Robert 141 | Syppoſed Authors I5T Thompſon Thomas tbid. "Ry" , Trot Nicholas tbid. ( Unknown Authors 156 _—_ — _ Tuke 5. tbl In the 4 of Turner Cyril 142 a ata Tutchin John tbid, lldon Charles 174 | Grevile Fulk, L.Brook 180 V. Pembrook Counteſs 177 V : Phillips, £4; William ibid. Anbrug, Captain @ 142 | Pix, Mrs, Mary 178 —_— Plautus 181 * W. Rivers 178 | Shadwell, Eſq; Tho. 178 Ager Lewis 145 | Shirley James 179 Waller, Eſq; Edw. 7bid. | Terence ibid. Wapul George 146 ) Trother, Mys. Catharine 179 Wager William ibid. | Walker William 180 ibid. HF: Wayer R. The Authors Names. Y 4 * 4 2 i» "Þ (% - — - p - 2p 4 -+. "q& . : — __—_— he. - wr "Oo =. ERRAT A P*e: 3- Line 12. put the Comma after ſhe. p. 9. 1. 7. for # read are. _ P. 16. |. 18. read Antiquary. P- 22, I. 40. for Nor read And. p. 39. 1. 22. for Account read Aon. - |. 27, de- le.e. _p..41- 1. 16.-read Albianu. p. 45. I. ult. for firſt read laſt. p. 47. 1. 20. read Lollius. p. 51. |. 3. read Vidirix. | ' 11. read Vandoſme. |. 17. dele fairer. 1. 33. dele Cinic. p. 90. I. 36. for adding read Addreſs. p. 102. for Three read Four, P- 175. 1. 3. read probog; THE —_— —_— et A ———— T H E | LivesandCharadters FT: ws 1x 0 RR... - Engliſh Dramatick Poets: | . WVITH-AN E| A CCOU NE OF ALL THE, PLAYS, Printed to the Year, 16 I —_— © —_ A William Alexander, Earl of Sterline. HE Title of this Nobleman makes it evident that he de- rives his Birth from Scotland, as the Dedication of his Works affords us a Proof that he livd.in the Time of King 7ames the Firſt, for there he has this Stanza: Of this dived Ile the Nurſelis 5 brave ' Earſt from inteſtine Wars con'd not deſiſt, Tet did in Foreign Fields rs Names engrave, Whilft whom ane. ſpoild, the other wou'd aſſiſt. Theſe now have One; whilſt ſuch a Head they have, What World of Words —_— to refiſt : POReS Thus <— Knwn AUTHORS. A Thus has Thy Worth (Great JAMES) conjoin'd them now, Whom Battels oft did break, but never bow, That he was in Favour with King James, is evident from' Sir | Robert Ayton's Verſes before his: Tragedies. As for any Particulars of his Family and Private'Affairs I can give you no Account, but that it may be reaſonably drawn from his Quality, Nation, and Favour at that time, that he was not unhappy in any of them, at leaſt that depended on Fortune. FS 1 C F | Tlits Nobleman has by his- Writings ſhew'd Poſterity, that he had a juſt Right to his King's Favour, as any one that reads his Recreations of the Muſes will allow. Mr. Langban tells us of former Editions, but the beſt:is in Folro, London, Printed for Tho. Harper, 1637. and dedicated to King James, not King Charles .the Firſt, as Mr. Langbain miſtakes. In this Volume are Four Plays, which he calls, Monarchick Tragedies ; The Alexandrean Tragedy, Craſus, Darius, and Julius Ceſar. Nor' can I agree with Mr. Langbain, that he has propoſed the Ancients for his Model, whom he has fol- lox'd in nothing but the Chorus: For as for the Unities of Afftion, Time and Place, aliays obſerved by them, he ſeems. to know no- thing.of them. He ſeems to miſtake the very Eflence of the Dra- ma, which. .conſiſts in Aftion, moſt of his bezag Narration-; and may rather/be term'd Hiſtorical DiaJogues, than Dramatick Pieces. There i ſcarce one Aftion perform'd in View:*of the Andience ; but ſeveral Perſons come in, and tcll of Adventures perform'd by others or themſelves, and which often have no. more to do with , the Buſneſs of the Play, than the Perſons" that ſpeak, as in the Ft Scene of the Fifth AR of the Alexandrean Tragedy, Arijlotle and Phoceon, who have no hand in the various Revolutions of that Play, ſpend a long Scene on the Uncertainty of Humane Grandeur, only to tell 2 few Lines of Bufineſs done by ſome of Alexander's Captains. This Play is fo far from being after the Model of the An- cients,tne Action fo far from being one, that 'tis multiplied enongh for at leaſt Ten Plays, it containing tne various Revolutions, and Murders of the Commanders of the Macedonean Army, after the Death of Alexander ; and here, as'in the reſt, he runs too far back to bring things ab ove, that have,no. Relation to the Affion, as the Scene between Harpagus and Cyrus, and Creſus and Sandanis, and many. more will evince. . If he has not followed the Model of the Ancients, he has yet borrowed very freely their Thoughts, tranſla- ting whole Speeches from Seneca, Virgil, and. others, as the Firſt AQof 7ulius Ceſar from Funo's Speech in the Firſt of the Aneids ; and many of his Sentences, as well as the Defe& of his Sententi- ouſneſs, he owes to Seneca. . The Two Firſt Ads generally are whol- ly foreign to the Buſineſs of the Play, as indeed the greateſt part of the other As are too. This-at leaſt may be ſaid of my Lord, | - that: Known; AU THORS.. A 2 that he is a very good Hiſtorian, and from his Plays the Reade® may gather a great deal of the Afffairs of Greece, and Rome. Fun? in the firſt Act of ule Ceſar, gives, us the Hiſtory of all the In- vaſions of the Roman Empire, by the barbarous Nations, whether Gauls or the Cimbri, (gc. to the time of Zulias Ceſar, and finding hone of them effeftualenohgh to ruin the, Power of the Roman State, which deriving 1t ſelf originally, from the Trojan Race, ſt < could not but hate, therefore ſhe now reſolves to deſtroy. it by Civil Wars, and to raiſe her.Brothers Seryants, the Furies, always obſe- quious to miſchievous Commands, Whilſt Furies furious by my Fury.made. Says, ſhe ſhall at laſt do the Work; with which, after a Speech of Two or Three Hundred Lines ſhe ends the Att. Indeed my Lord feems often to have a peculiar Fancy to punning, and that in all his chief CharaQters; as Ceſar ſays 1n the Second AR, Great Pompey's Pomp is paſl—— and To ſeem uncivil in theſe Ciuil Wars. _ But not to wrong my Lord in the Judgment of the Readers, by theſe ridiculogs Quotations ; they are to.confider, Firſt, that this was the Vice of the Age, not the Poet; he having in that, as well as fome other things, imitated the Vices of our admira- ble Shakeſpear, and next that theſe punning Fits come not very of- ten upon him. T@ ſhew that he writes 1n another Strain ſome- times, I muſt give you Three or Four Lines, (my Brexity denying _ large Quotations) which will give you a-Taſte of his better arts. Love is a Joy, which ufon Pain dependy,; - , A Drop of ſweet dronn'd in a Sea of Sders : What Folly doth begin, that Fury ends , | | t They Hate for Ever, who have Lav'd for Hours. 'Tis the RefleQion of Adrafius in Creſus, the moſt moving Play of the Four ; but to return ro- Ceſar, in the Second AR, Ceſar thinks it a part of his Grandeur to boaſt his Deeds to Anthony (who knew 'em well enough - before) and betwixt 'em both, , we have an Account of his Commentaries, and almoſt a Djary of his AQtions. I can't omit one thing in this Play, in the Fifth AQthe | brings Brutus, Caſſius, Cicero, Anthony, xc.. together after the. Death of' Ceſar, almoſt ih the ſame Circumſtances as Shakeſpear, had dore in jus Play of this Name. Eut Shakeſpear's — and, Bxa | rutus 4 Knwn AUTHOR'S. 'A Biutus raviſh you, while my Lord's Brutus, Cicero, and Anthon would make you ſleep, fo much our Engliſh Poet excels. This mut be ſaid for my Lord's- Fulins Ceſar, that it is much the moſt re- gular of all his Plays, at leaſt in the Unity of Aion, which is only Ceſar's Death, tho' the whole laſt A is almoſt redundant, for when Ceſar is once dead, we have no occaſion to hear of the Conſequence of it, either in the Grief of Calpurnia, or the Difa- greements of the Noblemen and Commons ; but this may be ob- nay likewiſe to Shakeſpear, who gives us a Hiſtory, not a Play. ut tis time now to give over our Refle&ions on this Poet, and give the Reader 2 more particalar account of their Plots, in their Alphabetical Order. | The Alexandrean Tragedy, For the Plot you may conſult _ Cartius, and the 13th Book of Juſtin, Diodorus -Sciculus, 1. 18. Oroſius, l. 3. c. 21. Joſephus l. 12. c. 1. Appian de Bellis Syriacis. Saliani Annales Eccleſtaftici A. M. 3730. N. 30. (5c. Torniel. A. M. 3730. N.'s. Raleigh's Hiſt. l. 4. c. 3- Heylin's Hiſt. of Greece , Howel, (5c. Creſus, Taken from Herodot. Clio. Fuftin, 1. 1. c. 7. Plutarch's Life of Solon.. Salian. Tormel. A. M. 3510. Xenophon's Cyropaideia. Darius, This, as Mr. Langbain allures us, was the Firſt Fruit of his Lordſhip's Dramatick Muſe, Publiſh'd at Edinburgh, 1603. when he was yet Lord Menſtrie : The Language and deſign very much - tmprov'd in this laſt Folio Edition. As to the Plot, conſult Quin- rus Curtins, lib. 3, 4, & 5. Fuſlin, l. 11.'c. 5. (fc. Diodorws, 17. Arrian, de Expeditione Alexandri, l. 2. Plutarch's Life of exander, Salian, 4. M. 2719, (5c. Fulius Ceſar, The Story of this Play will be exa@ly found in the Roman Hiſtories, Plutarch and Suetonivs in the Life of Ceſar, x yp de Bellis Civilibus, lib. 2. Florns, I. 4. c. 2. ' Saltan, Tor- mel, gc. : He has writ beſides theſe Plays,Downſday. A Pareneſis to Prince Henry,on whoſe Death he dedicated it to Prince Charles,afterwards King Charles T. . A Fragment of an intended Heroick Poem of Fonathan, of which he has left but one Book. Robert Armin. T* E «i of a Play which Mr. Langhain never faw, and 1s called, | The Hiſtory of the- Two Maids of Moor Clach , with the Life and Simple Manner of John in the Hoſpital ; Playd by th Children of the King's Majeſty's Revels, and Printed in 4fo. Lon- don, 1609, I believe the Plot way be taken from ſme Old Story We $20 2h _ | | ; Kwwn AUTHORS. B 5 in thoſe Times. This Author lived in the Reign of King Zames I. and in the Title Page diſcovers himſelf to be one of his ny Servants, and was, I believe, of the then Company of Ators, for I find his Name Printed in the Drama of Ben. Zobnſon's Alchymiſt among the reſt of the eminent Players of that Age ; and indeed the Preface of his Play ſeems to intimate as much. . , _ __ —_ — —_—_ B Abraham Baily. \ Gentleman of the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and the Author of a Comedy call'd, | The Spightſul Siſter ; London, Printed in 4to. 1667, which I preſume never was Atted, being Printed without Prologue, Epilogue, or Dedication, and with Mr. Langbain , I muſt acquit him entirely of being a Plagiary, either as to CharaQters or Lay- : , and if it fall to any ones Chance to read it, and to ob- erve "my Lord Occa's and Winiffed's Charatters, will cafily allow that what he has writ is ſurely all his own, q \ John Bancroft. THIS Author was born in London, and tho' by Profeſſion a Chyrurgeon , was infefted by the Vicinity of the Wits with' Poetry, has left behind him Two Tragedies, dying 'about a ' Year and half ago, he lyes inter'd in St. Paul's Covent-Garden. Henry the Second, with the Death of Roſamond, a Tragedy Affed at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, London Printed 4to. 1693. This Play has not our Author's Name prefrxt to it, but 1s dedicated by Mr. Mowntfort to Sir Tho. Cooh, Rnight, Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London. For the Plot conſult Daniel, _ Speed, Sir Richard Baker, and the reſt of the Engliſh Chro+ nicles. ; Sertorius, a Tragedy, Affed at the Theatre Royal by their Ma- zeſties Servants, and London, Printed 1679. 'tis Dedicated to Cap- tain Richard Savage, and the Epilogue was writ by Mr. Ravenſcroff. The Elder Corneil has writ on the ſame Subjet. The Story is to be found in Plutarch's Life of Sertorizs, Velleius Paterculus, 1, 2. Florus, I. 2. c. 22. (fc. Whatever the Fate of this Flay was, his other-had no il] Succeſs, and may claim a Place of equal Rank with fevera] celebrated Tragedies of this Age. © 3 Zokn WP. >. p —— _ED— . > © 44, aa" 4. — who Po oS wad Known AUTHORS. BY John #05 94 "HIS Author is now living, and was once a Member of the T worthy Society of New-Inn ; who quitted the more profita- table Praftice of the Law, for ſome Years, in purſuit of the Bays, till Experience convinc'd him of his Error, and that the ingrateful _ Stage, like other Friends we often.eſteem, forgets the Obligations it has toone. And tho' of late he nas given us a Cyrus, yet it was writ ſome Years ago, - he wholly applying himſelf to a more gain- ful employ. If the Golden Age of Poetry carried him from thatin the Luxurious Reign of Charles Il. when thore People run Mad af- ter the Muſes than even now ; the Iron Aze that ſoon enſu'd, re- 211d him from fo fruitleſs a Purſuit. © Tho' by his Epiſodes, being _ generally inartificial, we may conclude he has not much ſtudied Ariſtotle, and the Art of the Stage, yet in Two of his Plays he has gain'd the true End of Tragedy, the' moving Terror and Pity, which many more celebrated Authors are ſo'far from, that they ſeem never to have aim'd at it : And this indeed makes ſome A- mends for the DefeQs'of Lanzuaze, in which he ſeems to me very faulty, He has Seven Plays in Print, of which the Alphabetical Order brinzs the laſt firſt. | *" Cyrus the Great, a Tragedy, Atted at the New Theatre 1n Z7n- colns-Inn-Fie!ds, Dedicated to her Royal Hizhneſs the Princcſs Ann of Denmark, 4to. 1696. The Plot of this Play is taken out of Scudery's Romance of the Grand Cyrus, and for the true Sta- ry of Cyrus, you may conſult Herodotus, - Fuſtin, Xenophon's Cyro- faideia, fc. Tho' this Plav had been formerly refus'd the Adti- on, yet it held up its Head about Six Days together, and has been - ſince Aqed ſeveral Times. Deftrufion ef Troy, a_ Tragedy, Atted at his. Royal Highneſs the Duke's Theatre. Lhndon, Printed 4to. 1679. and dedicated to the Right Honourable tne Lady Katharine Roos. This Play wanted the Succeſs the: Poet deſired on tne Stage. For the Story you may read Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dares Phrygius, Dittys Cretenſis, (5c. ' The Innocent Uſurper, or the Death of the Lady Jane Gray, a Tra- gedy, 4to. London, Printed 1594. and dedicated to Mr. Bently the Bookſeller that Publiſh'd it, in which he complains of the miſtaken Cauſe of its Prohibition of the Stage, appealing from the falſe In- ſnnuations of his Enemies, to Mr. Bently's Knowledge of its being writ Ten Years before, ſo that he could deſign no RetleRion on the preſent Government. His Defenſe ſeems reaſonable, and 1 thinkhim as much in the Right, when he tells us,- that this Trage- dy is inferior to none of his former, and that he's confident it wou'd moxe the Ladies Tears. He afiures us, he has nicely _— _ ; $-- , a0 8 . "i of . [ruth Known "AUTHORS." B. - Truth of the Story, which you may find in our Chronicles. This Play I look on to be much better than any of the late Tragedies ; tho' in hisMetaphors,he ſeemsnot to 've conſulted that uſtneſ which the Rules of good Rhetorick requires; but like all other human Performances, as it has its Beauties, it has alſo its Faults, but not enough of the later to over-ballance the former, A The Iſland Queen, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland, '4t-, 1684. This Play too had the ill fortune,tobe denyed the Juſtice of appearing on the Stage, but Publiſhed by the Author in defence of himſelf and the. piece, The Story you may read in Brcha- nan, Speed, Camden, Du Cheſnme, Brantons's Memoirs, Cauſon's Ho:y Court, &c. | Rival Kings, or the Loves of Ornondates and Statira a Tragedy, 4to. Affed at the Theatre Royal, 1677. _ Dedicated to the Lady Catvarine Herbert. For" the Plot conſult the Romance of Caſſzn- dra, Quintus Curtius, and Fuſtin. Virtue Betrayd, or Anna Bullen, a Tragedy, Aded at his Royal Highneſs the Duke's Theatre, 4to. Lon. Printed 16582, Dedicated to the uluſtrious Princeſs, E/lzzabeth Dutcheſs of Semerſet; for the Plot conſult a Book call'd, The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of Eng- land, &c. Speed, Herbert, Du Cheſne, Dr. Burnet's Kiſtory of the Reformation, &c. Unhappy Fawourite, or the Earl of Eſſex, a Tragedy, Atted at the Theatre Royal by their Majeſiies Servants, 4fo. Lon. 1682: Dedicated to the moſt High and moſt 1Iluſtrious Princeſs, the La- dy Ann, Daughter to his Royal Hizhneſs. This has always been Aded with Succeſs, and never fail'd to draw Tears from the Eycs of the fair Sex. For the Story, ſce the Novel call'd, The Secret Hiſlory of the moſt Renowned Queen E!izabeth, and the Earl of Eſſex. Camden's Elizateth, Speed, Du Chefne, Stow, Baker, &c, Barnaby Barns. A* Author wholiv'd in the time of King James I. he writ hut One Play Publiſhed, which bears the Name cf the _ Devil's Charter, a Tragedy, 4to. 1607. It ſecms to be written in 1mitation of Shakeſpear's Pericles, Prince of Tyre; an antient Play, and is an Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alex- anderVNI, See Guiccardin's HiSs. Italy : and Maſſonizs de Geſiis Pon- tificum Romanum. : There is. alſo Publiſtied under this Author's Nome, 2 Bgpk of Ofeces, about Princes, fol, 1606. R 4 Rovers 00 reno. Toon ns oc ED et re nr ere en. > > — RE CO OC _- —— . -——- — — ———— ——— —— — - > ee _ - C— I ee en CE IO — —— . = a tPA" PAI we I EI EE a A ne PO M.A R for her Beauty, as afterwards for her Poetick Works, in which Known AUTHORS. B. | : Robert Baron, Eſq; A Young Gentleman who Liv'd in the Reign of King Charles I. and. the Interregnum of Oliver, firſt bred at Cambridge, and afterwards was a Member of the Honourable Society of Grays- Ini: He wnit theſe three Plays, LF. Deorum Dona, a Mask, $vo. This is part of a Romance, writ by Baron, call'd the Cyprian Academy, Printed at Lond. 1647. Gripus and Hegio, Pa$t. 800. A Play conſiſting of three Ads only, and borrowed a great part from a Play of Webſter's, call'd, The Dutcheſs of Malfey, and the aforeſaid Romance. ; Mirza, Trag. 8v0. Plot from Herbert's Travels, fo!. accounted by his Friends a good Play, is Dedicated to the King, and re- commended to the World by divers Copies of Verſes; for moſt of the Scenes and La ſon's Catiline. Sir Fobn Denham's Sophy 1s on the ſame Subje&, and writ about the ſametime. © hari Lodow Barrey. THIS Author Liv din the time of King Charles I. he writone ' Play call'd, Ram-Alley, or Merry Tricks, C. qto. 1611. Francis Beaumont. See Fletcher. Capt. William Bedloe. HIS Author was a Famous Evidence in the Popiſh Plot, be- fore the Expiration of which he Dy'd, leaving behind him one Play, calld, The Excommunicated Prince : or,The Falſe Relick, T.C.Fol. 1679- The Plot taken out of Heylin's Geography , in hjs Account of - Georgia. His Life is Printed in 8v0.. 1681. Aphara Behn. T HIS Authoreſs, whoſe Name was Aphara, not Aftrea, as ma- ay have thought, was Born in the 3 of Canterbury in Kent, her Maiden Sirname 7ohnſon; ſhe was much admired in her Youth Language he ſeems to have Conſulted Ben. Fobn- | LE RPRMAMMrp Knows AUTHORS. B 9 ſhe excel['d not only all that went before her of her own Sex, but preat part of her Contemporary Poets of the other : She had a oreat Facility in Writing, ax much of Naturein all ſhe writ, was employ'd by Charles II. in the Diſcovery of the Dutch Intreagues, in the Dutch War; Liv'd belov'd, and Dy'd lamented by all that knew her, and lyes Buried in the Cloyſters of Weſtminſter Abbey, under a great Marble Stone, on which is inſerted theſe two Verſes: | Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be, Defence enough againſt Mortalitie. Her Plays, Seventeen in Nymber, are as follow in their Alphabe- tical Order ; wm \* Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge, T. 4to. Compare this Play with one of Chriſtopher Marlo's, call'd Luſt's Dominion, 8v0. and you will find it almoſt the ſame; Amorous Prince, or Curious Hwband, T. C. qto. Part of it ta- ken from the Story of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quizot, Part 4- "GAR: City Heireſs, or Sir Timothy Treat-All, C. 4to.- Part of it from a Play of Middleton's, call'd, A mad World, my Maſlers, 4to, and rt from another of Maſſengers, calld, the Guardian, 89. Dutch Lover, C. 4to. Plot from Don Feniſe, 8v0. See the Stories of Eufheme, Theodore, Don Jame, and Frederic in that Ro- mance. Emperor of the Moon, F. 4to. Taken from Harlequin, Empereur dans le Monde de [a lune. Forced Marriage, or The Jealous Bridegroom,T.C. 4to. The firſt Play ſhe Writ. Falſe Count, or a New way to play an Old Game, C. 4to. Iſabella's beingdeceiv'd by the Chimney Sweeper; taken from Molteres des pre- cteuſes Ridicules. Feign'd Courtezans or a Nights Intreague, C. 4to. This Play was well accepted, and accounted one of the beſt ſhe writ. * Lucky Chance, or the Alderman's Bargain, C. 4to. Gayman's enjoying Lady Futbank,, and taking her for the Devil, taken from Mr. Alexander Kickſhaw and Lady Aritina, in the Lady of Pleaſure, written by Shirley, 4to. Rover, or The Baniſh'd Cavaliers, two Parts, C. 4fo, Taken from Tho. Kiltegrew's Don Thomaſo, or The Wanderer, fol. ' Round Heads, or The good Old Cauſe,C.4to. A Playof John Tate- ham's, call'd, The Rump, altered, 4to. Sh | " Sir Patient Fancy, C. 4to. Part of this Play taken from Richapd Broom's Damyſelle, 830. and Le Malade Imaginaire. Tn gt le, tae ns OA A. 0 As oe. Ge, i AAR. wo KKFwwn AUTHORS. B. Town Fop, or Sir Timothy Tawdry, C. 4to. A great part of this Play borrowed from a Play, call'd,. The Miſeries of Forced Marriage, | written by George Wilkins, 4to. med! Widow Ranter, or The Hiſlory of Bacon in Virginia, F. 4to. This $10dv Play 'was Publiſhed after her Death by. G. 7. Plot from the known {5 Story of Caſſins. Toung King, or, The Miftake : A Tragi-Comedy , 4to. 1683, This Play 1s Dedicated to a particular Frie nd of hers, under the name of Philaſter. The Deſign. is borrowed from Calpranedes Cleopatra. See the Hiſtory of Alcamenes and Menalippa Part 8th. Tounger Brother, or The Amorous 7ilt,C.4to. This Play was Pub- V liſhed after her Death (with her Life added) the Story was of her own Knowledge, and written-above ten years before ſhe dyed, it was much eſteemed by her,- and it muſt be owned, in ſpight of the ul ſucceſs it met with, that there is a great deal of Wit at leaſt in the beginning of it, the firſt two Atts being very well received | but the tedious Scenes in Blank Verſe, betwixt Mrrtilla and Prince | Frederick, loſt the Diverſion they would have given in another more } eaſie Dreſs. Taken from a true Story of the Brother of Coll. Henxy . Martin, and a Lady that muſt be nameleſs. 'Sea the Novelcalld } * Hatige. Theſe Plays wereall written between the Years 1670. and 16go. [ Dawbridgcourt Belcher. T HIS Gentleman writ one Interlude in the time of King ZarresT. whilſt he lived at Utreicht, in the United Provinces, which he entituled, | | Hans Beer-p1t, his Inviſible Comedy of See me , and See me not, Int. 4to. 1618, Affted by an honeſt Company of Health-Drin- kers, ſays the Title. He was an Engliſh Man, and in his Epi- file calls it neither Comedy nor Tragedy, wanting both number of Speakers, and Parts or Ads it ſhould "tk it conſiſting of three AQts only. Rikad Bwraad; A Gentleman that Liv'd in Lincolnſhire, in the time of Queen A Elizabeth, and gave us then a Tranſlation of Terrences Come- dies, in a Language and Stile ſuitable to the time he Liv'd in. Pab. Terentins was a Carthaginian born, and brought a Slave.to Rome in his Youth, there well Educated by his Patron Terent. Seneca,and by.him made Free for his Wit, and left behind him fix _— Vit. Known AUTHOR - oy 17 his ((viz.) Andrea, Adelphi, Eunuchus, Heutontimorumenos. Hecyra and be LPhormio,the Fourth Edition in 4t0.4614- The four firſt of theſe Go- " *Umedies are borrowed from Menander. The two laſt taken from Apol- i: Blodorus. He generally brought twa of Menander's into one of vn { his. He was thought to have the help of Lal and Pub. Scipit, in his Writings which he thought an Horiour, not Diſgrace. Mrs. Frances Boothby. Hether this Authoreſs be yet Living, I know not, ſhe Livd, VV and Writ in the time of King Charles Tt. a Play call'd, Marcelia, or The Treacherous Friend, T. C. 4to. 1670. Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. þ A Noble Man of the Kiggdom of Ireland, eminent both in Arts and Arms, as a Poet and as a Patron; he dyed 0b. 1679. and has Publiſhed theſe following Plays, LS Black Prince : For theStory conſult Walſingham?: Hiſt. Angl. Wi- gornenſis Chronicon. Polid” Virgilii. Flarentii Monarch; Froiſſard Chron. de France, dy d Angleterre, Engliſh Chronicles in Reign of Edw. IIl. Cry, A VA Tryphon : Conſult the firſt Book of Maccabes, Joſephs, lib. 13, ApÞ!an de Bellis Syriacis, &c: ; ; Henry V. See the Engliſh Chronicles in the Reign of that King, and . the Reign of King Charles VI. in the French Chronicles, as Fean Tuvenal des Urſins, Le Hiſt. de Charles VI. Mexzeray, &c. . Muſtapha : Conſult for the Plot Thuanus , [th. 12. Thos Ar- twila continuacm de le Hiſt. des Tourc's, and Knowles's Turkiſh, Hiſt. Theſe four inFolio ; the two firſt Pubhſhed 1672. the other, twoin 1677. : gd Guzman, A Comedy Atted at the Theatre Royal. 1693. The Plot of this Play is taken from a Romance of that Nme. Herd the Great, a Tragedy, Printed 1694. I do not find that this Play-was ever Affted. The Story of this Prince you will find in Zoſephus, and his Life in, Cauſſin's Holy Court. - Theſe two Plays are bound pp with the reſt of his Plays, in fel, and tho' the Title Page tells us that the firſt was ARted, yet there 15 no Drammatis Perſone before it. q He alſo writ one other Play, call'd, Maſter Anthony, 4to. 3690, The Prologue to this, is the {ame of that to one of ,Durfey's Plays, calld, The Fool turn'd Critich. | San xe} \ Known AUTHORS. - B. Sarmel Brandon. E Livd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and writ this Play towards the latter part of her time, call'd, The Virtuous Oftavia, T. C. 2w. 1598. and tho' this Play was never Adffed, yet the Author had a very good Opinion of it ; and his Epiſtles Printed with it, Compos'd in imitation of Ovid's. Plot from Plutarch's Life of M. Antony. See alfo the Life of Au- gnſtus in Suetontiss, Dion. Caſſins, &c. Nicholas Breton. E has Writ and Publiſhed nothing more then this one Inter- lude,call'd, | The old Man's Leſſon, and Tourg Mans Love. Inter!, 4to. 4 very ; old Piece, - - Anthony Brewer. A* Author in the Reign of King Charles I. Publiſhed theſe two Plays following (viz.) | The Country Girl, C. 4to. 1647. This Play was Reviv'd juſt thirty years after its firſt Publiſhing, by one Leanard, who gave it a new Title, calling it, Country Innocence, or the Chamber-maid nurn'd Quaker. 4to. 1677. Love-fick King, T. C. 4to. 1655. This Play was alſo Reviv'd, and Acted at the King's Houſe, under the Title of The Perjured Wn, 4to. 1680. See Speed, Polyd.Virgill, Gu. Malmsb. Ingulfus, Higden, Du Cheſne, (oc. Alexander Brome. E Livd in Charles 1. time, Y was 4 Stirring Attorney and . & Poet in the Royal Cauſe, d the Government of thoſe Times. He Publiſhed but one PlaMof his own, entituled, The Cunning Lovers, C. 4to. 1654. The Story of the Cunning Lovers, taken from the 7 Wiſe Maſters. - See alfo the Nov. of the Rrtunate Decetved, and Unfortunate Lovers. Tet 2 © Bs 2 Known AUTHORS. B. x3 Yet he took care to give the World a Volume of Mr. Richard {Bromes after his Deceaſe, Printed in 8v9. This Author has Pub- iſhed alſo a Volume of Poems, which he writ in the late Trouble- ome Times, together with Epiſtles and Epigr lay{divers Authors, Printed about the time of the Reſtauratian of Ki Charles II. and again 1664. Beſides theſe , we have under h SJName Horace, 80, tho' no! wholly Tranſlated by him, ind : Richard Brome. E Liv'd inthe time of King Charles I. was ſervant to Ben. John- H ſon, and writ himſelf into Reputation by his Comedies z was Complimented with Copies of Verſes, from moſt of the Poets'of his time, and even from his Maſter Ben. . His Plots are his own, and ſtudying more Men then Books, he has not fallen into Plagi- ariſm. Befides-thoſe Plays writ by himſelf, he joyn'd with Hey« wood, 1n a' Play calld, The pcs Fa Witches. His Plays, in all fifteen, as they were PulKſhed follow (viz.) City. Wit, or The Wo- man wears the Breeches, Court Beggar, Damoyſelle, or The New Or- dinary; Mad Couple well Match'd; Reviv'd under the Title of De- bauchee, or The Credulous Cathald, 1577. Novella: Thele five are Printed together in one Vol. 8v0. 1653; Covent G:rden Weeded; Engliſh Moor, or The Mock Marriage; Love- fich Court, or The Ambitious Politich ; _New Academy, or The New Exchange ; Queen and Concubine : Theſe five are Printed in ano- ther Vol. 8w9. 1659. a Antipodes, C. 4to. 1640. Fovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars, C. 4to. 1659. Revived and Reprinted 1685. Northern Laſs, C. 4to. 1663. Revived and Reprinted 1684. with new Prologue and Epilogue. Queens Exchange, C. 4to. 1657. Sparagus Garden, C. 6:0 640. Moſt of theſe Plays were 'Affted with general Ap- plauſe. Fulk, Grevile, ord Brook, ſee Grevile. Ruben Bourne. | for ſay no more of this Anthor, but that I'm inform'd he is or lately was of one of the Temples, and has a Play in Print under this Title : | | The Contented Cuckold,or The Womans Advocate, 4to.C.1692. This Play was never Aded, but Dedicated to his Worthy Friends Fob Huxly of Wyerhall in Edmonton, in the County of Middleſex, Efq; end. Richard Andrews of the ſame Gentleman. | We nee Henry 14 'Knows AUTHORS. C LY Henry Burkebead. T IS" Author: was a Merchant in Briftol, in the Reign of Kit Charles'l. his Play call'd, | | Colas Fury, "or Lyrindas Miſery, T. 4tv. was never Affcd, it repre ſents the Troubles of Ireland under teigned Names. "& Gentleman that Liv'd in Ireland in King Charles I. time, Wriffl of a Play call, 8 Q Landzartha, T:C.4t0.1641. ARed at Dublin with gpod Applauſe and ſome time after Printed there, The Plot which 'is toundedfj on the "Conqueſt of Fro (and call'd by ourAuthor Frolto) King of Þ f: Suethland, by Regner King of Denmark, which the Repudiation Þ} g of Landgartha Q. to Regner. See Krantziut, Lib. 4. c. 6. Fo: | Magus , Lib. 17. cap. 4, 5- (5 Saxo Gramat, Lib. g: Henry Burnel, Elq; n 4 — tt OE _ > - - - Do — —_ L———— —— — C _. Lady Elizabeth Carew. T HIS Lady lived in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, atid has left be- | kind her a Tragedy call'd, | | Mariam the Fair Queen of Fury, 4to. There is another Tragedy written by Pordage, more Modern, on the ſame Subje&, call'd , Herod and Mariamne. Plot taken-from- Joſeph. Hiſt. Jews, lib. 1 4 O 15. Salian.Tom. 6. A. M. 4012. Tormel. Tom. 2. A.M. 4025, C, ' Thomas Carew. OE of-the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber, and Sewer in Or- | dinary to King Charles 1. by whoſe command, and the Aili-. ftance of Inigo Jones, he compoſed a Maſque, .called, | Colum Knows ;AUT/ HORS. A. T) Celun Brit annicum, 80, Fes in the, ing Houſe at hite-Hall , by his ſaid Majeſty, King Charles k and his No- les, An. Dom. 1633. (Mr. Hen. Lawes, one of the King's Pri Sate Muſick, and Gentleman of the Chappel Royal, ſet all the ufick to the ſame. ' This Author Publiſhed a Volume 'of Poems Wand Songs, which have been divers times (with this Maſque) Re- xrinted, the laſt Edition, 1670. Lodowick, Carlell, Eſq; {FP f15 Gentleman was an Old Courtier, and liv'd in the Time of | both the King Charles's, and poſleſt the Places of Gentleman Vrity of the Bowes to King Charles I. and of Groom of the King and Queen's Privy-Chamber. He has Publiſh'd Eight Plays (viz, Arviragus gnd Philicia, in Two Parts, T: C. 129. 1639- ( revived ledFj ſince with a new Prologue writ by Mr. Dryden, and ſpoke by the or famous Actor, Mr. Hart. For the on Which this Play is on F grounded, ſee Geof. Monmouth, libs 4. c.16. Pol. Virgil, lib.2. Matth. - of Weſt. pag. 93. Grafton, Part' 7. page 77. | Deſerving Favourite, T. C. $v0. 1659. This Play was repreſen- | ted before King Charles I. and his Queen at White-#all, and often in Black-Fryars, with great Applauſe. : s Fo! would bs a Favourite; or, The Diſcreet Lover, 80. 1657. Oſmond the Great Turk ;, or, The Noble Servant, Tragedy, 8w. 1657. (The AGtion of this Play is, the taking of Conſtantinople, in the Year 1453. See Knolles's Turkiſh Hift. 1n the Life of Maho- met Il. Bandello's Novels, Tom. 1, Hiſt. 2. Lipfi Monita, lib. 2. Cap. '9.” Artus le Contin. de P Hiſt. des Tacs. Lib. 11. This Play, with the two preceding, are Printed together in 8vo. 1657. Paſſionate Lover, in Two Parts, T. C. 849. 1665s. This Play was publiſhed by Mr. Alex. Gough, it having' been before twice pre- ſented before-the King and Queen's Majeſties at Saefir tbe. Heraclins, Emperor of the Eaft, Trap: 4to. 1664," This tranſſa- ted from the French of Monſieur Corre lle, was deſigned by the Tranſlator for the Stage, but never Atted. Sce Zvniar, Baronius,gyc. James Carlile. - E was born, as I'm informed, in Lancaſhire, he firſt appear'd. in the World as a Player, and gave no ſmall Promiſes of ma» king conſiderable Progreſs 1n that way; he left the while he was yet young, and took to the Wars ; got no little ton in' the Triſh Expeditions under his Preſeat Majefty, and with his Bro- ther, loſt his- Life in the- Bed of Honour. He gave us a Play cilled,. * The , - _—_ m——_— — _ LY Wn OOO Inno EEO TE I i en ro Ire "WI + + — _ Oo ” — — —— ——_—_— P_ o 16. Known AUTHORS. B. | The Fortune Hunters ; or, Two Fools well met. Com. 4to. This wal 0 ARed with Applauſe,as it has been lately revived by the raced Company. -, Ke _ Richard Carpenter. Ti IS Author lyed in the latter end of King Fames I. and beginning of King Charles I. Publiſh'd one Play called, The Pragmatical Jeſuit new Leaven'd,q4to. A Play tends to Morali and Vertue ; ſo 'tis doubted whether the Author was not a Divi there being/Three Sermons Publiſh'd under the ſame Name, in latter end of the Reign of King Zames I. George Cartwright. F this Gentleman I can only ſay, that he liv'd at Fulham, and} _ that he has writ a Play called, bu Heroick Love; or, The Infanta of Spain, a Tragedy, dedicated to ” King Charles Il. and Printed, London, 1651. 80, 5 William Cartwright T' E Name of .our Author's Father and Place of Nativity, arc # differently Related by Mr. Wood, (a) the late Antiquarian in his ® Artiquit.Oxon. and (b) Mr. Loyd in his Memoirs,the firſt making him Þ - Glouceſterſhire, and 'the latter 0x9ſordſhire ; but all agree he. was brought up a Kine's Schollar at Eaton, under Dr. 0/baſton, and choſe | Student of Chriſt-Church-Colledge. in Oxon, where he paſled thro! | his Degrees of Batchelor and Maſter of Arts: The Houſe made choice of him for Profor, and was admitted by the Univerſity | with Mr.Wake of Magdalen Colledge in the Year 1643.-' in the Winter that Year he Dy'd of a Malignant Fever, and lies Buried | in the South Je of that Church. He was helov'd by the King and | Nyeen, and lamented by all his Acquaintance and Friends. He was | expert in the Latin, Greeh, French, and Ttalian Tongues ; was © extream modeſt, as well as handſome ; and admired, not only by | his Acquaintance but Strangers. Ben. Johnſon among the reſt writ ! in his Praiſe ; and Biſhop Fell gives him the higheſt, 1f not Hyper- ! bolical Praiſe, in ſaying, He was the utmoſt that Man could come to. © He writ four Plays, viz. i} - Lady Errant, a Tragi-Comedy, 8v0. 1657. - This was eſteemed by many about that time a good Play. ——_ | (a) Antiquit. Oxon. p. 274- (b) Lloyd's Memoirs, f- 422+ Ordinary; ef acicinuonq Ee 1 45490 Known AUTHORS. C 17 iS wa Ordinary, a Comedy 8vo. 1657. Part of the firſt AR is inſert &d in a Book call'd, Wits Interpreter, as a Love Dialogue, unde the Title of the 01d Widow, p. 81. 7} Rozal Slave, a Tragi-Comedy, 8w. 1651, This Play was firſt reſented to the King wrt, ns the Students of Chriſt-Church- olledge, Oxon, Dr. Busby, late Schoolmaſter of Weſtminſter, a&- g a parttherein; and afterwards at Hampton Court,to both Their FMajeſties, by the Players, at the Queens Command ; and tho' the litFPoet gave c Our Author has alſo extant other Pieces, viz. a Sermon Print- Ted 1652, a Latin Book entituled, Dies in Menſe Novemb. maxim ' notabiles Coronam, (Fc. 1671. | Robert Chamberlain. T HIS Anthor Liv'd in the time of King Charles I. and Writ a Play call'd, The Swaggering Damſel, a Comedy 4to. 1640. Whether ever this Play was Atted I cannot learn, nether can TI fay it deſerved Aing, William Chamberlain. Door of Phyſick' who Lived and Dyed in Shaftsbury in Dor- ſetſhire, was an old Cavalier, and had received ſeveral Marks of his venturing in thoſe Wars. He gave us a Teſtimony of his Poetick wy pac in an Heroick Poem, entituled Pharoniga, 80. 1659. 'and fince has appeared in Proſe, with the Title of Erome- na, or The Noble Stranger, a Novel, 1683, He writ but one Play Printed, call'd, Loves Viftory, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1558. This has appeared fince under a new Title and Aed, call'd, The Wits led by the.Noe, or A Poet's Revenge, 4to. 1678. Georg? nd - Kmwwn AUTHORS. C George Chapman. | T HIS Poet Flouriſhed-in the latter part of the Reign of Queen+ Elizabeth and King James I. He was received among the for- moſt of the Poetick Writers of that Age, for his Tranſlations, well as Original Writings. He joyn'd with Ben. Fohnſon and Mar fon, in the Compoſing one Play call'd, Eaſtward Hoe. He alſo Tranſlated all Homer, Heſind, and Muſes, whiche Works were eſteemed well done in that Infancy of Tranſlation : His Plays which follow, are 18 in Number. All Fools, a Comedy, 4to. 1605. Then accounted a good Play ;! it is Built on Terence's Heautontimorumenos or Self-Denyer, and was|! Affed before King 7ames I. : x Alphonſus Emperor of Germany, a Tragedy 4to. 1654+ Plot from || Chron. de Rebus Germanicis, ſee alſo Reynolds on the Paſſions, Wan- |; ley's Hiſt of Man, Mariana de Reb. Hiſt. lib. 13. c. 10. Hiſt. TI 7 rale a"Eſpagne, lib. 12. Blind Beggar of Alexandria, a Comedy, 4to. 1598. Atffed by the Earl of Nottingham, then Lord High Admiral his Servants ; this Play is neither divided into Adts nor Scenes, | Buſſy 4'Amboiſe, a Tragedy 4to. This hath been preſented for- | merly at St.Pauls, and fince the Reſtauration by the Kings with good Applauſe. Plot from the French Chron. Hen. ILI. Thu- © anas, Deſerres, ox Roſſets Hiſt. Trag. de notre temps, (under the | names of Lyſis and Silvie) Hift. 17. þ. 363+ : Buſſy 4 Amboiſe his Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. 1613. This Play 3 met not with that Eſteem as the former, nor 1s it founded on {5 ? great Truthas the other. , Conſpiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron, Marſhal of * France, two Plays 4to. 1608. For the Plot which 1s founded on | Hiſtory, ſee Davilas Hiſt. France, Mezeray and other French Chron, | mn the timeef X. IVth of France. : "Ceſar and Pompey, a Tragedy, 4to. 1631. Divers are the Au- # thors that haye treated on this Story, as Lucan in his Pharſalia, * Svetonius in the Life of Fulins Ceſar, Plutarch, Vill. Paterculus, | Florus, Dion, &c. | = Gentleman Uſher, a Comedy 4to. 5606. A Play which de- ==_ no great Commendation, and I queſtion whether ever 'twas A | Humorous days Mirth, a Comedy, 4to. 1599. A Play of indif- ferent Repute, but entituled, 4 Pleaſant Comedy, as it has been | ſundry times Publickly Affed by the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral's Servants. Maſque : NY 5 2, _ LO” © Knwn AUTHORS: C 19 Maſque of the Middle Temple and Lincolns-Inn, qto. 1614. This was. preſented at Court before the King, at the Celebrati. on of the Nuptials between the Palſgrave and the Princeſs Eliza- beth, Mr. Inigo Fones was the Ingineer to order the Machines and Decoration of the Scenes. May-Day, a Comedy 4to. 1611. Divers times Affted with good Applauſe. \ ' Monſieur d'Olive, a Comedy, 4to. 1606. This Play was often Affted by her Majeſty's Children with good Succeſs. Revenge for Honour, a Tragedy, 4to. 1654 When the Nur- ſery Ated in Barbican, ſince the Reſtauration they ſometimes made uſe of this Play. Temple, a Maſque, 4to. As I Conje@ure, - may be the ſame with that before of the Middle Temple,and Lincolns-Inn; Mr. Lang- bain, nor any other that I could ever learn, having ſeen any of this Title. ; p Two Wiſe Men, and all the reſt Fools, 4to. 1619. Mr. Langbain's former Remark on this Play was, that it exceeded in the Number of Ads any Play of what Language whatever. But if he had ſeen the Spaniſh Baud, either in the Original, or the Folio Edition in Engliſh, he might have found one with three times as many Ads; the Prologue and Epilogue of this Play are both writ in Proſe, as was ſometimes fiſed 1n thoſe times : Mr. Chapman's Name not be- ing to the Title of this Play, it's a queſtion whether it be really kis, tho' former Catalogues make it ſo. Widows Tears, a Comedy, 4to. 1612. Plot from Petroni- ws Arbiter. See alſo the Epheſian Matron , Printed in 8v0, 1668, Eaſtward Hoe, a Comedy, 4to. 1605. This was his but in part, Ben Fobnſon and Marſton having joyned with him in it; 'twas thought worth the reviving by Mr. Tate, our preſent Poet Laureat, gives it the Title of Cucko/ds-Haven. - Colley Cibber. AN Author now Living, he is of Foreign ExtraQtion, his Fa- ther being a Native of . Holſtein, and a very skilful Statuary. I cannot underſtand that his Education ever reached cither of the Univerſities; he having been early by his Fancy led to the Stage, tho' it was not till the diviſion of the Houſes that he made any conſiderable Figure there, and then he at once exerted both the Poet and the Player, in his firſt Play calld, Loves laft Shift, and in the part of Sir Novelty faſhion, which he played himſelf, and ſo encreaſed both his Profit and his Reputation ; he hasalready Pub. liſhed two Plays of ſomething a different Charater, of which in their Order, C 2 Love's 20 Knwn AUTHORS. C Loves laſt Shift, or The Fool in Fafhion; a Comedy, Aded at the Fheatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants. London, Printed 1696. 4to. And Dedicated to Richard Norton of Southwick , Efq. In the Epiſtle our Author informs us that the uſual Enmity at the Succeſs of an unknown Author, had produced ſome Surmiſes that this Play was not his own; but he afſures his Patron, that he ſhould think he affronted him, if he ſhould dedicate a Play to him that he could not entirely call his own ; no part of this, either of the Plot or the Expreſfion being borrowed from either the Dead or the Living. He indeed took a very rational Way to that Suc- ceſs, which his Epiſtle lets us know this Performance of his met with, by making uſe of the extenſive Acquaintance of Mr. Southern, For that Author that will ſtand on the bare Merit of his Play, may fatisfie himſelf in its Juſtneſs and Perfe&ion, but will ſeldom or never reap that Profit - from his Labours, that will anſwer either his Hopes or his Merit. Being ſenſible of this, FT ſuppoſe Mr. Cibber took care to engage the Intereſt of a great many, by obliging their Vanity, in ſubmitting his Play to their Peruſal and Cenſure; for there 1s no Complement fo prevailing with Mankind, as that which is made to their Wit. | Mr. C:ibher has taken Care to ayoid the Guilt of an unconfefſed Theft, in avowing his Innocence, only ſo far as he conld remem- ber. The Plot indeed feems to be new, as it 1s ſurpriſing and ad- mirable; but ſome of the Criticks will have it founded on a very great improbability, viz. on Loveleſs's not knowing his Wife : Tho! it may be urged in defence of it, That young Worthy's Con- firmatioa of her Uncle's former Account of her Death might very much contribute to his being impos'd on. But were this inſuffict- ont, yet the Beauty of the Incident, and the excellent Moral that flows from it, abundantly outweigh the Fault. The Characters of Sir Novelty, Snap, Narciſſa, and the Elder Worthy, ſeem to be good Copies of Sir Fopling, Jerry in Love for Love, Setter in the Old Batchelor, &c. Of Melantha in Marriage Alamode, &c. and Vain- love in the Old Batchelor. Womans Wit, or The Lady in Faſhion, a Comedy aRed at the The- atre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants, 4to. 1697. This Play is much ſhort of the former in the Eafineſs of Wit and Style, as in the Artful working up of the Plot. The Chara- Rers of Rabeiſh, Father and Son, with the Plot of their Walk, is much, borrowed from the Fortune Hunters ; from Otway's Dare De- vil ; from Sir Thomas Revel and his Son in Greenwich-Parke ; and . indeed among the other Characters there 1s not much new, Sr Knows AUTHORS. C Sir Aſtor Cockain. TY IS worthy Knight lived (about the Reſtoration) at his Seat at * Aſhbourn, a Market Town in Derbyſhire, his Family Ancient, pretending an Alliance with * William the Firſt : He had Edu- cation in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, made the Tour of France ard Italy in his Five and Twentie*h Year, finiſhing it in the Year 1632., Poetry being his darling Study. ' Among other Pieces, ne ha left us Three Plays. and a Maſque, of which in their Order. , Maſque, preſented at Berthie in Derbyſhire, 1539. before the then Earl of Cheſterfield, on a Twelfth-Night, his Two Sons ating Parcs in the ſame. Obſlinate Lady, a Comedy, 8vo. 1658. This Play ſeems a meer Imitation of Maſſenger's Very Woman. Ovid's Tragedy, 8v0. 1669, Some part taken from his Elegies, and patt from 7! Atheiſto Fulminato, an Italian Play. Trappolin ſuppoſed a Prince, a les Pnguamy 84). 1658, Plot from Trapolen credulo Principe, which he owns to have ſeen ated at Venice. It has been revived by Mr. Tate, and acted in the Year 1685, by the Dukes Servants in Dorſet Garden. Therſites, and Tyranical Government, which may well be ſuppo- ſed to be none of his, tho? placed to him by Winſtanly and 'Phi- lips,you may find it in their Alphabet among the Anonymous Plays, Theſe are all printed with his Poems, Epigrams, gyc. in 8v9. William Congreve. Sentiment now living, who derives himfelf from an Ancient Family in Staffordſhire of that Name. His Politer Knowledge he owes to Dublin Colledge, from whence being returned to Eng- land, his firſt Applications were tothe Law. But Mr. Congreve was of too delicate a Taſte, had a Wit of too fine a turn, to be long pleas'd with that crabbed, unpalatable Study ; in which the labo- rious dull plodding Fellow, generally excells the more ſprightly and vivacious Wit ; for the Law is ſomething like Preferment at Court, won by Affurance and Affiduity ; this concurring with his Na- tural Inclinations to Poetry, diverted him from the Bar to the de- clining Stage, which then ſtood in need of ſuch a Support ; and from whence the Town juſtly receiv'd him a5 Rome's other Hope. Rochfoncault truly obſerves, that Merit alone will never make z F Cockain's Epigr. Lib. 2, Epig.7, 4 See his P vems Þ.93- and 1 18, C 3 Herge, 22 * Kown AUTHORS. C-. Heroe, without the friendly Affiſtance of Fortune ; and therefore Mr. Congreve muſt be ſaid to be as much oblig'd to her for his Suc- ceſs, as to Nature for his Wit, which truly deſerv'd it, and of which all thoſe that read his Plays, muſt allow him a more than * Share. And indeed he took the moſt certain way to ': ordinary ld ana make ſure of Fortune, by the Intimacy he contraſted with the moſt | ative part of the eſtabliſh'd and receiv'd Wits and Poets of the Ape, before he ventur'd his Reputation to the Publick. For as a celebrated French Writer has obſcrv'd, an Author ſhould never expet to raiſe his Fame in the World, from an unknown State, by the Single Force of his own Genius, and without the Help and Concurrence of the Men of Wit, that have an Influence over the | Opinion of the World in things of that Nature, But then on the | other ſide, it muſt be confeſs'd,that his Merit was certainly of more. * than ordinary Power, to oblige them to forget their habitual 1/1- © Nature ; and criminal Emulation or Jealouſy (to give it no worſe | Name) of all thoſe, whom they have any Cauſe to fear, will once prove any conſiderable Rivals in their Fickle Miſtreſs, Fame. | Mr. Congreve has already given os Four Plays, of which in their Al- phabetical Order. The Double Dealer, a Comedy, Affted at the Theatre Royal by their - Majeſties Servants, 16g4. 4fo. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Eſq. one of the Lords of the Trea- ſury. This Play not meeting with that Succeſs as was expeRted, the Author, as Poets are generahy apt to do, engages a little too violently in a Defence of his Comedy. The CharaQter of Mask- - well I take tobe an Image of Ierniſh in The Plain Dealer. Love for Love, a Comedy, Adced at the Theatre in Little Lin- colns-Imn-Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants, 16595. 4te. and Dedi- cated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middle- ſex. This Play, tho” a very good Comedy in it ſelf, had this Ad- vantage, that 1t was Affed at the Opening of the New Houſe,when the Town was ſo prepofieſs'd in Favour of the very AQors, that before a Word was ſpoke, each Ator was Clapt for a conſiderable Time. And yet all this got it not more Applauſe than it really de- ſcrv'd: For there is abundance of Wit in 1t, and a great deal of diverting Humour. The CharaQers are juſtly diſtinguiſh'd, and the Manners well marked. Yet in the Plot he has not given himſelf the Pains of avoiding that ſo often repeated Improbability of Marry- ing in Maſques and Diſguiſes, which Mr. Tattle, nor Mrs. Frail had Senſe enough to avoid, if we may judge by the reſt of their Cha- ratters ; yet it muſt be own'd, that he has much better prepar'd this Incident to gain it,at leaſt ſome ſhew of Probability,than in the 0/d Batchelor,or than I have generally met within other Plays. TI leave the nicer Criticks to decide whether the unravelling of the Plot, and the Conduf of Angelica in it, be extreamly juft or no: I Known AUTHORS. C 23 ſhall only ſay it pleas'd, and that is a conſiderable Defence, what. * ever ſome may think to the contrary. Nee * The Monrning Bride, a Tragedy, Ated at the Theatre in Little * Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majeſty's Seryants, and Dedicated to # her R once TIT ANN of Denmark, 1697). 4to This Play had the greateſt Succeſs, not only of all Mr. Congreve's, but indeed of all the Plays that-ever I can remember on the-Eng- liſh Stage, excepting none of the incomparable Otway's ; and 1f what Dr. Blackmore ſays of it be true, it deſerved even greater than ? © it met with; for the'learned DoRtor in the Seyenth Page of his # Preface to King Arthur, ſays thus; i © Since the writing of this, I haye ſeen a Tragedy, called, ' #® © The Mourning Bride, which I think my ſelf obliged to take No- " # *®tice of in this Place. This Poem has receiv'd, and, inmy Opi- # © nion, very juſtly, univerſal Applauſe ; being look'd on as the * © moſt perfett Tragedy that has been wrote in this Age. The Fa- ” © ble, as far as I can judge at firſt ſight,” is a very Artful and Ma- y * ſterly Contrivance ; the Charatters are well choſen, and well de- © lineated ; — Fs Ce Tho may Paſfions are well © touch'd, and skilfully wrought up. Di#ion Proper, Clear « Beautiful, Noble, and Diverſified agreeably to the Variety of the © Subjet. Vice, as it ought to be, 15 puniſh'd ; and oppreſs'd In- © nocence at laſt rewarded. Nature appears y y imitated * excepting one or two doubtful Inſtances, thro the whole Piece ; © 0 ich there are no immodeſt Images, or Expreffions ; no © wild, unnatural Rants, but ſome few Exceptions allow'd © all things are Chaſt, Juſt, and Decent. This Tragedy, as I aid © before, has mightily Obtain'd, and that without the unnatural, * and fooliſh Mixture of Farce and Buffoon'ry ; without ſo much #252 or a Dance to make it more agreeable. By this it ap- * pears, that as a ſufficient Genius can recommend it ſelf, and fur- © niſh out abundant Matter of Pleaſure and Admiration, without © the paultry Helps above named : So likewiſe, that the Taſt of the t Nation is not ſo far depray'd, but that a Regular and Chaſt Play, © will not only be forgiven, but highly applauded. Thus far the Learned Door, of whom I will not ſay, as the Plain Dealer ſays of my Lord Plauſible, That rather than not Flat- ter, he will Flatter the Poets of the Age, &c. Yet I muſt needs ſay, ſo very great'a Commendation, will make ſome of the Cenſo- rious Criticks imagine what it was that oblig'd him to take ſuch particular Notice of this Play ; which, tho' I ſhould be never ſo willing to allow a Place in the firſt Form, yet I can never prefer it to the All for Love of Mr. Dryden, The Orphan, and Venice Preſery's of Mr. Otway, or the Lucius Junius Brut of Mr. Lee, either in true Art in the Contrivance and Condn& of the Plot; or the Choice and Delincation of the EN for the true End of _ {5-4 4 £ Ante, Shetonius in Aug. Dion Caſſius, lib. 48.51. Oroſus, lib. 6. c. 7. Cluny, ib. 4. Cc. 11. Appran de bellis Ciuilibus, l. 5. Amboyna,a Tragi-Comedy,qto. 1673. atted at the Theatre Royal, ſee Purchas's Pilgrimage, Vol. II. l. 16. c. 16. Sanderſon's Hiftory of | King James, p. 577. Stubb's Relation of the Dutch Cruelties to "the | Engliſh at Amboyna ; Wanley's Hiſtory of Man, lib. 4. C. 1Q. &x+ I. The Rape of Tſabinda by Horman, is built on a Novel of Cynthais Gyraldi, Idea 5. Nov. 10. Amphitryon, or, The Two Socia's, a Comedy, 4to. from. Moliere and Plautws of the ſame Name. | Aſſienation ; or, Love in a Nunnery, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. Affed at the Theatre Royal. Moſt of the Incidents borrowed, as well as Chara&ters. The Charagers of the Duke of Mantua, Frederick and Lucretia, from Conſtance the fair Nun in The Annals of Love, p. 81. thoſe of Aure/ian, Camillo, Laura, and Violetta, from Scerron's Comical Romance ; San's Deſtiny, and Madam Star. Cap. 13+ P. 43+ Benito's AffeRtation of Mufick, from Quinault's Ja - dolet, in his Comedie ſous Comedie, Frontongs throwing Water on Laura, from Les contes de M.de la Fontaine, Par.1. Nov. 11:.p. 74- See hkewiſe Les Cent, Novelles, La Damoiſelle aceur owver ft, &c. Aureng-zebe, a Tragedy,4to. 1676. Ated at theTheatre Royal ; for the Plot conſult Tavernier's Travels, vol. 1. part 2. C. 2. IT will not determine with Mr. Langhain , that the Characters of Anreng-zebe and Nourmahal , are borrowed from Seneca's Phedra and Hippolytws ; fince I ſee nothing alike through their whole $to- ry, but the Love of a Son-in Law, and his Averfion but Fees ; ocs 42 Kwn AUTHORS. D does by no means conſtitute the Charater, (which isa thing Mr. Langbain ſeems never to underſtand) Hippolytus has an Aver- fion to Love, Aureng-zebe is in Love , and much more Polite; Hippolytus was a Hunter indeed, and Aureng-zebe a Warrior : Nour- mabal is a degree beyond the Lewdneſs of ev'n Seneca's Phedra, who Degenerated extremely from her Original in Euripides, and indeed none of her Qualities, but rang. org diſappointed Love : It muſt be own'd, that theſe Lines which Mr. Langbain anſtances are borrowed from-Seneca in that place; Aur. Heavens ! Can you this without juſt Vengeance bear ? When will you Thunder, if you now are clear ? Yet her alone let not your Thunder ſeize, I too deſerve to dye, becauſe I pleaſe. Hip. Magre Regnator deum Tam lentus audis ſcelera tam lentus vides Ecquando ſeva fulmen emittes Manu $7 nunc ſerenum eſt Me velox cremet. \Tranſattus ignis ſum Nocens ;, merui mort Placui Novercs. Here, what is uncommon with Mr. Dryden, he ſeems to have loſt the Beauty of Seneca's Expreffion of Me velox cremet Tranſa- His 1gnts, which gives you ſome Image of the ſtroak of a Thun- der-Bolt, whereas Mr . Dryden | Tet her alone let not your Thunder ſeize, Jooks more like the taking a Thief or Debtor by a Conſtable or Bay-' Hff ; for ſeizing is too calm,and impotenta word to expreſs the force of a Bolt ſent from the Arm Triſulci Fovis. . But this 1s the effect of Writing in Rhime ; for I'm confident he had never us'd that word in Blank Verſe. : Hipp. Theſe! wultus amo Ilhs priores, ques tulit quondam puer Cum prima turas fignare barba Genas. -T am not chang'd, I love my Husband till, But love him as he was when youthful Grace, And the firſt Bloom began to ſhade his Face- Again from Milton's Sampſon Agoniſtes. Dal Myq=n2SPHaRdgk?t wo. Ct + 4. > 4 »% CO r= bay ty Known AUTHORS. D «43. Dal. I ſee thou art implacable, more Deaf To Prayers, than Winds and Seas ; yet Winds to Scas Are reconciÞ'd at length, and Sea to Shoar Thy anger unappeaſcable ſtill rages ; Eternal Tempeſt never to be calm'd. Eng. Unmov'd he ſtood, and deaf to all my Prayers, As Seas and Winds to ſinking Mariners : But Seas grow calm , and Winds are reconci['d ; Her Tyrant Beauty never grows more mild. Cleomenes,The Spartan Heroe,Trag.4to.Atffted at the Theatre Royal, 1692. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Rocheſter, Knight of the moſt Noble Order of the Garter : To whichis prefix'd the Life of Cleomienes, Tranſlated from the Greek of Plutarch, b Mr. Creech. This Play was by ſome Enemies of the Poets, fo oil repreſented at Court, that it was ſtop'd ; but by the f\ 205 vos Friendſhip of the late Lord Falkland, clear'd from the 10ns caſt on it, and Affed with great Applauſe. As for the Plot or Story ,- the Author in his Preface owns it taken from Plutarch , and that he has cloſely followed the Truth as he found 1t there; only that he has chang'd, for the ſake of their ſound, fome Names, as that of Agathoclea, the King's Miſtreſs, into Caſſandra , and that. of Nicagoras into Cenus, To the Story he has added the Love of Caſſandra for Cleomenes, and has given hima ſecond Wife, which the Story only gave him a ſmall hint for. And indeed our Au- thor has trod upon Plutarch ſo cloſe, that the very words of that Author,are Tranſplanted with littke variation, into the Play. You my read more of Cleomenes in Polybixs, and Cornelius Nepos in his Life. Conqueſt of Granada by the Spaniards, Two Parts, a Tragi-Co- medy, 4to. 1678. Aded at the Theatre Royal. A/manzor 15 ve» ry like Ponce de Leon, in Almahide, as Mr. Langbain obſerves ; but in my Opinion, tho' there may be many Features like Ponce in the Draught, yet Almanzor ſeems rather to be a Copy of the Achil- les of Homer, ill underſtood, for he does more alone, and with- out an Army to back him, than Achilles with his Myrmidons ; Achilles was injur'd,, and defiſted from fighting, but Almanzor goes over to their Enemies; nor is he fix'd there , but receiving ano- ther Injury from Abdaila, returns to Brabdelin, takes 1t ill that he is miſtruſted, and tells them he will again change his fide, if pro- voked : But of him enough, ſince no Man of good ſence can think that Play's Succeſs owing to the Excellency of the Poet's Performance, but the Extravagance,; for I have always obſerv'd it - to have the Effet of Comedy on the Audience : But Mr. Lang- bain will indeed have him a Knight of the Shire almoſt, and ah, | 4s Known AUTHORS. D ſent the Extravagant Heroes of two or three Romances more ; the Oſmin of Guſman, and Artaban of Cleopatra, Boabdel: Almahide, Ferdinand, Iſabella, Arcos, Hamet, Gomel, from the Re mance of Almahide, Oxmin and Benzaida, from Ozmin and Alibe in Tbraim, &c. ſeealſoGrand Cyrus, S.is. Book 1. for Abdelmelec = x ffet Lydaraxa, &c. ſo much for the Chara&ters, now for the thoughts} a the Deſcription of the Bull-Feaſt, if allowing for the Rhime, moſt entirely taken from Guſman's Tuego de Toores, and Cannas ; Cot ſult the Story of Oxmin and Daraxa, Pt. 1. page 82,85, the L ſcription of the Faftions from Al/mabide, page 1. The four enſi Fry lap ſpoke by Beabdeline, from Prince Maſſa's Advice to Alm biae, p. 6. the King's Speech going betwixt the FaCtions, p. 5. ti ken from Almabide, pt. 3- p- 63- Tariffa and Ozmin's Quarre and the Riſe of the Famlies, ' 1a Abindacray's Speech, Al. p.2. Ab manzor's killing Gomel, his quelling the Tumult, from Alm.p.64,6 His Victory, A& 2d. and taking Acaos Priſoner, - bid. The Scene betwixt Lindaraxaand Abdalla, from Al. p. 62. and from the Stc ry of Elibeſis in Cyrus, pt. 9.B.I. p. 20. Zulemus Plea for Abdal Is's Right to the Crown, which one wou'd ſcarce think is fo child- uh a fancy, from Al. p.62. and Cyrus as above ; Almanzor's Deſcrip- tion of Boabd. p. 18. from Al. p. 55. &c. nay, the Alarm after the Zambra-Dance, in which there is an abſurdity of bringing in the Images of a Heathen Deity. The firſt meeting of 4lman. and Almahide, p. 69. of Abdalem and Almanzor, p. 71. and the Con- troverſy betwixt A/manzor and Zulema, ibidem, and his returning to Boabdelin, from the ſame Romance, p. 72. Abdelmeleck's Viſit to Lynidaraxa, in Diſguiſe, from Elibeſis in Grand Cyrus, p. 25. and Abaalla's Viſit, from the ſame, p. 67. Almanzor's deliv ring Alma- hide, copied from Almahide, p. 73. Abdalla's Converſe with Lynda- Fax4, under the Walls of Albayzin, from the fore cited Story of Cyrus, p. St. his flying to the Chriſtians from p. 72. of the ſame ; Oſmin and Benzaida's Flight, from p. 8. of Ibrahim. This 1s enough for the two Parts, to give a taſte of how many ah 2 rn are borrowed from other Pieces ; now I ſhall proceed to another. Don Sebaſtion King of Portugal, a Tragedy, 4to. 1650. Adted at the Theatre Royal; Founded on a French Novel of the ſame Name. See alſo Vaſconcellos's Anacephaleoſis, ſine ſumma capitum Afforum Re- gim Luſitaniz. Anace. 20. and other Writers of that time, it being 1578. when. Sebaſtian was kill'd. The Duke of Guiſe, a Tragedy, 4to.1683. Atffed by their Majeſty's Servants. Mr. Lee join'd in this. For the Plot conſult Davila, Mezeray , and other Writers of the Reign of Charles IX. or rather the Reigns of Henry ITI. gc. the ridiculous Story of Malicorn you may find in Rofſe;'s Hiſtoires Tragiques en la vie de Canope 8v0, P-449+ | Th Ev nings Ev ed ille: zeuſe: m 4 Kwwn AUTHORS. D «a5 Ev ning's Love, or The Mock Aſtrologer, a Comedy, q4to. 1671. Red at the Theatre Royal. Almoſt wholly made up out of Cor- Sheilles le feint Aſlrologue ; Molliers depetit Amoreux ; and Les Pre- Acieuſes Ridicules;, Quinault's L' Amant Indiſcret ; ſome hints too from Shakeſpear, Petronius Arbiter, and the main Plot on Calde- ron's EI Aſirologo fingido : But to be a little particular, Aurelia's Affetation in her Speech from Les Precieuſes Ridicules ; Scene be- tween Alonzo and Lopez , p.39. is from Mollieres de petit Amoreux, AR 2. Scene 6. Camilla's begging a Boon of Don Melchor, from © the ſame ; the Love-Quarrel betwixt Facinta and Wild Blood, and Maſcal and Beatrix, from the ſame Play, A& 4. Scene 3, 4. Au- relia's falling into Alonzo's Arms, from L'Amant indiſcret A 5. Scene 4+ Kind Keeper, or, Mr. Limberham , a Comedy 4fo. 1680, Affed at the Puke's Theatre. Mrs. Faintlies diſcovery of Love All in the "| Cheſt ; See pt. 1. Cynthio Giraldi, dec. 3. 'N. 3- Mrs. Brainfick's pricking and pickling him. See aNovel,call'd, The Triumph of Love over Fortune. King Arthur, or The Britiſh Worthy, a Tragedy, Aded at the Theatre in Dorſet-Garden, 1691. and Dedicated to the Marqueſs of Halifax. This Play is writ more for the ſake of the Singing part and Machines, than for any Excellence of a Dramatick Piece for in it ſhines none of Mr. Dryden's great Genius, the Incidents being all extravagant, many of them Childiſh ; the Inchanted Wood, as well as the reſt of the Wonders of Oſmond's Art, he en- tirely owes to Taſſo; where Rinaldo performs what Arthur does here. T ſhall not preſume to expoſe any of the Faults of this great Man in this particular piece, he having fuffered ſo much under the Hands of my Predeceflor in this Undertaking. The fabulous Sto- ry of this King Arthur, you may read in Geffery of Monmouth, and in the Preface of a late famous Poem, that bears his Name, as well as in the firſt Volume of Mr. Tyrre![s Hiſtory of England. Indian Emperor ; or, The Conqueſt of Mexico by the Spaniards, be- __ ſequel of the Indian Queen, a Tragi-Comedy, 4ts. 1670. Atted at the Theatre Royal. For the true Story conſult. Lopex de Gamara. Hiſt. general de las Incas &y de Conquiſta de Mexicd, de Bry. Americe pars 9. l. 7. Ogilby's America, Chap. 3. Set. 10. Mariana de Reb. Hiſp. lib. 26. cap. 3. Sir Paul Ricaut's Hiſt of Incd's. Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail, a Tragi-Comedy, AQ- e&d at the Theatre Royal by their Majeſties Servants, 4fo. 1694. De- dicated to the Right Honourable Fames Earl of Salisbury, &c. In the Epiſtle Mr. Dryden informs us, That it is the laſt he intends for the Theatre. I take this Play to be Founded on the Story of the King and no King of Fletcher, at leaſt on the Corretions of the Fa- ble of that Play made by Mr. Rymer, in his Refteftions on the Tra- | gedies of the firſt Age, Tho'this Play had not that Succe( wy . | - =—— __— — mm ——_ IDun—_— I = 46 Known AUTHORS. D moſt of Mr. Dryder's met with, yet it muſt be confeſs'd, That in * ſeveral parts the Genius of that Great Man breaks out, eſpecially in the Scene of the Diſcovery of & 6h ViRorious Love, and the very laſt Scene, where the Cataſtrophe is extremely moving, tho' contrary to Ariſtotle it be made from the change of Will 1n Veramond. | Marriage A-la-mode, a Comedy, ato. 1673. Add at the Thea- tre Royal. The ſerious part built on the Story of Seſoſtris and Timareta, 1n B. 3. pt. 9. of Cyrus. The Characters of Palamede and Rodophil from the Story of Tyrianthes and Parthenia, in the fame Romance, pr. 6. B. 1. ſome Features at leaſt. of Doralice drawn from Nogaret,in the Annals of Love. Melanthus making Love to her ſelf, from Les Contes D'Owville, pt. 1. p. 13. The Miſtaken Huband,a Comedy, 4to. 1675. Atted at theTheatre Royal. This 1s 15 not Mr. Dryden's, who only added a Scene; for the Plot conſult Plautus's Menechmi. Oedipus King of Thebes a Tragedy,4to.1679. Affted at the Duke's Theatre. This Play was writ bo Mr. Lee and Mr. Dryden ; there- fore to whom to attribut@ the Faults is difficult ; and we have fo little to accuſe them of being Plag1aries here, that the moſt under- ſtanding Judges wiſh they had followed Sophocles yet cloſer, it had then been the beſt of our Modern Plays, as 'tis of the Ancients ; but as it is, they have deſtroyed the CharaRer of Oedipus, and made it abſolutely Contraditory. For Oedipus that fled from a Crown, for fear of threatned Inceſt, and had pull'd out his Eyes on the Diſcovery of it, can reliſh an Embrace of Jocafta too well, in the 5th AR, till the Ghoſt of Laius frights him ; but this place _ not all thoſe juſt Criticiſms that might be made on this Y. The Rival Ladics,a Tragi-Comedy,4to.1679. Atted at the Theatre Royal. The Diſpute betwixt Amideo and Hypolito, and Gonſalva's fighting with the Pyrates, borrowed from Encolpivs , Giton, Eu- enolps and Tryphena's, on Boarding the Veſſe! of Lyca's, in Petroni- -—£ Arbiter , and the Cataſtrophe reſembles Scarron's Rival Bro- #Der's. Secret Love, or, The Maiden Queen, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1679. ARffed at the Theatre Royal. The ſerious part founded on Cleobu- line Queen of Corinth, pt. 7.B. 7. \Celgdon, Florimel, Olinda, and Sabina, from the Hiſtory of Piſiſtratus and Cerintha , 1n the ſaid ors , Þþt. 9. B. 3. and the French Marqueſs Ibra. Part 2. k L Fign'd Innocence,or Sir Martin Mar-all, a Comedy,4 t0.1678, Ated at the Duke's Theatre, The greateſt part , both Plot and Lan- zuape of Sir Martin and Warner, ſtol'n from Quinault's L' Amant in- cret, and Mollieres L'Etourdy ou le Contre temps. Sir Martin's foo- iſh Diſcoyery of his not Playing on the Lute, from rw Ln ir wa bad . nd 5 4 -=0a2oan. od DS. I Hm mu. my ww HT 57 Known AUTHORS. D 47 Sir 7ohn Moody's being ſet up in their Altitudes, from Shakerly's Marmion's Fine Companions, AF 4. Sc. 1. (Fc. The Spaniſh Fryar, or, The double Diſcovery, a Tragi-Comedy, 4s. 1681, Aced at the King's Theatre. The Comical part built on the Novel, call'd, The Pilgrim. . The State of Innocence, or, The Fall of Man, an Opera, 4to. 1678. Taken from Milton's Paradice Loſt, tho' guilty of many abſurdi- ties, which are nct in Milton, whoſe being a Narration of thin done long fince, made room for ſeveral things, which had he pla- ced it in Afton, cou'd never have been brought in; to give one Inſtance ; Mr. Dryden makes Lucifer (before the World was made, or atleaſt before the Devil knewany thing of 1ts Form, Matter or Viciffitudes,) compare the proſtrate Devils to Leaves in Autumn, before there was an Autumn, gFc. The Tempeſt, or, Inchanted Iſland, a Comedy, 4to.1676. Adted at - the Duke's Theatre. This 15 an Alteration only of one of Shake. ſpear's, by Sir Will:am D' Avenantand Mr. Dryden. | Troilus and Creſſida,or,Truth found out too late,a Tragedy 4to. 1679. Affecd at the Duke's Theatre. One of Mr. Shakeſpear's, altered by Mr. Dryden. The Story 1s to be found in Lellius a Lombard, ina tin, and inour old Chaucer in ancient Engl:ſh. | Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr, a Tragedy, 4to., 1679. Aded at the Theatre Royal. For the Plot ſee Zoſimuss, lib. 4. So- crates, lib. 5. Cc. 14. Herodtan, |. 6, 7; and 8. Jul. Capit. in cit. Mac. jun. | S WHd Gallant, a Comedy, 4to. 1669. Adted at the Theatre Royal. This was his firſt Play,publiſhed 166g. being about Twenty cight Years ſince, and by which he was near Thirty eight years old when this was Play'd. John Dryden, Ju nior. His Gentleman is ſecond Son to the aboyeſaid great Poet of that Name, and is now living in Rome, in the Pope's Sex- vice, as a Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber , where he wrote a Play, call'd, | The Huaband hie own Cuckold, a Comedy 4to. 2696. Adted at the Theatre in-Linco/os-Inn- Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Howard, &c, and is uſher'd into the World by a Preface of his Father, who imn-it 1- deed ſhews the Mee onde | of a Parent, but I think not the tiality and Juſtice of a true Critick, when he excludes all from Po- etry and Nature but. his Friends, at leaſt fince the Revolution. The young Gentleman'ig his Epiſtle, has gone a little too far for a Ee- - g100T, FP. Known AUTHORS. D ginner, as. yet too uncertain of his own Succeſs, to fall upon the other Writers of the Age. Thomas Duffet. E was before he became a Poet, a Milliner in the New Ex- change, he has writ four Plays, two of them in a Burleſque Stile, their Names follow. The Mock Tempeſt, or, The Enchanted Caſlle, a Farce, 4to. 1675. Aged at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants. Writ on ſe to draw Campany from the cther Theatre, where was great reſort about that time, to ſee that reviv'd Comedy, call'd, The Tem- peſt, then much in vogue. | Pſyche Debauch'd, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. Adted at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants. This Mock Opera is a Burleſque = ShadwelPs Pſyche, and writ for the ſame purpoſe as tha above. Spaniſh Rogue, a Comedy, 4to. 1674. Affed at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants, and Dedicated to Madam Elinor Guin. this Play had no great Succeſs. There is likewiſe a Maſque under his Name omitted by Mr.Lang- bain, *tis call'd, Beauties Triumph, preſented by the Scholars of Mr. Feoffery Banifter, and Mr. James Hart, at the new Boarding School at Chelſey, Printed, London 4to. 1676. This Author has alſo writ a ſmall Volume of Poems, Songs, Prologues and Epilogues which were firſt diſpoſed of to one Book- ſeller, and laying long in the Licenſer's Hands, were again diſpoſed of to another, withcut Conſent of the firſt Purchaſer, and Print- ed, 849. 1676. | Thomas Durfey. Th Gentleman (if I am not mifinformed) was Born in Devan- re, and deftgn'd for ſome part of the Law ; whatever pro- vok'd him to Poetry I cann't tell; but whatever 1t was, he has with various Succeſs given us above Twenty Plays, and if the proſperous. Succeſs of the Major part will give him the Credit of a Poet, he has a juſt pretence to 1t, and may juſtly Challenge it from all the Vindicators of Dr.Blackmores's Poem from that Topic. For my part, I can only fay, that I have laught heartily at his Plays, which 1s one end of Comedy, or Farce at leaft ; and if the Criticks will deny him to be a good Writer of Comedy, they muff _ him a Maſter of Farce. His Plays follow in AESEES - Order. t 4+ «4 a —_ Lend 4 4 _ _ +=®as a% _—_— a —— £wvWwu ic£_s Yo a DXxXax oa, 9 os £wnnc Known AUTHORS. D 49 The Banditti ;, or, A Ladies Diſireſs, a Comedy, 4to. 1685.” AQ ed at the Theatre Royal. Plot from Don Feniſe, 840. See alſo the 'Hiſtory of Don Antomo, B. 4. p.250, Diego's turning Baxd-tti, &c. from Pipperollo in Shirley's Siſters. Buſſy D'Ambois ; os,The Hicsbands Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. Affted at the Theatre Rovel, 1601, newly Revited by Mr. Durfey, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Edward, Earl of Cartiſle, Viſcount Hiw.'+ of Horpeth, &c. In his Epiſtle he owns it to be Chapman's, only challenges to himfelf the Merit of having Pur- ged it of a great deal of Otjolete Phraſes, and intolerable Fuſtain ; tho' ſoinc are of Opiuon, that with thoſe Deſefs, he has !njudici- gully par'd away many of its Beauties. The Charaftcr of /7a- myra, he will have us believe, he has alter'd for the better ; tho' he'll hardly perſwads, that Pity 1s due to a Woman, that quits her Honour and Virtue on any Account, You may find the Story 1n Thuamss Jen de Serres, and AMezeray , 1n the Reizn of Henry INT. of France, and the particular Intrizu2 of Buffy with Tamyra in Roſſet, in his Hi!'nires Tragiques de Nztre terips, under the Names of Lyſis and Silue, iſt. 17. p. 353: Commonwealth of Women, a Trag1-Comedy, 4to. 1685, Affed by their Majeſty's Servants at the Theatre Royal, and Dedicated to the truly Noble and Illuſtrious Pcince Chri7opher, Duke of 4lbe- marle, This Play is borrowed from Fletcher's Sea Voyage. Cinthia and Fndimion ; or, Loves of the Deities ; a new Opera, as it was deſigned tobe Ated_ at Court before the late Queen, and now Affed at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants, 1697. 4to. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Runes, Viſcount Sidney, &c. Our Author 1s not contented 1n the Title Page, to let his Patron know the Honour her late Majeſty defign'd this Off ring of his Muſe,but repeats it in the Epiſtle, which had in- deed been the more pardonable piece of Vanity ; but that's a ſmall fault in a Poet, eſpecially when there are ſo many greater in the Work it ſelf. For by a fort of Poetick Licenſe, unknown to our great Maſter Horace, he perverts all thoſe known CharaQers given us by Ovid; he has made the Chaſte Favourite of Diana, (Daphne) both a Whore and a Jilt; and fo ſordid, as to contemn the God of Wit and Light, for a pitifu! dull Country Lad : and fair Syrinx muſt looſe her Reputation, in the unknown ignomy of an enviags, . Nilting, mercenary, infamous Woman. Tho? this Play took, yetit merits not a nice Enquiry into its Virtues and Vices ; but ts Ihave given a ſpecimen of one, my impartiality obliges me to own, that there are many Lines in it above the Genius which generally ap- pears 1n his other Works. The Veriiacation tis often good, and the Expreſſion often fignincant and Poetical. The Story of Cynthia and Endimion, as well as the cthers contained in this Opera, you may find beautifully done in their Orizinal, in the ſeveral parts _”; 0s Fo Knwn AUTHORS. D of Ovid's Metamorphoſes, and that of Pſyche in the 4th, 5th, and 6th Books of Lucius Appuleius de Aſino Aures. The Comical Hiſtory of Don Quizot, Adted at the Queens Theatre in Dorſet-Garden, by their Majzſties Servants, Part I. 1694. 4to. Dedicated to the Dutcheſs of Ormond. This Play met with an ex + traordinary Applauſe ; and is taken entirely from that famous, and much Celebrated Anfick Romance of the ſame Name, written by Michael Cervantes , a Spaniard. Part IT. Aed at the ſame Theatre, in the ſame Year,and Dedi. cated by an Epiſtle in Heroick Verſe, to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex, &c. This as well as the for- nier, is taken from the foreſaid Romance, and met with great Ap- plauſe, which encouraged our Author to proceed to Part III. adding to the Title of thatonly, With the Marriage of Mary the Buxome, This was Affed and Printed 1696. and Dedica- ted to the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Eſq; oneof the Lords Commiſſioners of the Treaſury,gyc. in which he will notalſow that its innate Defects are fo obnoxious as are ſuppoſed ; but owns its want of Succeſs, which never Poet yet attributed to himſelf : This 15 as the other twoParts borrowed from the incomparable Cervantes. The Fond Husband ; or, The, Plotting Siſters,a Comedy,4to. 1678. Adted at the Dukes Theatre, and Dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Ormond ; This when Preſented firſt was accounted a good Play. The Fvol turn'd Critick , a Comedy,gqto. 1578. ARted at the Thea- tre Royal by their Majeſties Servants. The CharaQers of Old Wine Love, Tim, and Small Wit, are ſomething like Simo, Aſotus, and Balio in Randolph's Fealows Lovers. A Fool's Preferment ; or, The Three Dukes of Dunſtable, a Com.qto. 1688. Aded at the noms Theatre in Dorſet-Garden, by their Majeſties Servants, with Songs ſet by Mr. Henry Purcell, and Dedi- cated to the Honourable Charles, Lord Morpeth, tranſcribed from Fletcher's Noble Gentleman , except one Scene from the Novel of the Humnurs of Baſſett. The Tnjnred Princes ;, or, The Fital Wager, a Tragi-Comedy, 4te. 1682, Affed at the Theatre Royal by their Majeſties Servants ; the Prologue to this Play is the ſ:me with the Epilogue of another of his own, call'd, The Fool turn'd Critich ; and the Foundation of the whole Play from Shakeſpear. The Intrigues of Verſailles; or, A Flt in all Humours, a Co- medy; ARed at the Theatre in L:ncolns-Inn-Fields. 1697. 4te. This Play had not the Succeſs the Author deſired ; who in his Epi- ſtle to the two Sir Charles Sidleys, 1s pleafed to Condemn the Taſte of the Town for not liking it, when they had approv'd others of his Plays of lefs value, and Merit, it having been ap- prov'd by two ſuch Judges as Mr. Congreveand Mr. Betterfon, as bs [f as 0h To ak ITDqo0o KT LY w*5g Madam Fickle; or, The Witty Falſe One, a Comedy, | 4to. 1677- Atted at his Royal Highneſs the Dukes Theatre, and Dedicated to his Grace” the Duke of Ormond. Old Love. reſembles Veerano in Marmion's Antiquary, Zechiel's creeping into the Tavern-Buſh, and Tilbury's being drunk under it, gc. from Sir Reverence Lamard and Pimpwell in Iſiingien and Hogsden-Walks. See alſoa Play call'd The Fawn, writ by Marſton. SEES The Marriage Hater Match'd ; . a Comedy, ARed at the Theatre- Royal by their Majeſties Servants, 1693. 4to. and Dedicated to the Illuſtrious, and truly Noble Prince Fames, Duke, Marqueſs, and. Earl of Ormihd in England and Tre'and, &c. This Play was very well received, atd in it Mr. Dogget gave the firſt Proofs that were taken great notice of, what an adm'rablc we he was. _— 2 this 52 Known AUTHORS. D this Play is prefix'd a Letter to the Author in Defefice of it ; and with that I do agree, that this is by much the beſt of his Comedies, tho' I can never allow the reſt of that Epiſtle free from Flattery ; and we may conclude that Friendſhip, or fome other Motive blind- ed his Eyes very much, when he made fo large an Encomium of 1t. The Richmond Heireſs ; or, a Woman once in the Right, a Ccme- dy, Affed at the Theatre Royal by their Majeſties Servants, 1693. 4to. Dedicated to the Honourable, and my very good Friend Sir Nici»las Garrard, Bar. whom he 1s pleas'd to inform, that in the piece offer'd him, there appears no defe& of Genius, whatever there might be of Judgment ; whether the Poet be in the Right or no the Reader muſt Determine ; but 'tis evident, it was not Re- ceived with an Applauſe Anſwerable to his ExpeQations ; tho' up- on a Revival and Alterations he has pleas'd the Town. The Royalliff , a Comedy, 4to. 1582. Aded at the Dukes Theatre. Camillas Trick of Sir Over Old-Cut, for Sir Charles King-Love, borrowed from Boccace's Novels, Day 7. Nov. 9. and the Song of Hey boys up go we, ſtollen from an Ecclogue, 4to. in The Shepherd's Oracle. : The Siege of Memphis ; or, The Ambitious Queen, a Tragedy, gto. 1675. Atted at the Theatre Royal, and Dedicated to Henry Chi- ade Efq; This Play met not with that Succeſs the Author de- wed, Sir Barnaby Whig, or, No Wit like a Womans; a*Comedy, 4to. 1681. Adqed at the Theatre Royal by their Majeſties Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable George, Earl of Berkley, Plot from The Fine Companion, a Play of Marmion's, and part from a Novel call'd The Double Cuchold, 8wo. Trick for Trick; or, The Debauch'd Hypocrite, a Comedy, 4t0. 1678. F Tnis is only Monfieur Thomas ( a Play of Fletcher's ) Reviv'd. TheVirtuouws Wife; or, Good Luck at laſt ; a Comedy, 4to. 16580. Several Hints ſtollen from other Plays (viz.) The Fawn, Marriage A-la-mode, &c. He has written beſides the above-mentioned Plays, fome Volumes of Songs and Poems, as Butler's Ghoft, Collins's Walk, &c. | Sd EE TY — POS. PP tc ha © _, ++ &t try ed ped inks IS «© Xown AUTHORS. E E Edward Eccleſton. \ by" Author 1s ( I ſuppoſe) ſtill hving, and has writ a Play ſet off with Sculptures, and ſeveral Titles to make it ſell ; it was firſt call'd, Noah's Flood; or, The Deftru&ion of the World, an Opera, {te. 16759. Dedicated to the Dutcheſs of Monmouth; the ſecond Ti- tle was The Cataplaſm, or General Deluge of the World, 4to. 1624. and again the third time, under the Name of The Deluge, or, The Deftruion of the World, 4to. 1691. The Foundation of it is from Sacred Writ. ; Sir George Etheridge. .K Gentleman very famous in the Reign of King Charles the Se- A cond ; his Country I am 1znorant of ; but his firft Ap- _—_ were to the Law; his Lone 7n a Tub, and his Wit ght him into good Acquaintance , and general E- ſteem, till for Marrying a Fortune he was Knizhted, and by | King James the Second, he being 1n particular eſteem with the late Queen his Conſort, ſent him Envoy to Hamburgh. After the Revolution he went for France to his Maſter, and dyed there, or very ſoon after his arrival in England from thence ; He 1s the Au- thor of three Plays; two of them are admirable ; and were the firſt divided from the ſerious part, it would not want a conſiderable Praiſe , at leaſt it fhll meets with a general Ape plauſe. | The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub, a Comedy, 4to. 1679. Ated at-the Duke of 7ork's Theatre then in Little Lincolns-Inn- Fields. This Play, tho' part ſerious, and part Comical, yet (as before) met with a general Applauſe. The Man of Mode ; or, Sir Fapling Flutter, a Comedy, 4to. 1676. Add at the Duke-of York's Theatre,and Dedicated to his Dutcheſs. This Play met with extraordinary Succeſs, all agree-- VE it to be true Comedy,” and the Charafters drawn to the ie, E 3 She #4 | Known AUTHORS. F Shewou'd if ſhe cou'd, a Comedy, 4to. 1671. Atted alſo at the Duke of Tork's Theatre. This Comedy is accounted by Mr. Lang- bain , with whom I agree, one of the firſt Rank, and by Mr. Shad- well (in his Preface to his Humoriſts) the beſt Comedy written. ſince the Reſtauration cf the Stage. —{ TL / —_ y Sir Francis Fane, Jun. Knight of the Bath. HIS Honourable Author is lately deceaſed , his late Refi- T dence was at Fulbeck in Lincolnſhire : he was Grandſon to | = Ear! of Weſtmorland, and has given us the two following ays:; pp in the Dar; or, The Man of Buſineſs ; a Comedy, 4to. 1675. Adqed at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſties Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Fohn, Earl of Rocheſter. The Plot taken from the Inviſible Miſtreſs in Scarron's Novels, 80. Baccace's Novels, Day 3. Nov. 3. and Day 7. Nov. 7. Lovesof Great Men, p. 59. The Sacrifice, a Tragedy 4to. 1626. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. This Play tho' Publiſhed without Affing, was hizhly commended by two Copies of Verſes to the Author by Mr. Tate and Mrs. Behn ; For the Plot fee Chalcocordylas, lib. 3. Leundavas, lib. 6. See alſo the Lives of Bzjazet and Tamerlain, the laſt by Mr. D'4ſfigny, and the former by Knoll's in his Turkiſh Hiftary. Sir Richard Fanſhaw. Rioter to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fanſhaw of Ware- Park in Hertfordhire ; he was Educated at Cambridge, from thence removed to Court ; he perfettly underſtoad Latin, French, Italian, Spaniſh, and Portugueſe; was Secretary to the King in - Holland, France, and Scotland, was after the Reſtauration ſent Am- baflador to Portugal,to Confſummate the Match between the preſent Queen Dowager and Charles the Second. In the Year 1664. he wasſent into Spain, Ambaſſador,to confirm the Treaty of Commerce and League between the two Crowns, and dyed at Madrid, 1666. ro fay nothing of his Capacity as a Stateſ-man, we confine our ſelves only to his Paetry, and particularly his Dramatick mo | | Peſtat Knwn AUTHORS. F 55 Paſtor Fido, The Faithful Shepherd, a Paſtoral, 8wo, and 4to, De- dicated to King Charles the Second , when Prince of Wales. Tranſlated from Guarini's Italian, and Printed with his Po- ems, 810. | Querey por Salo querer, To Love only for Love's ſake, qto. 1671. Thus 1s a Dramatick Romance, Tranſlated from the Spaniſh of Men- 4024, when Sir Richard was a Priioner in Tankerſly-Caſtle in York- ſhire, after the Battle of Worceſter, where he was on the King's fide, this Play conſiſts but of three As, the Spaniſh Poets ſeldom exceeding that Number. | Henry Lord Viſcount Faulkland, Ather to the late Lord Faulkland, celebrated by Cowley. He F was of Oxfordſhire, and Lord Lieutenant of that County , and a Member of Parliamennt ; his Diverfion led him to write one Play, call'd, | The, Marriage Night, a Tragedy, 4to. 1664. Thus Play never ap- peared publick on the Stage. Nathaniel Field. His Poet Liv in the time of King Zames T. and King Charles I, T he was aſſiſtant to old Maſſenger in the writing a Play call'd, The Fatal Dowry, and commonly call'd Son by Mr. Chapman,who, as well as moſt of the then Poets, had our Author in good Eſteem, he was an Aor, and writ himſelf tworPlays, (viz.) Amends for Ladies, with the merry Pranks of Moll Cut-purſe, or the Humour of Roaring , a Comedy, 4to. 1639. Affed at the Black Fryars, by the Prince's and Lady Elizabeth's Servants. This Play the Author writ to pleaſe the Ladies whom he had offended by his other Play. The Plot in part taken from the Novel of the Curious Impertinent 1n Don Quixot. | Woman's a Weather-Cock, a Comedy, 4to.1612. Aded beforethe King at Whitehall, and ſeveral times privately at the White Fryars by the Children of her Majeſty's Revels. This Play pleas'd much in thoſe Days, and highly commended by Mr.Chapman. Edward Filmer, N Author that has been pleas'd to viſit the Town with a Play A in the Autumn of his Age, if Iam rightly informed ; *'tis therefore no great wondey if it wanfed 1 and force ye ta 4 erve 76 Known AUTHORS. F preſerve its Life above three Days. He is a Dottor of the Civil- Law , and otherwiſe eſteemed a Man ot good Senfe and Judg- ment ; and ſome Lines in this Play confirm that Opinion, *tis call'd | The Unnatural Brother, a Trapedy, 4to. AQed at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields;, 1697. by his Majeſty's Servants; he owns the Plot to be taken from Caſſandra, particularly the Story of Alcinoe1n that Romance. | Mr. Fiſhbourn. Gentleman who writ an unlicenſed Play without his Name, call'd, Sodom ; before this Play are put the two Letters E. R, the Printer having a mind to have it paſs for one of the Works of the late Earl of Roczeſtey, as 1t had been formerly imputed to htm, and which he denies and deteſ}s.in a Copy of Verſes made on purpoſe againſt the Author of it, who was, as I'm very well affy- red, 0:32 Mr. Fiſhboyrn, an Inns of Court Gentleman ; nor indeed has itany of my Lord Rocheſler's Wit to make amends for the abo- minable filth of the Obſcenity whicn muſt nauſeate every Reader of any tolerable Judgment. Richard Flecknoe. Bis memorable Author kv'd in the Reign of both the Charle's, T was (as Ihave had it*from good hands) a Jeſuit, but forſook the knaviſh partof his Office for Poetry, tho'his Works, 1f I may credit thoſe that have read him with more regard than my ſelf, is not enough to quit him of all the tricks of that-Order, he 1s for no- thing fo famous, as for naming a Poem of Mr. Dryden's call'd, Mac Flecknoe, he has Publiſhed ſeveral Plays, but whether any of 'em were Attcd or not, I'm not able to determine. Damnyſelles A-la-mndz, a Comedy, 8v0. 1667. Dedicated to their Graces the Die and Dutcheſs of New Caſtle, borrowed from Miltere's Precieuſes Ridicules, L'Eſcole des Femes, & L'Eſcole des _—_ Mavis. Erminia; or, The Chaſt Lady, a Tragi-Comedy, 8wo. 1667. Dedicated tothe fair and virtuous Lady the Ladv Southcott. ' Loves Dominion, a Poſtoral, 8v0. 1554. Dedicated to the Lady ' Elizabeth Claypole : A Play full of Morality, and written as a Pattern for the Reformed Stage. + Love's Kingdom, a Paſtoral Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. 1654. Dedica- ted to his Excellency the Marqueſs of Newcaſile, This — ©, «4 \ Known AUTHORS. EF r7 ed with a freſh Title ten years after z the other gong befape, is almoſt the ſame, only Carretted, and a very little alter'd. Marriage of Oceanus and Britania, a Maſque. This Author has written divers Epigrams and Enigmatical Cha- rafters ; alſo a ſhort Diſcourſe of the Engliſh Stage, Pabliſhed at the end of his Love's Dominion, 840, Diarium,or The Fournal, another , piece of his in Burleſque Verſe, 1 2ves. 1656. oc. John Fletcher, and Francis Beaumont, R. Fletcher was the Son of Dr. Fletcher, created Biſhop of M Briſtol by Queen Elizabeth, and afterwards tranflated to the See of London, 1593. He dy'd the firſt year of Charles I. of the - Plague in London, 1625. in his Forty ninth Year, and was Buri- ed 1n St. Mary Overy's Church, Southwark, Hys Colleague in wri- ting moſt of his Plays, Mr. Beaumont, I can fay little of, but what the Reader may gather from the Verſes of the Poets in that | Age, before their Works ; that he was a Man of Learning none . can queſtion ; but to imagine, as Mr. Lengbatn does, that he was perfettly vers'd in the Dramatick Laws, is more than can be drawn from their Plays, of which there 1s ſcarce one regular. Their Comedies are much the beft; yet of them take away five or fix, and they will not bear Ating, ſcarce reading by a nice Judge. I fay not this to derogate from Men of wndoubted Merit, but only prompted by my impartiality, a CharaQter which Mr. Langhain pro- fefles but has no where preſerved.Their Plays are Fifty twa in Num- ber, all which are Printed and Publiſhed in one harge Volume Folio, 1679, They follow 1a Alphabetical Order. The Beggars Buſh, a Comedy, fol. often Atted formerly with good Applauſe. . Bond'uca,a Tragedy,fol. Ts Play has been twice reviv'd, Plot frem Tacitus's Annals, Book 14. See alfo Milton's Hiltory of England, Book 2. | The Bloody Brother; or, Rollo Duke of Normandy, a Tragedy. fol. This Play hath been fometimes Aded of late Days 1n Dorſet Gar- den, with good Succeſs. Plot from AHerodtan. Hiſt. £16, 4. and part of the Language from Senecd's Thebats. | 'R... Captain, a Comedy, fol. This Play has not been Affted of e Years. The Chances ; a Comedy, fol. Reviv'd by the late Duke of Buc- bingham , and Printed with Alterations 4to. 1682. oftentimes Adffed with great Applauſe of late days at the Theatre 1n Doy- ſet Garden, &c. Plot from the Lady Cornelia in Exemplary Novels, fel. or the Novels of Cornelia in Miguel des Cervantes Novels, tran- ; ted by Dr. Pape. pe | The 58 Knows AUTHORS. F The Coravation ; a Tragi-Comedy, fol. not Acted theſe many ' years. This Play, tho' Printed in this folio Edition, is claimed by Shirley to be his. SP The Cexcomb, a Comedy, fol. This Play has been Revived and Atted at the Theatre Royal, but met with little Succeſs. Cupid's Revenge, a Tragedy, fol. The Cuſtom ”, the Country; a Tragi-Comedy, fol. The Plot of _—_— Duarte, and Guyomar, built on Maliſpinis Novels, Decad. 6. ov. 6. The Double Marriage ; a Tragi-Comedy , fol. This Play was wart ſome Years fince, but met not with that Succeſs ex- petted. | The Elder Brother; a Comedy fol. oftentimes Atted formerly, and met with indifferent Succeſs. The Faithful Shepherdeſs ; a Paſtoral, fol. This was entirely Flet- cher's, and commended by (*) Copies of Verſes by Mr. Beaumont and Ben. Johnſon. 'Twasfirft Ated on a Twelfth Night, at Somer- ſet-houſe ; inſtead of a Prologue was a Song in Dialogue, writ by Sir William D'avenant , and Sung between a Prieſt and a Niunph ; and the (+) Epilogue was then ſpoken by the Lady Mordant. The Fair Maid of the Inn ; a Comedy, fol. Marianus diſown- 1ng Ce/ario , and the Duke's Injun&tion to Marry him, you may _ -_ Cauſin's Holy Court, and Wanly's Hiſt. of Man, Book 3 P- 26, The Falſe One,a Tragedy, fol. See Plutarch, Suetonizs, Dion, App!- an, Florus, Oroſins, &c. Four Plays ;, or, Moral Repreſentations in One, Tragi-Comedy, fol, (viz.) The Triumphs of Honour ; built on Boccace's Novels, Day 10, Nov. 5. Triumph of Love, on Nov. 8. Day 5. Triumph of Death, on Nov. 3. Part 3. of the Fortunate Deceiv'd, and Unfortunate L0- vers, alſo The Palace of Pleaſure, Nov. 44 &And The Triumph of Time, the Author's own Invention. An Honeſt Man's Fortune; a Tragi-Comedy, fol. See Heywood's Hiſt. of Women, Book 9. p. 641. : The Humorous Lieutenant ; a Tragi-Comedy, fol, Some hint may be taken from Horace, Lib. 2. Ep. 2. but rather from, Ford's Apothegms, p. 30. See alſo Plutarch's Life of Demetrius , Apptan, 7uſtin, oc. | Iſland Princeſs, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. and 4to. This Play was about ten Years fince Reviv'd by Mr. Tate, the preſent Poet Lau- reat, with Alterations. Aed at the Theatre Royal, and Dedica- ,= Granville, He has already given the World Two Plays. 4 Y©/-- — Heroich, Love, a Tragedy, Aded at the Theatre in Little Lin | colns-Inn-Fields. This Play 1s one of the beſt of our Modern Tra- i gedies, and writ after the manner of the Ancients, which is much Pp more natural and eafie than that of our Modern Dramatiſts. The | Plot is built on the Firſt Book of Homer, (9c. The She-Gallants, a Comedy, Adted at the Theatre Royal in Lit- tle Lincolns-Inn-Fields, 1695. 4to. This Play has, next the Plain Dealer, more juſt and ſubſtantial Refle&tions and Satyrical Obſervations, than any of our Engliſh Co- medies ; the Dialogue 1s not only eaſy, but nervous ; and indeed he makes his Perſons ſpeak more Wit than the Stage is generally us'd to; which arm'd a FaQtion againſt it, tho' ev'n that was not ſuf- ficient totally to ſuppreſs its Succeſs, for it was very often Affed to the Satisſattion of moſt that ſawit with impartiality, and would be contented to be pleas'd. The Epiſode of the Four Siſters is ta- ken out of the French Marquiſs, in the Romance of Ibraim. ' C7 pow C2 þ-: Alexander Green. "TE liv'd in the Reign. of King Charles the Second, and writ 4 Play, called, The Polititian Cheated, a Comedy, 4to. 1663. This Play I dof not find to be ever Adted. Robert Green. 11TS Poet livd and writ One Play and part of another it Queen Elizabeth's Reign, - was Maſter of Arts in Cambridge *d has Publiſhed ſome other Pieces. | T A. fl. = file T = } g | Known AUTHORS. H : 65 ' The Honourable Hiſtory of Fryar Bacon, and Fryar Butgy, a Come- dy, 4to. For the Plot conſult Plor's Hiſt. of Oxonſhire, and Wood Antiquit. Oxon. (9c. | | . Looking-Glaſs for London and England; For this ſee the Account of Dr. Lodge, with whom he joined in this Divine Drama. This Au-, thor has writ divers other Pieces, moſt of them Printed in aft old Black Letter. H. William Habineton, Eſq; UR Poct in the midſt of the late. Civil Wars, devote41 () himſelf to the Muſes, and among their Produ&tions 1s a Play, called, The Queen of Arragm, a Tragi-Comedy, Fol. 1640. Atffed both at Court and the Blach-Fryars. He has a Book of Poems, called, Caſtara, 80. 1640. alſo the Hiſtory or Chronicle of Edward the Fourth, Fol. 1540. Joſeph Harris. A Player yet living, and Brother to the Famous Organiſt of the City of London; he has been more than once aiming at Au- thority, by the Help of his Friends; he has Publiſhd Two Plays under his Name, called, | | The. Miſtakes, or the Falſe Report, a Comedy, 4to. 169. - which Play, as I am inform'd, was originally compos'd by another, and put into his Hands, and ſo he.made ſhift, by altering it, to ſpoil it. The City-Bride, or the Merry Cuckpld, a Comedy, ARed at the new Theatre in Little Lincoſns-Inn- Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants , 4to.. 1696. and.dedicated to the Honourable Sir John Walter, Bar. This Play miſcarried, tho' borrowed from John Webſter's Cure for a Cuchold, whole Scenes being the ſame, but ſpoiF'd by the Tranſpo- ſer; for which he wou'd ſeem to make amends,. by the Performad- ces of the Mnificians, and fo far he is in the Right, Peter Hanſted. = FE was born at Oundle, 1n Northamptonſhire, proceeded to Maſter of Arts, in Queens-College, Cambridge, in the Reign of Charles , F 2 the 6% Known AUTHORS. H the Firſt ; he was impatient of Cenſure, as well as his admired Ben. and writ a Play, called. The Rival Friends, a Comedy, 4to. 1532. Atffed before the King and-Queen at Cambridge, The Scene betwixt Love-all and Hamer- ſhin, AF 3. Scene 7 from that betwixt True-wit, Daw, and &a- Fool; 11+ Ben's Silent Woman. Joſeph Haynes. T HIS Perſon is mentioned here, for the ſake of an abomina- ble Play that is mentioned under his Name, but he 1s not the Author of it, called, A Fatal Miſtabe, or the Plot ſpoil'd, Printed 4t9. 1695. but ne- ver Acted. Richard Head. T' IS Author, born in Treland of Engliſh Parents, his Father was a Mimſter,. and murdered in the Maflacree 1641. He had a little ſmattering of the Univerſity of Oxon, but was ſoon remo- ved to a Book-ſelley in St. Paul's Church- Yard, London, He writ one Play, calld, | Hic oy Ubique, or the Humours of Dublin, a Comedy, 4to. 1563. Dedicated to. Charles, Duke of Monmouth. He writ the Firſt, and moſt of the Third Parts of the Engliſh Rogue, The Art of Wheedling, ev. The Complaiſant Companion, 12mo. Venus's Cabinet unlock'd, 1210. with ſeyeral other ſmall Treatiſes. William Hemmings, A Author, of whom I can only ſay, That he liv'd in the Retgn of Charles the Firſt, was Maſter of Arts of Oxford, and he writ Two Plays, viz. Fatal Contra, a Tragedy, 4to. 1653. Affted by her Majeſty's Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, 7ames, Earl of Northampton, and to Iſabella, his Vertuous Counteſs. Since the Re- ſtauration of King Charles the Second, it has been twice reviv'd, firſt under the Title of Love and Revenge, with little Alterations; and about Ten Years ago, under the Title of the Eunuch, For the Plot, conſult Gregnrie de Tours, lib; 4, 5, xc. Aimion, Valois, De Ser- yes, Mezeray, &c. mn the Reigns of Chilperic the Firſt, and Clo- taair the Second. 7ews Known AUTHORS. H 69 Fews Tragedy, a Tragedy, Printed” 49. 1652, For the Plot, conſult Foſephus's Hiſtory of the _ Book 6, and 7. where you may find the fatal Overthrow. by Veſpaſian and Tits his Son, agreeable to that famous Hiſtory by 7oſephus, Printed 4to. 1652. Jaſper Heywood. ON of John Heywood, firſt of Merton, and then of All-Souls- College, Oxon, which he left for St. Omers, where he prov'd a zealous Biggotted Feſuzt, and the firſt that ſeminary ſent for Eng- land : ſome ſay he was (a) Hanged; others, That he was, with Seventy more, of that and other Orders, taken the Year 1585. and (b) ſent away beyond Sea. While he was of Oxford, he tranfla- ted Three of Seneca's Plays, (viz.) | Hercules Furens, a Tragedy, 4to. Compare this with a Tragedy of Euripides, bearing the ſame Title. Thyeſles, a Tragedy 4te. which cur Author tranſlated, whilſt he was of All-Souls, in Oxon ; he has added a Scene at the End of the Fifth AQ. Treas, a Tragedy, 4to. Farnaby tiles this, a Divine Tragedy, and highly commends it; Dan. Heinſuzs alſo commends and prefers it before the Troades of Euripides. Theſe Three Tragedies, tranſlated by our Author from Seneca, are printed together in a Black Lettcr, 4to. 1581. John Heywood. Þ* THER of the foregoing Poet, and liv'd in the Reigns of Edward the Sixth, and Quecen Mary the Firſt, at North- Mims, in Hertfordſhire, was Sir Th. More's Neighbour, and in Favcur with Queen Mary ; after whoſe Death, flying for Religion, he died at Mechlem, 1556. was one of our firſt Dramatick Writers ; and, tho' a Papiſt, ſevere on their Regular Clergy, as they call 'em. Four P's, an Interlude, 4ts. j A Play between John the Husband an Tb his Wite. A Play between the Pardoner, the Fryar, the Curate and Neigh- bour Prat. A Play of Gentleneſs and Nobility, Two Parts. A Play of Love.. . A Play of the Weather, ſtyl'd, 4 new and wery.merry Interlude of all manner of Weathers, Fol. 1533. ; : I cs (a) Fuller's Worthies, P« 222: (b) Baker's Chrc. Reign of Queen Eliz. p. 364: | ; | F 3 Theſe 20 Known AUTHORS. H Theſe being ſome of the firſt Plays appeared in our Engliſh Lan- guaze, nothing in Commendation will be expetted of them. This Author writ Two or Three Books of Eprigrams, -Publiſh'd in 4#9. alſo a Book called Monumenta Literaria. "4 Thomas Heywood. TJ? IS Author was both Affor and Poet, liv'd in the Reign of Queen'Zlizabeth, and King James I. He writ, orhad affiſted in compoſing Two Hundred and Twenty Plays, of which there are but Twenty Five remain entire. (a) Mr. Langbain ſets up for a Vindication of this Author, in the ſame Book that he con- demns Mr. Dryden, which indeed is enough to render his Judgment very much ſuſpe&ted, and that the Variety of Plays he had read, either corrupted his Taſte, or elſe that he never had any. | - The Golden Age, or The Lives of Fupiter and Saturn, &c. 4to. 1517, Atffed at the Red Bull, by the Queen's Majeſty's Servants. See Galtruchizs's Poetical Hiſt. Rofi's Miſtagogus Poeticus 5 Hollyoak, Littleton, and other Di&tonaries. The Silver Age, a Kiſtory, 4to. 1613. See Plautus, Ovid's Me- tamorph. ib. 3. and other Poetical Hiſt. Brazen Age, a Riſtory, 470. 1513. See Ovid's Metamorph. bh. 4, 7, 8, and 9. | Iron Age, Part I. a Hiſtory, 4to. 1532. For the Plot, gyc. ſee Virgil, Hemer, Lucian, Owid, &c. Iron Age, Part II. 4to. 1632, For the Plot, conſult the ſame Authors before mentioned. | | . A Challenge fer Beauty, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1536, Atted at the Black-Fryars, and at the Globe on the Bank Side, by his Maje- Iity's Servants. - " The Dutcheſs of Suffolk, her Life, a Hiſtory, 4to 1631. Adteg thea with good Applauſe. For the Plot, fee Fox's Martyrology, Ar, Dom. 1558. and Clark's Mart yrology, pag. 521. | Edward the Frurth, Two Parts, a Hiſtory, 4to. 16 . See the Story hereof, in the Chronicles of Hollingſhead, Speed, .Du Cheſne, = * X P F - The Engliſh Traveller, a Tragi Comidy, 4to. 1633. Atffted at the Cock-PY in Drury-Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants. Both Plot and Languageof Lymel and Reignald, ſtollen from Plautus's Moſtellaria. See the Story of Wincote, Geraldine, and Dalavil, in the Hiſtory 9 Women, by this Author, where he affirms the ſaid Stories at large to be true, +: FIN yoga CAD hea "IO » (a) Langbim's Account of the Dram. Poets, p. 258, . S —_ wy Known AUTHORS. H 71 Fair Maid of the Exchange, a-Comedy, 4t0.1537. wherein are rela- ted the pleaſant Paſſages, and merry Humours of the Cripple of Fanchurch. Mr. Kirkman, and others, reckon this Play to our Au- thor; but Mr. Langbain makes a Queſtion thereof, fince his Name is not prefixt; nor, ſays he, the Stile and Oeconumy does not re- ſemble the reſt of his Labours. Fair Maid of the Weſt, or, A Girl worthGold, a Tragi-Comedy, Part I. 4to. 1631. Adted before the King and Queen, by her Ma- jeſty's Servants. Fair Maid of the Weſt, or, A Girl worth Gold, Part II. 4to. 1631. Ated likewile before the King and Queen, by her Majeſty's Ser- vants. Both theſe Plays had, in thoſe Times, good Repute; and afterwards ſerv'd for the Subje& of a Romance, called, The Engl:ſh Lover, writ by Fohn Dancer, one of our foregoing Authors. Fortune by Land and Sea, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1655. Atted by the Queen's Majeſty's Servants, with good Applauſe. Our Auznor was join'd, in compoſing this Play, by William Rowley, hereafter mentioned. ' Four London Prentices, with the Conqueſts of Jeruſalem, Hiſtory, 4to. 1635, Atted at the Red Bul!, by the Queen's Servants. Foun- ded on Godfrey of Bulloign. See Taſſo, Fuller's Hiſt. of the Holy War, and Dr. Nalſon's Hiſtory of the Craſaide. If you know not me, you know no body, or, The Troubles of Queen + Elizabeth, in Two Parts, 4to. 1623, Plot from Cambden's Hiſtory of Queen Elizabeth, alſo Speed, and other our Engliſh Chronicles in er Reign. The Lncaltive Witches, 4to. London, 16 . See this Story 1n Verſe, in a large Volume of the ſame Author, called, The Hterar- chy of Angels, Fol. lib. 8. Love's Miftriſs, or, The Queen's Mash, 4to. 1640. Affted before their Majeſties, and divers Ambaſladors, at the Phenix in Drury- Lane. Plot from Apuleis's Golden Afi, ato. Maiden-head, well loſt, A Comedr, 4to. 1634. AQted by her Majeſty's Servants in Drury-Lane, with good Applauſe. Rape of Lucrece, a Tragedy, 4to. 1538. Affed_ at the Red Bull, Plot from Tit. Livixs, dec. 1. cap. 58, (Fc. Robert, Earl of Huntingdon's Down-fall, a Hiſtory, 4to. 150T. ARed by the Earl 'of Nottingham, Lord High Admixal of England's Servants, Plot from Stow, Speed, and Baker's Chronicles, in the Life of King Richard the Firſt; Faller's Worthies 10 the Account of Nottinghamſhire. wa ; Robert, Earl of Huntingdon's Death, a Tragedy, 4to. 1601. This Earl was uſually called, Robin Hd, of merry Sherwood, Plot from the aforeſaid Engliſh Chronicles. | | Langbain's Account of Dramatick Poets. p. 263. > FS : Ry# 72 Kwon AUTHORS. H Royal King, and Loyal SubjeA, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1627. AQ- ed by the Queens Servants, with good Applauſe. Compare this with the Loyal Subje#, writ by Beaumont and Fletcher. Wiſe Woman of Hogsden, a Comedy, 4to, 1638. often times A_ ed with good Applauſe. Woman KilP'd with Kindneſs, a Comedy. 4to. 1517. Aded by the Queen's Servants, with good Applauſe. Our Author has Publiſhed ſeveral other Pieces,in Verſe and Proſe, as The Hierarchy of Angels, Fol. The Life and Troubles of Queen Eli- zabeth, 80. Toe Lives of Nine Women Worthies, 4tn. The General Hiſtory of Women, 8v0. An Apology for Adors, 4to. and Pleaſant _ Dialogues and Drama's 80. | Henry Higden, Eſq; Know not whether this Gentleman be yet living or not ; but he was a Barriſter of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple : A Perſon known to 211 the converſable part of the Town, for his Pleaſant and Facetious Company; and allow'd to bea Man of Wit, tho' it were to be wiſh'd he had not Publiſh'd his Play of The wary Widdow, or, Sir Noiſy Parrat, a Comedy, 4to. Affted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, 1693. and Dedi- cated to the Right Honoureble, Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middle- ſex, Fc. The ill Succeſs of this Play, the Author gives us1n the Preface , which complains of the ungenerous Uſage the Bear- garden Criticks gave it with Catcalls, gc. which, how ſhort ſoever it may be of what might be expefted from ſo celebrated a Wit, as Mr. Higden was eſteemed, it could never deſerve; fince Sir Charles Sidley could think it worthy a Prologue of his making. Tis uſher'd into the World by Five Copies of Engliſh Verſe, and One of Latin. — Barton Holyday. H* was born in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in All-Sarnts Pariſh in Oxon; his Coufin, Dr. Ravis, early centred, and choſe him Student of Chriſt-Church ; after his Degrees of Batche- lor and Maſter of Arts, was made Archdeacon of Oxonſhire, died 1661. at Eifly, near Oxon, and was buried at Chriſt-Church in Oxon. + He writ One Play, under the Title of TEXNOTAMIAy Or, The Marriage of the Arts, -a Comedy, 4to. . 1530. Aced by the Students of Chriſt-Church, aforeſaid, at Shrove- , tide. This Play was then in good Eſteem.' He hath written.divers Pieces, as his Tranſlation of the Satyrs of Fuvenal and Por ®. | © +2 , B [4440 & y | , - WI1 Vi Le RB TFOEQI>SODPp=>DmMDb1MECS <1 Knows AUTHORS. H 73 with Notes and Sculptures, Fol.. A Verſion of the Odes gf Horrace; divers Sermons, 4to, and Two Tratts jn Latjn. Charles Hool. mHIS Gentleman liv'd in the Reigns of the Two Charles's, being T born at Wakefield, in Tork-ſhire, was entred at Lincoln-College in Oxen, at Eighteen, and afterwards taking his Maſter's Degree, he taught School at theſe ſeveral Places (viz.) Rotheram 1n York-- ſhire, Red-Croſs-Street, and ' Arundel-Buildings, in London. And, after the King's Reſtauration, in Wales, he tranſlated ,Terrence's Comedies, in all, Six, 80. 1676, Printed in Engliſh and Latin, for the uſe of Young Schollars, in many Places Caſtra- ted. He hath tranſlated divers other things, as #ſop's Fables, Corde- rin, Cato, Comenii Orbis Pitts, (xc. He has alſo. Publiſhd a Grammar, an Explanation of the Accidence, and' a Greek Teſta- ment. with Themes in the Margin, 9c. Charles Hopkins. »*&..To thre »is now living, hi A ef Fora pion Pea ather- pvas t eminently Leerne@an Ann) min of London-Derry, 1n the Kingdom of Ireland. Ou was borg. in Dewnſhire, but carried, when a Child, to his Father's See; and when he had paſt his Childhood under ſo good a Father, he remo- ved firſt to Dublin-College, and thence to Cambridge ; whence he went to the Wars of Ireland, and having there exerted his early Valor, in fo Glorious a Cauſe as that of his Country, Religion, and Liberty, he returned to England, and made London his Aboad; where he fell into the Acquaintance of Gentlemen of the beſt Wit, and Parts, whoſe Age and Genius. were moſt agreeable to his own. He is one of thoſe whois, beyond Controverſy, borna Poet, which & he has ſhown in all the Pieces he has already Publiſh'd ; the Sweet- neſs of his Numbers, and Eafineſs of his Thoughts, in the ſeveral Copies of Verſes he has Publiſh'd, particularly his Tranſlations out 6f Ovid, Printed for Mr. Tonſon, ſhew him born to tranſlate that Author ; for, if that Opinion of Pythagoras were true, we ſhould conclude, the Soul of the tender Najo, were tranſmigrated into Mr. Hopbins : All the other Tranflators'of that Poet, have loft his FJ Genius, his Verfification and Softneſs. But the Occafion of his | ing mentioned here is, his having Pabliſh'd Two Plays, with ditf- ſcrent Succeſs, | Boadiced, ” OOCOIIOmTOo So - OTS oo ey_—_— 7 —— - "0 4 R! ,In Little Lincolns-Inn- Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants, 1595. 4f. «v mals Mm {rernek 74 Knows AUTHORS H Boadicea, Queen of Britain, a Tragedy, Affed at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, 1697. 4to. and Dedicated, in Verſe, to Mr, Congreve. This Play met with great Applauſe, pleaſing both the Ladies and Gentlemen ; and indeed, beſides the peculiar Sweetneſs of his Numbers, for it is written in Heroick Verſe, he has in this Play touch'd the Paſſions, and the Firſt Scene of the Fourth AR, betwixt Caſſibe/lan and Camilla, where ſhe diſcovers her Rape, i moſt Maſterly perform'd. The Story is the ſame with Bonduca, ſhe being ſometimes called, Boadicea, and ſometimes Bonduca. You may read of her in the Fourteenth Book of Tacitus's Annals, t Second Book of Milton's Hiſtory of England, the Seventh Page of Ubaldino de cita delle danne illuſtri del Regno d' Ingelterra (& Scotia and Mr. TyrrelPs Hiſtory of England, lately Publiſh'd, Vol. 1. Pyrrhis, King of Epirzs, a Tragedy, Affted at the new Theatre, and Dedicated to his illuſtrious Highneſs, the Duke of &6louceſter, This was ourAuthor's Firſt Play,in which there is a great deal that ſhews him a Poet, but not enough, it ſeems, to gain 1t that Suc- ceſs which he deſired : He was very Young when it was writ, andy ! therefore may be well excus'd for wanting that Correttneſs, whichy a more Mature Author, perhaps, wou'd have obſerv'd. The Hifto-J | ry of Pyrrhus is to be found in Livy, Booh Plutarch, in the Life of that King, Luci Fiorus, (oc. by LL F Werriour, a Tragay | © rr to the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Howard, and of the Edward Howard, Eſq; Noble Family of Berk-ſhtre, 'tis to be wiſh'd, that his Friends cou'd either have prevail'd with him to have Publiſh'd none of his Poetry, or have been lefs ſevere upon him, he has Four Plays inf Print, viz. | ” Man of Ner--Market, a Comedy, 4to. 1578. Affed at the The} * atre Royal, but with little Applauſe. 1. Six Days Adventure, a Comedy, 4to. 1571, Adtted at the Dukeſj - of Tork's Theatre, in Dorſet-Garden, This Play met with no good] * Succeſs. | The Uſurper, a Tragedy, 4to. 1658. Ated at the Theatre Royal | by his Majeſty's Servants. F: Woman's Conqueſt, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1677, Add by thelſ | Duke of York's Servants, in Dorſet-Garden. This Author has writ ten Two Books of Poetry, in 8v9. One call'd, Tn? Britiſh Princeſs; the other, Poems and Eſſays, with a Paraphraſe on Cicero's Loli | = Priated 1675, | Fame; (8) Knows AUTHORS. H James Howard, Eſq; Gentleman of the Noble Family of the Howards, that has Two Plays in Print, under the Titles of * All Miſtaken, or, The Mad Couple, a Comedy, 4to. 1672. Affed at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants. Engliſh Monſieur, a Comedy, 4to. 1674. Adffed at the Theatre © Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants. Theſe Two Plays met with ſomewhat better Succeſs than thoſe of the beforegoing Author. Sir Robert Howard. THIS Honourable Perſon is Brother to the above mentioned Mr. Edward Howard, and to the Ear! of Berks, who has long fince quitted the barren Fields of Poetry, for the more advantagi- ous Poſt of the State, in which he has, for many Years, made a conſiderable Figure, being Auditor ,of the Exchequer, gyc. I have not the Honour to ſay much of my own Knowledge of him, but I am told, that it is no ſmall Part of his CharaQer, to be a Pa- tron and Encourager of Learning; which is a peculiar Merit, in an Age when the ſelfiſh Vices of the trading Part of the Nation, are vot inte the firſt Ranks of Men, who will not be ſo expenſive, to keep a Creature meerly for 1ts Wit, as Mr. Prior ſays of one. He has writ theſe Six following Plays, 'viz. The Blind Lady, a Comedy, 8w. This is uſually bound with divers other Poems of his, and are Re-printed, or at leaſt, a new Title Printed, 1696. ' The Committee, a Comedy, Fol. 1655. This is eſteemed an ex- cellent Play, and often times Affed in theſe Times. Y ' The Great Fawurite, or, The Duke of Lerma, a Tragi-Coredy, 4to. 1688. ARted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants. See Mariana, Turquet, De Mayern, (5c. The Indian Queen, a Tragedy, Fol. 1665. This Play 1s writ in Heroick Verſe, and Palins Aded with general Applauſe, at the Theatre Royal, but now turn'd into an Opera, and many times of hte repreſented at the ſame Theatre, with the like Succeſs. The Surpriſal, a Tragi-Comedy, Fl. 1665. This was formerly Ated at the ſame Theatre, by his Majeſty's Servants. ' ThelVeſtal Virgin, or, the Roman Ladies, a Tragedy, Rl. Affed alſo at the ſame Place, and by the ſame Actors, but not of late Years. This Play has a double Fifth A&, one ending Tragically, the other Succesfully, Four of his above Plays, are Printed toge- ther Fel, ' F | : TINET Zames Known AUTHORS. I James Howel, Eſq; Gentleman born at Abermarlis, in Caermarthenſhire, in South- A Wales, 1594. the Seat now of a worthy Gentleman of the Noble Name and Family of Cornwall, he was at Sixteen ſent from Hereford-School, to Feſus-College, Oxon, In the Year 1618. he was ſent beyond Sea, by Sir Robert Manſel; he travelled the Low Conn- tries from Italy, (4c. was employed by King James, in Negotiati- ons in Spain ; was Secretary to the Lord &croop, when he was Pre- fident of the North, (9c. He writ and tranſlated Nine and Forty | Books: Hedied about the Beginning of November, 1656. and lies buried on the North Side of the Temple-Church, with this Inſcrip- tion over him on the Wall; Facobus Howel, Cambro Britanns, Regins Hiſtoriographus, in Anglia primus ;, qui poſt varias peregrinati- ones, tandem Nature Curſum peregit, Satur Annorum, (fy fame Ds- mi, foriſq; huc uſq, erraticus, hic fixus, 1656, He writ One Play, called, The Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis, a Maſque and Comedy, 4to, 1654. Aded at Par, by the French King, Duke of York , Duke of Anjou, Henrietta Maria, Princeſs of Conti, with others of the Nobility there. The Author tranſlated it from an Italian Comedy, The Plot is taken from Ovid's Metamorph, Lib. 11. aud Catulli Ar- gonoutica froue Epithalamium. | Thomas Tevorn. vity, livd in the Time of Charles and James the Second, wnit one Play, intituled, The Devil of a Wife, or, The Comical Transformation, a Farce, 40. 1686, Adted by their Majeſties Servants, at the Queens Thea- tre Dorſet-Garden, Taken from the Story of Mopſa in Sir Phil:p S$1dney's Arcadia, | J \ Dancing-Maſter and Player, was a Man of uncommon ARi- Thymas Knows AUTHORS. 1 Thomas Ingeland. E was of Cambridge, in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, writ a Play, H intituled, | The Diſobedient Child, 4to. which he calls, 4 Pretty Merry In- terlude. 'Tis Printed in an old Black Letter, ſo long fince, that - it had not any Date of the Year. W7 w# TX $8 Benjamin Johnſon. | Eftminſter gave him Birth, and the Firſt Rudiments of his ; W Learning, under My. Cambden ; which St. John's-College of " RCambridge, and Chriſt-Church of Oxon: finiſh'd, where he took his » Eaſter of Arts Degree ; Neceſſity drove him thence, to follow his Father-in-Law's Trade of a Bricklayer, working at Lincolns-Inn, with a Trowel in his Hand, and Horace in his Pocket, he found a Patron that ſet him free from that Slaviſh Employment. He was of an open, free Temper ; blunt and haughty to his Antagoniſts and Criticks ; a Jovial and Pleaſant Companion; . was Poet Laureat to ames and Charles the Firſt. He died in the Sixty Third ear of his Age, An. Dom. 1637. and. is buried ih Weſtminſter- (bby, near the Belfry, with only this Epitaph : | O RARE BEN: FO HNSON. His Dramatick Pieces, about Fifty in Number, follow : The Alchymift, a Comedy, Ated by the King's Majeſty's Servants, rſt, 1610. and afterwards printed, viz. 1640. and 1692. Bartholomew- Fair, a Comedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. Adted firſt the Hope, on the Bank-ſide, 1614. by the Lady Elizabeth's Ser- nts, and Dedicated to King Fames the Firſt ; and ARed with ood Applauſe, ſince King Charles the Second's Reſtauration. Cateline his Conſpiracy, a Tragedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. and L4to. 15 . Aced firſt by the King's Majeſty's Servants, 1617. nd ſometimes fince the Reſtauration, with good Applauſe. Is tedicated to William, then Earl of Pembrock. Plot from Saluſt. Wt. Plutarch in Vit. Cic. ——- Tilt, at a Marriage, a Maſque, Fl. 1640. and 92. Chriſtmas's Maſque, Fol. 1640, and 1592. This was firſt Preſent- g at Court, 1616, 4a uw Cloridta, 78 Known AUTHORS. I Cloridia, or, Rites to Cloris, a Maſquie, Fol. 1692. preſented by the Queen's Majeſty, and her Ladies at Court, at Shrovetide, 1630. Mr. Inigo Fones affiſted in the Invention hereof. Cynthia's Revels, or; the Fountain of Self-Love; a Comedy, Rl. 1640. and 1692. Aded by the Children of Queen Elizabeth's Chappel. 1600. | Devil's an Aſs, a Comedy, Fol. 1641. and 1692. Affed by his Majeſty's Servants, 1616. See Boccace's Novels, Day 3 Nov. 5. Entertainment at King James the Firſt his Coronation. Fol. 1692. This contains only Gratulatory Speeches at the ſaid Coronation, with a Comment by the Author to illuſtrate the ſame. Entertainment of King James and Queen Ann, at Theobalds, Fol 1640. and 1692. Entertainment cf the King of England, and the King of Denmark, at Theobalds, Fuly 24. 1606. Fol. 1640. and 1692. Entertainment of the King and Queen on: May-Day, at Sir Wil liam Cornwallis's Houſe at High-gate, 1604. Fol. 1640. ard 1692. Entertginment of the Queen and Prince at Althrop ; this was the 25th of Zune, 1603. at the Lord Spencer's Houſe there, at thel coming Firſt into the Kingdom. Fol. 1640. and 1692. Every Man in hs Humour, a Comedy, Fel. 1640. and 169 Aded firſt in the Year 1598. by the then Lord Chamberlam's Set vants, and Dedicated to Mr. Cambden, Clarenceux. It has been r vivd and Acted fince the Reſtauration, with good Applauſe, and a new * Epilogue writ for the ſame, part of it ſpoken by B | Johnſon's Ghoſt. Every Man out of his Humour, a Comedy, Fol. 1640. and 169 Aced by the then Lord Chamberlain's Servants. This was alſo vived and Acted at the Theatre Royal, 1675. with a new Ff Pr logue and Epilogue, writ by Mr. Duffet, and ſpoken by oe Haynes. Fortunate Iſles, a Maſque, Fol. 1641. and 1692. deſign'd for th Court on Twelfth Night, 1626. ' Golden Age Reſtored, a Maſque, Fol. 1641. and 1692. This w preſented at Court by the Lords and Gentlemen, the King's Servant 1626. CT Hymnei, or, The Solemmities of a Maſque and Barriers at a Ma riage, Fil. 1692. See the Learned Marginal Notes, for the ſtration of the Greek and Roman Cuſtoms. * Colleion of Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 8yo. 1673. pag. 2 + Dutfet's Poems, 8yo, pag. 72. fri | 4 oY Kwwn AUTHORS. I 59 » Iriſh Maſque at Court Fol. 1692. preſented at Court by Gentle- '| men, the Kings Servants. 11, © King's Entertainment, at Welbeck,, in Nettinghamſhire, Fol. 1692. y hag + "= ws was at the then Earl, ſince Duke of Newcaſtle's Houle, 1633, Love freed from Ignorance and Folly, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. Love Reſtored, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. preſented at Court by Gen- tleman the King's Servants. al Cove's Triumph thro' Callipolis, a Maſque Fol. 1692. perform'd | at Court wy his late Majeſty King Charles the Firſt, with the Lords and Gentlemen aſſiſting, 1630. Mr. Johnſon and Mr. Inzgo Jones join'd in the Invention. Love's Welcome, an Entertainment for the King and Queen, at the then Earl of Newcaſtle's at Bolſover, 1634. and Printed Fol. 1692, ; Magnetick Lady, or, Humours Reconciled, a Comedy, Fol.1640. and 1692.Aded at theBlach Fryars.ThisPlay occaſioned ſome Difference or Jarring, between Dr. Gi//, Maſter of Paul's School, and our Author, Ben. as appears by a Satyrical Copy of Verſes writ by the former, and as ſharp a Repartee by the latter. Maſque at the Lord Hadington's Marriage, preſented at Court on Shrove-Tueſday-Night, 1608, Printed Fol. $692. Maſque of Augurs, Fol. 1692. This was preſented on Twelſth. Night, 1622. with ſeveral Anti-maſques. Maſque of Owls, at Kenelworth, Fol. 1692, In this Preſenta- tion there was the Ghoſt of Captain Cox, mounted on his Hobby- Horſe. Maſque of Queens, celebrated from the Houſe of Fame, by the Queen of Great Britain, with her Ladies, at White-Hall, Feb. 2. 1609. Fel. 1692. See the Marginal Notes. The Author was af- ſiſted by Mr. Inigo Jones, in the Invention and ArchiteRure of the Scenes belonging thereto. Maſque at the Lord Hayes Houſe, Fol. 1692. This was preſented by divers Noblemen, for the Entertainment of Monſieur Le Baron de Tour, Ambaſſador Extraordinary from the French King. 1617. Metamorphoſed Gipfies, A Maſque, Fol. 1652. preſented to King Tames the Firſt, at Burleigh on the Hill, at Belwyr, and at Windſor- Caſtle. 1621. ; Mercury Vindicated from the Alchymiſts at Court, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. preſented by Gentlemen, the King's Servants. Mortimer's Fall, a Tragedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. Thus was not quite finiſh'd by the Author , but left imperfe&t, by reaſon of his Death. | Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion, a Maſque, FMl. 1692. preſented at Court on Fwelfth-Night,. 1624. News 80 Known AUTHORS. I News from the New World diſcovered in the Moon, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. preſented alſo before King James the Firſt, 1620. Oberon, the Fairy Prince, a Maſque of Prince Henry's, Fol. 1692. The Author has divers Annotations on this Play. Pan's Anntverſary, or, The Shepherds Holyday, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. This was preſented at Court before King 7ames the Firſt. Mr. Inigo Jones aſſiſted our Author in the Decorations. | Pleaſure reconciled to Vertue, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. This was alſo preſented at Court, before King FZames the Firſt, 1619. Here- to were ſome Additions for the Honour of Wales. Poetaſier, or,” Hus Arraignment, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Affed by the Children of his Majeſty's Chappe), 1601. This Play is adorned with ſeveral Tranſlations from the Ancients. See Ovid's Elegies, Lib. 1.. Eleg. 15. Horat. Sat. Lib. 2. Sat. 9. and Lib. 2. Sat. I, (oc. 4 Queen's Maſque of Blackneſs, Fol. 1692. This was Perſonated at the Court at White-Hall, on the Twelfth-Night, 1505. Her Maſque of Beauty, Fol. 1692. This alſo was preſented at the ſame Court, at White-Hall, on the Sunday-Night after the Twelfth-Night, 1608. | Sad Shepherd, or, A Tale of Robin Hood, a Paſtgral, FMl. 16 92. =o Play has but Two intire As, finiſh'd, and a Third left 1mper- ect, Sejanss's Fall, a Tragedy, Fol. 1692. firſt Ated by the King's Majeſties Servants, 1503. Plot from Tacitus, Suetonius, Seneca, 7c. There is an Editien of this Play 4to. x605. by the Author's own Orders, with all the Quotations from whence he borrowed any thing of his Play. | Silent Woman, a Comedy, fol. 1632. Affed Firſt by the Children of her Majeſty's Revels, 1509. Ac I. Scene I. borrowed from Ovid de Arte Amandi : AQ. II; Scene II,, Part from Juvenal, Sat. 6. A@II. Scene V. from Plaut Auricular, A 3. Scene 5, fyc. This Play has been in good Eſteem, and for a farther Commendation you are refer'd to Mr. Dryden's Examen. Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers, Fol. 1692. Theſe are indeed Printed among his Mafques, but cannot be accounted one; only reckoned fo in former Catalogues. : Staple of News, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Affed by his Majeſty's Servants. In this Play Four Goffips appear on the Stage, critici- {ing on the ſame, during the whole Aion. | Tale of a Tub, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Tor Time windicated to himſelf and his Homrs, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. This was preſented at Court on Twelfth-Night, 1623. — * Dryden's Dramatich Eſſay, page. 80. Viſion Known AU THORS. 1 8r Viſion of Delight, a Maſque, Fol. 1692, This was 4lis preiente at Court in Chriſtmas, 1617. | Vulpone, or, The Fox, a Comedy, Fol, 1692, Adted by the King's - Majeſty's Servants. This is writ'in Imiration of the Comedies of the Ancients, ' The before mentioned Plays, and other Poems, (9c, were for- merly printed together in Two Volumes, Fol. 1540, and 1641hut Three ather Plays which are there omitted, are hereunder menti- oned, aud may be found inthe late Edition, printed 1692. _ The Caſe is Altered, a Comedy, 4to. 1609, and fol. 1692+ This was ſundry times Affed by the Children of the Black Fryars. SEC Plantus's Comed. oc. | ; _ © "The Widow,d Comedy,4to.1652.and fol.1692 Affed at the Private Houſe in Black Fryars,by his late Majeſty's Servants, with. good Ap- plauſe. Fletcher and Middleton joyn'd with the above Author 1n this Play, which has been reviv'd fince the Reſtauration, at the King's Houſe, with a new * Prologue and Epilogue, The New-Inn, or, The Light Heart, a Comedy, $v0. 16 212 This Play ( ays our Author's Title) was never Aded;but moſt negligefitly play'd, by ſome of the King's Servants, and more ſqueamiſhly be- held, and cenſured by others, the King's Subjefts, 1629, Now at laſt ſet at Liberty to the Readers, his Majeſty's Servants and Sub» jets, to be judged. | Theſe laſt, with all the beforegoing Plays, Maſques and Enter» tainments, with an Engliſh Grammar, are now publiſhed together in one- large Volume, fol. 1692, Tohbn Tones. HE .writ, in the Time of King Charles the Firſt, One Play, q \ call'd, | ' Adraſta, or, The Woman's Spleen and Loves Conqueſt, a Tragi- Comedy, 4t%. 1635. Part of it from Boccace's Novels, Day 8+ Nav. Q. Thomas Jordan, A Player and Poet of King Charles the Firſt his Reign, who writ and publiſhed One Maſque and Two Comedies ; viz, Farcies Feſtivals, a Maſque, 4to. 16 , Money's an Aſi, a Comedy, 4to. 1668. The Walks of Iſlington and Hogsdon, with the Humonrs of Woed- reet-Compter; a Comedy, 4to. 1657. This Play had gaod Succeſs, it being ARed Ni Days ſucceſſively. be bot >—m— % % — *” wr ” William rr rm mmmmmmnmnnn—_ * London Drollery, pag.. 11. 1% , > rg. ” — - - —_ _ WP—_y w_w_— wm A og —_—_— —— ——————— ——_————— id | bus Appreheiiſion-of the Revolution. + He has one Play in Print, alle; 99410. 2 og t $2 Knows AUTHORS. .K William Toner. HIS Gentleman was: born in Oxenſbire, ſometime Fellow of « Magdalen-College; which, with his Religion, he quitted, till in King Zames's Time he was again re-placed in the ſame College, with the other Popiſh Fellows; 'who were all, ſoon after diſplaced, The Roman Empreſs, a Tragedy, 4to. 1671. Adted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's:Servants, and degicated to Sir Charles Sid- ley. | For the Plot, conſult Zoſomi Hiftor. ,* Mr. Langbain ſuppoſes this to be the' Story of Conſtantine, and his Wife and Son, Cr:ſpin and Fauſling. The Author has imitated Oedipus and Hippolitug. . ——_——_ — —— — K _—— Henry Kiltegrew. | Perſon of eminent Wit in-K.Charles the Firſt's Time,he writ A a Play at Seventeen Years of Ape, call'd firſt, The Conſpiracy, a Tragedy, \*p 1638. Afterwards alter'd, under the Name of Pallantus and Eudora,a Tragedy, Fol. 1653. This Play was firſt Acted at the Black Fryars,with Applauſe,and the firſt Impreffion Printed without the Author's Conſent, whilſt beyond Sea, which occaſion'd afterwards a new Impreſſion with a new Ti- tle. At the firſt Acting of the aforegoing Play, it met with fog few Cavillers againſt ſome part thereof ; but that was ſoon ove when Ben. Johnſon, and the Lord Viſcount Falkland gave it ano ther Encomium. ot © | The. Kilkerew, Gentleman of a good Family, and a celebrated Wit in A Keigns of the Two K. Charles's ; he was Page of Honour tt the Firſt, and Groom of the Bed-Chamber to the Second : during the King's Exile, he ſaw France, Italy, 'and Spain ; was reſident a je IT * Langbain's Dram, Poets, Page 308, Ma arts © LOO I HS, Fa Figs "enact Known AUTHORS: K 82 Venice 1651. In his Baniſhment he writ moſt of theſe Plays, and died ſeveral Years after the Reſtauration. - Bellamira, her Dream ; or, Love of Shadows, in Two Parts, a Tragedy, fol. written at Venice, and the firſt dedicated to the then Dutcheſs of Richmond and Lenox, and the fecond to her Siſter, 4nn Villiers, then Counteſs of Eſſex. ; Cicilia and Clorinda ; or, Zove in Arms, in Two Parts, a Tragi- Comedy, fol. the firſt writ at Turin, the ſecond at Florence.. T Scene betwixt Amadeo, Ducizs, and Manlins,” ſeem copied from Aglatidas, Artabes, and Megabiſes, in the Grand Cyrus, Part 1. Lib. 3. Story of Aglatidas and Ameſtris. Claracilla, a Tragi-Comedy, fol.. written at Rome, and dedica- ted to the Lady Shannon, ES The Parſon's Wedding, a Comedy, fol. writ at Baxil in Switzer- land, The chiefeſt Incidents in this Play, are to be found in for- mer Plays; as the Antiquary, Ram- Alley, (5c. The Pilgrim, a Tragedy, fol. writ whilſt at Paris, and dedica- ted to the Counteſs of Carnarvan. The Princeſs ;, or, Love at firſt Sight, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. writ at Naples, and dedicated to the Lady Lovelace, his Niece. The Priſoners, a Tragi-Comedy, fol, writ at London, and dedica- ted to the Lady Compton, another of his Nieces. Thomaſo; or, The Wanderer, in Two Parts, a Comedy, fot. The Author has here borrowed, not only a Story from Fletcher's Cap: tain, but ſeveral things from Fohnſon's Fox. The above named Plays, belonging to this Author, areall printed in one Volume, Fol. 1664. Sir William Killegrew. A Gentleman lately deceafed, being in his Life time Vice-Cham- berlain to the Queen Dowager, and has writ ſeveral Plays; as ; Ormaſdes, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. "\\ Pandora; or, The Converts, a Tragi-Comedy, fol, Selindra, a Tragi: Comedy, fol. The Siege of Urbin, 4 Tragi-Comedy, fol. There's another Play aſcrib'd to him, call'd, '* The Imperial Tragedy, fol. The chief Part of this Play out of Latin, for the Plot fee Marcelinus, Caſſindorws, Cedrenus, Evagria, - Zonatus, Baronius, (yc. of Zeno, the Twelfth Emy*ror from Con- ſtantine. Theſe Plays are Printed in one Volume, fol. Oxon, 1666. G 2 Fohn $4 Knwn AUT H ORS. L John Kirk. T 715 Author we find in the time of the Firſt K. Charles, when writ a Play, call'd, | | | $ The Seven Champions of Chriſtendom, a Hiſtory, 4to. 1638. Blot from the old Hiſtory of the Seven Champions of Chriſtendom, and Heylin's Hiſt. of St. George. | Ralph Knevet. Norfolk Gentleman, of. the ſame time with the former, writ 2 , Paſtoral repreſented at Norwich, calFd, Rhodon and Tris, a Paſtoral, 4to. 1631. Dedicated to Nicholas Bacon, Eſq. h # Thomas Kyd. FT fr Travflator Livd in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, "and Pub- liſh'd One Play call'd, Pompey the Great, bis Fair Cornelias Tragedy, 4to. 11595. dedi- cated to the Counteſs of Suſſex, This he tranſlated from the French of Robert Garmer. | __ —— x4 — _— — —_ — L Fohn Lacey. | N Excellent Comedian of the. King's Company, -was born near Doncaſter in Tork-ſhire, originally -a-Dancing Mafter, v of a rare Shape of Body, and good Complexion ; -was a Lieutenant -and Quarter er under -Col. Gerrard , after. "wards Earl of Macclesfield; he died, Sept. 19.681, King: Charles the Secund fancied him 1o-'much, -as to. have his 'Pifture-drawn-in Three ſeveral Figures, tin the fame Table, as\Teaguein the Commit- | gee, Scruple inthe Cheats, and Gallyard in the Varieties. He was not ſatisfied to excel -only-in -Affing, but attempted: theſe Three following Plays, or rather, Farces yo which, he added the Fart of Sainy the Scot, to the Tamingef the Shrew, '* ©: 1 2M a AE, fy. © 5 7 AE LELLST e <<» od MS 8 AER. a Known AUTHORS. L 85 The Dutrh Lady; or, The Farrier made Phyſician, a Comedy, 4to. 1672. Plot and Language from Mollieres le Medicin Malgve lug. The Old Troop or, Monſieur Ragou, 4 Comedy, 4to. 1972; Sir Hercules Bufſoon; or, The Poetical Squire, a Comedy, 4to. 1584; publiſh'd after his Death. 'F Leanard, Plagiary of extraordinary Afurance, that ſet up with other A Mens Writings for the Name of an Author. He publiſhed Two Plays under theſe Titles, (viz.) ene The Country Innocence ; or, The Chamber-maid turti'd*Quaker, a Comedy, 4to. 1677. Taken from a Play, call'd, The Country Girl, by Brewer. The Rambling Fuſtice ;, or, The Jealous Husbands, a Comedy, 4t9. 1680, Moſt part from a Play, call'd, More Diſſembleys beſides We- men, a Comedy, 4to. by Middleton, Natz3. Lee; \ | Att the Account I can give you of out Author, is, That he was Son of a Miniſter of the Church of England, had part of his Education at Cambridge, was received with general Applauſe in moſt of his Plays. He run Mad; and was ſome Years in Beth/em, and after he was let bout he was never petfeRtly well ; fo died in the Street in the Night Time. That he has ſhewn a Maſter-piece in Luci Junizs Brutus, which ſcarce one of his Contemyoraries have 'd, and noneexceld, can never be doubted, _ | Caſar Borgia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. Atted at the Duke's Theatre: Guictardine, lib. 's; 6: Mariana, lib. 27, 28. Sir Pavl Ricaut's Contin. of Plating, in the Reign of Pope Alexander the Sixth, / Conſtantine the Great, a Tragedy, 4to. 1684. Atted at the The- atre Royal, by their Majeſty's Servants. Plot from Euſebins de vit4 Conſtantini, Zonarus, Eutropins, Baronius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments. CREE: Gloriana, the Court of Auguſtus Ceſay, a Tragedy, 4to. 1675. At 4 at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties- Servants, and dedica- ted to the Dutcheſs of Portſmouth. See the Stories of Ceſaris, Mar- tellut arid Fulia, in Clenpatra, Part 1. Book 3. Part 5. Book. , &c. | | , Lutin; Funtus Brutus, Father of his Country, a Tragedy, 4to. t 681; Atedat the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the Right Honoura- le, the Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. See the Story of Junius Brutus in Clelia, a Romance, Par. 2. Book, 1: and Part 3: Book Le G 3 And- 86 Knwn 'AUTHORS. L And for the true Hiſtory, eonſult Florus, Livy, Dion, Hallicar, Oroſuus, (Fc. Maſſacre of Paris, a Tragedy, 4to. 1690.. Affed at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties. Servants. See Thuanus Pierre Mathieu, Davila, Mezeray, (xc. 16 you compare a Play, calld, The Duke of _ with this, you may find divers Paſlages there borrowed from ERCC. Mithridates, King of Pontus, a Tragedy, 4to. 1678, Add at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. Plot from Appian, Alexand. Roman Hiſt. Florus, Vell. Paterculus, and Plutarch in the Lives of Scylla, Lucullus, Pompey, toc. Nero, Emperor of Rome, his. Tragedy, 4to.' 1675. Adted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, and dedicated: to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Rocheſter. Plot from Suetonius in vita Neronis, Aurelius Vitor, Tacitus Annal. (5c. The Princeſs of Cleve, a Tragi-Comedy,' 4to. 1689. Aded at the Queen's Theatre in Dorſet Garden; and dedicated to the Right Ho nourable, Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex, Lord Chamber- lain of his Majeſty's Houſhold. Founded on a Romance of the ſame Title; ſee alſo a Book called, the French Rogue, 8w0. The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexanger the Great, a Tra- edy, 4to. 1677. Adted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſtics nts; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Mulgrave. Plot from Quint. Curt. Plutarch's Life of Alexander the Great, Juflin, Joſephus, 5c. | . Sophonisha; or Hannibal's Overthrow, a Tragedy, 4to. 1676, Affed at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants ; and de- dicated to the Dutcheſs of Portſmouth. Plot from Sir Walter Raleighs Hiſt. of the World, Book 5. Chap. 3. SeR. 18. Livy, Florus, Appian, Diodorus; Polibius, Fuſtin, (5c. Theodoſius; or, The Force of Love, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. Ated at the Duke's Theatre, by their Royal Highneſlſes Servants ; and dedicated to her Grace, the Dutcheſs of -Richmond. Plot from Pharamond, a Romance; Euſeb. Hiſt. Ecclefiaſhca; Varannes; Martian, and Theodoſtus. | | . Moſt of theſe Plays have been applauded by the SpeRators, and} their Worth. acknowledged by Dryden, and other Poets, in divers Copies of Verſes before ſome of them. He joined with Ms. Dryden, in Two other Plays, wiz. The Duke of Guiſe, 'and Oedipus, both Tragedics, for which ſee under Dryden Sentar. Zohn * Known AUTHORS L #7 John Lilh.. '0 NE of the firſt Reformers of our Language, in Queen F/i- zabeth's Days ; he was born in ' Kent, 'bred-in Magdalen-Cot- lege; Oxon, and there/took his Degree off! Maſter of Arts, 1575. The Time of his Death F'know not ; (he has publiſhed theſe Nine Alexander and'Campaſpe, a Tragi-Comedy,' 12mo. 1632. . Affed ona Twelfth Night, 'before the Queen, by her Majeſty's Children, and thoſe of Pauſs, and ſometimes after at Black Fryars.. Plot from Pliny's Natural: Hiſt; Lib. 35. Cap. 50. oo 'Endimion; a Comedy, 1270. 1632+ Preſented alſo before Queen Elizabeth, by the ſame Children. :Plot from .Lucian's Dialogue be- tween Venus and the Moon, Natales Comes, and Galtruchius's Hift. of the Heathen Gods. LG Galathea, a Comedy, '12mo. 1632. Preſented likewiſe before the Queen at Greenwich, by the Children of Pauls on New-Tear's- Day. - See the Story of Tphis and Tanthe, in Ovid Metamorph.; Libs 9. Tab. 12,'Yyc. < 4: TABS & Love's Metamorphoſis, a Paſtoral 4to. 1601. Firſtiplay'd by the NO of PauP's, and afterwards by her Majeſty's Children of the C I. Yi | The Maid's Metamorphoſis, a Comedy. 4to. 1600. Adted ſundry times by the Children of Paul's. - © Sd Mother Bombie, a pleaſant 'conceited nal ( fays the Title ) __ I2m0. 1632. and ſundry times play'd by. the! Children-of Paul's. De Mydas, a Comedy; 12mo.'1632s This was alſo. play'd before the Queen on Twelfth Day at:Night, . Apuleins has writ this Sto at large in his Aureus Afmmus. Seealſo Natales Comes, Galtruchius's .. Hiſt. of the Heathen Gods," and Ovid's Metamorph. Libs 11. Sapho and Phaon, -a Comedy, 12mo. 1532+: Preſented: before the Queen on Shrove Taeſday, and afterwards at the Black. Fryars. Plot Ovid Epiſt. Woman'in the Moon, a Comedy, 4to. 1667. Six of the above Plays are printed together 12m. and publiſhed by one Mr.Blount, called Court Comedies ; the other three are printed ſingle in 4fo. Mr. Lilly alſo writ a Book called, Euphers ahd his England, 4to. at that time much eſteemed. G 4 | Temas 28 Kknwn AUTHORS. L Thomas Lodge. His Author we find was a Dotor of Phyfick, in the Tint of zabeth, who, during his Study: at Cambridge; writ ". Queen El: ſeveral plete of - Poetry ; _ reſt, Two. Plays. A Looking-Glaſs for London and England, a Tragedy, 4to. 1598. One Green joined with our Author towards c this Play, which-is founded on the Story of Fonas and the Ninewites, in the Holy Scripture. The Wounds of Civil War ; qr, The Tragedies of Marius and Sclla. Plot from Plutatch in vit. Mar. & Silla : , ſee alſo Aurelius ViSor, Eutropius, Vell. Paterculus, Saluftius, and T. Livins. Sir William Lower, Cavalier that left theſe Nations during the Civil Wars, and, A in Holland, gave himſelf the Diverſion of Poetry; among the reſt, ſix Plays. | The Amorous Phantaſm,. a Tragi-Comedy,. 12mo., printed at the Hague, 1658. tranſlated from Quinault's Le Fantome Amorenz. The Inchanted Lovers, a Paſtoral, 12mo. printed alfo at the Hague, 1658. _ | . "#hratins, a Roman Tragedy, 4to. 14556. , tranſlated from Cor- neiHle; conſult Dion. Hallicarnaſceus, Caſſiodorus, T. Livins, and . L. Florus. © | The Martyr ;; or, Polyeufte, a Tragedy, 4to. 1655. For the Sto- ry, ſee Cefſetem Hiſt. Rom. Surius de Vitis Sanforum, (Fc. Noble Ingratitude, a Paſtoral Tragi-Comedy, 12m. London, 16 58. tranſlate Tom the French of Monficur Quinault, Phenix in her Flames, a Tragedy, 4to, 1639. This was the firſt . the Author writ, and pu before he was a Knight. Thomas Lnpon. AFL I know of him is, That 'tis Caid he writ this one Play, called, All for Money, a Tragedy, 4to. M. Lewis — "a Wo FOO TP > MOu,2" , _ Xx w=-_=_ L-.) b J Lo kd WW 4a Knows AUTHORS M 89 M Lewis Macehis. —T—\H IS Author lir'd in the Time of King Charles the Firſt, | and writ one Play, called, | The Dumb Knight, a Comedy, 4to. 1633. Affted by the Children of his Majeſty's Revels. Compare this Play with - one \ | called, The Queen; or, The Excellency of her Sex : fee alſo, The Complaiſant Companion, v0. and 12m. and Bandello's Novels, Tom. | 1. Nov. 13, (9c. : | Maidwel. A Gentleman yet living, who having made it his Bufineſs for ſome Years, to educate young Gentlemen, and initiate them in the Learned Tongues, hasat length quitted this Ludum Literari- wm, for a quiet retreat, during his Application to this Buſineſs, he found time to write a Play, called, The Loving Enemies, a Comedy, 4to. 1680. Aded at the Duke of York's Theatre in Dorſet Garden, and dedicated to the Hogue rable, Charles Fox, Eſq; . The Author ſeems to, have imitated the Virtoſo, in this Play. Dr.. Jaſper Maine. | Fils learned Author was * born at a place called, Hatherleigh, * a Market Town in Devonſhire, An. Dom 1604. and in the . I Time of King Fames the Firſt, paſſed from Weſtminſter-School, to Chriſt-Church, Oxon, An. Dom. 1623. in the Condition of a Servi- tor, where he was encouraged in his Studies by Dr. Duppa, and the next Year choſen into the Number of Students on that noble Foundation. He paſſed his Degrees till he entred into Orders, wd Plurality of Two Livings near that Univerſity, both in the Gift of the College. After his being made Doftor of Divinity, ind tarn'd oat by the Viſitation of the late Government of Oliver Cromwel, he was received into the Fame of the Earl of Devon, having loſt both his Livings. In the uration of the King, he FEE % * Wood Athens Oxonienſes Vol. 2. Þ. 372, 373: \ found 'ry over the Dutch, 1665, (5c. * tration will, have no need of, ſince a juſt Conſideration of Nature 90 Knwn AUTHORS M found his Two Livings, and Advancement to a Canon of Chriſt- Church, as alſo Archdeacon of Chicheſter. He died Decemb. 6. 1672, and was buried on the North fide- of the Cathedral of Chriſt. Church, where is to be ſeen a ſhort + Epitaph on a Marble Stone, placed over his Grave by his Execufors, Dr. South and Dr. Lam- phire. He gave by his Will 500 1. towards re-building of St. PauP's, and to Caſſington, and Pyrton, near Watlington, (of which Places he - Vicar) 100 /. each. He writand publiſhed the two following Plays: | wogho The Amorous War, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. Oxon, 1658. alſo printed fol. and 80. gk ' The City Match, a Comedy, 4to. Oxon, 1658. printed alſo Fol. and 80. This Comedy was ated before their Majeſties at White- — and divers times afterwards at Black Fryars, with great Ap- plauſe. Theſe two Plays are uſually bound together. This Author publiſhed divers other Books ; as part of Luctar's Dialogues, Eng. Fol. divers Sermons, 4to. and a Poem on the Viſto» La Mrs. Delarivier Manley. His Lady has very happily diſtinguiſh'd her ſelf from the' reſt of her Sex, and gives us a living Proof of what we might rea- ſonably expe& from Womankind, if they had the Benefit of thoſe artificial Improvements of Learning the Men have, when by' the meer Force of Nature they ſo much excel. Rules :1ndeed are but the Leading-ſtrings to ſupport and carry the Weaker, and more unobferving Heads, and which thoſe of a ſtrong Genius and Pene- wil condu& them with more Eaſe and Succeſs. Of this our pre- ſent Authreſs is an evident Proof, for in the Two Plays ſhe has al- +) 19mg we find no part of Art wanting, but what is the Mechanick Part, and by much the leaſt valuable. There is a Force and a Fire in her Tragedy, that is the Soul that gives it Life, and for want of which, moſt of our Modern Tragedies are heavy, las: guid, unmoving, and dull. In her Comedy there is an eaſy Fr dom of adding, which confeſſes a Converſation in the Authreſs leſs genteel and entertaining. This Lady was born in the Iſle Ferſey, her Father, Sir Roger Manley, being then Governor of it; a Gentleman of a double Merit, both the Gown, and the Sword claiming no ſmall ſhare in his Glory, and the Republick of Learn- mm. —_——— — — t Hiſt, and Antiquit. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 282. | Known 'A UTHOR S;""2M 9k , | ing owdas much to his Wit and Judgment, m thoſe Books which . | he was pleaſed to publiſh, as his King and Country to his Loyalty, » | Valour and Condut. And well _ out Delarivier prove a Muſe, = | being begot by ſuch a Father. She has as yet given us but two Plays, ; | of which in their Order; Ads cir ences rariat Þ The Royal Miſchief, -a Tragedy,” 4to; AQted by his Maj Ser- vants, at the Theatre in: Lincolns-Inn-Fields,''1696. and to'his Grace, William, Duke of Devonſhire, &c. The Story,-as ſhe owns, is originally taken from Sir 'Zobn Chardin's Travels, but his receiv'd this Advantage, that the Criminals are here 'd for their -Guilt, who in_the Story eſcape; a Poetick ior, Wanch ought ever to be obſerved in all Plays ; for-a Juſt'Auditijce, could never have been pleas'd with the Proſperity of Homais,* and Las van, after ſo very criminal an Amour. | I cou'd here give the Rea- der a Proof how well the Rules of Ariſtotle are obſery'd. in this Tragedy, by a Lady who never read him; and how juſt all her Metaphors and Allegories are : but that wou'd exceed the Bounds I am preſcribed by the: Model I'm oblig'd to build on. I fliall thege- fore proceed to | Acta The Loſt Lover ;, or,: The Jealous Husband, a-Comedy, 4to.-atted at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants, 1696. To this Play is no Epiſtle Dedicatory, and the Preface informs us of its il} Suc- ceſs, which we cou'd never gather from the reading of it ; and if we wou'd, as we ought, give any Allowancefor the Sex that wrote it, the Time it was wrote in, and its being the- firſt Eflay of that Nature, we ſhou'd agree with her, that' it met with a much ſeve- rer Fate than it deſerved. {/ This Lady has Publiſh'd ſeveral other Books, which have fiot Name to 'em, and which, for that Reaſon, T ſhall forbear to men- tion their Titles, | Coſmo Manuch. A Major in the King's Army, in the late Civil War, and Author of two Plays, call'd, The juſt General, a Tragedy, 4to. 1650. This the Author de- flgn'd for the Stage, but was not ever acted. The Loyal Lovers, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 15652. The Author, in _ Play, repreſents divers of the Committee Men and their In- rmers. | \ Gervaſe -” 92 Known AUTHORS. M Gervaſe Markbam: Tx Author was Son to Robert Markham, of Cotham in Notting- 8 hamſbire, Eiq;| was born in the Reign of Elizabeth, and liv'd to have a Captain's Command in the Civil. War, under, Ky Charles the Firſt. He writ curious Pieces of Hnsbandry, Horſes manſl.ip, and War, and one Play, in which one Sampſon aſſiſted. ws Tragedy, 4to. 1622. Plot from: Joſeph Her tipater, a Y, 4to. 1622, Hh: 5h Book 14; 1s, (9c. Spondatus, Baronii Ant. Saliat ornted,, &cs- - SONS oO rw worS wi Chriſtopher Marlow. | . 1 ; | Famous Poet of Queen Zlizateth and King Fumes's Time, cons| A tem ith The Immortal þoor DL gon Fellow-Adotf T with and others, he writ a Poem called, Hero and Leander; much commended, as alſo theſe ſeven Plays following: Dr. Fauflus his tragical Hiſtory, 4to. 1661, being the laſt Editi- _ on, printed with the Addition of many Scenes. Plot, Cameraril Opera Subſc., Cents 1. Cap. 70. Wierrs de Prafſtig. Damenum, Lib. 2. 4 Cap. 4» Lower, (5c. | Dido, Queen of Carthage, a Tragedy, 4t6, 16 . In thish was joined by Naſh. Plot from Virgi!'s Aneids, Book 4. L ian Edward the Second, a Tragedy, 4tv. 16 . Plot from Thomas” - la More, Sir Francs Hubert, and other Engliſh Hiſtorians of thatf ime. Jos of Malta, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1633. Affed by her Mal. jeſty's Servants at the Cock-pit, and at Whitehall, before the KingiT and Queen. A Play of great Eſteem in thoſe Days: " Luft's Dominion ;, or, The Laſcivious Queen, a Tragedy 8w. 1661 7 Thns Play has been ated of late Years, under the Title of 4bdela-f*" wr 5 or, The Moor's Revenge : with few Alterations, by Mrs. Be Maſſacre at Paris, with the Death of the Duke of Guiſe, a Trag dy, 8. Atted by the Lord Admiral's Servants. Is not divide into Affts. Plot from Davila, Thranis, Dupleix, and Mezeray, ink. the Reigns of Char. IX. and Hen. II. of France, * 1:13 "2 Tamberlain the Great ; or, The Scythian Shepherd, in Two Parts,F" a Tragedy, 8w. 1593. Adffed alſo by the Lord Admiral's Servants. p Plot, Fean du Bec, Laonicus, Chalcocondilas, Pet. Birarus, Kmnilles _ Tarks, L Hiſtoire de Tamerlain, 8v0, and his Life in Engliſh} V0. Shakerly Known AUTHORS M 93 - Shakerly Marmion. AN Anthor born at Ainoe, in Nut haropponſhire, Jamany, '2662, initiated in Letters at Thame-School, Omntaſbire ; "from thence about ſateen Years of Age, was ſent toWadhap-College, 'Oxog,a0d continued a Member thereof, till after he took his Maſter.of Arts Degre He writ theſe three Comedies: Altat ot the ha. Antiquary, a Comedy 4to. 164t.. at tne Cock-pit ons —_—_ Servants. Auwelho's Mnkage is an Incident in y i r Plays. | The Fine Companion, a Comedy, 40. 11633. Atted: _ Charles's Servants, in "Salisbury-Court, as aMo before the rp Queen at White- Hall, with great Applauſe, It: Is, rubroodery- to Sig yer er: Lo Comedy, rs Qed alſo by Prince s Leaguer, '4 .4#0. 22. A 1 | CharlessServants:in Salibury-Conre, with' gaod Applauſe, Several of | Things i in this Play borrowed from Petronius Arbiter. h Jul Marſton. , i His Poet liv'd in the Reign of King Fames the Firſt, and writ T :eight Plays, ifix -of which are uſually;bound: together an one olumn, tw. 16533. and :one.of: them revivd ' not many Years ſince, and afted with Succeſs, under the'Name ;of The Revenge: _ or, The Matth:in'Newente. af - Antonia-and Melida, TwoiParts, 4 Trapedy, 4to. 1602.:and 8v0, 263 ot frequently:ated by-the- Children of Pau!'s. Dutch Connteſan, 'a (Cometly, ;4te, -1605. and Bo. 1633. f er BlackiFtyars, :by the Children: of the 's Majeſtyis wels. TheStory.of Cack/edemoy, :in-this:Play, 1s wed'from French Book, -entituled, :des | Contes wn ' Menile, alſo from .the JEvgliſh Book of. Novels call'd, the. Palace of Pleaſure. "The Inſatiate Counteſs,a Tragedy, 4to. 1603. 'Ated at the'Black ars. Plot/from: Montius Hift. of Naples : ha alſo \Dr. Fuller's > wow State, Chap. 2. and God's Revenge againſt A ultery, tc. The Male Content, .a Tragi-Comedy, 4t0. 1604. Mr. Webſter $ud -the '\Plat-Form, and our Author Trarfn, moulded it-into a on. 7 , [ [| 4 4 'I , 5 Paraf taſter ; or, 'The Fawn, '4 Comedy, 4to. 1606, and 840. te; $533 A 23. "Scene 1, from Ovid's Amor, Lib, 2. Eleg, q. fee 11171 ah fs Novels, Day 3- 'Noy. 3. k rly Sephonisba, 94 Known ' AUTHORS: 'M , Sophonisba, her Tragedy; or, The Wonder of Women, a Tragedy, 4fo. 1633. Plot from Sir Walter Raliegh, Polibius, Appian, Livy's Hiſt. &yc. EV" What you will, a Comedy, 8w. 1633. Copied from Plautus Amphitrie. - Mr, Phillips and Mr. Winſtanly have made him Author of another Play, called; the Faithful Shepherd, but his Name not being thereto, nor he'ever owning it, I conclude, with Mr. Lang hain, that tis none of- his;' © | | Fel John Maſon. - His Poet was Maſter of ' Arts in: King: 7ames' the Firſt's Tim i,” and writ one Play calld, '" p =: Muleaſſes, the Turk ;" a Tragedy, '4to 1610. Atted by the C dren of his Majeſty's Revels. This Author, in his Title Page, call #t;.A Worthy Tragedy, and had a great Conceit of its meeting 'with Succeſs, adding in the Front, this Sentence of Horace, : ” Sume Superbiam queſitam merits, Philip Maſſenger. | 4 t A Poet who was born at Salisbury in the Reign of: Charles thy | i... Firſt, his Father: livd and dy in the Service of the then Ea | of Montgomery, andiſent his Son, our Poet,: to St. Alban-Hall, 1 Oxon, where he remain'd a Student for three or four Years. He wif © intimate with Rowley, Middleton, Field,Decker,and even Fletcher. Hg. 1 left this World in Majch, 1669. and on the' ſeventeenth Day | that: Month, was buried in St. Mary Overies-Church in Southwark C in the Grave where Mr. Fletcher had: been. before buried.” In'S, Aſton Cockain's Epigrams you may find an Epitaph on him, Book. i a Ep. 100. He writ- fourteen Plays intire, and joined with Midd! : and Rowley in ſome others ;. of which in their Order :- 4 2 - . The Baſhful Lover, a Comedy, 8v0./ 1655. Atted at. the privaly tl _ in Black-Fryars,» by his Majeſty's Servants, with good AY auie. 6 + s ET ; d Y The Bondman, a Comedy, 4to. 1638. Affed at the Cock-Pit Drury-Lane, by the moſt excellent Princeſs, -the Lady" Elrrat her Servants :.Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Philip, Early Montgomery. The reducing the Slaves by the Sight of the Whu is taken from the Story: of the Scythian Slaves. --: The City Madam; a Comedy, 4to. 1659. Affted at the Privif.H Houſe in Black-fryars, with great Applauſe, and Dedicated to t 2 | ; IF 1 [ Ve L Known 'AUT HORS:"*'M of y's truly Noble and Vinwou Lady, Ann, Counteſs of Oxon. This has been eſteemed a us |... The Duke of Millain, a jr T0 4to. 1638. as it had been often or | ated by Ins Majeſty 's Servants, at the Black-fryars. Plot from 7e- ot ſepbus's Hiſt. Fews, "Book 1's, Chap. 4. nl The Emperor of the Eaſt. a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1632. Affted'at - | the Black-fryars and Globe, by.his Majeſty's Servants: Dedicated to {| the Right Honoutable,. Zohn, Lord Mobin, Baron of Okhe-hampton. Plot from Socrates, Lib. 7. Nicephorus, Lib. 14. Baronius, Qyc. The fatal Dowry, ,a Tragedy, 4fo. 1632. Acted at the Black-fry- #s, by his Majeſty's Servants ; Mr. Field, ai Author before-menti- neſl oned, joyn'd with him in this Play. Charlois Ranſoming His Fa- ther's Corps by his | _ Impriſonment, taken from,Cymon, in Pal. The & 5. Cap. 4. Ex. 9. he wa | The Great Duke of Florence, a Comedy 0, 1636, T i ing} calls it, a Comical of Fm , often reſented w a th avod 3 by her Majeſty's Servants, "at the Ph In rar Coe The D&- | fication to the truly Horioured, and his Noble Favourer, Sir Robert Wiſeman, of Thorralls- Halt.” in Eſſex. Plot from Speed, "Stow, and other our Engliſh Chronicles, n the Reign of King Zdgar.-* The Guardian, a Comedy, 800. 1655. The Title alfo calls this, a Comical Hiſtory, often ated at the private Hayſe in Black-fryars, | by his late Majeſty's Servants, with great Applauſe. Plot from y Boccace's Novels, Day 8. Nov. 7. and from the Cimmerian t 8v0 The Maid of Honour, a Tragi-Comedy, '4to. 1632. This was my oftentimes ated with good all Iwance, a at the Phenix in Drury- Bf Lane, by her Majeſty's ervarits; and dedicate 'to'Sir Francis Þþ- & | lianibe, and Sir Tho. Bland. The Play is recommended by Sir Afton irl Cokain, who prefix'd a Copy of Kt thereto, "'.. 4 New Way to pay Old Debts, a Comedy, h 097 1633 | oftenadita k 4 at the Phenix in Drury-Lane, by the Queen 's 'Setvanits; { dedicated to the Right Honourable, Robert, "Ext of Carnarvan, "a ti _ Fay, and Sir Henry Moody haye very much commended valy this P Al The Gid Law. Vide Middleton. -. The PiQure, a Tragi-Comedy, 4ta. 1636, Atted at the Globe t'& and Black- fryars Play- Houſes, by his Majeſty's Seryants;: and de- fff dicated to the Noble Society of the Inner-Temple. Plot trom the rg Fortunate deceived, and Unfortunate Lovers, Nov. 4. of the Decer- MM: ved Lovers. The Renegado, a Comedy, 4to. 1630. Ated at the private Play- val, Houſe, in Drury-Lane, by her Maieſty' s Servants ; dedicated tothe q Right Honourable, George Harding, Baton of Barkley- Caſtle,” and Knight of the Honourable Order of the' Bath. Mr. Shirley, (vc. '|k have commended this Play by Copies of Verſes. | ac. -e | + Knows rg THORS. M Roman Aftor, a T 0 1629. Aged at the priyat Houſe in the Black-fr WF he fe Aly Scrvan s Servants; X ded. cated to Sir Philip my” ir 5, and Tho. KN [lin ghar, of Newtimber, 10 $ 7 15 recommended b diver Copies of Verſes from * Goff, Wo. d ramatic eogh yy Plot from Tacitus, Aurelius, Vitor, and Suetonius in the As Woman, or the Prince of Tarent, a Tragi-Comedy, 8w, as "The Plat of this reſembles that of the Ohſtinate 1 b, wry Aftan Cak ain. " The Virgin pales y, 4to. 1661. pr oe by his Majeſty' Servants with Mr. Decker ed gur pt ao Play. Mr fn rom aleſo ius, Roſwedius, Enſebii Hiſt. Lib. 8 P- 17. 'Fhe Unnatural Combat, a T tn, 1639 * preſented by the King's Majeſty's Servants, at "Glo : and > dated to his Th honoured Friend, Anthony Father, of Oukbam in Kent, Ef Play is without Prologue or Epilogu The Baſhful Lover, the Guardian, "the Very Wamgn, are print ed Leer in one Volume, . 840. Thomas May. Gentleman of a good Family in Suſſex, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ; he was ſome Years a-Fellow-Commoner of Stdnex College.in Cambridge, ,whence removing to London, and the. Court, he grew to an Juti with Endymyon Porter, Eſq; and others but diſguſted with the little Encouragement he ,met with, whidl * is indeed no Place for Reward of Merit, he retired. In the Yea $653, he, died ſuddenly, being, Five and Fifty Years Old, and lie. , in the Weſt Side 'of the North Ifle of Weſtminſter- Abby, neaſ ; / A Mr.Cambden. But now to his Plays. ina, Empreſs of Rome, her Tragedy, 12110. 1639. In th firſt A of this Play, the Printer committed an Error, by print ing ſome few Pages twice oyer. Plot, ſee-Tacitus, Suetonius, ant Petronjus Arbiter. Antigone, the Thehane Princeſs, her Tragedy,8uv0,1631.Dedicate to the. molt Worthily:Honourcd Endymion Porter, Eſq; Plot froi Stocles s's Antigone, -and Seneca's Thebais ; ſee alſo Statius's ais Cleopatra, Queen 0 t, her Tragedy, 12mo. 1639. Atted ſome Years Lam 4 © Fd dedicated — the accompliſh 'd Sit , Kenelm Digby. Plc from Appian de Bells Civ. L, Florus, Lib. Suetonius in wit. Auguſt. .and Plutarchus in Vit. M. Antonii, he h alſo made bold with Celimachus's Epig. on Timon, &c pr . - WT Known AUTHORS. M 97 The Heir, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1633. Aed by the Company of Revels. This was accounted an ingenious and modeſt Play, and much commended by Mr. Thomas Carew, who has a Copy of Verſes to that purpoſe, printed with the Play. The Old Couple, a Comedy, 4to. 1651. This Play has been for- merly in repute, and the chief Deſign of it ſeems to be againſt Co- _ veteouſneſs. Two of the above Plays, (v:z.) Agrippina and Antigone, are uſu- ally bound together in a ſmall Volume, 1290. This Author has . publiſh'd a Tranſlation of Lucan's Pharſalia, 89. 163 5. and Virgth's Georgicks, with Annotations, 1622. alſo a Hiſtory of the late Ct- vil Wars in England, which he calls, A Breviary. Robert Mead. E liv'd in the Time of King Zames and King Charles the Firſt, was of Chriſt-Church-College, Oxon, and writ one Play, which was publiſh'd after his Death. The Title of his Play is, The Combat of Love and Friendſhip, a Comedy, formerly preſent- ed by the Gentlemen of Chriſt-Church in Oxon, 4to. printed at London, 1654. Matthew Medbourn. N Ar in the Duke's Company, being a Papiſt and commit- A ted to Newgate about the Popiſh Plot, where he died; but ſome Years before he publiſhed one Play, called, "| Tartuffe; or, the French Puritan, a Comedy, g4to. 1670. Affed "j at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Henourable, + 'S Henry, Lord Howard, of Norfolk. Tranſlated from the French of Mollere. Thomas Meriton. THis Scribler liv'd fince. the Reſtauration, and accounted the dulleſt and moſt impotent of Dramatick Poets in his Time, he phbbliſh'd Two Plays : | Love and War, a Tragedy, 4to. 1658. and dedicated to the truly Noble, Judicious Gen and his moſt efteemed Brother, Mr. "1 Geo. Meriten, Ido not find this Play was ever atted, or deſerved H & , faThe ; | 98 Knows AUTHORS. M The Wandring Lover, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1658. The Title makes you believe it was adted ſeveral times privately, at ſundry Places, by the Author and his Friends, with great Applauſe; and the Dedication 15 to the Ingenious, Judicious, and much Honoured Gentleman, Francis Wright, Eſq; Tho. Middleton, vide Fletcher. F #iis Author livd in the Time of King Fames and King Charles the Firſt; was Contemporary and Affociate with Deckgr, Rowley, Maſſinger, Fletcher and Johnſon. Under the Title of John- fon, you have an Account that he join'd with him and Fletcher, in one Play, calld, the Widow. He was affiſted by Maſſinger and Rowley, in writing another Play, call'd, the 0/4 Law : by Dechar, In the Roaring Girl, and by Mr. Rowley, in three others; beſides thoſe he writ and publiſh'd, entirely his own. | Any thing for a Quiet Life, a Comedy, 4to. 1662, This was not printed till that Year, tho' long before ated at the Black-Fry- ars, with good Succeſs, Blurt, Mr. Conſtable ; or, the Spaniard's Night-Walk; 4to. 1602, Atted ſundry times privately, by the Children of Pau/'s. Our Au- thor's Name is not in the Title Page ; but neyertheleſs, on good Grounds, attributed to him by Kirkman, ggc. | The Changeling, a Tragedy, 4to. 1653. Atted at the Private Houſe in Drury-Lane, and Salzbury-Court, with great Applauſe. This is one of thoſe Plays in which he was affiſted by Mr. Rowley, For the Plot, conſult the Story of Alſemero, and Beatrice Joanna, in God's Revenge againſt Murther, fol. writ by Dr. Reynolds. The Chaſt Maid in Cheapfide, a Comedy, 4to. 1520, Thus 1s en- tituled, A pleaſant conceited Comedy, often ated at the Swan on the Bank-Stde, by the Lady Elizabeth, her Servants. A fair Quarrel, a Comedy, 4to. 1622. This is another of thoſe Plays, in which Mr. Rowley join'd, and 15 dedicated to the nobly diſpos'd, and faithful Breaſted, Robert Grey, Eſq; one of the Grooms | of his Highneſs's Chamber, Plot from Cynthio Giraldi, a Novel, C Dec. 4. Nov. 5. 4 The Family of Love, a Comedy, 4to. 1608. Affed' by the Chit: | dren of his Majeſty's Revels. | - A Game at Cheſt, a Comedy, 4to. Affed at the Globe on the : Bank-S1de, The Game being play'd before Loyola, between one of the Church of England, and the other of the Church of Rom, | the latter loſes. Inner Known AU THORS. M 99 Inner-Temple Maſque ; or, Maſque of Heroes, 4to. 1640. preſent- ed by Gentlemen of the ſame ancient and noble Houſe, as an En- tertainment for many eminent Ladies. Tho this Play was writ about Twenty- Years before printed, yet Mrs. Behn approv'd of it ſo. much, that when ſhe writ her Comedy called, the City HeirePs, ſhe borrowed part thereof. A Mad World, my Maſters, a Comedy, 4to. This Play is faid to be often ated, with good Applauſe. The Mayor of Queenborough, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. often a& with much Applauſe, by his Majeſty's Servants. You have in thj Play, ſeveral Dumb Shews. Plot, ſee the Reign of Vortiger; Du Cheſne, Stow, Speed, and other Engliſh Chronicles. 45.4 | EIT erm, a Comedy, 4to. I know_not whether ever atted. More Deſemblers beſides Women, a Comedy, 8w0. 1657. No Wit, no Help Iithe a Woman's, a Comedy, 8vo. 16 Af This and the other preceding Play, with Women, beware Wort#n, may be had bound together, ip a ſmall 849. or 1270. : The Old Law ; or, A New Way to Pleaſe you, 4to. 1656, The Title calls it, An Excellent Comedy, a&ed before the King and ueen, with great Applauſe. Mr. Rowley and Maſſenger join'd with him in this Play. | The Phenix, a Tragi-Comedy,.,q4to. 1607. Aded ſeveral times by the Children of Paul's, betore his Majeſty, with good Ap- plauſe. See the Story writ by Mignel de Cervantes, called, the Foree of Love, being a Spaniſh Novel. | The Roaring Girl ;, or, Mall Cut-Purſe, a Comedy, 4to. 1611. as it has lately been ated on the Fortune Stage, by the Prince's Players. Mr. Langbain ſays, he never ſaw this Play, and Ranks it under Middleton ; but I take moſt part of it to be Dechar's, who joyn'd in it. This Play has an odd fort of an Epiſtle Dedicatory, to the Comick Play-Readers, Venery and Laughter. The Spaniſh Gipſies, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. ated both at the Private Houſe in Drury-Lane, and Salwbury-Court, with great Ap- plauſe. In this Play he was join'd by Mr. Rowley. See part of the Plot in a Spaniſh Novel, call'd, the Force of Blood, writ by M. de Cervantes. | | A Trick to catch the O!4 One, a Comedy, 4to. 1616. The Ti- tle ſays, it has been often in Aon at Paul's and Black-Fryars, be- | fore their Majeſties. This was, in thoſe Times, accounted a good. Play. Triumphs of Love and Antiquity, a Maſque, gto. 1619. Dedica- ted to the Right Honourable, Sir Willram Cockain, Knight, then Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Lord General of his Ma- zeſty's Military Forces. This, tho' accounted by other Catalogues H 2 a , A, i = . / 100 Known AUTHORS. M a Maſque, is little mote than Speeches ſpcke, as now in theſe Days, to the Lord Mayors, in Pageants, (5c. ' Women, beware Women, a Tragedy, 819. 1657. 'See Hippolito and Tſabella, a Romance, 8vo. This 15 uſually bound with two others of his before-mentioned, 89. The World toſs'd at Tennis, a Maſque, 4to. 1620. ſaid to be di- vers times ated to the Contentment of many Noble and Worthy SpeRtators, by the Prince's Servants. The Dedication 1s to the truly Noble, Charles, then Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham; and to his Vertuous and Worthy Wife, the Right Honovirable, Mary, then Lady Effingham, the Eldeft Daughter of Sir William Cochatn, Knight, then Lord Mayor of London, &5c. | Tour Five Gallants, a Comedy 4to. Affted at the Black- Fryars. A Play printed without any Date, and in all probability, the firſt he cver writ. John Milton. A* Author of that Excellence of Genius and Learning, that none of any Age or Nation, I think, has excel'd him : du- ring the Civil Wars, and after the Death of King Charles the Firſt, he was advanced to conſiderable Poſts in the Government, as Under Secretary of State, gc. and he was a ſtrenuous Defender of the Power and Liberty of the People, upon which that Go- vernment 1mmediately ſtood. His Controverſy with Salmatius was very famous all over Europe, and his Viory coſt his Adver- fary his Life, tho' he himſelf loſt his Eyes. I have been told, that after the Reſtauration of King Charle; the Second, he tarzht School at, or near Greenwich. The Time or Place of his Birth, Education or Death, I am ignorant of. He writ two Dramatick Pieces, v2. ' Samſon Agoniftes, a Tragedy, 819. 1680. Mr. Dryden Sen. .has, in his Aureng-zebe, borrowed ſome Thoughts: from this Poem, which is founded on Scripture. Conſult the Thirteenth Chapter of Fudges, (5c. alſo Tornier, Saltan, and Foſeph. Antiq. lib. 5. A Maſque preſented at Ludlow-Caſtle, 1634. Printed 4to, 1687. It was publiſhed by Mr. Laws, who compos'd the Muſick, dedi- cating it to the Right Honourable, John, Lord Viſcount Brackley, Son and Heir Apparent to Fohn, Earl of Bridgewater, Viſcount Brackley, Lord Prefident of Wales, and one of his Majeſty's moſt Honoarable Privy Council ; before whom it was preſented. He writ beſides, divers Pieces in Poetry and Hiſtory, as Paradiſe Laſt, 80. and Fol. with Sculptures ; Paradiſe Regain'd, 8v0. Hiſt. of Britain, -qto.- Pro' populo Anglicans defenfio, 121mo. The Dofrine and Diſcipline of Divorce, 4to. (9c. x Walter He wm' eZa70claler, a Mol rt Gn G FtahPrlog WIT 4 Pl JA tad Bay li: 0 f &. arte (= 177 bag 4 oy $, WY = —_— —_—y y_ «c. © AK _ _R "MXa «a my fo” gHuod fc kn) == Hos # 6. woads \, EE © 5.5 £5 ac Known AUTHORS. M Ion Walter Montagne, Eſq: T7 E Shepherds Paradiſe, a Paſtoral, 80. 1649. This was pri- vately ated before King Charles the Firſt, by the Queen's Ma- jeſty, and Ladies of Honour; and was then well eſteem'd. Peter Mottenx. AN Author now living, who, tho' born and bred at Roan in Nor- mandy, has made himſelf fo far Maſter of our Language, as to be able to divert the Town in Two Plays, the firſt call'd, Love's a Feſt, a Comedy, 4to. ARed at the new Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants, 1696. and dedicated to Charles, Lord Clifford, of Lanesborough. The Author owns, in his Preface, himſelf indebted to the Italians, for the hint of the two Scenes where Love is made in Jeſt; asalſo ſome Speeches and Thoughts here and there. The Loves of Mars and Venus, a Play ſet to Muſick, as it is ated at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants, 4to. 16g6. and dedicated to the Honourable Collon& Codrington. In his Preface he owns the Story to be Ovid's, ant —_ has taken the Dance of the Cyclops from Mr. Shadwell Pſyche. The Novelty, every A a Play, being a ſhort Paſtoral, Comedy, Maſque, Tragedy, and Farce; aQted at the new Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn- Fields, by his Majeſty's Seryants, 4to. 1697. and de- dicated to Charles Ceſar, of Bonnington, Eſq; In the Preface he lets us know, that the Paſtoral, call'd, Thyrfrs, is written by his ingenious Friend, Mr. 7.0/dmixon. The Tragedy, which he calls, The Unfortunate Couple, is the latter and moſt moving part of Dr. Filmer's Unnatural Brother. That the Farce, call'd, Natural Magick, 15 an Imitation of Part of a French Comedy, of one AR, after the Italian Manner, as you may find many in the Theatre Italien. Her-. cules, the Maſque, is his own, tho' I haye ſeen one on the ſame Subje& by a French Author, and repreſented at Bruſſels. The C9- medy is his own too, call'd, All without Maney. Tho' this bears the Name of The Novelty, 1t can be call'd fo on- ly as ſome of our modern Opinions in Philoſophy are call'd new, that is, becauſe they have laid by -unthought of a great while, for as theſe are to be met with among the Old Philoſophers, ſo is this Model to be found in Sir Wiſſiam Davenant's Play- Houſe to be Lett. I ſhall only add, That the greateſt Novelty is the add ay H 3 - I02 Known AUTHORS. M of Numbers us'd in his Friends Paſtoral: What Authority he may have for it, I don't know, W:llian Mountford. T HE Birth and Parentage of this Author I know nothing of; the firſt Figure he made was,in the part of Tall-Boy,on the Stage, for which, being taken Notice, he was advanc'd on the Theatre, till he zot into the Family of the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies ; from whence he return'd to the Stage, where he continued till he was killd in Norfolk-Buildings, London. He has publiſh'd three Plzys. Greemwich-Park, a Comedy, 4to. 1691. Adted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Algernon, Earl of Eſſex, Viſcount Malden, &yc. This is a very pretty Comedy, and has been always received with gene- ral Applauſe. | The Injur d Lovers; or, The Ambitious Father, a Tragedy, g4to, 1588. the Dedication is to the Right Honourable, Zames, Earl of Arran, Sor to his Grace, the Duke of Hamilton. This Play did © Not ſucceed as the Author wiſh'd. The Life and Deathof Dy. Faufius, made into a Farce, with the Humours of Harlequin and Scaramauch, as they were ſeveral times ated by Mr. Lee and Mr. 'Fevoa, at the Queen's Theatre in Doyſet- Garden, newly reviv'd at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn- Fields, The Succesful Strangers, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1690. Affed by their Majeſties Servants, at the Theatre Royal. Its Dedication 15 to the Right Honourable, Thomas (now Lord) Wharton, Comptroller of his Majeſty's Houſhold. The Cataſtrophe from The. Rival Bro- thers, in Scarron's Novels, This Play ſomewhat exceeded the pre- ceding one. YE — N. Thomas Nabbs. E was accounted a Third Rate Poet, who liv'd in King H Charles the Firſt's Time, there js publiſhed of his Writings, = Eight Dramatick Pieces, which follow in Alphabetical , © BS , | The Bride, called, a pleaſant Comedy, 4to. 1640. Adted firſt, Tivo Years before, at the Private Hayſe in Drury-Lane, by their | | Majeſties + &- FT ' | 008 . 0 = Knwn AUTHORS. N I03 Majeſties Servants, Dedicated to ſeveral Gentlemen of the Hono- | rable Houſes of the Inns of Court, his Friends. Covent-Garden, a Comedy, 4to. 1638. firſt ated by the Queen's _ Majeſty's Servants, 1632. The Dedication is to the Right Worthy, Sir Zohn Suckling. Hambal and Scipio, called, An Hiſtorical Tragedy, 4to. 1637. but ated firſt in the Year 1635. by the Queen's Majeſty's Servants, at the private Houſe in Drury-Lane. Plot founded on Hiſtory ; ſee the Lives of Hambal and Scipio, in Corn. Nepos, and Plutarch; ſee alſo Livy, L. Florus, toc. | An Entertainment on the Prince's Birth-Day, 4to. This is ranked under Nabbs, in Mr. Langbain's Catalogue, as alſo in Kirkman's and others, but omitted in Mr. Langhain's Account of the Poets, for what Reaſon I know not. Microcoſmos, 'a Maſque, 4to. 1637. preſented ( ſays the Title with general liking, at the private Houſe in Salzbury-Court, an here ſet down, according to the Intention of the Author. The Dedication 1s to the Service and Delight of all truly Noble, Gene- rous, and Honeſt Spirits. This is a Maſque which has good Mora- lity in it, and (as | find) was commended by Brome, and others, Spring's Glory, Vindicating Love by Temperance, a Maſque, 4to. 1538, This has much of Morality alſo, and is commended by Mr. Chamberlain, a then noted t, and others. It's dedicated to Peter Ball, Eſq. There is joined with this 4 Preſentation, as 10- tended for Prince Charles's Birth-Day, (viz.) May 29. which, in other Catalogues has been ſtiled an Interlude. There are beſides, many Poems, Epigrams, Elegies and Epithalamiums. Tottenham-Court, a Comedy, 4to. printed 1538. but ated five Years before, in Salubury-Court : And 1s dedicated to the Wor- ſhipful, Wall. Mills, Eſq. Unfortunate Mother, a Tragedy, 4to. 1640. It is dedicated to the Right Worſhipful, Richard Brathwart, Eſq, Some of the Au- thor's Friends beſtowed commendatory Verſes on this Play, tho' it did not bear adting. | | The Woman- Hater Arraigned, a Comedy, and Charles the Firſt, a Tragedy, have been by Philips and Winſtanly, plac'd to this Au- thor, but without any Ground or Reaſon : for which ſee among the Anonymous Plays, hereafter mentioned, Thomas Naſh. A Contemporary with the former, tho' of a more eminent Cha- . rater; he was bred at Cambridge, and writ two Plays, alled, H 4 Dido, 104 Known AUTHORS. N Dido, Queenof, Carthage, a Tragedy, 4to. This was not wholly writ by him, for Marlow did ſomewhat affiſt therein. The Story from Virgils Aneids, lib. 1, oF 4- Summers Laſt Will and Teſtament, a Comedy, 4to. This Author has writ divers other ſmall Pieces, both in Verſe and Proſe ; but not that Play of See me, and ſee me wt, as alledged by Mr. Philips and Winſtanley. | Alexander Newile. A Young Gentleman, that at fxteen undertook to tranſlate the ® Oedipus of Seneca, and livd jn the Reign of Queen Eli- zabeth. ' Oedipus, a Tragedy, 4to. printed 1581. but was Engliſhed by him about twenty Years before, and 15 dedicated to Dr. Wotton, then one of the Queen's Majeſty's Privy Council. Robert Nevile. A Fellow of King's-College, Cambridge, in King Charles the Firſt's Time, and writ a Play, entituled, The Poor Scholar, a Comedy, 4to. 1562. written divers Years before printed, but I do not find it was ever ated, tho recom- mended by ſome Copies of Verſes by three other Poets of thatTime, Willan, Duke of Newcaſtle. R. Langbain has always, a good Word for Quality, he can ſee M no Blemiſh in that Perſon that has a Title, tho' he be fo ſharp ſighted in all thoſe of a lower Station ; and he is fo tranſport- ed on this worthy Nobleman, that he baulks theCuriofity of his Read- er, for ſome Account of his Life, to vent a clumſey Flattery. He was of the Illuſtrious and Ancient Family of Cavendiſh, a zealous Follower of the Royal Cauſe, and with it exil'd ; during his Aboad at Antwerp, he writ a Book of Horſemanſhip. He was an Encou- rager of Poetry, and a Poet himſelf, You may find his Life at large, written by his Dutcheſs. We haye four Comedies of his in Print ; as Os The Country Captain, a Comedy, 80. 1649. It was afted at the Black- Fryars, by his Majeſty's Servants, with good Applauſe ; and wually bound up with another of his, called, The Vartety. * The Humorous Lovers, a Comedy, 4to. 1677. Affed by his Roy- al Highneſs the Duke of 7ork's Servants, with great Applauſe, rhe as FI. FS oi. _ 1. a” '# whe * 4 T! Kwws AUTHORS. N of The Triumphant Widow ;, or, The Medley of Humours, a Comedy, - 4to. 1677. and afted by his Royal Highneſs the Duke of Tork's Ser- vants. This was eſteemed a good Play, and Mr. Shadwell had fo good an Opinion of it, that he borrowed a great part thereof, to compleat his Comedy, call'd, Bury-Fair. | The Variety, a Comedy, 89. 1649. preſented by his Majeſty's Servants at the Black. Fryars. Tho' the Duke's Name be not to this, or The Country Captain, which is uſually bound with it; yet, by Mr. Cartwright's Works, and others, we find Satisfaftion enoughto believe them his. | 2 Margaret, Dutcheſs of Newcaſtle. HE Honourable Conſort of the fore-mentioned Duke, whoſe Plays and Poetry have made ſome Noiſe in the World, and have at leaſt met with Mr. Langbain for an Admirer and Defender. I know not her Family, nor Time of Birth or Death. She has publiſhed fix and Twenty Plays, reckoning thoſe writ in two Parts, each of them for two. They are uſually bound in two Vo- lumes fol. 1662, and 1668, Their Names follow : The Apocriphal Ladies, a Comedy, fol. 2652, This Play is not divided into Ads, but has variety of Scenes, to the Number of three and twenty. Bell in Campo, a Tragedy, in two Parts, fol. 1662, In the laſt Part you may find ſeveral Copies of Verſes writ by his Grace, the Duke, her Husband. | | | The Blazing World, a Comedy, fol. 1668. This, tho ſtil'd a Comedy, " was never perfedted bY the Authoreſs. The Bridalls, a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Comical Haſh, a Comedy, fol. 1662. This Play was, by Accident, omitted in Mr. Langbain's Catalogue of Plays, and ign>- rantly by other Catalogue Publiſhers. The Convent of Pleaſure; a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Female Accademy, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Lady Contemplation, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Duke affiſted in ſome Scenes of both Parts. * Loves Adventures, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Duke writ alſo the Epithalamium and Song in the laſt Part. Matrimonial Troubles, in two Parts, the firſt Comedy, the laſt Tragedy, fol. 166% | Nature's Three Daughters (viz.) Beauty, Love, and Wit, in two parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. | ' The Preſence, a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Scenes deſigned for this Play, were fo nugerous, that the Dutcheſs thought 1t would lengthen it too much, therefore printed them ſeperately, gi pick SW 01 | 4 HDIK 106 _ Knwn AUTHORS. N Publick Woning, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Tivo Scenes and two Songs at the End of this Play, with divers Speeches therein, are writ by his Grace; the Duke of Newcaſtle. Religions, a Trazi-Comedy, fol, 1662. . Several Wits, a Comedy, Fol. 1662. | The Sociable Companions; or, The Female Wits, a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Unnatural Tragedy, fol. 1662, The Prologue and Epilogue of this Play, were writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcaſtle. Wits Cabal, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1652. The Epilogue of my firſt Part was alſo writ by his Grace, the Duke of News caſ Co | Youth's Glory, and Death's Banquet, in two Parts, a Tragedy, fol. 1652, Two Scenes, and the Speeches of the firſt Part, as alſo the-Songs and Verſes in the ſecond Part, were alſo writ by hy Grace, the Duke of Newcaſte. Befides theſe Dramatick Works, ſhe has writ divers other Pie- ces; as, The Life of the Duke of New-Caſile, 1667. alſo the ſame in Latin, 1668. Philoſophical Fancies, 1653. A Volume of Poems, 1553. Philoſophical Opinions, 1655. Nature's PiFure, drawn by Fan- cies Pencil, to the Life; at the End of which was hex own Life, 15 56, A Volume of Orations, 1662. Philoſophical -Letters, 1664+ Twof. hundred and eleven Sociable Letters, 1554. All which Volumes are printed in fol. Thomas Newton. NE of the Tranſlators of Seneca, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, he tranſlated one entirely, and club'd with Zaſper Heywood and Alexander Nevile in the reſt ;- but publiſh'd them all together, with a Dedication to Sir Thomas . Henage, then Trea- | ſurer of her Majefty's Chamber. Philips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, aſcribes one other Play to this Author, call'd, Tamberlatn the Great, winch 15 none of his, but Marlo's. Thebais, a Tragedy, 4to. Tranſlated from Seneca, as before inti- mated, it has no Chors, and is the ſhorteſt of all that Author's Tragedies. . Thomas Norton, and Tho. Sackwvile. FP ile Twin Authors liv'd in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, the latter was Lord Buckburſft, and in 1 7ac. created Earl of Dorſet. Mar. 13.- 1603, Ferre! ſe Known AUTHORS. O 107 Ferrex and Porrex, a Tragedy, 80. firſt printed 1665. but ſince by the Title of : Gorboduc, a Tragedy,4to. re-printed,1 590. This Play was preſent- ed by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple, before the 's moſt 1. | excellent Majeſty; and accounted an excellent Play, full of Moxa tity. Plot from our Britiſh Chronicles, Thomas Nuce. N Author likewiſe in Queen Zlizabeth's Time, who tranſlated y one of Seneca's Plays, called, Pgee / fol Ofavia, a Tragedy, 4to. Conſult Sueton. in vit. Claud. Tacitus, is 1ib, 12. C. 14+ Dion. Nero, Qfc. y O. Thomas Otway. of a good Family, and has a Nephew a Captain in the preſent Service. He was bred at Chrift-Church, in Czford, en and thence remoy'd to London, not going on with the Defign of perf being of the Clergy. Tho' at firſt he met with but little Encou- all} ragement here, but what a ſmall Allowance and Sallery from the 24-8 Play-houſe afforded (for he was firſt a _ but after he had writ m,j Don Carlos, he began to have a Name, having in that Play diſco- at, vered fome Touches of a Tallent, very few of our Engliſh Poets have been Maſter of, in moving the Paſſions, that are, and ought ti-f to be the Aim of all Tragick Poets, Terror and Pity; and in which "58 none equal'd him, in his two following Tragedies of The Orphan, and Venice Preſerv'd, He was a Jovial Companion, and a great Lo- ver of the Bottle, and Particularly of Punch ; the laſt thing he made before his Death, being an excellent Song on that Liquor. We have in Print of his, ten Plays; another more excellent than all of them, is, by ſome malicious or deſigning Perſon ſuppreſs'd, ter] either hereafter to fet up a Reputation to themſelves, by owning it; ſet} or to procure a Profit by ſelling it for their own. | Alcibiddes, a Tragedy, 4to. 1675. ated at the Duke's Theatre. The Dedication js to the Right Honourable,Charles,Earl of Middbe- req ſex. This was the firſt ProduQt of our Author. The Plot _ | | | _. © i E Place of Mr. Otway's Birth I know not ; but he was 108 Known AUTHORS. O. _ Corn, Nepos, and Plutarch, both in the Life of Alcibiades ; but he has varied from the Story, making A/cibiades a more ſcrupulous - Man than the Hiſtoggans do, who accuſe him of Adultery with the n of Aegis, Joc. The Atheiſt ; or the ſecond Part of The S»/dier's Fortune, a Come- dy, 4to. 1684. The Dedication is to the Lord Eland, Eldeſt Son to the Marqueſs of Hailifax. Plot, in Part, taken from The Inviſible Miſtreſs, in Scarron's Novels. The Cheats of Scapin, a Farce, gto. 1667, ated at the Duke's Theatre: It is printed with Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy after mentioned, writ by the ſame Author. 'T's tranſlated from Mol- tiere, whnch, originally is Terrences Phornnio. Cains Marius, his Hiſtoxy and Fall, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. ated at the Duke's Theatre ; and its Dedication to the Lord Viſcount Faxlkland. Part of it ſtollen from Shakeſpear's Romeo and Fultet, Plot from Plutarch, in his Life of Caius Marius, and Lucan's Phar- ſalia, Book 2. 7% © Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, a Tragedy, 4to. 1679. The Dedi- cation is to his Royal Highneſs, the Duke. This 1s the ſecond Play our Author ever writ, and gain'd him great Reputation. Plat from the. Novel fo called, 12m. you may alſo conſult the Spaniſh Chronicles in the Life of Philip the Second. Friendſhip in Faſhion, a Comedy, 4t1. 1678. ated at the Duke's Theatre, with good Applauſe. Its Dedication is to the Right Ho- nourable, Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. The Orphan ; or, 'The Unhappy Marriage, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. acted at the Duke's Theatre. Its Dedication to her Royal Highneſs, the Dutcheſs. This' is acccounted an excellent Play, and often ated of late Days. Plot from the Hiſtory of Brandon, p. 17. and The Engliſh. Adventures, a Novel. , The Soldiers Fortune, a Comedy, 4to. 1681. atted by their Roy- al Highnefles Servants, at the Duke's Theatre. The Lady Dunce, making her Husband Agent, is from Moliere Eſcoale de Maris, (oc. See alſo Boccace's Novels, Day 3. Nov. 3. and Scarron's Comical Romance, Pp. 227. | Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy, 4to. 1577. tq which 15 joined The Cheats of Scapin, ated at the Duke's Theatre ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Fohn, Earl of Rocheſter. Tranſlated from Monfieur Racine; it wants two As of the uſual Number. 'The Story of Titus and Berenice you may find in Suetonzws, Dront» ſas, Joſephus, toe. Venice Preſery4; or, A'Plot diſcovered ;, a Tragedy, 4to. 1688, acted at the Duke's Theatre ; dedicated to the Dutcheſs of Partſ- mouth, This is an incomparable Play, and often a&ed of late Days. The Plot is taken from a little Book, printed 89. being an Account of the Conſpiracy of the Spaniards againſt V/ _— , | zis oO>5 5B 4 þ£ 5 YF 7% &f © oo OE Rn ART REP. JP Qq © ED yarn Knows AUTHORS. O 109 This Author writ a ſmall Piece, called, The Poet's Complaint to his Muſe, 4to. 1680. alſo a Paſtoral on Ring Charles the Second, which 1s publiſh'd in Mrs. Behn's Lycidas, 8vo. p. 81. and ſince his Death, is printed a Tranſlation of his from the French, called, The Hiſtory of the Triumvirates, 8v0 1686. 7. Oldmixon. His Gentleman is of an ancient Family of 0/dmixon, near Bridge- water in Somerſetſhire. As for the particulars of his Life, I can ſay little of 'them, only that he has given the World a Pa- ſtoral, called, Amintas, ated at the Theatre Royal. The Title Page lets 'us know, that it is taken from the Aminta of Taſſo, and the Pre- face informs us of the ill Succeſs it met with on the Stage : which indecd cannot be attributed to the Engliſh Author's Performance, which isas well as the Origingl wou'd allow ; but, with Submiſſion to our Author's better Judgment, I muſt needs ſay, that Paſtoral it ſelf, tho* never ſo well writ, is not a Subje@ fit for ſo long an Entertainment as that of the Stage. This the Ancients very well knew, and therefore they wiſely confin'd it to a narrower Compaſs, as is evident from the 71dyllia of Theocritus, and the Bucolics of Virgil : For the ſedater Paſfions (which our Author himſelf attri- butes to a Shepherd's Life) of theſe Innocent People repreſented in aPaſtoral, cannot afford fo lively Pleaſure to an Audience, as may ballance the Length of their Attention, that muſt of neceſſity _ languid, and tyr'd, with ſo very calm an Emotion, which 1s [l kept ative by the more violent Paſſions, proper for Tragedye This extending of the ancient Piſtoral to ſo unreaſonable a length was, as well as Farce, an Italian Invention, and not one jot the better, becauſe cover'd with'ſo great a Name as Taſſo's. I cou'd neyer find that Authority wou'd filence the Sentiments of Nature and Reaſon; and 7aſſo, that has been guilty of Abſurdeties enough in his Epic Poem, muſt not be ſuppos'd infallible in his Paſtoral. Affter all, I am of Opinion, that it is but a weak Refuge to fly to the Opinion or Taſte of a Foreign Nation, from the Judgment of our own; for I'm ſatisfy'd that there are not fewer Men of Sence,in Ing/and,and a great many more of Learning,than 7taly affords us.A4- mnta might pleaſe there, but if we judge by our Taſte of Poetry, and with ours by the Ancients, it pleas'd without Reaſon, and on- ly perhaps for the Novelty, or, which is yet moſt likely, becauſe it was ſung in Italy, that Muſical Nation minding-more the Perfor- mance of the Compoſer, than Poet. All that can be faid for our Author 45, that in an ill Choice, he has equal'd his Original, and in ſome Places improy'd it. _ | P. oha Knwn AUTHORS. P P John Palſgrave. 'T' I'S Author was a Batchelor of Divinity, and Chaplain to King Henry the Eighth. He publiſhed one Play under the Title of Acolaſtus, a Comedy, 4to. 1540. .dedicated to King Henry the Eighth; tranſlated from the Latin Play of the fame Name, writ by Guil. Fullonivs, and printed in Old Engliſh Charafter. *Tis thg Parable of the Prodigal Son. a << @ XXÞ\”-c — Fen Peaps. Scholar of Eaton School, who at ſeventen, writ a Play, called, Love in its Extaſy, a Paſtoral, 4to. 1649. but written ma- my Years before 'twas printed. : George Peel. a c y Wa Author was Maſter of Arts in Chriſft-Church-College, Oxan, * in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, writ two Plays. p David and Bethſhabe, their Love, with the Tragedy of Abſalom, 4tufj 1599. This Play, as the Title ſays, was divers times play'd ay ;, the Stage. Plot from Holy Scripture. By Edward the firſt, a Hiſtory 4to. 1593. This King was firnamdl j; Long-Shank s, and the Play gives an Account of his return from the Holy Land, with the Life of Kewellin, Rebel in Wales ; it alſo re lates the Story of Queen Eleanor's finking by Chatring-Croſs, and rifing again at Queen-Hithe, before called Potters- Hithe. SeeGra zon, Martin, Hollingſhead, Stow, and other Engliſh Chronrcles. The Tragedy of Alphonſus , Emperor of Germany, by miſtaks plac'd to him, in ſome Catalogues, is not his, but Chapman's. Mrs. Catharine Philips. COHE waz, if I miſtake not, born in Brecknock-ſhire, in Wales, Contemporary of Cowley, and much praiſed by nm. I m confeſs, I cannot but prefer Mrs. Behn infinitely before her j ces Known AUTHORS. P 20T ſeems to be a very cold Writer, while you may find in Aphre | both Fire and Eaſineſs, which Mrs. Philips wanted. She dy'd of the Small Pox, June, 22. 1664. Aged 31. Horace, a Tragedy, Fol. 1678. Tranſlated from the French of Corneille. This Authreſs leaving the Play unfiniſh'd at her Death, Sir John Denham compleated it, by adding the fifth AR; after which, 1t was ated at Court by Perſons of Quality. Plot from, Livy, lib. 1. c. 2. L. Florus, fc. | Pompey, a Tragedy, fol. 1678. afted at the Duke's Theatre, ' | with great Applauſe. There was uſually at the End ated a Farce of Sir William Davenant's, which you may find' in his Play-Houſe to be Lett. The Earl of Orrery, and Counteſs of CorÞþ, were the Chief Inſtruments of bringing this Play in Engliſh, to light. Tranſla- ted alſo from Corne:lle, and Plot from Lacan's Pharſalps. Mrs. Mary Pix. His is a Lady yet living, and in this Poetick Age, when all Sex- es and _ venture on the Sock or Buskins, ſhe has boldly -F given us an Eſſay of her Talent in both, and not without Succeſs, tho' with little Profit to her ſelf. Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks, a Tragedy, ated at. ghe Theatre Royal, 1596. 4to. and dedicated to Richard Min- chal, of Burton, Eſq; This Play, 1f it want the Harmony of Num- bers, and the Sublimity of Expreffion, has yet a Quality, that at leaſt ballances that Defe&, I mean the Paſſions ; for the Diſtreſs of Morena never fail'd to bring Tears into the Eyes of the Audience ; which few Plays, 1f any fince Otway's, have done ; and yet, which s the true End of Tragedy. She informs us, that by miſtake it was called Ibrahim the Thirteenth, when it ſhould have been called, 1brg- bim the Twelfth, the Story you may find- in Sir Paul Ricaut's Con- tinuation of the Turkiſh Hiſtory. The Inn:icent Miſtreſs, a Comedy, afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants, 1697. 4to. The Prologue and Epilogue writ by Mr. Motteux. This 1s a di- verting Play; and met with good Succeſs, tho' ated in the hot Sea- ſon of the Year, our Poetreſs has endeavoured to imitate the Eati- neſs and Way of the Author of Vertue in Danger, and The Prowk'd Wife. She has borrowed ſome Incidents from other Plays ; as Mrs. Beauclair's carrying of Mrs. Flywife from Sir Francis Wildlove, frotn the Vertuous Wife doing the ſame to her Husband's Miſtreſs. Then the Scene in the Park betwixt Sir Francis and her in her Mash, is a. kind of Copy in young Bellair, and Harriots in Sir Fopling. - Miſs 41 Peggy ſeems a Copy of Miſs Hoyden, as Chattal is of ſeveral of the *| parts writteg of late for Mr. Dogget. But notwithſtanding theſe l | | Imitatigns, k ALES a Ad 112 Known AUTHORS. Þ Imitations, which ever have been allowed in Poets,the Play has its peculiar Merit; and as a Lady carried the Prize of Poetry in France this Year, fſo.1n Juſtice, they are like to dg in England ; tho' indeed we uſe them more barbarouſly, ' and defraud them both of their Fame and Profit. The Spaniſh Wives, a Farce, ated at the Theatre in Dorſet-Gar- dens, by his Majeſty's Servants, 16596. and dedicated to the Ho- nourable Collonel Tipping, of Whitfield. This Farce had the good Fortune to pleaſe, and it muſt be own'd, there are two or three pleaſant Turns in it. For the Plot conſult the Novel of the Pilgrim. Samuel Pordage, Eſq; | Bm if not ſtill, a Member of Lincolns-Inn, and Author of two Plays, call'd, Herod and Mariamne, a Tragedy, 4to. 1673. ated at the Duke's Theatre, dedicated to the Dutcheſs of A4/bermarle. A Play writ many Years before it was prefer'd to the Stage, where it was re- ceiv'd with great Satisfaftion. Plot from Joſeph. Hiſt. Philo Fuds- #5, and Cleopatra, a Romance, in the Story of Tyridates. - ;- Siege of Babylon, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1678. dedicated to her Royal Highneſs the Dutcheſs of Zork, Plot from the aforeſaid Ro- mance of Cleopatra. Henry Porter. & of an Hiſtorical Play, in Queen Elizabeth's Rei calld Two Angry Women of Abingdon, with the humourous Mirth of Di Coomes, and Nicholas Proverbs, two Serving-men, a Comedy, 4 1599. ated by the Right Honourable, the Earl of Nottingh Lord High Admiral's Servants. \ Thomas Porter. IF, + hi w_ wn yi £ cw.” Fs Gentleman liv'd in the Time of the two Charles's, and writ, 1664. a Play, calld. The Carnival, a Comedy, 4to. 1664- atted at the Theatre Roy al, by his Majeſty's Servants. TheVillain, a Comedy, 4to. 16 . acted at the Duke's Theatre. This Playis now ſometimes ated, Mr. Sandford having gain'd great Reputation by playing the part of Malignii. : : Ger, known AUTHORS. ÞP IT; George Powell. OQ ON of Mr. Powell, an ancient Player, lately dead; he is more eminent tor playing than writing, tho' there are ſome Plays under his Name ; as, | Alphonſo King of Naples, a Tragedy, 4to. 1691, Aded at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, and dedicated to her Grace the Dutcheſs of Ormond, The Prologue is written by 7o. Haynes, and Epilogue by Mr. Durfey. | ' Brutus of Alba; or, Auguſtus's Triumph, a new Opera, ated at the Theatre in Dorſet Garden, by his Majeſty's Servants, 16590, 4to. and dedicated by . Sam. Briſcoe, Bookſeller to George Powel, and Fohn Verbruggen. This Play has not ſo much as the whole Title new, for Brutzs of Alba is a Play of Mr. Tate's, and all the Deſign ' taken out of ſeveral old. Plays. The treacherous Brother, a Tragedy, 4to. 1690. afted by their Majeſties Servants, at the Thedtre Royal, and dedicated to the Pa- tentees and Sharers of their Majeſties Theatre. Plot from The Wall-Flower, a Romance, fol. writ by Dr: Baily, formerly Preſident of St. Fohn's, Oxon. | A very good Wife, a Comedy, 4to. 1695. ated by their Maje- ſties Servatits, at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the honoar- ed Alexander Popham, Eſq; The Prologue is writ by Mr. Congreve. This Play is taken whole Pages together out of Brome. Thomas Preſton, Know no more of this Author, than that he has writ one Play; called, Cambyſes, King of Perſia, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. a very ancient Play with an odd; long Title, which rans thus, (wviz.) A lamenta- ble Tragedy, mixt full of pleaſant Mirth ; containing the Life of Cambyſes, King of Perſia, from the beginning of his Kingdom un- to his Death ; his one good Deed of Execution, after the man Wicked Deeds, and Tyrannouws Murders committed by and tht him: and laſt of all, his odiozs Death, by God's Fuftice appointed. Done in ſuch Order as followeth. London, Printed by ohh Alde. It is writ in old faſhion'd Metre, and has no Date. Plot from Here- dots and Tuſt ins 114 Known AUTHORS. Q Edmund Preſtwich. F whom I know no more, than that 'tis ſaid, he has writ a Play, called, . 4 Hippolitus, a Tragedy, 8v0. 1641. A Play, which Mr. Langbain ſays, he never ſaw; the Author's Name is to it, who took the Plot from that of Seneca, orthe Phadra of Euripides. The Hefors, another Play, has been by ſome Catalogues attribu- ted to this Author; but I cannot learn for any Reaſon it ſhould be his, ſo you find itplaced among the Anonymous Plays. Q Francis BQuarles. -z E was born at Stewards, a Seat in Rumferd, in the Pariſh H of Horn-Church, Eſſex, his Father was James Quarles, Clerk of the Green Cloth, and Purveyor to Quen- Elizabeth. He ſtudied firſt at Chrift-Church, Cambridge, then at Lincolns-Inn; was Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia, Secretary to Biſhop Uſher, and Cronologer to the City of London. He ſuffered Perſe- cution by the Government then in being, for a Book called, The Loyal Convert.. The Troubles of Ireland brought him to die at Home, in the Two and Fiftieth Year of his Age, Sept. 8. 1644 He had Eighteen Children by one Wife,. and lies buried in St. Foſter's Church, London. He writ one Play, called, The Virgin Widow, a Comedy, '4to. 1649. He writ divers other Pieces, as a Book of Emblems, which ha born many Editions ; a Book of Poems, wherein is the Hiſtory of Sampſon, Fonah, Eſther, and Fob Militant ; Argalus and Parthenia; Enchiridion of Meditations, Drvine and Moral; Pentalogia, or, Th Nuinteſſence of Meditation ; The Loyal Convert, with ſome others. Kes-29n AUTHORS. R 115 R Thomas Randolph. [Pur in Northamptonſhire gave Birth, Weſtminſter School, and Trinity Colledge, Cambridge, (where he was Fellow) a learned Education to this Poet. We was an adopted Son of Ben. Fohnſon ; and dyed Young, tho' his exa&t Age I know hot ; he writ theſe following Plays. Amintas ; or, The Impoſſible Dowry, a Paſtoral, 8v0. 1688. This was ated before the King and Queen at White-Hall. - Ariftippus ; or, The Fovial Philoſopher, a Tragi-Comedy, 8w. 15388, to which 1s added, The Conceited Pedlar. This was preſent- ed 1n a private Shew. | Hey for Honeſtly, Down with Knavery, a Comedy, 4to. 1651. Tranſlated from Ariftophanes's Plautus. . This was ſince augmented and publiſhed in 8. by another Hand, (viz.) F. 7. _ The Jealous Lovers, a Comedy, 8v9. 1668. This was preſented totheir Majeſties at Cambridge, by the Students of Trinity-Colledge, and has been accounted the beſt of his Plays, it was reviſed by the Author in his Life-time, and fince reviv'd on the Stage, 1682. It is dedicated to Dr. Comber, Dean of Carliſle. . The Muſes Looking-G!ajs, a Comedy, 80. 168t. before called, The Entertainment. Sir Aſton Cockain, and one Mr. Rich, formerly < © oma Colledge, Oxon, have given great Commendation of 1s Play. The Af firſt and two Iaſt of theſe Plays are printed at Oxon with his Poems. Edward Ravenſcroft. . Gefitleman of an Ancient Family, and tho' defign'd for the - A Law, and once a Member of the Middle Temple, was 677A uit the rugged Paths of Bufineſs for Poetry, in which he has performed with various Succeſs. So omitting Mr. Langhain's Per- al RefleQions, which favour ſtrongly of the Univerſity, I ſhall proceed to an Account of the Plays. ol __ | The Anatomiſt ; of, The Sham Do#tor, a Comedy, 4to. 1597. aKed at the Duke's Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Im-Fields, and de- dicated to Thomas Ravenfcroft, Eſq; late High-Sheriff of Flintſhire. This Play met with extraordinary Succeſs having the Advantage o - < —— ——__— __—©_—_—_—_ _ ——_—————— 118 Known AUTHORS. R Nathaniel Richards. N Author in the time of King Charles the Firſt, and publiſhed A onePlay about the ry of the Civil Wars, called, Meſſalina, the Roman Empreſs, her Tragedy, 8vo. 1640. Thy was atted divers times by the Company of his Majeſty's Revels, with great Applauſe ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Fobn Cary, Viſcount Rochford. Plot from Suetonins, Claudtan, Pliny, Juvenal, and Plutarch. | Wilkanm Rider. His Author was Maſter of Arts, and writ one Play, called, The Twins, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1655. atted at the pri vate Houſe in Salisbury-Court, with general Applauſe. | William Rowley, vide Webſter, &Cc. HE ſtudied once at Pembrook-Hall, Cambridge, and was in writing Affociate with Shakeſpear, Fletcher, Maſſinger, Hey- wood, (5c. 30Y All's loſt by Luſt, a Tragedy, 4to. 1633. atted at the Phenix in Drury-Lane, by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants. Plot, Lipſi: Monita, ; Lib. 1. Cap. 5. &c. Turquet, Lib. 5. Cap. 30. Unfortunate Lt- vers, Nov. 3. A Match at Midnight, a pleaſant Comedy, 4to. 1633. Plot of Bloodhound's being hid under the Widow's Bed, taken "oi an old Story, you may alſo find in The Engliſh Rogue, part 4. chap. 19. A Shoemaker's, a Gentleman, a Comedy, 4to. 1638. ſtyled, A merry and Pleafant Comedy, as it has been ſundry times ated at the Red Bull. Plot from The Hiſtory of the Gentle Craft, 4to. A new Wonder, a Woman never vext, a . Comedy, 1632. The Widow's finding her Wedding Ring in a Fiſhes Belly, founded of the Story of Polycrates, in Thaita of Herodotus. | The Spaniſh Gipſies, a Comedy, 4to. See Middleton, whooin- e& with him in this. [The Witch of Edmonton, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1658. ated by the Prince's Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury-Lane, as alſo once at Court, with great Applauſe. | Samuel} - Rnoun AUTHORS. R 119 Samuel Rowley. d His Author writes himſelf Servant to the Prince of Wales,which by the Date of his Play muſt be Charles IT. x 15 The Noble Spaniſh Soldter ;, or, A Contratt broken juſtly revenged, If 4 Tragedy, 4to.. 1634+ This Play was printed after the Author's Tr | c n, When you ſee me, you know me, or the famous Chronical Hiſtory = of Henry VILE. with the Birthand vertuous Life of Edward, Prince of Wales, 4to. 1632. This was play'd by the Prince of Wales's Servants. Plot from Engliſh Chronicles ; ſee alſo the Life of Kmg Herry VIII. by the Lord Herbert, of Cherbury. n Toſeph Ritter. A Dependant of the Family of the Lord Dorſet,;and. Servant A to his Son, and at his Command, tranſlated the Cid of Cor- neille, | The Cid, a Tragi-Comedy, 80. 1637. ated before their Maje- ny flies at Court, and at the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane, by their Maje- ”-# tics Servants; dedicated to Edward, Earl of Dorſet, whoſe Son put his Hand to ſome part of the Tranſlation from CorneiUle. T1 The Cid, Part 1I. a Tragi-comedy, $w. 1640. dedicated to the af Lady Theophila Cook, This part was alſo tranſlated from Corneille, oF by our Author, at the Command of his Majeſty. Theſe Plays are generally bound together, and are founded on Hiſtory ; ſee Rode- ol ricde Tolede, and Mariana, (5c. | The Shepherds Holiday, a Paſtoral Tragi-Comedy, 8w. 1635. ated before their Majeſties atWhite-Hall, by the Queen's Servants. This is written in Blank Verſe, and attributed to our Author by at Kirkman, in his former Catalogues, though there is no more than 7. R. affixed to the Title Page. Thomas Rymer. A Gentleman born in the North of England, the Connery of his Family, but I cannot be poſitive to the County ; of which U- miverfity he was I know not, but his firſt Applications in this Town were to the Law in Grays-Inn. Howeyer, his Learning and Love to Poetry led him to a Conſideration of thoſe Authors, which ſet him up for a Critic ; and it muſt be confeſs'd, that he has me- et} - rited ſome Praiſe in his Preface to Rs and the firſt part - this | 4 '_YiEeW * 120 Rnown AUTHORS. 5 View of the Tragedies of the laſt Age; tho'.I cannot ſo much as ce with thoſe that allow moft of the Errors he has found in Sha oſpear, Juſt; for I'm confident it may be made Evident, that not the fifth part have _ He, ſince the Death of Mr. Shadwell, has the Place of Hiſtoriographer to his Majeſty, for which Office 'tis certain his Learning very well qualifies him. Edgar; or, The Engliſh Monarch, an Heroick Tragedy , 4to. 1678. dedicated to King Charles the Second. 'Mr. Ravenſcroſt hath writ a Play on the ſame Subje&, publiſhed the Year before this. For the Plot, conſult W. Malmsbury, H. H. Huntingdon, Rog. Hoveden, Pol. Virgil, and other Engliſh Chronicles : ſee alſo The Annals of Love, 8vs. | S Thomas Sackvile, ſee Norton. Thomas St. Serf. T' E Author of one PI, called, Tarugo's Wiles; or, The Coffee- Houſe, a Comedy, 4to. 1668. ated at the Duke of 7ork's Theatre; dedicated to the Right Ho- nourable, George, Marqueſs of Huntley. One part of this Play is built on No Puedeſer; or, It cannot be, a Spaniſh Play : and another part on Sir Courtly Nice, written by Mr. Crown. | | Wiltiam Sampſon. A Retainer of Sir Henry Willoughby's Family of Richley in Derhby- _* ſhire, in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt. He writ one Play and part of another. | The Vow-breaker; or, The Fair Maid of Clifton, in Nottirgham- ſhire ; a Tragedy, 4to. 1633. afted by ſeveral Companies with great Applauſe ; and dedicated to Mrs. Ann Willoughby, Daughter to Sir Henry, aforeſaid. Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, 4to. See Markham, with whom he joined in this, co George % dt a> a7 a - as i A Aww. kia. Ma kk ad fo > co. Pa Knows AUTHORS. 5 I2r George Sandys, Eiq; Th Foot was Son - | rag: ARC Ig. beep at 1 ops-Thorp, in Tork-ſhire, 1577. was enter'd 1n St. Mary-Heall, Oxon, - Eleven Years old; began his Travels about the World 1610. the Year of the Murder of Henry IV. of France. among his Poetical Works he tranſlated a Latin Play of Hugo Grotivs, entitu- led, Chriſt's Paſſion. He died at Boxley-Abby, 1n Kent, being his Nephew Mr. W:at's Seat, and buried in the Chancel of that Church, March 7. 1543. Chriſt's Paſſion, a Tragedy, 80. 1640. dedicated to King Charles the Firſt. Tranſlated from the Latin of Hugo Grotrus, with An- notations. It was reprinted with Sculptures, 8v9. 1688. | This Author alſo tranſlated Owid's Metamorphoſis, publiſhed like- ' wiſe with Sculptures, Fol. 1632. Charles Saunders. Fs young Gentleman writ a Play, whilſt a King's Scholar, called Tamberlain the reat, a Tragedy, 4to. 1681. ated by his Ma- jelty's Servants at the Theatre Royal, as alſo before the King at Oxon. This Play was highly commended by Mr. Zanks, and other Poets. Plot from Afleria and Tamerlane, a Novel, 8we. Thomas Scot. AN Author yet living, he was a Weflminſter Scholar, and lately a * Student in Cambridge, who has given the Town two new in Appearance, at leaſt two new Titles, the firſt in Order, and writing, is, The Mock Marriage, a Comedy, 4to. ated 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 ; buthe 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 - Succeſs, for the Seaſon of the Year, conſidering 1t the firſt ' Effay of a young Writer, unacquainted with the Town. = Ch 132 , Rnown AUTHORS. S The Unhappy Kindneſs ; or, 4 Fruitleſs Revenge, a Tragedy; 4to, ated at the Theatre Royal, 1696. This, Play 1s only the Wife for a Month of Fletcher's alter'd, tho' he has thought fit to retain its greateſt Faults, in the CharaGter 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 Mannets. Elkanah Settle. AN Author now living, who was ſome time at Trinity-Colledge, Oxon ; but coming to London, and having been there poflefſed with Poetry, ſpent a very good Fortune, and then ſtuck to the Stage, winch yet would not ſtick to him ; his fickleneſs in po- litical Principles (having once been an aQtive Man for the Whigg- Party) loft him too his Friends on the other Side, without any Re» ward for his Deſertion, Whatever his Plays are (which if com- par d with the beſt of our preſent Writers, I mean ſome of them, tar excel 'em) in the Opinion of his Enemies, he has perform'd in me, with no lefs applauſe than Merit; in his Diſpute with Mr. Dryden, he had evidently the better of him; tho", being a modeſt Man, he ſuffer'd himlcit to be rnn down by his Antago- nit in his Intereſt 1a the Town, The Ambitious Slave; or, A Generous Revenge, a Tragedy ated at the Tacatre Royal, 4to. 1534. and dedicated to the Honoured 7Zobn Bright, Efq, which Dedication the Auther begins with the xif Fortune of the Pliy. The Scene he has plac'd in Perſia, from whence I find he 15 ſcurce to be got. Cambyj*s, King of Perſia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1675. atted at the Duke's Theatre; dedicated to the Illuſtrious Princeſs Ann, Dutcheſs of Monmouth. This Pliy fold two Impreffions before this time of printing, and is in Heoroick Verſe. Plot, -Zuftin, Lib. 1, Cap. 9. Amianus Marcellinus, Lib. 23. Herodotus, &c. | The Conqueſt of China by the Tartars, a Tragedy, 410. 1676. ated at the Duke's Fheatre ; and dedicated to the Lord Caſtle-Ri- f.nz. This Play is founded on Hiſtory, and writ in Heroick Verſe. Plat, Meylin's Coſmography, Book 3- Conqueſt of China by Signior Palafax, Enxsliſhed, 8v2. Lewy de Guſman, and Gonzales de Men- 40724 Diſtreſſed Innocence ; or, The Princeſs of Perſia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1591. afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable John, Lord Cufts, Baron of Gowram. | This . oe as ACWwu Known AUTHORS. S$ 123 This Play our Author writ after ten Years Silence, and pays his publick Acknowledgment to Mr. Betterton, for his ſeveral ex- traordinary hints to the heightning of its beſt Characters, and how he was indebted to Mr. Montfort for the laſt Scene thereof, who alſo writ the Epilogue. The Story of Hormidas and Cleomirg built on true Hiſtory. The Empreſs of Morocco, a Tragedy, 4to. 1673. writ in Hero- ick Verſe, with Sculptures ; ated at the Duke's Theatre ; and de- dicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Earl of Norwich, and Earl Marſhal of England, This Play was writ againſt by Mr. Dry- den, Mr.Shadwell,and Mr.Crown, and called, Notes and Obſervations on the Empreſs of Morocco; or, Some few Erratas to be printed in- . ſtead of the Sculptures, with the ſecond Edition of that Play. 4to, 1674. Which Pamphlet was anſwered by another. Fatal Love ; or, The forc'd Inconſtancy, a Trazedy, 4to. 1680, acted at the Theatre Royal z and dedicated to Sir Rob. Owen. Plot from Achilles Tatius's Clitophon and Lucippe, a Romance, Book 5. which Romance is likewiſe in Engliſh, printed 80. The Female Prelate ; or, The Hiſtory of the Life and Death of Pope Foan, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. ated at the Theatre Royal ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of. Shaft sbury. Plot from Platina's Lives of the Popes, Engliſhed by Sir Paul Ri- caut, and the Life and Death of Pope Joan, 8v0. 1675. wherein is a Liſt of ſuch Authors who affirm, and others whodeny the Truth of this Story. There 1s alſo another ſmall Book of the Life ard Death of Pope Joan, writ Dialogue-wiſe, by one Mr. Cook , formerly Fellow of Univerſity-Colledge, Oxon. which Piece was fo much va- lued then, that 'twas tranſlated into French by 7. de [a Mon- taign. " The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gayland; a Tragedy, 4to. 1682. a&ted at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Lady | Henrietta Wentworth, Baroneſs of Nettleſted. Ibrahim, the Illuſtriouws Baſſa; a Tragedy, 4to. 1677. atted at Duke's Theatre ; and dedicated to the Dutcheſs of 4{bermarle; it is writ in Heroick Verſe. Plot from The 1/uſiriows Baſſa, a Ro- mance, Fol. | Love and Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. 1675. afted at the Duke's Theatre ; and dedicated to the Duke of Newcaſtle. A great part of this Play taken from another, called, Fatal! Contra, writ by Mr. Hemmings, formerly-of the Univerlity of Oxon. Paſtor Fido; or, The Faithful Shepherd, a Paſtoral, qto. 1677. ated at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the Lady Elizabeth Delaval. It was firſt tranſlated by Sir Richard Fanſhaw, from the Italian of Guarini, which Tranſlation our Author has endeavoured . to unprove. The 124 Known AUTHORS. $ The World in the Moon, an Opera, 4to. 1698. as it is performed at the Theatre in Dorſet-Garden, by his Majeſty's Servants ; and de- dicatedto Chriflopher Roth, Eſq; This is ſomething unuſual, being a comicalJOpera. I think great part of the Run betwixt Palmerin, Worthy, Sir,Dotterel, and Jacintha, pleaſant enough, tho' the fir and late Eſſay of our Author in the Soc. Tho. Shadwell, Eſq; Gentleman of a good Family in the County of Norfolk; was well received by the Noblemen of Wit, eſpecially the preſent Earl of Dorſet, the late Duke of Newcaſtle, fc. he was on the Revolution made Poet Laureat, which place he held till his Death, which happened about three or four Years fince, His Co- medies, at leaſt ſome of them, ſhew him to underſtand Humour; and 4tf he cou'd have drawn the Character of a Man of Wir, as well as that of a Coxcomb, there wou'd have been nothing want- ing to the Perfe&ion of his Dramatick Fables. But to his Plays 1n their Order, being Seventeen in Number, (v7z.) The Amorous Bigotte, with the Second part of Teague O Drvelly, a Comedy 4to. 1650. ated by their Majſties Servants ; and dedi- cated to the Right Honourable Charles, then Earl, now Duke of Shrewsbury. Bury Fair, a Comedy, 4to. 1689. ated by his Majeſty's Ser- vants ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl-of Dor- ſet and Middleſex, then Lord Chamberlain of his Majeſty's Hoſhoid. Part of this Play taken from the Duke of Newcaftle's Triumphant Widow, and part from Molliere's Precieuſes Ridicules. . Efgfom Wells, a Comedy, 4to.. 1676. aRed at the Duke's Theatre; and dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Newcaſtle. 'Tis a pleaſant Commendation of Mr. Langbain, ( whoſe m2: Mr. Shadwell 1s) to bring Monſieur St, Erveremont's Praiſe of it who cannot ſpeak a Word of Engliſh, and by Conſequence none of the beſt Judges of the Goodneſs of our Engliſh Plays, which require a Maſtery of our Tongue. The Humouriſts, a Comedy, 4to. 1671. ated by his Royal High- nefs's Servants; and dedicated to the moſt Illuſtrious Margaret, Dutcheſs of Newcaſtle. This Play (tho' the Deſign of it was good) met with many Enemies at its firſt appearance on the Stage. The Lancallite Witches, and Teague O Divelly, the Iriſh Prieſt ; a Comedy, gto. 1682. ated at the Duke's Theatre. Heywood and Brome have writ on the ſame Subje, but not ſo diverting. The Liberte, a Comedy, 4to. 1676. a&ted by his Royal High- neſſes Servants; and dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Newcaſite. This 1s accgunted one of his beſt Plays, and is diyerting enough. | Plot Knows AUTHORS. S - 12g Plot from Mollzere's L'Atbee Foudroye, (ff H. Atheiflo Fulmi- nato. The Miſer, a Comedy, 4to. 1672. atted by his Majeſty's Servants, at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Buckhurſt, now Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. Plot from Molliteres L'avaree. Pſyche, an Opera, 4to. 1575. atted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to his Grace James, Duke of Monmouth. This being the firſt Play he writ in Rhime, met with divers Enemies. Our Author made uſe of the French Pſyche, and of Apuleius's Aſinus Au- rews, which is alſo in Engliſh, 4tv. 1639. The Royal Shepherdeſs, a Tragi-Comedy. 4to. 1669. ated by his Highneſs the Duke of Zork's Servants. This Play is taken from The Reward of Vertue, writ by Mr. Fountain. The Scowrers, a Comedy, 4to.. 1691. ated by their Majeſties Servants; and dedicated by his Widow, to the late Queen, of ever bleſſed Memory. I think in this Comedy there is a great deal of noiſy Humour, and that not unpleaſant. The Characters of Eugenia, and Clara are Copies of Sir George Etheridge, at leaſt that of Eugenia is of Harriot, and fo 1s Sir William Rant, a faint one of Dorimant, 'and Sir Frederic Frolick. The Squire of Alſatia, a Comedy, 4to. 1688. adted by their Ma- jeſties Servants ; and dedicated to the Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. ie Flay, which met with good Succeſs, is founded on Terence's. Aaelphr. | The ſullen Lovers; or, The Impertinents, a Comedy, 4to. 1670. and dedicated to his Grace William, Duke of Newcaſtls. Plot from Molliere's Les, Facheaux. Timon of Athens ; or, The Man-hater,' a Tragedy, 4to. 1678. ated at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the late Duke of Buckingham, Moſt part of this Play is Shakeſpear's ; nay, and the Criticks ſay, all of it that is good for any thing. The True Widiw, a Comedy, 4to. 1679. atted at the Duke's The- atre, and dedicated to Sir Charles Sidley. This Play has not ap- peared very often on the Stage, tho' Mr. Langbain commends the Charaters and Humours to be as well drawn as any of this Ape. he Volunteers ; or, The Stock-Jobbers, a Comedy, 4to. 1693. and dedicated by his Widow to the Queen. Sir Timothy Caſtrils growing Valiant on his Rencounter with Nickum, 1s very like the Little French Lawyer of Fletcher ; only Sir Timothy preſerves his Va- Tour to the end of the Play ; tho' we have not the Experiment whether the fight of his Blood would not have had the ſame Effe&t on him. The 326 Known AUTHORS. $ | The Woman Captain, a Comedy, 4to. 1680. ated at the Duke's Theatre, by his Royal Highnelſs's Servants ; and dedicated to Hen- YY, Lord Ogle, Son to the Duke of Newcaſtle. VWiillian Shakeſpear. H* was born and buried in Stratford upon 4vn, in Warwick- ſhire. T have beentold that he writ the Scene of the Ghoſt in Hamlet, at his Houſe which bordered on the Charnel-Houſe and Ghurch-Yard.. He was both Player and Poet; but the greateſt Po- et that ever trod the Stage, I am of Opinion, in ſpight of Mr. Zoonjen, and others from him, that though —— the former, ſo well as perfeftly to be Maſter of their Hiſtories, for inall his Roman CharaGQters he has nicely followed Hiſtory, and you find his Brutus, his Caſſizs, his Anthony, and his Ceſar, his Corio- lame, gyc. juſt as the Hiſtorians of thofe times deſcribe 'em. He died on the 23d of April, 1616. and is buried with his Wife and Daughter in Stratford-Church afore-ſaid, under a Monument on which 1s a Statue leaning on a Cuſhion, and this Infcription : Ingenio Pylum, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, Terra tegit, Populus merit, Olympus habet. Stay, Paſſenger, why doſt thou go ſo faſt 2? | Read, if thou cant, whom envieus Death has plac'd W:thin this. Manument, Shakeſpear, with whom Nuick Nature died, whoſe Name doth deck the Tomb Far more than'coſt, fince all that he hath writ Leaves living Art, but Page, to ſerve big Wit. Obut An. Dom. 1616. At. 53. Die 23. Apr. Near the Wall on a plain Stone, which covers him, is this | Epitaph : Gnod Friend, for Feſuus Sake forbear To dig the Duſt encloſed here. Bleſt be the Man that ſpares theſe Stones, And curſt be he that moves my Bones. All's well that ends well, a Comedy. Plot from Boccace's Novels, Day 3. Nov. 9. Juliet of Narbona, &c. | | Anthony and Cleopatra, a Tragedy, fol. Plot from Plutarch in vi- ta Antoni. | e might not that Critic in Latin and Greek as Ben; yet that he underſtood As FF... wed OO Knows AUTHORS. $S 127 As you like it, a Comedy, Fpl. . | The Birth of Merlin; or, The Child has toſt. bis Father, a Tra- pi-Comedy, 4to.- 1662. Mr. Rowley join'd with our Author in this _y, rig, Ethelv:ord, G. Monmouth, Bede, PolidorggVirgit, Stow, Speed, (9c . A Comedy of Errors, a Comedy, fol, The Ground from Plautws, Amphitruo, and Menechmi. | Coriolanus, a Tragedy, fol. Plot from Plutarch's Life of Coriol a+ ws, from Livy's Hiſtory, Dioniſuus Hallicarnaſſeus, toc. Cromwell, (Thomas, Lord) his Life and Death, a Hiſtory, fol. and 4to. Plot from Fox's Martyrology, Fuller's Church 7 Dr. Bur- net's Hiſt. Reformation, Wanly's Hiſt. of Man. Hacwell's Apology, and Lloyd's Engliſh Wort hies. Cymbeline, his Tragedy; fol. Mr. Durfey's Injured Princeſs; or, _ The Fatal Wager, is only this Play reviv'd. The Plot from Boccate's Novels, Day 2. Nov. 9. Henry the Fourth, Two Parts, Hiſtory, fol. the firſt Part con- taining the Life of Henry Percy, firnamed Hotſpur ; and the comi- cal part the Chara&er of Sir Fohn Fal/iaff, which has been play'd by the late famous Mr. Lacey, to Admiration. In the ſecond part ou have an A of the Death of this King, and the Coronation of is Succeſſor. See Geoffry of Monmouth, Caxton, Harding, Hall, Grafton, Martin, Hollingſhead, Stow, and other our Engliſh Chro- nicles. Henry the Fifth, his Life ; Hiſtory, fol. A Comical'part is mixt with the Hiſtorical, and contains the Reign of this King, to his . Marriage with Katharine of France. See the afore-faid Engliſh Chronicles. | Henry the Sixth, Three Parts, Hiſtory, fol. In the Second is the Death of 'the good Duke Humphrey, in the Third the Death of the Duke of 7ork; all the Parts contain the whole Reign of this King. See the ſame Engliſh Chronicles. g.. Henry the Eighth, his Life; Hiſtory, . fol. The part of King Hen- ry was often in King Charles the Second's Time extraotdinary well ated by Mr. Betterton. See our Engliſh Chronicles before-men- tioned. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ; a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. For the Plot ſee Saxo-Grammaticus, Lrantzins, Pontanus, Idacins (oc. ohn, King of England ; Hiſtory, fol. for the Plot ſee our Eng- tſh Chronicles. ' Fohn, King of England, his troubleſom Reign, in two parts, Hiſto- ry, 4to. 1611. with the Diſcovery of King Richard Cur de Lyons, Baſe Son { as vulgarly called) Fawconbridge ; alſo 'the Death of the ſaid Ki Fohn at Swinſtead Abby. Theſe Plays were ſeveral times ated by the Queen's Majeſtys Players, tho not divi- ded 'into Ads, and differ much from the other Play in Fol7o. Fulins 2-400 00-V AS. = i a94 AS ya a tk vo © 7 Nt ene» 62,7, | mired in the Author's Life time and publiſhed before his Death. "Tate, altered it, An. 1681. he and Mr. Dryden have much applauwi 128 Known AUTHORS. $S Julixs Ceſar, a Tagedy, fol. and 4to Fotnded on Hiſtory. It | was revivd and atted divers times-in the Reign of the late Ring Charles IT. For the Prologue, which was hi shly commended, ſee a ſmall Book, called Covent-Garden Drollery, pag. 9. and for the Hiſtory, ſee @Plutarch, Livy, Suetonius. Lear, King of England; a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. This Play has been reviv'd with Alterations by our preſent Poet Laureat. For the true Story, ſee Milton's Hift. of England, beginning pag. 17: ſee alſo Leland, Monmouth, Glouceſter, (5c. Locrine, Eldeſt Son to King Brutus, a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. _ the Plot, fee Milton's Hiſt. of England, and the afore-ſaid Au- tnors. ; London Prodigal, a Comedy, fol: and 4to. Love's Labour loſt, a Comedy, fol. Mackbeth, a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. revived and re-printed with Alterations and Songs, and now often ated. For the Plot conſult Buchanan, and others who have written Scottiſh Afffairs ; ſee alfo Heywood of Angels, p. $08. Heylin's Coſmography, Book: 1. Meaſure fer Meaſure, a Comedy, fol. For the Plot ſee Cynthin Girald:, Dec. 8. Nov. 5. Lipſn Monita; p. 125. Hiſftoirs Admirablles de nitre temps. þ. 216. The Merchant of Venice, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Midſummer-Nights Dream, a Comedy, fol. The comical part hereof is printed 4to. under the Title of Bottom the Weaver, and acted by ſmall Parties at Bartholomew Fair, and other Places : and fince publiſh'd under the Name of The Fairy Queen. | Much ado about nothing, a Comedy, fol. Sir William D'avenant | \ made uſe of this Play, and Meaſure for Meaſure, in compoſing his Law againſt Lovers. For the Plot ſee Ariofto's Orlando Furioſo, Book s. and Spencer's Fairy Queen, Book 2. Oldcaſtle, Lord Cobham's Life and Death, a Tragedy, fol. Sc Fuller's Church Hiſt. and Fox's Book of Martyrs, where you may find Sir John Oldcaſtle's Life at large. Othello, Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. This is ſtill often ated, and eſteemed one of the beſt of our Author's Plays Plot from Cynthio's'Novels, Dec. 3. Nov. 7. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Hiſtory, fol. This Play was much ad- The Puritan; or, The Widow of Watling-Street, a Comedy, fol. This was accounted a very diverting Play. Richard the Second, Hiſtory, fol. 4to. Our Poet Laureat, Mr. ded this Play. Plot from Engliſh Chronicles. | Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earl of Richmond, and the Battle of Boſworth-Field, Hiſtory, fol. for the Plot conſult our Engliſh Chronicles. Rog s fa. 0 DDR: w» *"... Tas l, | Rwwm AUTHORS. $ 129 Romeo and Fuliet; a Tragedy, fol.' Plot from Bande!lo's Novels. The Taming of the Shrew, a Comedy, fol. The Story of the Tinkar, ſo diverting, may be found in Goulart's Hiſt. Admirabiles and Pontus Heuterus, Rerutn Burdicarum. The Tempeſt, a Comedy, , Fol. and 4to. This has been reviv'd and alter'd by Mr. Dryden, brought it much in eſteem, and i is of tate Days often ated. Titus Andronichus, 4 a ey, fo and 4to. This Play Fas beetl reviv'd and altered > Bom: enſcroft. Tithon of Athens,a ragedy, f ol and 4to. This Play,as publiſt'd firſt by our Author, was not yihhe into Ads, but has. been —_— with. Alterations, by Mr. Shadwell, and for a few Years often ated at the Theatre, Royal, as any Tragedy I know. . . Troilus and Creſſida, a Tragedy, fol. This was reviyd with Al- terations, by Mr. Dryden; who added divers new Scenes. Plot from Chancer's Troilus and Creſſida. | Twelfth-Night; or, What you will; a Codiady, Fol; Plot from Plautus, Amphitruo, Menechmi, &c. Two Gentlemen of Verona, a Comedy. . fol. TE Ta þ A Winters Tale, a Tragi-Comedy, Fell Plot from ine Fawnia, 4to. The Tork-ſkire Tragedy, fol. When this Play was firſt þ the Title then told you, the Story was new, lamentable, and rhe. The Play, being but very ſhort, is not divided into 2008 and may rather be accounted an fnterlude than a Tragedy, * The Arraignment of Paris, which you may find a 18 the Atio- . nymous Plays, has been by Kirkman aſcribed to this Author, but. - not being in any Edition of Shakeſpear, 1 much queſtion whether it be any of his. Our Author writ little elſe, we find in-print only two ſmall oe ces of Poetry publiſh'd by Mr. Quarles, viz. Vers Bo Adonis, 8v0, 1602. and The Rape of Lucrece, 800. 1655, Lewis Sharp. d ACE Author, who liv'd in the Reign of- King Clizrles the Firſt, writ but one Play, viz. The Noble Stranger, a Comedy, 4to. 1640. atted at the ptivate Houſe in Salisbury-Cotrt, by her Majeſty's Servants; dedicated tg Sir Edmund Williams. K Edward 130 Known AUTHORS. $ . Edward Sharpham. ' "A Member of the Middle-Temple, in the time of King 7ames A the Firſt, writ and publiſhed one Play, called, _ The Fleir, a Comedy, 4to. 1615. ated in the Black-Fryars, by the Children of the Revels. Compare this with a Play of Marſton's, called, The Fave. | | FS. Shepheard. Zealous Cavalier in the Civil Wars, writ a Play againſt the A Parliament Party, fizld, The Committte-Man curried, a Comedy, in Two Parts, 4to. 1647. Much of it ſtollen from Sir Zohn Suck/tng,and Sir Robert Stapleton's Tranſlation of Juvenal, ; Edward Sherburn, Eſq: = Gentleman Tranſlated Two of Seneca's Tragedies, and is, for 'ought I know, yet living, Medea, 'a Tragedy, 849. 1548. with Annotations. Mr. Stanly in his Poetns has writ a Vindicatxan of this Play. | Tivades* - or, The Royal Captives; a Tragedy, 8v0. 1679. f _ are*printed together, with ſome Poems of the ſame Au- nor, / Tho. Shipman, Eſq. F His Gentleman dy'd in King Charles the Second's Time, having writ one Play, called, Henry the Third of France, Stab'd by a Fryat ; with the Full of the Guiſes 5, a Tragedy, 4to- 1678. ated at the Theatre Royal ;'K&.: and dedicated to the Right Honourable Heniy, Lord Marqueſs of MO Plot from Davila, and the Duke of Eſpernon's Lite, ©; 0Ls | Henry Þ© Knows AUTHORS. $ it Henry Shirley. | N Author who liyd in the Reign of King Choles the Firſt, FA and writ one Play, which was publith'd after his Death; The Martyr'd Soldier, a Tragedy, 4to. 1638. afted at the private. fouſe in Drury-Lane, and other publick Theatres by her Majeſty's Servants, with great Applauſe. Plot; Barons, (oc. James Shirley. Contemporary,” as well as Namefake of the Former ; he was. IA once of Grays-Inn, and Servant to the King, and a Poet eſteemed in the Days of Charles the Firſt. Mr. Langbain | him no fraall Praiſe, and indeed he does to moſt of the indi Pets, fo that ſhou'd a: Stranger to our Poets read him,” they wou'd make an odd Colleftion of our Engliſh Writers, for they w'd be ſure to take Heywood, Shirley, (46. and leave Dryden, gc. He has printed 37 Plitys; of whsch in their Order, He dy Fince the Reſtauration. Wa OAK "IP Arcadia, a Paſtotal; 4to. 1640. afttd at the Phenix in Drury- Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants. © Plot from Sir Philip Sidhey's Ar- lia, fo Fe "TSF AY The Ball, a Comedy, 4ts. 1639. ated at the private Houſe in Drury-Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants.” Our Author was affſifjed by thapman in this Play. | WY LT A Bird in a Cage, a Comedy, 4to. 16 . acted at the*Phenix in Drary-Lane ; and dedicated to Mr. William Prinne.” 0 The Brothers, a Comedy, '$%0. 1652. ated at the private Houſe It Black-Fryars ; and dedicated to his noble Friend, Thomas Stan- Fs Codbnal, a T dy, 8vo, 1652. ated at the private Houſe 'Blach.Fryars ; and dedicated to his Friend, 6. B. Eſq; .. The Changes ; of, Love in a Maze; a Comedy, 4to. 1632. pre- Hated at the private Houſe in Saltsbury-Conrt, by the Company of. } 6 Majeſty's Revels;, and dedicated to the Honowirable, the Lady 2, Moms, WE wy "Iwoth>y Shirley, in Verſe. Compare this and the Maiden Queens . Chabot, Admiral of France, a Tragedy, 4fo. 1639. {ted PThjeſty's Servants at the private Houſe in Drary-Lane,/ Mr: Far join'd with our Anthor in this Play.” -Plpt, Paul Foun Pau JEmilizs, Mezeray, and other French Chronicles and Hiſtories inf . 'F: be Reign of Francis the Firft.” | o 4 - K > 7 132 Known AUTHORS. S The Conſtant Maid; or, Love will find out the Way ; a Comedy 4to. 1667, This was ated at a new Houſe, called, The Nurſery it Hatton-Garden, You may find Hadwell's courting of the Widoi Bellamy, by the Advice of Playfair, to be the, Subje& of dive! other Plays. Contention for Honour and Riches, 'a Maſque, 4tg. 1633. dedic ted to Edward Golding of Colfton, in Narthamptonſhire, Eſq; Thi Aathor, with this and ſome other Matter, compoſed a Comedj, called, Honoria and Mammon, hereafter miged. The Contention of Ajax and Ulyſſes for Achilles's Armour, a Maſque 840. 1658, Plot from Ovid's Metamorpoſis, Book 13. ot The Coronation, a Comedy, 4to. Which Play by ſome meay or other, was printed with Beaumont's and Fletcher's Plays, thi 1 none of theirs. | n A Court Secret, a Tragi-Comedy, 80. firſt printed 1653. thay [ atted at the Black-Fryars; and dedicated to William, Earl Strafſord. H , Cupid and Death, a Maſque, 4to. 1659. For the Plot, ſee Ogithili V. LF /oÞ's Fables, Vol. 1. Fab. 39. : R The Doubtful Heir, a Tragi-Comedy, 80. 1652. afted at th Black-Fryars ; and dedicated to Sir Edmund Bowyer. For partdſ the Story, ſee The Engliſh Adventurers. 80. part 3+ 0 The Duke's Miſtreſs, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1638. atted at trg-' private Houſe in Dewdants by her Majeſty's Servants. = 1 The Example, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1637. ated at the privaty E| Houſe 1n Drury-Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants. The Gameſler, a Comedy, 4to. 1637. ated at the private Hou Ti 18 Drury-Lane, Plot, Queen Margaret's Novels, Day 1. Nov. 8. a nc Unluch y Citizen, 80. Ri The Gentleman of Venice, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1655. ated &} of the private Houſe in Sa/bury-Court, by her Majeſty's Servants, al efl .dedicated'to Sir Th. Nightingale, Baronet. For the Plot, conlp + , Gayton's Notes on Don Quixot, Book 4. Chap. 6. &c. | pa The Grateful Servant, a Tragi-Comedy,. 4to. 1655. atted at Wh'to private Houſe in Drury-Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants, with gov Sip Applauſe ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Francs, Wy : of 'Rutland, - Compare” this Play with The Humerous Courtter, Wi Bla - by the ſame Author. +7 Hide-Park , a Comedy, 4to. 1637. preſented by her MajdlllÞ var Servants. at the private Houſe in Drury-Lanez and dedicated'F one - the Right Honourable, Henry, Earl of Holland. the . .Honoria and Mammon, a Comedy, 8vo. Plat grounded oy” 7 . Maſque of the ſame Author's, calld, Contention for Honour the Riches. = 4 Pla Knwn AUTHORS. $! 132 The Humorous Courtier, a Comedy, 4to. 1640. prefented at the yi0d private Houſe in Drury-Lane, with good Applauſe. _ . ow) The Impoſture, a Tragi-Comedy, 8w, 1652. ated at the private ers Houſe in Black-Fyars; and dedicated to Sir Rob. Bylles, Baronet. | The Lady of Pleaſure, a Comedy, 4to. 1637. ated at the private ic. Houſe in Drury-Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants ; and dedicated to hf the Right Honourable, Richard, Lord Lovelace, of Hurley. Part dj,0 of this Play reſembles parfin The Grateful Servant. a Love Tricks; or, the School! of Compliments; a Comedy, 4to, wi 1657. acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his "| Royal Higneſs, the Duke of York's Servants. Love's Cruelty, a Tragedy, 4t0. 1540. ated at the privgte Houſe in Drury-Lane, by her Majeſty's Servants; and dedicated to Cor- net George Porter, and Mr. Charles Porter. See Cynthio's Novels, ay Dec. 3. Nov.6. and Q. Margaret's Novels, Day 4. Nv' 6. | The Maid's Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. 1539. adted at the private Houſe in Drury-Lane, with good Applauſe, by her Majeſty's Ser- g vaots. This Play is dedicated to Henry Osborn, Eſq; Plot from Reynold's God's Revenge againſt Murther, fol. Book 2. Hiſt. 7. ell 7he Opport «nity, a Comedy,4to. ated at the private Houſe in Dru- tall 1-Lane, by her Majeſty's Setvants ; it 1s dedicated to Capt. Richard wen. Compare this Play with Shakeſpear's Meaſure for Meaſure. -' The Politician, a Tragedy, 4to. 1555. preſented at Salibury- Court, by her Majeſty's Servants ; and dedicated to Walter Atyle, ay Eſq; For the Plot ſee the Counteſs of Montgomery's Urania. The Royal Maſter, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1638. ated at the © Theatre in Dublin, and 1n the Caſtle there before the Right Ho- nourable, the Lord Deputy of Ireland; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, George, Earl of Kildare. By the many Copies of Verſes in Commendation of this Play, we may guefs it was well eſte : 2 d. ”$t. Patrick for Ireland, a Hiſtory, 4to. 1640. There is but one of this Play printed ; a ſecond was deſigned by the Author y the Preſs, but never publiſh'd. See Bedes Life of St. Patrick , wy Sigibert, Baleus, Baronins, &c. " The Siſters, a'Comedy, 8. 1652. ated at the private Houſe in * Black-Fryars ; and dedicated to William Paulet, Efq; # - The Traytor, a Tragedy, 4to. 1635. acted by her Majeſty's Ser- IF yants ; and dedicated to the Duke of Newcaſtle. This Play was T one Mr. Rivers's, a Jeſuit, tho' alter'd a little and introduc'd into the Houſe by Shirley. 'The-Triumph of Beauty, a Maſque, 8vo. 1646, Compare this to the comical Part of the Midſummer-Nights Dream, and another .| part to Bottom the Weaver, both by Shakeſppur : ſee alſo Lucian's Dialogues. This is printed with the Author's Poems, 80. K 3 The - 124 Known AUTHORS. S The Wedding, a Comedy, 4to. 16 . ated by her Majeſty's Sex vants at the Phentz ) in Drury-Lane , and dedicated to Wiſfam Gow fr ke Witty Fair one, a Comedy, 4to. 1633. atted at the private -. Houſe in Drury-Lane ; and dedicated to Sir Edward Buſhel.. 1. ' The Toung Admiral, a Tragi-Comedy, 4t9. 1637. afted at they private Houſe jn Drury-Lane ; and dedicated to the Right Honey Table, George, Lord' Barkley. | Sir Charles Sidley. His Noble Gentleman is yet living, and has been eſteem'd i Man of the Firſt Rank of Wit: He writ theſe three folloy ing Plays : | Anthony and Cleopatra, a Tragedy, 4to. 16 77: ated at the Dukei] Theatre. Plot from APpien, Dion Caſſius, Plutarch's Life of + Antho | Bellamira; or, The Mt! heſe 3 a Comedy, 4to. 1687. atted by. his Majeſty's Servant; The Ground from Terrence's Exnuchis. The Mulberry Garden, a Comedy, 4to. 1668. ated at the Thef atre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants. This Play is dedicated t her Grace the Dutcheſs of Richmond and: Lenox. Sir John Ever young, and Sir Samuel Ferecaſtle copied from Malliere's L Eſcole & | A Pp | Jobs Smith. Gentleman of Snentm, in Zork-ſhire, and now (or lately)! þ k ving ; ;'he writ a Play that was neyer adted, called, - Cytherea ; "or, The Enamouring Girdle, a Comedy, 4to, 1671 This my the Author dedicated to the Northern Gentry. ' - Wilians Smith. | TE, wa writ one Play in King James the Firſt his wi LE Heer of f URLS ; or, The Palſerave Prime Elefhor ; ſtory, 4to. 1615. afted at the Red Bull, fyc. by : Compary ; youlbg Citizens, and dedicated to the ri ght Ao hob ir John Swinnerton, Lord Mayor of London. This Play is not divided i AQ, - He writ, with the Aſſiſtance of one Mr. Webbe, a Book , rs d, "ne Dejrptic f the _ Palatine of C heſter.. — Thomas Knwn AUTHORS. S I35 ” Thomas Southern. "ate - = Gentleman now living, who, as I have been infornyd, made the At firſt Application to the Law ;- but quitted thoſe rougher 00- ies for the more pleaſing Entertainment of the Muſes ; and. after the writing of two Plays, with no ill Succeſs, at leaſt with very good Judges, may'd by his ative Temper, he left, for ſome Years, the calmer retreat of Poetry for the War till, in the- Year 1690. he preſented the Town with that diverting Comedy of Str Anthony Love, and Six-more;- but of all intheir order : .. The Diſappointment ; or, The Mother in Faſhion; ated at the The- atre Royal, 1684. 4to,. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, es, 'Earl of 0fſery (the preſent Duke of” Ormond). The Curious Impertinent of the incomparable Hiſtory of Don Quixot, ſeems to have given our Author an Hint of the Plot. The Loyal Brother ;, or, The Perſian Prince 3 a Tragedy, ated at . the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, 1682. 4fo. and dedicated to his Grace, the Puke of Richmmd. This was his | hr Fay, and is - built on the Novel of Tachmas, Prince of Per- ta, 8V0, . The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery; a Play, ated at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, 1694. 4to. and dedicated to Anthony Hammond, of Somerſham Place, Eſq; In the Dedication our Author owns his taking a hint of the Tragica] part of this Play, from a Novel of Mrs. Behn's, call'd, The Nun ; or, The Fair Vow-breaher. This Play was receiv'd with vaſt Ap- plauſe, and is yet afted with Succeſs ; the Diſtreſs of the Story 4 being extreamly movinz, and the Paſſions very well touch'd by the '' Author ; tho' had he made Villeroy and Biron Friends, it wou'd 74 have ſomething heighten'd the Diſtreſs. In the Comical part, the "| Hint of Fernando being perſuaded to believe that he had been dead, buried, and in Purgatory, ſeems to be owing to The Little Thief of Fletcher. The Maid Laſt Prayer ; or, Any thing rather than Fail ; a Come- dy, afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, 1693. 4to. and dedicated to the Honourable, Mr. Charles Boyt. * Oroonobo, a Tragedy, ated at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants,' 1696. 4to. and dedicated to his Grace, William, Duke i of Devonſhire, (ye. in which the Author makes this ingenuous Ac- | knowledgement, which few Poets have formerly done ; wiz. © 1 ** ſtand engaged to Mrs. Behn for the occafion of a moſt paſſionate *© Diſtreſs. in my laſt Play, (which was The Innocent Adultry) and 1 | © a Conſcience that I had not made her a ſufficient Acknowledg- | ©rment, I have run farther dijo Tru, with a Deſign'to + : {Se 4 D vl o T3: S 5 _ 14 | wot 9 By #1 S711 . Te Sharkey Pans 67 I % 7.36 Knows AUTHORS. S * me to be Honeſt, and that every one may find me out for Ingra- * titude, when I don't ſay all that's fit for me upon that Subjett ; © ſhe had a great Command of the Stage, and I have often won- * der'd that ſhe ſhould bury her Favourite Hero in a Nov&, when s ſhe might have reviv'd him in the Scene. I have: quoted this, becauſe 'tis very uncommon with Authors to ſpeak well of thoſe they borrow from in/their Writings,for I have known a great Man perpetual rail at the French Authors, and yet 'contradiet his Refle&ions on them, ' by filling his Writings 'with their Wit and Deſigns; and I have fo often experienc'd this Par- }: ticular, among the Writers of our Age, that when I hear any of. them condemn, either our Ancient or Modern Authors, I conclude, 'he has been robbing there, and would deter us from finding out' His Theft. But as to this Play of Oroonoþs, you find our Poet has 'allow'd the Plot of it Mrs. Behn's; for on that: Prince ſhe has com» pos'd the beſt of her Novels : and as it muſt be confeſs'd that the Play had not its mighty Succeſs without an innate Excellence ; fo in my Opinion, the neceſſary regularities a Dramatick Poet is ob-_ liged to obſerve, has left many Beauties in the Novel, which our Author cou'd not transfer to his Poem. As Mrs. Barrey did the Poet alſ- the >51k ſo admirable an Aqreſs, when ſhe moſt exerts her ſelf, could do, in the Innocent Adultery ; ſo Mr. Verbruggen, in the Part of Oroonoko, by doing the Author Right, got himſdlf the Re- putation of one of the beſt Afors of his time. | - Str Anthony Love; or, The Rambling Lady ;, a'Comedy, 4to.'16g0, ated at the Theatre Royal by their Majeſties Servants ; and dedt- cated to Tho. Skipwith, Eſq; (now Sir Thomas). This Play met with extraordinary Succeſs. | The Wives excuſe; or, Cuckolds mabe themſelves; a Comedy, ated at'the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſtses Servants, 1692. 4to. This Play it ſeems did not take as well as was expetted, but is uſh- erd into print by'a Copy of Verſes of his Friend, Mr. Dryden; in which he juſtly refletts on the depraved Taſte of the Age, eſpe- cially- in theſe Two Lines, on the Fault of thoſe: Poets, who de- bauch the Palate of the Audience, | | F # Far.e in it ſelf is of a naſty Scent; But the Gain ſmells not of the Excrement. For if there be not ſo intricate a Plot, there is certainly a gaity I, and Purity of Language, which few of our Poets ODIEIVE, 37 1 4,400 A 0 118. Davie: 70.” Quks of Dogs - Thame . Md F2 [ PAL, as nn 267 4 i Sfeh <5 / , D > Yi Ag Cehrrh " Xe P4 [Ca 7 | / Ge Nee Pe net T aww Ts oF 6 2 — @ < ' oo” , Known AUTHORS. 'S Thomas Stanley, Eſq; Learned Go of Cumberloe-Green, in Hertfordſhire, who A in the time of Ki Charles the Firſt, writ the Hiſtory of the Philoſo _—_ in that a Play of Arifto hanes, called, ' TheClu medy, fi. 16 1687 TA, ted from Arjſtopha- nes, printed with h his te » Re-printed about \ Ten Years fince. 'He tranſlated of | Crt $ Tra des into Latin; - alſo Anacreon and Moſchiuvs, from the ; reek. He has publiſh'd like- wiſe divers Tranſlations from Latin, Spaniſh, and Italian ; beſides his Poems in Engliſh, 8v0. and two ſmall Romances or Novels, his Sir Robert Stapleton. A Learned Author who was Gentleman Uſher of the Pri Cham- ber to King Charles the Second, and'iis, I ſuppoſe, ſt Nil living. He writ Two Plays : Hero and Leander, a Tragedy,\qto. 166g. dedicated to her Grace, the Dutcheſs of Monmouth. Plot from Ovid's Epiſtles, and Muſeus's Erotopagmon, Greek, and Latin. The Slighted Maid, a Comedy,4to. 1663. dedicated to his Grace, te Dukeof Monmouth. Plot from Mart. Epigr. 4+» Oc John Stephens. | Tis Author, who liv'd in the Reign of King Fames the firſt, writ one very long Play, call'd, Cynthia's Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. 1613. Plot from! Lucan's Pharſalia, and Ovid's Metamorphoſis, lth. 13. | William Strode. PX: and Divine in the Rejgn of King Charles the Frit; he was born in Devonſhire, entred'at Nineteen, and admitted Student of Chriſt-Church, Oxon; having taken moſt of his Degrees, was thoſe Univerſity-Orator, and after that commenc'd !DoQor, and vas made a Cannon by the King, "He died March 11, 1644- and was buried at Chrift-Church afore-ſaid. | The Floating Iſland, a Comedy, 4to. 1655. ated by the Students of ChiſtCnk *before his Majeſty, at Oxon. 1639. The Airs | kt] Songs ere ſet by Mr. Henry Lawes. The An TG x38 —- Know AUTHORS. S bed and dedicated the Pla ay to his honoured Patron, Sir John Helle, but it was not printed till ſome Years after his Death. This Play 3s full of Morality. The Author publiſh'd three Sermons befides the Play. R 7. Studley. Nother Tranſlator of Seneca's TORons, in the Reign of Queen ' Elizabeth, of which he Engliſhd Four : viz. ; gameman, a4 Tragedy, 4to. Our Author 2. added a whole Seenc in the Fifth A&. 1 Hippelitus, a Tragedy, 4ta. This is a very regular Play, as to Time, Place, and Adtion. Hercules Oeteuc, a Tragedy, 4to. A Reſemblance of Sophocles Trachinat. Medea, a Tragedy, 4to. In this Seneca imitates Euripides, but at tao great a diſtance, and 15 alſo regular, as moſt of his Tragedies are, This Tranſlator has altered the Chorus of the Firſt AR. Sir John Suckling. AS born at Witham, in Middleſex, 1631. in the beginhing of wW the Eleventh Month ; he ſpoke Latin at Five Years old, and writ it at Nine. He was Comptroller to King Charles the Firſt, An excellent Mufician and Poet : '- made a Campaign with Gufta- vu, and was in Five Sieges, Three Battles, (9c. he was at the Ex- pence of 12000 /. to raiſc a Troep for the King, He writ Four ' Plays, wir. > Aglawa, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. and 8. preſented at the pri- vate Houſe in Black-Eryars. The Author has 19 alter'd the laſt AR, that 'tis at the Pleaſure of the Adars to make it a | Tragedy or Tra- gi-Comed Pemerals: t; or, The Diſcontented Colonel; a Tragedy, 800; pre- ſented by his Majeſty's Servants, at the private Houſe in Black- ars. ' | The Goblins, a Tragi-Comedy, 849. preſented by his Mgjeſty's Servants at the private Houſe in Black-Fcyars. The Sad Ove, 4 Tragedy, 8. This Play Sir jd fg ne fipiſh'd. Theſe Plays, with his other Warks, ar We 8v9, the laſk Edition printed 1676. If you W Char: &er of this Father: ſee Lloyd's Memes ol. page 159 Gilters ' . ſent Earl of Dorſet, and has Merit to deſerve more Known AUTHORS. T 199 Gilbert Swinhoe. Northumberland Gentleman, wha in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt, writ a Play, calld, ; ' The Unhappy Fair Irene, a Tragedy, 4to. 1658. Plot from Ban- dello's Novels, and Turkiſh Chronicles, Lite of Mahomet the Firſt. — T Nehum Tate, Eſq; Manners, Learning, and good Nature : His Birth : ducation (as I have been told) he owes to the Kingdom of Ireland : He has, for ſeveral Years, had the chat the pre- | than he has met with from others : He is guilty of Modeſty, of which few of his Profeſſion know much ; and it is the noiſy puſhing Man in Poe- try, as well as other things, that prevails with - Fame as well » ()' R preſent Poet Laureat, a Perſon of great by of , E- - Fortune. But now to his Drammatick Compoſures. ' Brutus of Alba, an Opera, 4to. 1678. a&ed at the Duke's The- atre; it is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex. Plot from Virgil's Aneids, Book 4- The Cuckold's Haven; or, An Alderman no Conjurer, a Farce, 4#- - 1685. aQted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorſet-Garden ; and dedica- ”— to o Edmund Aſhton. Plot from Eaſlward Hoe, and The De- vil's an Aſs. | . A Duke and no Duke, a Farce, 4to. 1685. ated by their Maje- ſties Sesyants; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Sir Jobn Hewyt. In this Play are divers Songs ſet to Myſick with thor Baſſes for the T or Baſs-Viol. Plot from Trappolin ſuppoſed 4 Prince. | The + a> of a Common-Wealth ; F The Fall of Caius Mar- tiusCoriolamss ;aTragi-Comedy,4to.1582.ated at the Theatre Royal ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Lord Herþert, Mar- nom of Worceſter, Part of this Play borrowed from Shakeſpear's The > YO IE IP ren ren ng rr en os —Yy —— A __——_ i » 140 Known AUTHORS. T The Iſland Princeſs, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1687. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Walgrave. Reviv'd with Alterations from Fletcher. ' The Loyal General, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. ated at the Duke's Theatre ; and is dedicated to Edward Taylor,” Eſq; Lear, King of England, and his Three Daughters ; an Hiſtorical Play, 4to. 1687. ated at the Duke's Theatre ; it is Dedicated to Thomas Boteler, Eſq, and reviv'd with Alterations from Shakeſpear ; and now call'd, Ancient Hiſtory of King Leay, &c. Richard the Third; or, The Sicilian Uſurper; a Hiſtory, 40. 1681. atted at the Theatre Royal, and:dedicated to George Raynſ- ford, Eſq; with a Prefatory Epiſtle in Vindication of the Author by Reaſon of the Prohibition of this Play on the Stage. Reviv'd from Shakeſpear. This our Author bas publiſh'd divers Poems on ſeveral Occaſi- ons, ſome of them printed 8wv. one Volume whereof are all his own, another Volume by ſeveral Hands. John Tateham. Ity Poet in King Charles the Firſt's Time. Mr. Langbain has %./ found out a pleaſant Compenſation for his want of Wit, 17. his Loyalty, which might be ſomething to attone for the Defedts | of a Servants Brains, but I think very little for thoſe of a Poet. ' The Diſtrafted State; a Tragedy, 4to. 1551. This Play was —_ Ten Years before printed, and is dedicated to Sir John idley. The Rump; or, The Mirrour of the late Times ; a Comedy, 4to. 166. ated at the private Houſe in Dorſet-Court, and dedicated to Walter James, Eſq; This Play has been revivd under the Title of The Roundheatls. Fot the Plot conſult our Engliſh Chronicles of - the Civil Wars. | Scots Vagaries; or, A Knot of Knaves ; a Comedy, 4to. 1652. yo Hat to Ropert Dormer, Eſq; This Play is writ in a Scotch Dialeet. SI , Love Crowns the End, a Tragi-comedy, 8w. 1657. atted by the Scholars of Bringham in the County of Nottingham. This Play is very ſhort and nct divided into At ; you may find it printed with his Poems, 1657. 8. ' | " Robert Known AUTHORS. T 141 Robert Taylor. THE Author of one Play, call'd, The Hog has loſt his Pearl, a Comedy, 4to. 16a 1. Civers times publickly ated by certain London Prentices. Thomas Thompſon. A Poor Plagiary, that could not diſguiſe or improve his Thefts. Theſe two following Plays go under his Name; viz. The Engliſh Rogue, a Comedy, 4to. 1668, ated (ſays the Title) before ſeveral Perſons of Honour, with great Applauſe,and dedica- ted to Mrs. Alice Barret. F: Mother Shipton, her. Life ; 4to. The Author hereof ſays, *twas ated Nine Days together, with great Applauſe. Plot- 2 Book ſo called in Proſe, 4to. but moſt of the Charafters and 'Lan- guage from The City Madam, and The Chaſt Maid of Cheapfide. Nicholas Trot. E writ one Play, call'd, H Arthur, a Tragedy. Richard Tuke. ; Uthor of a Play that repreſents the Danger of the Soul in this A World, and was once called The Souls Warfare ; now, The Divine Comedian ; or, The right Uſe of Plays, improv'd in a Sacred Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1672. and dedicated to the Right Ho- nourable, Mary, Counteſs of Warwick. S. Tube, AN Eſſex Gentleman, a Collonel, who in 1661. tranſlated a Play from the Spaniſh, called, | The Adventurers of Five Hours, a Tragi-Comedy 4to. 1662, be- ing the Second Edition; it is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry Howard, of Norfolk, This Play-is of good Repute. ) v Cyril Th Known AUTHORS. V Cyril Turner, AN Author who writ in the Time of King Fame the Firſt, two Plays, entituled, The Atheiſts Tragedy, 4to. The Conveyance away of Sebaſtian and Freſco, on her Husband's approach, is taken from Boccace's No. vels, Day 7. Nov. 6. The Loyal Brother ; or, The Revenger's Tragedy, 4to. John Tutchin. A Gentleman of thoſe Times, who has writ one Play, call'd, . The Unfortunate Shepherd, a Paſtoral, 80. 1683. This is printed with a Piece call'd, A Difxourſe of Life, in Proſe; and ſome * Poems on ſeveral Occafions, 89. V Captain Var Brug. T2 this Gentleman's Modeſty has hitherto hindred him from 42 ſetting his Name to any of the Plays that he has Writ, yet they:are fo Univerfally known to be his, and own'd by him to the Stage by all other ways, that it cannot reaſonably be taken amiſs byhim, to find his Name'here, ſince it is not in the Power of En- -vy to-mention it, without the higheſt Value and Efteem. This "| Gentleman, as 1 am informet, was born in Cheſhire, and by mbre than a Common Education, and Converſe with the beſt Company qualified for theſe Performances, which have got him the Prefe- rence to all our Modern Writets of Comedy, fince Mr. Wycherly , and. Sir. George Etheridge have left the Stage ; and with all the due ReſpeR that TT owe thoſe two, great Men, I muſt place Mr. Van Brag in their Form, for the ſprightlineſs of his Wit, the a- finefs, and at the fame time, force of the. Converſation of his are fuch,; that none elfe can ſtand in Competition with him. Methinks inthe Compariſon of his Plays, with moſt of our other Drammatic Pieces, there is the ſamedifference, which there is be- twikt the Draughts of Van Dike, Titian, and othgr great Maſters of former Days, and ſome of our beſt Painters now ; theſe mm .E ® e \ Knows AUTHORS. V "143 dced good Repreſentations, but his are the things they Repreſent; (if you'll pardon that ſeeming Contradiftion of the Expreſſion) many of our Writers .haye given us good Images of the- Fools of our Age, but they are ſtill but Images ; but when you read or ſee Mr. Van Brug's, you ſee the very Originals, all-is ſo free, ſo cafie and ſo bold, as perſwade them to be no Copies,,- you evidently fee the Lineaments .of - Nature, without the ſtifneſs of Art, which would but debaſe his Work. Others of our Comic Writers, who have ſucceeded moſt in that way, pick out Charatters thar are in- deed diverting enough on the Stage, but which ſcarce one ſenſible Man in a Thouſand can read inhis Chamber, ſomuch is left to the Aion : But Mr. Van Brug's Charatters are Compogtd of that part of Nature, which is-not ſo Monſtrous to ſhock the Reader, .or Nauſeate his Palate, but. which yield apleafing Entertainment;. he puts Folly into ſuch a Light, that it is as diverting to. the Reader as Speator ; and his Fools are ſo pleaſing, that you are not weary of their Company before leave you. Another Quality diſtin& from many of our Received Poets, -is, That. his Men of Wit are really ſo, and not like Mr. Shadwell's the dulleſt in the Play : I have ventured to fay all this, without either the Proſpet of Encolpiis in Petrohius Arbater, Ut foris Cena- ns Poetam Laudaſli, or the fear of that Wity- Cenſure; of. The Plain Dealer, for chooſing to flatter the Poets of the Age, rather than wt flatter at all. Becauſe one that is unknown,can have but little ex- ations of the former,or juſtly deſerve the latterzvhenhe Fat what is juſtly his due z- unleſs the Praiſe of Wit be as W- able _;as fuperfluous. He has Honoured his Country with- three Plays that he owns : Of theſe in their Order. 7 Aſop, A Comedy 4to.. Atted at the Theatre Royal, 1697. Inthe | Preface we learn both the Fate of the Play, and that the Author owes his Foundation to the French ; for it was writ Originally in French by Mr. Bourſaut, and had almoſt the fame Fate there as here, -J& to its Succeſs ; the firſt day it was not lik'd, the next it ſcarce gain'd Ground, the third it held up its Head, , and. the fourth Tri- umphed, and was in Paris Affed for near a Month together. It ks ſo far from wanting any Beauties of the French,that it e'ry where xcels, it ; and that extreamly divertmg Scene of Sir Polydorxs Hog- , may be faid to be entirely his own, 'as are all the three Scenes - that were fince added of the Players, the Semtor and the Bean, and which were receiv'd with Univerſal Applauſe, as indeed. pity merited. It will perhaps be wondered that it: ſhould... very often in Paris, and not hold. out a Fortnight nor ten da here ; for which man my bs. toe Heaps Aged ; Firſt; Paris there is not that fooliſhand extravagant Prejudice againſt {the Stage, -as is enterfain'd in a numerous Party-of this'City, who- rail againſt that and n Prayer withan equal Zeal : So that in Parr 144 Known AUTHORS. V Paris almoſt e'ry one goes to the Theatre, here nof the tenth part, for Hypocriſie and Butineſs -here, divide the greater part to their ſeveral and different Offices : Another Reaſon 1s, That the Gover- nours of the Houſe were unwilling to wear it out, and fo balk'd the Run of 1t. [ am not ignorant of the ſeveral Objefions made againſt this Play by the Criticks, viz. that the Scenes are looſe, and not at all akin to the Plot, and may be cut out and alter'd in perpetuwm, | without the leaſt Injury or Advantage to the thin'and frail Deligh of the Play ; that in Lydia, before the time of Alexander t Great, they talk of Juſtices of the Peace, Fox Hunting, Flanders Horſes and other things which are entirely Modern'; but at the ſame time that theſe Accuſations muſt be confeſs'd not to'be Ul! grounded ; it muſt be own'd, that without thefe Faults we muſt have loſt Beauties of greater Conſequence. This I'm ſure, there has never been on the Stage, a Play of more general Satyr ſince the Plain Dealer ; and there are ſuch Publick and uſeful Morals re commended tothe Audience, that will be -as beneficial to the Common-weal, as divefting to the immediate SpeRators. | *. The Provok'd Wife, a Comedy 4to. Aded at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Ftelds, by his Majeſty's Servants, 1697. To ſpeak of this Play as I ought, I ſhou'd have the Pen of the Author who Writ it, and the recommending the Reader to a ' Perufal of it, is the reateſt Praiſe I can give it. But I cannot omit the Objeftions | ve heard made to it, by ſome of our Criticks, viz. That it is 4 looſe Play, withcut Deſign, or if there be a Defign, 'tis ſuch a one as the juſt Rules of Comedy exclude, fince it teachts the Wives . how they ought to return the Brutality of their Husbands. | 1 cannot by any means allow this Obje@ion ; for the Deſign ſeems to me as juſt as the Refledions and Wit of it are poinant, the Con- verſation lively and genteel; for it rather teaches Husbands hoy they t to expe their Wives ſhou'd make them a Return, if e them as Sir 7ohn Brute did his'; ſuch Husbands may learn, that ſlighted and abuſed Virtue and Beauty, may be provoked to hearken to the prevailing Motives of Revenge. I can never think any reaſonable Man ſhou'd _—_ a Woman entirely diveſted 'st } a ſenſe of Humanity, or inſenfible either of the Power of an able Temptation, or of the Pleaſure it yields : and as moſt of out I Vices are the ſureſt Guard, if not ſource of our Virtues, ' I'm cot- fident, when the Husbands ill Uſage of his Wife deprives himſelf of her Love, he diſmiſſes the ſureſt Guard of their common Ho- nour ; and the other, that is her Pride and Care of her Reput+ tion will not be of force enough againſt Revenge ; and the ſtrong ſollicitationsof an agreeable Perſon, that demonſtrates a value for}: what the Pofſeflor lights : So that it cannot be deny'd, that this} Moral is of admirable Uſe ; offers © Treth UT EY 4 Knwwn AUTHORS. W 142 tion; Which wou'd often prevent the Ruin of Families, which generally: begins with the Husbands Faufts. I know of no _Thefts in this Play, or indeed any of this Gentlemans, but what he has own'd m his Preface. | The Relapſe, or Virtue in Danger, being the ſequel to Loves laſt Shift or The Feol m Faſhion, 4to. AQted at the Theatre Royal, 1597. This Play was received with mighty applauſe , and ſpight of the ' broken Scenes, which muſt be allowed an irregularity that might \ have been avoided , has its juſt and uncommon Merits; and I think the Charatter of my Lord Foppington, if it at all fall fhort of that Maſterpiece of Sir Fopling Flutter, at leaſt challetges the next place, in preference to all of that kind, fof the Stage has beem - almoſt as Fruitful in Beaux, as the Boxes. T9400: Get The time when theſe three Plays were written is iincertain ; but all appeared in a little time of one another, and this which comes laſt in the Alphabet, was the firſt in the Repreſentation ; and he informs us in the Prologue, was Wrote in fix Weeks, a ſign of a double Bleffing, of bringing forth without Pain, and eyen Chil- dren Perfe& and Beautiful, without the uſual nine Months , Travel. =” a. OO Ob (Þ.coe? RS (Þ. a. OD = wo Ho Iv - Lewis Wager. q-\HIS Author (who was a Clerk in Queeti Elizs time) was then accounted a Man of | writ in the beginning of her Reign an Interlude, Nifd, . Mary Magdalen, her Life and Repentance,' 4to. 1567. This was ner in an old Black Letter, it may be ated by fopr or five Edmund Waller, Eſq; "ils Gentleman was of a eood Family, and Eſtate, the laſt un-, -* common with ſo good a Poct ; he was þeloy'd by all that knew "him, for his perſonal Merit and Afffability, .as well as admir'd for his Poetry. He died about Eight Years ſince. | — The 146 Known AUTHOR S. W The Maid's Tragedy, 800. 1690. This was a Play of Fletcher's and is reyivd with great Alterations by. this our Author, and printed with his Works, Pompey the Great, a Tragedy, 4to. 1664. ated by his Highneſs. the Duke of 7ork's Servants, Tranſlated from Corneille, in which the Right Honourable, the Earl of Doyſer and Middleſex affiſted. George Wapul. PF AN Author who has writ one Play, call'd, Tide tarrieth for no Man, a Comedy, 4to. 1611. printed fo long fince, that Mr. Langbain could not find what. Volume or Date it was of. It is ſtiled, A moſt pleaſant and merry Comedy, right | pithy and full of Delight. Wikian Wayer. FE has a Play fo long fince printed, that Mr: Langbain coult H never gain a Sight of it. The Title is, The longer thou Liv'ſt the more Fool thou art, a Comedy, 4to. but ſo old that 1t has no Date. It has alſo this Fitle. A very merry and : pithy Comedy, gc. R. Waver. AN Author as unknown as the two former : he publiſh'd but one Play, which Mr. Langbain ſays he never ſaw, entituled, Lufly Juventus, an Interlude, 4to. printed without any Date. Tho' Mr. Langbarn attributes this Play to R. Waver, yet his Name is not to the Title Page, nor any where about the Play, to give him that Aſſurance ; but I ſuppoſe he depended. on former Catalogues. John Webſter. THis Anthor was Clerk of - St. Andrews Pariſh in Holbourn, as he was:Contemporary{with Decker, Marſton, and Rowley ; ſo ' he join'd with *em in ſeveral Plays, beſides ſeveral he writ him- - Pt ſelf 5 45, Appin and Virginia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1659. ated at the Duke's Theatre. There are more Editions than one of this Play,. and has been reviv'd and alter'd by Mr. Betterton, For the Plot ſee Livit Hiſt. Flons, (gc. 2285 HT yen 4 | Ti S3X.. Knws AUTHORS.” W 145 The Devil's Law-Caſe ; or, When Women go to Law, the Devil is full of Buſineſs, a Tragi-Comedy, gqto. 1523. ated by her Maje- 's Servants , and dedicated to Sir 7ho. Finch. Plot in part from Shenkii Obſervat. Medic. p. 27. Goulart's Hiſtoires Admirabiles de wtre Temps, Tom. 1. and V. Maximus, lib. 1. cap. 8. - : » The Dutcheſs of. Malfey,a Tragedy,qto. 1623. and 1679: firſt ad vately at Black; Fryars, then publickly at the Globe, by his Ma- y's'Servantsz' and dedicated to the Right Honourable, George, Lord Barkley., Reviv'd and ated at the Duke of 7ork's Theatre. fot from Bandello's Novels, Nov. 19. Goulart Hiſt. Admirab. p: 226, Beard's Theatre of God's Fudgments, Book 2, Ch. 24. _ The White Devil or, The Tragedy of P. Giordano Urſini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the Fa- mus Venetian Curtezan ; 4to. 1612, and 1665. firſt ated at the Phenix in Drury-Lane, by the Queen's Majeſty's Servants, and ſince Yreviv'd and acted at tne Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants. In theſe two following Plays our Author was affiſted by Mr. Rowley. | A Cure for a Cuchold, a Comedy, 4to. 1651; This was feveral Times formerly ated with great Applauſe. | | : The Thracian Wonder; 4to. 1661. our Authors call this a Conical - Blliſtory, ſeveral times atted with great Applauſe. John Weſton, Eſq; PHis Author, whoſe Name is not Watſon, as Mr. Langbain, mid ſtakes, writ a Play in King Charles the Second's Time, ſtil'd, The Amazon Queex ; or, The Amours of Thaleſtris t» Alexander he Great ; Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1667, This Play writ in Heroick erſe, appeared not on the Staze. Plot from Strabo, Iibi 11; & Curt. lib. 6. and Fuſtin, lb. 3. | Mr. I hitaker: FHis Author, in King Charles the Second's Reign, publiſh'd 4 Play, call'd, | The Conſpiracy, ; or, the Change of Government, a Tragedy 4to« . $80. in Heroick Verſe, and ated at the Duke of 7ork's Thee os WT {4 L 4 DP? Rob; 148 Known AUTHORS, W Dr. Robere Wild. © His Author, tho' a Presbyterian Dofor, writ one Play and divers Poems, but is moſt famous for his Iter Boreale. The Play 1s intituled, | The Benefice, a Comedy, 4to. 1689. The Deſign taken from another Play, call'd, The Return from Parnaſſus; or, A Scourge fa S1mony. Leonard Willan. THE Author of a Play, publiſh'd one Paſtoral in Verſe, call'd, Aſirza ; or, True Love's Mirrour; a Paftoral, 8u9. 1651, It is dedicated to the Illuſtrious Princeſs, Mary, Dutcheſs of Rick mona and Lenox. Plot from a Romance fo called. | George I17hkins. E liv'd in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt, and writ (be. fides one he join'd with Day and Rowley in) a Play, calld, The Miſeries of Inforced Marriage, a Tragi-comedy, 4to. 1637. Mrs. Behn took her Plot and great part of the Language of thi Play, to her Town Fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdry. - The other P he join'd in, is called, The Travels of Thre? Engliſh Brothers. 0 Robert Wilmot. A Poet of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, and at the Requeſt of { Gentlemen of tne Inner-Temple, writ, | | Tancred and Griſmond, a Tragedy, 4to. 1592. ated before hey. Majeſty by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple ; and dedicated! o to the Right Worſhipful and Vertuous Ladies, the Lady Mary ter, and the Lady Ann Grey. Plot, Nov. 1. Day 4+ of Boccact Ve Novels, John Wilſon. ; AN Author of the Place of whoſe Birth I am ignorant ;. he w I ' once Recorder of Londonderry, and ſometime refided in D lin, where he writ Belphegor, which was afterwards ated in Londay vK Known AUTHORS. W F49 He died about three Years fince, near Leiceſter-Fijelds, 'but where buried I know not. He is Author of four Plays; 1177.1 - Andronicus Commenius, a Tragedy, 4to. 1663. Plot'from Heytin's ©4v* bf in the Deſcription of Greece, Cantacuſemss, Leunclavi- t, (Fc. = Belphegor; or, The Marriage of the Devil; a Comedy, 4to. 1690. ated at the Queen's Theatre 1n Dorſet-Garden. Plot taken from a om | Novel of Machiavel, and Quevedo's Novels, 80. dA fe The Cheats, a Comedy, 4to. Printed two Editions, the laſt 1571. This Play met with Applauſe when firſt a&ted, and is a diverting Comedy. | | - The Projefors, a Comedy, 4to. 1655. This Play met with no great Succeſs. | I; b Robert VIIſon. i A Gentleman that - liv'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and writ one Play, call'd, The Cobler's Prophecy, a Comedy, 4to. 1655. Nathaniel Wood. E was a Clergy-man, and liv'd in the Reign of Queen F1:za- | H beth, in the City of Norwich ; writ one Play, calling it, The Conflit of Conſcience, a Paſtoral, 4to. 1581, This 19a Play of Morality, and may be preſented by fix Perſons. John IWrieht. Gentleman, if I miſtake not, of the Middle-Temple, and is yet living ; has writ Two Plays, of which in their Order: Thyeftes, a Tragedy, 8v0. 1674. dedicated to Bennet, Lord if Sherrard. - Tranſlated from Seneca. Mock Thyeſtes, a Farce, 8. 1574. + This is writ in Burleſque Verſe, and printed to be bound up with the former. : Thomas Wright. Can give no Account of this Author, only that he has a Play in ly print, calld, : ul - The Female Vertuoſs's, a Comedy, 4to. 1693. and dedicated to of the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Winchelſea. The Deſign our | L 3 Author = = I @r—————— 150 Known AUTHORS. Y Author owns none of his own, but of ſome Friend from-thd French. The Prologue written and ſpoke by Mr. Dogget ; yet al.. not enongh to make it take. | Williem Wycherley. A Shropſhire Gentlemgn, who has excel['d all Writers in all Lay ' gnages, in Comedy, and moſt of the Poets of the preſent Age in generous. Dealing with thoſe he owns his Friends, he hi writ Four Plays, The Country Wiſe, a Comedy, 4to. 1683. atted at the Theatre Royal. This Play from the beginning has been frequently adtel 0 with great Applauſe. The Gentleman DancingMaſier, 'a Comedy, 4to. 1673. ated at the Duke's Theatre. | Love in a Wood ;, or, St. Fames's Park; a Comedy, 4to. 1674, ated at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants ; and dedice! ted to the Dutcheſs of C leveland. f The Plain Dealer, a Comedy, 4to. 1578. ated at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants. This is accounted the moſt ex- cellent of all his Comedies, of which and the Author, Mr. Drydaſ and Mr. Evelyn gives a large Encomium. Some of the Charaften are in Molhzere's Le Miſanthrope, and Scarron's City Romance, 8&0. On I>=— —— — - - ——o—_—_— —— — —— _— — Y Robert Yarrington. > . A N Author in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, who writ one Play, A entituled, | Ez Bn Two Tragedies in one, 4to. 1501. Two Murthers, one of} a Chandler and his Boy, the other of a Child in a Wood, by Or: der or Contrivance of his Uncle, are the Subje& of this Play. k ” Is SUPPO- SQ. [ SuPpPoOSED AUTHORS. R. A. Gent. HIS Author writ one Play, call'd, The Valiant Welch Man; or, The True Chronicle Hi- flory of the Life and Paliant Reeds of Charadoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales; a Tragi- Comedy, 4to. 1663. ated by the Prince of Wales's Servants, the Plot from Ubaldine le vite del donne illyftre, p. 6. _ Annals, Milton's Hiſtory of England, and from our Britiſh onicles. H. B. «His Author has publiſh'd one Play, entituled, = The World's Idol ;, or, Plutus, a Comedy, 8v0. 1650. Tranſh- ted from Ariſtophanes, with Notes and a- Diſcourſe upon it. | F- HE Mock Duellift ; or, The French Vallet ; a Comedy, ſup- ſed to be writ by Peter Bellon, Gent. 4to. 1675. atted at the Theatre Royal by his Majeſty's Servants, and dedicated to the vertuous, accompliſht Lady, Madam S.C. *L4 — 152? Suppoſed AUTHORS. 7. C. His Author writ a very diverting Play, calld, T She Fwo Merry Mrth Maids; or, The beft Words near the Garland, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. playd before the King with great Applauſe, by the Company of the Revels. Part of the Plot from the Tenth Day, Nov. 5. of Boccace's Novels, and is the yy of ſeveral Plays, as Hetebers Faur Plays in One, & : 7. D. Tx theſe Two Letters are theſe Two Plays following : Hell's High Gourt of Fuſlice ; os, The Tryal of Thugs Palj- tick Ghoſts, viz. Oliver Cromwell, King of Sweeden, and Catdinal ' Mazarine ; 4 Tragedy, 4% 1661. | The Mall: og, The Modiſh Lovers; a Comedy, 4to. 1674, ated the King's Servants, and dedicated to William Whitcom, Funior, fg; ({uppoſed by Dr, Hide, the Proto-Bibliathicarves to the Univer- ſity on Mr. Dryden's, tha' it differs mych from the Stile of his Works, | R., OG. His Tranſlator and Authgr was ſome time Maſter of Arts of Magdalen-Coltedge, Oxon ; publiſh'd Two Plays : | Alphouſus, King of Arragon, a comical Hiſtory, 4to. 1599. as1t has bcen fundry times ated. © Iznwamus, a Comedy, 4to. 1662. very often ated with Ap- plauſe before King Fames the Firſt, written originally in Latin and tranſlated by our Author. | S. NH. =i PH Author was of Exeter-Colledye, Oxan ; and. whilft Batchelor of Arts, writ | Sicily and Naples; or, The Fatal Union; a Tragedy, 4to. 1640. There were ſeveral Copies of Verſes in Praiſe of this Play, writ by the Students of Oxon, 22 \ SUPPO- we Y9 WW yo P *., 4,» - _ - , « . F % —_— — 4 « a the SY a U . - 4 Ai 4 7 , SUPPOSED AUTHORS. B. 3. NDER theſe Letters are printed theſe Two Plays : Guy, Earl of Warwick; . .a Tragedy, 4to. ſaid hy ſome to be writ by Ben. Johnſon, tho much: inferior to "the Works of that excellent Poet. The Baſhful Lovers, 'a Tragi-Comedy, 8w. 1655+ ated at the Black-Fryars, by his Majeſty's Servants. E. M. | e TJ iis Author writ one Play, calld, _ Saint Cecily ; or, The Converted Twins, a Tragedy, 4to. 1667. ſuppoſed to be - writ by Mr. Matthew Medbourn, the Comedian, and dedicated to Queen Catharine. Plot From Euſebins, Epiphanins, Baronits, &c. N. N. Ome's Fullies; or, The Amorous Fryars; a Comedy, as it was lately ated at a Perſon of Quality's Houſe, 4to. 1681. This | Play (which has been omitted by Mr.Langbain) is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Anthony, Earl of Shaft sbury, There's not enough in this Play to recommend it to the nicer Judges of Poe- try : Inſtead of the Author's Name, we only find the Two Let» ters above-mentioned, W. N. no_—_ Divertiſement ; or, An Interlude for the general Entertainment of the County Feaft, held at Merchant Tay- lors-Hall, printed, 4to. 1678. by W. N. and dedicated to the No- bility and Gentry of that Country. NE L 4 Þ. P- 152 / Suppoſed AU WHORS, T. P. Fils Author has publiſhed two Plays : The French Conjurer, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. adted at the Duke's Theatre. Plot part of it from Guſman, in the Stories of Dorido and Cloridia, and the Merchant of Sev/!. | A Witty Combat ; or, The Female Vitor, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1653. a&ed by ſcyeral Perſons of Quality. . Plot from The German _ Frincejs, a Novel, in 80. | | Monſieur PF. FH Tranflator Publiſh'd, : Ariadne; or, The Marriage of Bacch#s ; att Opera, 4to. 1674. ated by the Royal Academy of Mufick at the Theatre Royal, and fedicated to the King ; being a Vocal Repreſentation from the French, and ſet 'to Mufick by Mr. Grabutt, Maſter of the King's Muſick. _ Pe ; F Roades, a Tragedy, 80. 1660, Suppoſed to be writ by Samuel '* Pordage, and taken from Seneca. - EE %a TX, A Tranſlator, who publiſh'd this one Play, call'd, -*, The Extravagant Shepherd, a Paſtoral Comedy, 4to. 1654. and dedicated to Mrs. Thornehill, of Ollantigh, in Kent.. Tranſla- ted from Corneille; Plot founded on Lyſis; of, The Extravagant Shepherd; a Romance, fol. | of > 58; 11 Efe4 WW. R. COiſimaj Ordinary, a Private Shew ; wherein is expreſsd the Jovial Freedom of that Feſtival; as it was ated at a Gentle- man's Holfſe among other Revels ; printed 1682. This is 4 Piece that Falls into -the Number of Dramatick Writings; tho there is not much to recommend it tq this Place. The Author }- . *8, , tf - & +6 XR. Swrſed UT HORS. I53 3s not known, but there are two Letters of his Name put to the Title Page; (viz.) W. R. Maſter of Arts. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth; or, The Reſtauration of the Proteſtant Religion, &c. Mr. S. Maſter of Arts. T HE Author of this ancient Play, printed in a Black Letter, is f_ % 10 by him, A right Pithy, Pleaſant, and Merry Comedy, Gammer Gurton's Needle; a Comedy, 4to. 1 561, ated at Chrift's- College, Cambridge, near a Hundred Years ago. 38 Nder theſe Two Letters are publiſh'd theſe following Plays, Vit. = | - Andromana ; or, The Merchants Wife, a Tragedy, 4to. 1650. Plot from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, in the Story - of Plangws, P. 155. : | ' Maſquerade du Ciel, a Maſque 4to. 1640. and dedicated to the ccn. E vh Phillis of Scyros, a Paſtoral, 4to. 1655. Tranſlated from the Italian of C. Guidubaldo di Bonarelli. | The Prince of Priggs Revels; or, The Praiſes of that grand Thief, Captain Fames Hinde, a Comedy, 4to. This Piece I cou'd never yet get a Sight of, | dS. 9. JF Hs Author publiſh'd only this fingle Play, entituled, | The Meh Lange, a Comedy, 4to. 1516. aQted by the Queen's Servants. ; Þ'E Nder thefe two Letters we may find two Plays printed, viz. U Grim, the Collier of Croyden ; or, The Devil and his Dam, with the Devil of St. Dunſtan's, a Comedy, 819. 1662. Plot from Machiavel's Marriage of Belphegor, a Novel, fol. tis alſo printed with Queredo's Novels, 8v0. and in the Ternary of Plays. * » Troas, a Tragedy, 4to. 1686, tranſlated from Seneca. Go W. 154 ws auBnors C's "is Author 1s ſuppoſed to be Chriſtopher Waſe, late one of the Squire-Beadles of Oxford, who publiſh'd a Play call'd, EleAra, a Tragedy, 12. Hague, 1649. preſented to her High- neſs the Lady Elizabeth. Tranſlated from Sophocles. E.W. N E who does'not pretend to be the Author, but the Occa- fion of publiſhing this ſingle Play ; Apollo Sbrwing, a Comedy, 8w. 15 27. writ by the Maſter of Hadleigh-School 10 Suffolk, and aQed there by his Scholars. 7. W. | Oh theſe two Letters is printed one Play, tall'd, The Valiant Scot. 4to. 1637. publiſh'd by William Bowyer, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Zames, Marques of Hami- For. L.W. Nder theſe two Letters the Author publifſh'd this Play, en- tituled, Orgula; or, The Fatal Error, a Tragedy, 4to. 1658. and dedi- cated to the moſt accompliſh'd Lady, the Lady Frances Wildegooſs ; with a Preface ſhewing the true Nature of Poefie., | M. W. Maſter of' Arts. T E Second Author who has this Play in the Ternary of Plays, VIZ, The Marriage-Broker ; or, The Pander; a Comedy, 80. 1662. Plat from Engliſh Chrotlictes, in the Reipni of Seberf, King of the Weſt Saxons. © opp See UTHORS. ys R.W. THis ancient Author pdbliſh'd a Play many Years ago, which Mr. Langbain gave a wrong Title to, by reaſ6h he never ſawit, and js entituled, The Three Ladies of Zondon. TW. Tot Third Author who has this following Tragedy, i in the Ter- naryof Plays; call'd; Thornby-Abby ; or, The London Maid, a Traged by. and dedi- cated to William Aufiin, Eſq; by R.D. the Publiſher z and tranſla- ted from. Plants. W.W. THE Tranſlator of this following Comedy, call', Manaehmi, a Comedy, 4to. 1515. This Author had ſeveral others tranſlated, tho' never 7 publiſh'd them, UNKNOWN 156 Unknown AUTHORS. A HE Abdicated Prince; or, The Adventures of Four Tears; a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1690. ated at. White- Hall, by ſeveral Perſons of Quality. Abraham's Sacrifice, mentioned in former Catalogues, but Iqueſtion whether it may be properly called a Play, Mr. Zangbain, or my ſelf, having never ſeen it. An Alarum for London ; or, The Siege of Antwerp ; with the Ad- venturous Ads, and Valiant Deeds of the Lame Soldier ; a Trag1- Comedy, 4t0.. 1602. play'd by the Servants of the Right Honoura- ble, the Lord Chamberlain. Plot from the Tragical Hiſtory of the City of Antwerp, 4ta. | Albion, an Inter!ude, mentioned in former Catalogues, but ne- ver met with by Mr. Langbain, or my felt Albion's Triumph, a Maſque, 4to. 1631. perſonated at Court by the King, Queen, and. the Lords, the Sunday after Twelfth- Night, 1631. - | Albumazer, a Comedy, 4to. 1634. playd at Cambridge before the King, by the Gentlemen of Trinity-Colledge ; afterwards revi- ved at the King's Houſe witha new Prologue writ by Mr. Dryden. Aminta, a Paſtoral, 4to. 1628. Tranſlated from Taſſo's Aminta, with Ariadne's Complaint, in Imitation of Anguilara. The Amnrous Gallant , or, Love in Faſhion ; ſometimes under the Title of The Amorous Orontus ; a Comedy, 4to. 1675. Tranſla- ted from a French Play, writ by Th. Corneille, ſtiled, L Amour Alamode; the Plot from a Spaniſh Play writ by Ant. de Solzs, named, El Amvy al Uſo. | The Amotous Old Woman ; or, 'Tis well'if it take; a Comedy, 4 T584: 'tis alſo printed with another Title, call'd, The Fond ' Andronicus, a Tragedy, Impiety's Long Succeſs; or, Heaven's late Revenge, 8v0. 1661. This Play is not. mentioned by Mr. Langbain, nor can [ learn who is the Author thereof. Arden Unknown AUT HORS, C 157 Arden of Feverſham, his true and lamentable Tragedy, who was Fm Murthered by the means of his Wife. wo ing in Love with one Moſebie, hired two. Ruffins, Black Will and Shak- bag to kill him, qto. 1599. Plot from Goodwin, Hayward, Hol- ling ſhead, Baker, and Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments. The Arraignment of Paris, a Paſtoral, ſuppoſed by Kirkman to be Mr. William Shakeſpear's. ; B THE Baniſh'd Duke; or, The Tragedy of Infortunatuo 7; 4to. 1690. ated at the,Theatre R The Battle of Alcazar, Fought in Barbary, between Sebaſtian, King of Portugal ; and Abdelmelech, King of Morocco ; with the Death of Captain Stukely, a Tragedy, 4to.- 1594. atted by the Lord High Admiral's Servants. Plot from Heylin's Coſmography in the _— C —_— -; De rebus Luſitan. by Andr. Schottum, fol. and Fuller's ortnhies. - Band; Ruff, and Cuff ; accounted an Interlude ih former. Cata- logues, but neither Mr. Langbain nor my ſelf, could ever pro- cure the Sight of one. £ The Baſtard, a Tragedy, 4ts. 1552. Plot and part of the Lan- uage is taken from The Loves of Schiarra and Florelia, in the Eng- iſh Lovers. See alſo The Unfortunate Spamard. The Blowdy Duke ; or, The Adventures for a Crown, a Tragi-Co- medy, 4tv. 1690. by the Author of The Abdicated Prince ; ated at the Court of Alba Regalis, by ſeveral Perſons of ql , Bonduca, with an Entertainment of Muſick, Vocal and Inſtru- mental, a Tragedy ated at the Theatre in Dorſet-Garden, 1696. to. and ded icated by Mr. Powel to the Right Honourable, the Lord efferys. This Play on the Revival ( for it is ſcarce to be ſaid more) tho' the two Univerſities club'd to the Alterations, did not ſucceed ſo well as it deſerv'd, conſidering it almoſt all Fletcher's. Braggadocio; or, The Bawd turn'd Puritan, a Comedy, gre. 150. by a Perſon of Quality. x | 6 Aſar's Revenge, a Tragedy, of which I can give no Account. Charles the Firſt, King of England, his Tragedy, 4to. 1649. , and dedicated to King Charles the Second, with a Copy of Veries in Praiſe of it, Plot from Engliſh Chronicles. | | The 158 Unknows AUTHORS. - © The Combat of Caps, a Maſque which is mentioned in divers Ca- | but I could never ſee one. Commmons Condition, a Comedy, of which I can give no Ac- count. The Conſtant Nymph ;, or, The Rambling Shepherd, a Paſtoral, 4to. 1678. aGed at the Duke's Theatre. The Corniſh Comedy, a Comedy, 4to. 1696. adted at the Theatre Royal in Dorſet-Garden, by his Majeſty's: Servants, this Play was writ by a Corniſh Attorney, as I am inform'd, who had better have kept to the other Orfices of the Quil, fo very different from thoſe of Parnaſſus. 'Tis dedicated by Mr. Powel to Chriſtopher Rich, Eſq; one of the Patentees of his Majeſty's Theatre ; and uſher 1n, like ather Plays that miſs of Succeſs, with a Preface 1y its Vindication, kt its Fate be never fo juſt. \ The. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth; or, The Reftauration of the Proteſtant Religion, and the Downfal of the Pope, 4to. 1680. bein a moſt excellent Play, as it was ated both at Bartholomew a= Southwark Fairs, with great Applauſe. This 1s only a Droll, but the Succeſs the Current of the Times gave it, met with a Book- ſeller to make it paſs the Preſs; but there 1s no great Poetry to be expected from it, or any Maſtery of Deſign or Condu@; yet if the Readers have a mind to ſee a particular Account of the Tranſ- aQtions of that glorious Queen, I wou'd adviſe them, beſides our Chronicles of Stow, Speed, Baker, (5c. to read the great Cambden's Elizabeth, and Dr. Burnet's Hiſtory of the Reformation. The Coſtly Whore, a comical Hiſtory, 4to' 1633. ated by the Company of Revels. ; The Contention between York and Lancaſter, two: Parts, «th the 'Death of the good Duke Humphrey, and the Baniſkment an Death of #he Duke of Suffolk, and the Tragical End of the Proud Cardinal of Wincheſter, with the notable Rebellion, of Jack Cade, and the-Duke of York's firft Claim to the' Crown, a Tragedy, 4to. 1500. This Play _ "7 little from the ſecond Part of Shakeſpear's Henry the Stxth, fol. The Counterfeits, a Comedy, 4to. 1679. ated at the Duke's Theatre. Plot from a tranflated Spaniſh Novel, called, - The Tra- panner Trapann'd, 849. 1555. Some account this Play to be Fohn Leanard's, a great Plagiary. The Counterfeit Bridegroom ; or, The' Defeated Widow ; a Comedy, 4to. 1677. ated at his Royal Highneſs the Duke's Theatre. Tis only an old Play of Middlegon's calld, No "Wit like a Woman's, 80. .Cromwelf's Conſpiracy, a Tragi-Comedy. This I neyer ſaw. - Cruel Unknown AUTHORS. B 159 Creel Dejeer, a Play only nam'd by Mr. Kirkman, but I never aw any ſuch. Tugid' s whe, + - a Weary” 4% I616. ſeveral times acted by the Children of his Majeſty's Revels, and dedicated by the Publiſh- er, to Mr. Rob. Hayman. Plot, Baccace's Novels, ful. Cyrus, King of Perſia ; a Tragedy. D Amon and Pythias, a Hiſtory. Darius, ( ſtiled) a pretty new Interlude, both pithy and Pleaſant, of the Stary of King Dari, being taken out of the third and fourth Chapter Gf Eſdras. Lond. 1565. 4to. This is a good ald Play, and the Author has ſo contriv'd it, that Six Perſons gay eaſily a& it, | The Title Page refers the Reader to the Place where (if his Curioſity requires it) he may read the Story. The Debauchee ; or, The Crednlows Cuckold ; a Comedy, 4to. 1677. ated at his Highneſs the Duke of York's Theatre.. *Tis a Play of Broome's reviv'd, calld, 4 Mad Couple well match'd. The Deſtrudtion of Jeruſalem, Dick Scorner, mentioned tobe a Play 1n Mr. Kirkman's Catalogue. : The Drvine Maſque, 4to. dedicated to General Monk, by one Anthany Sadler. | E Dward the Third, his Reign, a Hiſtory, 4to. 1599. ſundry times E play'd about the City of London. Plot from our old Engliſh Chronicles. . Edward the Third, with the Fall of Mortimer, Zar! of March, a Hiſtory, 4to. 1690. aRed at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſti Servants; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry; Lor Viſcount” Sidney. Plot from the Engliſh Chronicles, vide Walſing- ham, du Cheſue, Grafton, Stow, Speed, M.Weſtminſler, Fabian, Fro- iſart, Pol. Virgil, Hollinzſhead, qc. as alſo Aſchaſins Major, and 4 Novel tranſlated from the French, ſtiled, -The Counteſs of Saliſ+ ry, 8v0. | Elvira , or, The Worſt not always True ; a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1667. This 1s by ſame aſcribed to the Lord Dighy. D The Empreſs of Morocco, a Farce, 4to. 1674. ated by his Maje- ſty's Servants. Said to be writ by Tho. Duffet. Engliſh Men for Money; or, 4 Woman will have her Will; a very pleaſant Comedy, 4to. 1656, often afted with great Applauſe. The 160 Unknown AUTHORS. F The Engliſh Princes ; or, The Death of Richard the Third; a Tra- gedy, 4to. 1673. This Play is aſcribed to John Care!, and writ in Heroick Verſe. Plot from Hollingſhead, Speed, Baker, Stow, Fabian; Grafton, Pol. Virgil; oye. | Enough's as good as d Feaſt, a Comedy. Every Woman in her Humour, a Comedy, 4to. 609. F T HE Fa#ious Citizen; or, The Melancholy Viſioner ; a Comedy; 4to. 1685. atted at the Duke's Theatre. EY The Faithful Shepherd, a Paſtoral, 4to. Plot from Guarini's 1! Paftor Fido, Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Mancheſter ; with the Love of William the Conqueror, a pleaſant Comedy,gqtc. 1631. often ated in the City 'of London, by the Servants of the Right Honourable, the Lord Strange. .. | The Fairy Queen, an Opera, 4to. 1692. repreſented at the Queen's Theatre, by their Majeſties Servants. There's a Preface prefixt to it, in Defence of Opera's, gc. Tis wholly borrowed from the Midſummer-Night's Dream, of Shakeſpear, tho' there is no ſuch Acknowledgment by this Author. | The Fair Maid of Briſtow, a Comedy, 4to. 1605. play'd before the King and Queen at Hampton Court. The Falſe Favourite Diſgrac'd, and the Reward of Loyalty ; a Tra- gi-Comedy, 80. 1657. This Play is aſcribed to George Gerbier D'Owvilly, but never acted. The Fatal Fealouſie, a Tragedy, 4to. 1573. ated at the Duke's Theatre, and aſcribed by ſome to Mr. Pane. Plot from Johannes Gigas's Poſtills ;, ſee alſo Theatre of God's Judgments, part 2: p. 55. Unfortunate Lovers, Nov. 1. | The Feign'd Aſtrologer, a Comedy, * 4to. 1668. 'tranflated from the French of Monſieur Corneille, Funior. Plot -from' Calderon's El Aſtrologo fingido. Fidele and Fortunatus, in former Catalogues has been aſcribed to one Barker. | Flora's Vagaries, a Comedy, 4to. 1670. afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants ; aſcribed to Mr. Rhodes. Plot is *founded on Boccace's Third Day, Nov. 3. The Folly of Prieſtcraft, a Comedy, 4to. 1690. | The Fond Lady, a Comedy, - 4to. ' The ſame with The Amorowus Old Woman, only different Titles, D | Free-” = k [7% , Free-Will, a Tragedy, tranſlated from the Italian, by X.. C, /poſedd' to be Henry Cheek. 2s " Fulgins and Lucrelle, 1 can ſay nothing of this Play, having ne- yer ſeen it. G TH E Gentile Craft, ſee Shomakers Holiday, which is the ſame Play. The Ghoſt; or, The Woman wears the Breeches, a Comedy, writ in the Year, 1640. and printed 4fo. 1650. H THE Heetor; or, The Falſe Challenge; a Comedy, 4to. 1555. Henry the Fifth, with the Battel of Agen-Court ;, a Hiltory, 4to; 1617. ated by the King's Majeſty's Servants. Plot from the Engliſh Chronicles, viz. Stow, Speed, Baker, gc. Hiſtriomaſtrix,; or, The Player whipt, a.Comedy, 4to. 1610. This Play was writ in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Hoffman his Tragedy; or, A Revenge for a Father; ated with _ great Applauſe, at the Phenix in Drury-Lane, dedicated by Hugh Perry, to his Honoured Friend Mr. Richard Kijlvert; How to chuſe a good Wife fram a Bad one, a pleaſant conceited Comedy, 40. 1634. ſeveral times ated by the ſeryants of the Earl of Worceſter. The Foundation of this Play is taken from a Ncye in Cynthio Girald?, Dec. 3. Nov. $5. the Story of Anſelmes ſaving af - young Arthur's Wife, is related in ſeveral Novels, viae the Ninth Novel of 'The Pleaſant Companion (printed in 8v0. London, 1584) ſtil'd, Love in the Grave, I Ack Drums Entertainment ;, or, The Comedy of Paſquit and Cathe- rine, 4to. 1616. ſeveral times afted by the Children of Pauls. ammon's poyſoning of Catherine's Face, reſembles the Uſage of Demagira to Parthenia, in Argulys and Parthenia, Fack Jugler, a Comedy, according to old Catalogues, but I could never procure one, 4 CORD Fack Straw's Life and Death, a notorious Rebelin England, who was kill'd in Smithfield by the Lord Mayor of London, 4#0, 1 594- This Play is divided into but Four ax Plot in the Engliſh rag Ws | mcles, Unborn AUTHORS, I' 6x mn "* Oe IT RIO CR 162 Unknown AUTHORS. K | nicles, viz. Baker, Speed, Stow, &c. in the Reign of King Richard Jacob and Eſau, an Interlude, this Play, as it is eaſy to be per- ceived, is founded on Scripture. See Geneſis, Chap. 25, 26, ggc. $ce allo Joſephus, Lib. 1. Tornelli Annales, &c. Fames the Fourth, a Hiſtory. The Play is founded on the King of Scotland of that Name. Feronymo, the Firſt Part, with the Wars of Portugal ; or, The Spaniſh Tragedy, a Tragedy, 4to. 1605. containing the Life and Death of John Andrea. ; Jeronymo is mad again; or, The Spaniſh Tragedy; a Tragedy, containing the lamentable End of D. Horatio and Bellimperin, with the pitiful Death of - Feronymo, 4to. 1623. There are ſome Au- thors that have quoted ſeveral Lines out of this Play, viz. Ben. Fohnſon in Every Man in his Humour, Shirley in his Bird in a Cage, Ce Tmpatient Poverty, ſtiled a Comedy by ſome Catalogues. The Imperial Tragedy ; fol. 1669. a&ed at the Nurſery in Barbi- can, Plot from Marcellimus and Caſfiodoris, in their Chronicles about Zenon ; ſee alſo, Baronius, Godeau, Zonarus, (Fc. 'tis by ſome aſcri- bed to Sir William Killigrew, and tranſlated from the Latin. The Interlude of Touth, a ſerious, old, inſtrufiye Piece, written in Verſe in 40. | obn the Evangeliſt, The Title page of this alſo ſhews the Sub- ze(t Divine. The Fovial Crew ; - or, The Devil turn'd Ranter ; an Interlude, 4to. 1651. This is a Charatter of The Roaring Ranters of thoſe Fimes repreſented in a Comedy. K 'G- Edgar and Alfeda, a Hiſtory, 4to. Plot from Engliſh Chro- nicles. ; | The King. and - Queen's Entertainment at Richmond, after their teaving Oxford, in a Maſque, preſented by the *moſt Illuftrious Prince Charles, September 12. 1636. and dedicated to her Maje- fy, the Queen of Great Britain, by a Copy of Verſes. | A Knack how #0 know an Honeft Man, a Comedy, 4to. 1 $96. Tis entituled a pleaſant conceited Comedy, as it has been fundry times [| play'd about the City of Londgn. A Knack how to know a Knave, a very pleafant and merry Come- dy, 4to. 1594. ſeveral times ated by Edw. Allen, with Kemp's ap- plane Merriments. of the Men of Goreham, in receiving the King into Goteham. Plot from the Story of King Edgar, _ wa Unknows AUTHORS: L 16x "_ and Alfreda ; ſee alfo Walſingham, Grafton, Malmesbury, Stow; Co , The Knave in Grain new vampt, a Comedy, 4to. 1540. ated at the Fortune with very great Applauſe. | Knavery in all Trades; or, The Coffee-Houſe ; a Comedy, 4to: 1664. afted in the Chriſimas Holy-days, by ſeveral Apprentices with great Applauſe. The Knight of the Golden Shield. See Sir Clyomon. | L THE Lady Alimony ; or, The Alimony-Lady ; an excelletit plea- ſant Comedy, 4to. 1659. duly authoriſed, daily ated, and uently followed. The Late Revolution; or, The Happy Change ; 4 Tragi-Comedy, ated throughout the Engliſh Dominions, in the Year 1688. writ- ten by a Perſon of Quality, and printed in 4to. 1690. tht Epi- ſtle Dedicatory is td all true Enghſh Men, gc. This Play or Sto- ry is what the Title Bears, viz. The Tranſattions of the Late King's leaving the Nation. | ; S The Laws of Nature, a Comedy, by former Catalogues; but I queſtion whether any ſuch. The Levellers Levelled ; or, The Independents Conſpiracy to roof out Monarchy ; an Interlude written by Mercurins Pragmatitus, 4to.' 1647. This is dedicated to the late Kiag Charles the Second. Liberality and Prodigality, a Comedy. Lingua; or, The Combat of the Tongue and the-frve Senſes for Superiority ; a pleaſant Comedy, 4to. Mr. Winſtat'y ſays, that O1t- ver Cromwell, the late Uſarper, ated the part of EZa#us, in Cam- bridge, which firſt inſpir'd him with Ambition. NED London Chanticlers, a witty Comedy, full of various and de- lightful Mirth, often ated with great Applauſe, and printed 4to: 1659, | Lock about you, a pleaſant Comedy, 4to. 1600; playd by the Servants of the Right Honourable, Lord High Admiral. - For the Hiſtorical Part, ſee the Engliſh Chronicles ; viz. Baker, Speed, Pol. Virgil, Daniel, oc. in the Reign of King Henry the Second. The Loſt Lady, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 2m ps VEN Lave A-la-mode, a Comedy, 4to. 1663. ated, at Middleſex Houſe, with great Applauſe. This Play is juſtified by the Author who, 1f we believe the Title Page, is a Perſon of Honour, _.. - ' Love's Loadftore, a Comedy, 4to..of which I refer you to the Letter P. where you may find ſome Account of it under the Title of Pathomachia ; or, The Battle of Afffe&#ions ; which is the fame | Play; 1630; | 63S J; 193 M 2 fares - General. —_ > CET CON _ - . . _ _ n . 164 Unknown AUTHORS M Luminalia: or, .The Feſlival of Light z, a Maſque, 4t0. 1637. this was perſonated (the ſame Year) on Shrove-Tueſday-Night, by the Queen's Majeſty and her Ladies. Mc. Inigo Fones afſilted in it. M Anhd ard Wiſdom, a Play mentioned in other Catalogues, M Marcus Tullius Cicero, that famous Orator, his Tragedy, 4to. 1651, writ in Imitation of Catiline's Conſpiracy, by Fohnſon. Plot lutarchin vita Ciceronis, Appian, Dion, Lambin, &c. Marriage of Wit and Science, an Interlude. Maſter Turbulent ; ct, The Melanchilicks; a Comedy, 4to. 1682. as it was atted at the Duke's Theatre. | Maſque of Flowers, 4to. 1614. prefented at the ya, ma. Houſe at White-Ha!l, by the Gentlemen of Grays-Inn, on Twelfth- Night, 1531. It is dedicated to-Sir Francis Bacon, then Attorney Maſſianello, his. Tragedy; or, Th2 Rebellion of Naples ; 8v0. 1631, This 1s dedicated to John Ceſar, of Hyde-Hall, in the County of Hertford, Eſq; Plot from Giraffi's Hiſtory of Naples, Engliſhed .by James Howel. Mercurius Britanicus ; or, The Engliſh Intelligencer ; a Tragi-Co- medy, 4t9. This Play retle&s much upon the Judges, Cook, Hut- ton, and other Perſons concerned 1n the Bufineſs of Ship-Money. It hys but four As. The Merry Devil of Edmonton, a Comedy, 4to. 1555, Plot, Fuller's Church Hiſt» þ. 186. | The M» ning Ramble ; or, The Town-Humours ; a Comedy, 4t9. 1573. afted at the Duke's Theatre. This Play ſome think to be written by one Mr, Pane. Mucedorus, the King's Son of Valencia, and Amadon, the King's Daughter of Arragon ; with the Merry Conceits of Muſe; a Come- dy, 4to. 1658, ated at the Globe, and afterwards before the King -- rem 4 Hall. Suppoſed to be writ by Shakeſfear, and printed Orimerly. Tre Muſe of New-market, containing three Drolls ; viz. The Me- ry Milk Maid's of Tſlington ; . or, The Rambling Gallants defeated: «woe loft in the Dart ;, or, The Drunken Couple : The Politich Whore ;; or, The Conceited Cuchold. 4t.. 1631. ated (as the Title ſays) at New-marhet. All three Drolls ſtollen from other Plays. _ *The Miſtaben Beauty , or, The Lyar; a Comedy, 4to. 1535. afted by their Majeſties Servants, at the Theatre Royal. - Tranſlated from Corneille's Le Ftenteur. N Neg [ 2d, / ed Unknown A U TH OR S. P +265 N N Epgletted Vertue ; or, The Unhappy Conqueror 3 a Play ated at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Servants, 1696. 40. and dedicated by Mr. Horden the Player, to the Honourable, Sir obhn Smith, Baronet, ggc. in which he lets his Patron. know- its 11] Succeſs, and that it's none of his own, and. in that he's much . 1n the Right, for all the Comical Part is taken out of Fletcher. © ' Nero's Tragedy, 4to. writ many Years fince; another bearing the like Title, was writ and publiſh'd by Mr. Lee. Plot or Hiſt. from ' Swefonius in vita Neronis, Aurelins Vitor, Sulvitius Severus, and Tacitus Annal. F- A New Cuſtem, an Interlude, 4fo. 1573. It contains but three Ads, and may beaRed by four Perſons. This being writ in Queen Elizabeth's Time, was purpoſely to vindicate the Reformation, New-market-Fair, the Firſt Part, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. New-market-Fatr ; or, Mrs. Parliament's New Figaries ; the Se- cond Part, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1649. and the Title teils you, writ by the Man in the Moon, and printed at Tow may go look. The Intent of theſe Two Plays are to expoſe the Rebels againſt King Charles the Firſt. | "REA The Nice Wanton, a Comedy. No Body, and Some Body ; with the true Chronicle Hiſtory of Elydure,who was fortunately three times Crown'd King of England, 4to. ated by the Queen's Majeſty's Servants. It is not divided in- to As, For the true Story conſult our Engliſh Chronicles. O N Old Wrves Tale. Orlando Furioſo, One of the Twelve Pters of France; a Hiſt. 4to. 1594. ated before the Queen's Majeſty. It is not divided into Ads : Tranſlated by 5 ir Yaln Harrington from Arioſto's Poem fo called. P Aſtor Fido; or, The Paithful Shepherd; a Paſtoral, 4to. 1502. P written in italian by Guarini, and afterwards ed into Engliſh by this Author, who conceals his Name ; but (if we be- heve the Bookſeller who printed it after his Deceaſe, was a Rela- tion to Sir Edward Dimeck, then Queen Elizabeth's Champion. Sir | BY OE M 23 : Richard pu 166 Unknows AUTHORS. Q Richard Fanſhaw and Mr. Settle have both put their Pens to the ſame Subject. Pathomachia ; or, The Battle of Affeions, Shadowed by a Feign- ed Seige of the City Pathopolis; a Comedy, 4to. 1630. pubhſhed by one Conſtable, and dedicated to the Lord Hunsdon : But is the ſame Play as Love's Loadſtone, only different in Title. ' Patient Fl a Comedy. Plot from Baccace's Nevels, Day 10. Nov. 10. fol. , Pauſanias, the Betrayer of bis Country, a Tragedy, ated at t Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty's Seryants; written by a Perſon Quality, 1696. 4to. and dedicated to Anthony Henly, of the Grange in Hampſhire, Eſq; by Mr. Southern ;, the Epilogue being writ by Mr. Henly, and the Prologue by an unknown Hand. Mr.. Southern informs us in the Epiſtle, that it was put into his Hands by a Per- Ton of Quality ; and that the Play is built on the Model of the An- cients, and according to the Reformation of the French Stage ; and I am of Opinion that there is fomething of the Manly Force of the Ancients in it ; tho” the perverted Judgments of the Town po not reliſh it. The Story you will find in his Life in Plu- Farch. ' The Pedlar's Prophecy, a Comedy. | Philotus, a Comedy, = printed in Scotland, 1612. This Play ſhews the Miichiefs oft-times happening by Old-Age Marrying with Youth. | Piſo's Conſpiracy, a Tragedy, 4to. 1676. ated at the Duke's Theatre. This is no more than the Tragedy of Nero, with a Ti- tle chang'd, and if you compare them, will find no Difference throughout. | * The Presbyterian Laſh; or, Noftroff's Maid Whipt ; a Tragi-Co- medy, 4to. 1651. and, ſays the Title Page, a&ed in the Great Room at the Pye-Tavern at Algate, by. Notroff the Prieſt, and ſe- veral of his Pariſhoners at the eating of a Chine of Beef. The Promiſes of God manifeſted, this has been in former Cata- logues as a Dramatick Piece, but whether it be fo I much queſtion. ' .Pronus and Laſſandia, in Two Parts, | WC 9 THE Queen; or, The Excellency of her Sex ; a Tragi-Comedy, 4fo. £653. pubpliſhed by Alexander Gough, being given him by a Perſon of Honour ; dedicated to the Lady Catharine Hobuy. Plot, part of it from Bande/lo's Novels, and part. from Hiftoires Tragicques par de Belleforsjt, 8:0. BIT if | R The ——_ p.7Y Unknown AUTHORS. R 167 R 7 E Rampant Alderman ; or, News from the Exchange ; a Farce, 4fo. 1685. This 15s taken out of ſeveral other Plays, -as Fine Companion, &c. + rg The Rape ; or, The Innocent Impoſtors, a Tragedy, ated at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, 1692. 4t9. and dedi- cated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex, &yc. This Play was writ by a Divine, tho' introduc'd by our late Layreat, Mr. Shadwel. It met with no great Succeſs, tho it 15 not the worſt of our Engliſh Tragedies. The Reformation, a Comedy, 4to. 1673. ated at the Duke's —— This Play is accounted to be written by Mr. Arrow- mth. The Rehearſal, a Comedy, 4to. 1683. This being an excellent Farce, and aſcribed to the late Duke of Buckingham, as Author, has bore ſeveral Impreſſions, and is frequently ated of late Days. This Play laſhes the ridiculous Modet of our modern Trazedies. The Religious Rebel, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1671. , The Return from Parnaſſus ; or, The Scourge of Simtony, a Come- dy, 4to. 1606. . It was atted by the Students of St. Fobn's Cl- ledge in Cambridge. This Play cenſures the Poets, and 15 the Ori- ginal Dr. Wild's Play, call'd, The Benefice. The Revenge ; or, A Match in Newgate; a Comedy, 4to. 1680. ated at the Duke's Theatre. This is only a Play of Marſton's, called, The Dutch Courtezan, reviv'd and aſcribed to Mrs. Behn. The Rivals, a Tragi-Comedy, 1n 4to. printed 1668. Robin Conſcience, This has been ſtiled a Play, -but is rather an old Dialougue, entituled, Robin Conſcience againft his Father Covernss, his Mather Newguiſe, and bj Sifter Proud Beauty. | Rohm Hod's Paſtoral May Games. Robin Hd and his Crew of Solaters. Romulus and Heyſilia, or, The Sabine War ; a Tragedv, 4t0. - 683. Plot from Livii Hiſt. lib. 1. Ovid Metamarph. lb. 14 C. The Royal Cuckold ; or, Great Baſtard; giving an Account of the Birth and Pedigree, of Lewis le Grand,. tne Firſt French Ring of that Name and Race, a Tragi-Co:nedy, as it is ated by his Im- perial Majeſty's Servants, at the Amphitheatre in Vienna ; tranfle- ted out of the German Language, by Payt Veegeriit, 1695, 4fo. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Edward Ruſſe!, Lord High Admiral of England, dc. This Play was never ated, and is taken from a little Book in 8v0. called, The Secret Hiſtory of Lewis the Fourteenth, 2168 Unknown AUTHORS. S The Royal Maſque at Hampton-Court, 4to. 1604. preſented Zanu- ary the 8th, that Year; perſonated by the Queen's moſt excellent Majeſty, and the Ladies of Honour attending. The Royal Voyage; or, The Iriſh Expedition ; a Tragi-Comedy, to. 1690. You may eaſily conjeRure what the Subjet of this Play is, by its Title and Date, $ Camas Spolia, a ns, 4to. 1639. This was preſented by 3 the King and Queen's Majeſties, on the 21th of Fanuary the ſane Year at White-Hall. The Scenes, Machines -and Ornaments are the Invention of Mr. Inigo Fones, Surveyor General of his Ma- zeſty's Works. What was ſung or ſpoken, was writ by Sir William Davenant ; and the Muficx was compoſed by her Majeſty's Maſter 07 Muſick, Mr. Lewis Richards. 'The Scottiſh Politick Presbyter Slain by an Engliſh Independent ; or, The Independents Vittory over the Presbyterian Party, Sc. a Tra- | £i-Comedy, 4to. 1647. This is a Play of the ſame Claſs with the zormer, and of moſt others that are writ by Anonimous Authors, for the particular Guſt of the Times they are printed in. The Year ot its being printed, thc Title of it ſhews ; where the Rea- dcr may find more of the Grounds of it, viz. ih the Accounts of the Tranſa@ions of thoſe Times. ; She Ventures, and He yiins, a Comedy, a&ed at the New Thea- fre in Little-Lincolns-Tnn- Fields, by his Majsſty's Servants, written by a young Lady, 1695. 4to. The Plot is taken from a very plea- 1ant witty Novel of Mr. Alexander Olds, called, The Fair Extrava- gant ; or, The Humorous Bride. Sicelides, a Piſcatory Dramma, or a Paſtoral, 4to. 1631. ated at King's-Colledge, Cambridge. For the Plot conſult Ovid Meta- morph, lib. 4, & 13. alſo Orlando Furtioſo. Shoomakers Holyday ; or, The Gentle Craft; with the Humorous Liie of Simon Eyre, Shoomaker and Lord Mayor of London, a Co- medy, 4to. 1657. ated before the Queen's moſt excellent Majeſty, by the Right Honourable the Lord High Admiral's Servants. The Story from the old Book, called, The Gentle Craft, 4to. The Siege of Conſtantinople, a Tragedy, 4to. 1675. aGed at the Puke's Theatre. Plot from Heylin's Coſmography, Book 2. in the Deſcription of Greece, Paulus Fovins, Knolles Hift. and Conſtanti- np lis a Mabammada 2da. expugnata, fol.: | The Stege and Surrender of Mons, a Tragi-Comedy, expofing the Villany of the Prieſts, and the Intreagues of the French, 1681. 4to. This' was never ated, and is built on the publick News, and pri- vate Reports of that Sicpe. PER 7.4 | EE - 8 gir ww Rey & 6 2 Rs. Two *. Ae. +. Unknows AUTHORS. 5$S 169 Sir Clyomon, Knight bh the Golden-Shield, Son to the King of Den- mark ; and Clamydes, the White Knight, Son to the King of Suavia, (both Valiant Knights) their Hiſtory, 4to. 1 599. Sir Giles Gooſe-Cap, Knight ; a Comedy, 4to. 1636. ated at the private Houfe in Salisbury-Court, with great Applauſe. , This was publiſh'd by one Perry, and dedicated to Richard Young, Eſq; Sir Solomon ; or, The Cautious Coxcomb; a Comedy, 4to. 1671 acted at his Royal Highneſs, the Duke of York's Theatre, This is' moſtly a Tranſlation from Moliere's L'Ecole des Femmes, and moſt agree done by Mr. Carel. This Play, tho' met with ſome Ene- mies, yet found Succeſs in the Aion ; and afterwards the Author printed a Juſtification of it. Solimon and Perſeda, their Tragedy ; wherein is laid open Love's Conſtancy, Fortune's Inconſtancy, and Death's Triumphs ; 4to. 1599. This n Play, with the before-going long Title, is not divided in- to A The Sophiſter, a Comedy, 4to. 1638. This Play, tho' printed, was not, I believe, ever acted. | The Spaniſh Bawd; or, Caliſto and Melibea, repreſented in Cele-_ ſtina, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 1631. The Play is very long, and, was originally writ in Spaniſh, and done into Engliſh by Don Diego Puedeſer,a Spaniard ; who alſo tranſlated another Book into Engliſh, called, Exemplary Novels, fol. There are Twenty Four Ads in The Spaniſh Bawds. | Sport upon Sport ; Drolls, 8909. This is a ColleQtion of Drolls taken from Plays, by Kirkman, and printed 1673. The Step-Mother, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1664. ated at the The- atre in Little Lincolne-Inn-Fields, by his Highneſs, the Duke of Tork's Servants. The Strange Diſcovery, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1640. Plot and Language from Heliodors's Athiopick, Hiſt. 8v0. Book 10. ; Suſanna's Tears. . The Subjetts Joy; or, The King's Reſtauration, cheerfully made known in a ſacred Maſque, &c. 4to. 1660. dedicated to the Lord General Monk, This Maſque has been omitted by Mr. Langbarn. Swetnam, the Woman- Hater, "arraign'd by Women, a Comedy, 4to, 1620. ated at the Red-Bull, by the Queen's Servants. Plot from an old Spaniſh Book, call'd, Hifloria de Aurelia, Iſabella Hija del Rey de Eſcotia, &c. 12mo. and from an Engliſh Pamphlet, entitu- led, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Jnconſtant Wee fa N. 7 Temye _— > —RI——R—TLY <1 12 = SITIEAG EEE —_ eo ——e—_ ee —_ Re ” OIL oo ——_— ——_— + — . 170 Unknown AUTHORS. T - 2 6 Hy Reſtored a _ 4to, 1631, This was preſented on wh. Shrove-Tueſday, at White-Hall, to his Majeſty, by the Queen and fourteen Ladies of Honour. The Deſcriptions, gg. of 'the Scenes were invented by Mr. Inigo ones. . Therſytes, an Interlude. | Tiberixs (Claudius Nero) his Tragical Life and Death, a Trage- dy, 4fo. 16 . Plot from Suetonius, Dion, Tacitus, &c. Timoleon; or, The Rewlution; a Tragi-Cemedy, London, printed 1697. 4to. and dedicated to his Friend, 7. F. The Comical part is a very good and uſeful Satyr on the Mercenary Temper of many Courtiers of preferring Money to Merit. The Story of Timolenn, is in his Life in Plutarch, and Cornelius Nepos, (5c. Tom Eſſence ; or, The Modiſh Wife; a Comedy, 4te. 1677. This Play ſucceeded well,' and is. ſaid to be writ by one Mr. Rawlins; Part from Molliere's Le Cocu Imaginarie, and part from Corneilles D. Ceſar D' Avalos. x Tom Tyler and his Wife, an Interlude, 4to. graves firſt many Years ago, in an old Enghſh Black Letter, and in a fort of Bur: leſque Verſe. The Drift of the whole Play 1s to repreſent and humble a Shrew. If it be compar'd with Monfieur Porſon's Le S5t Venge, a near reſemblance will appear. A Traytor to Himſelf ; or, Man's Heart his greateſt Enemy ; 4 moral Interlude, in Heroick Verſe, 4to. 1678. This was ated by the Boys of a Publick School at a Breaking up, and publiſh'd that it may be uſeful on the like occaſion. In it are no Womens Parts. Plautius his Captives is writ like it. . The True Trojans ;, or, Fuime Troes; beinga Story of the Britains Valour at the Romans firſt Invaſion; a Hiftory, 4to. 1633. This Play was publickly preſented by the Gentlemen Students of Mag- dalen-College, in Oxm. Plot from Liv. Lib. 5. Ceſar Comment. Lib. 4, and 5. Galfridus ap. Arthur Monumetenſis. De Geftis Re- gum Britannie, Lib. 4. ©. A Tryal of Chivalry, 4to. Wanting the Title Page, I'm jgnorart of the Date and Place of its a&ing. Tryal of Treaſure. The Triumphs of Virtue, a Tragi-Comedy, aQted at the Theatre Royal, 1697. by his Majeſty's Servants. Thio' this Play ſucceeded not, it ſeems, among a great many Faults of Language, not to want ſome Merit; and had the Style and Language been as good as.the Deſign, it could not have faifd of Applauſe. The Begin- ;ng ſeems to be borrowed from Fletcher's Wit without Money ; and great Uzkbrown AUTHORS. W 17x great = of the Charatter of Antonio (if I'm not miſtaken) is co- pied from thence. : Tunbridge-Wells; or, A Day's Courtſbip, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. ated at the Duke's Theatre. This is thought to be writ Mr. Rawlins, tho' the Title fays, by a Perſon of Quality, This does not equal Epſom-Wells, | Twamical Government. O T HE Unfortunate Uſurper, a «Tragedy, 4to. 1663. dedicated to Mr. Edward Umferville. The fame Story of Andronicus Comments, 1s writ by one Wilſon, before-mentioned ; which Play I | fake to excel this, but in this, A& 5. Scene 3. we have a Paral- le] between thoſe Times, and our late Civil Wars. The Ungrateful Favourite, a Tragedy, 4tv. 1664. writ by a Per- | ſon of Honour ; but I do not find it was ever ated. See Guicciar- ' | dine Pontanus, and other Writers on the Afffairs of Naples, 14 A Warning for Fair Women, a Tragedy, 4to. 1599, The Title tells you 1t contains the moſt Tragical and Lamenta- | ble Murther of Mr. George Sanders, of London, Merchant, near ' | Shooters- Hill. | The Weakeſt goes to the Wall, a Comedy, 4to. 1618. ated by * | the Right Honourable, the Earl of Oxon, Lord Great C of England's Servants. Wealth and Health. | Wily Beguiled, a pleaſant Comedy, 4to. The Chief ARors ih the Comedy are a Poor Scholar, a Rich'Fool, and a Knave at a Shift. Wine, Beer, Ale and Tobacco, contending for Superiority ; incerted in former Catalogues as an Interlude, but 1s no other than a Dia- logue, 4to, 1658. # | % Win her and Take her; or, Old Fools will be Medling; a Come- dy, 4to. 1691. adted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Ser- yants ; and is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Peregrine, Earl - of Danby, Viſcount Latimer, &c. by Mr. Underhill. | The Wit of a Woman, a pleaſant merry Comedy, 4to. 1604- 172 Unknown AUTHORS. W The Wits led by the Noſe; or, A Poets Revenge ; a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1578. ated at the Theatre Royal, great part of it is taken from Chamberlain's Love's Viftory. | Woman turn'd Bully, a Comedy, 4to. 1675. ated at the Duke's TR This . Play met not with that Succeſs as was cx- ay Woman will have her Will, See Engliſh Men for Money, — THE mp, *» wy > ,eL.4a495> © -O GY FE H-E APPENDIX. REAT Part of theſe Sheets having been printed a good while, as occafion'd a Neceſſity of this Supple- ment to compleat the Deſign of the Book, in giving the Reader an Account of all the Plays that have been hi- therto printed ;' ſome whereof were accidentally omitted in their proper Places. 4+ Known AUTHORS. Thomas Dilke. HIS Author has lately publiſh'd another Comedy, call'd, 'T The Pretenders ; or, The Town Unmask'd, a Comedy, afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Fields, by his Majeſty's Servants ; and dedicated to Thomas Barnadiſton, of Ketton, in Suffolk , Eſq; I have little to fay to this Play, for 'tis not fair to attack a Man that's down, tho' I do not. think (conſidering what Plays have pleas'd) that this ought to have met with ſo ſeyere a Fate, Vain- throat: ſeems a Copy of Medley, and Scandal! ; Sir Bellamour, a + faint Shadow of the Plain Dealer, or at leaſt of Blunt in The Com- mittee; Captain Bounceby we have had in various Plays, as The Squire of Alſatia, Old Batchelor, Epſom Wells, &c. Since the Mif- carriage of this Play, the Author died, | Thomas D'Urfey. F His Author has lately publiſh'd another Play, call'd, The Campaigners, or, The Pleaſant Adventures at Bruſſels ; with a Familiar Preface upon a late Reformer of the Stage ; ending with : - 1 ; iz 1 ! u - _ ——O— _— Cn —_—_ —_ - w» _—_ —_ - Þ— um Ol ICE OIRoy To ae SALT one Wo Won WS Omen 2 ———_ - ” _—_— =— - —_ —- - TR OE ITS. nc. — 194 — The APPENDIX. a Satyrical Fable of the Dog and the Ortor, 1698. 4to. 'Tis dedica- ted to the Right Honourable, Thomas, Lord Wharton, oyc. The Intreague and Diſcovery betwixt Madam Lz Marguiſe, and the Colonel! is borrowed from a Novel or Memoir, called, Female Charles Gildon. 7 5s Author, being known tos late to be brought in the Order of the Alphabet, I have placid him here in the Appendix, with an Account of thoſe two Plays he has already Publiſh'd, and are own'd by him, the' his Name, without his Conſent, was omit- ted in the Imprefſions of the Plays. He is, as I'm 1nferm'd, a Ge n born at Gillingham, near Shaftsbury, in the County of Dorſet. His Parents and Family were 4!] of the Romiſh Perſuaſwon, and in the time of the Civil War, doubly incur'd the Penalties of the Prevailing Side both as en- gag'd in the Royal Party, and as Recuſants in Religion ; for which, after the Plunderiags of the War, his Grandfather paid two thirds . of his Eſtate,. all the Time of that Government. His Father was of the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn, and tho! a great Zealot for the Faith he was born in, he cou'd not convey that Zeal to his Son, our Author, whom he dying, left but Nine Years of Age, having ſold. the beſt part of the Eſtate that our Author was born to, before he died. Gillingham, the Place of his Nativity, gave our Author the firſt Rudiments of Learning, under a very Hopeſt and Learned Ma- ſter, one Mr. Zoung, Thence his Relations ſent him to the Eng- liſh Colledpe of Sconlar, Prieſts at Doway in Hainault, with a defign of making him a Preeft, if his Inclination cou'd away with that | Funton ; which was ſuppos'd the beſt Support of a Gentleman J- whoſe Fortunes and Religion could, promiſe him no creater Advan- . tage. But aiter Five Years Study there, ' he found his Inclinath/ ons point him another way; and at the Age of about Nineteen he returns for England; and as ſoon as One and Twenty, put it into his Power of enjoying thoſe Pleaſures that Age generally Þ par he came to London, where having ſpent the Remainder of is Paternal Eſtate, betwizt Two or Three and Twenty he married; and moſt of the Reign of King Fames, he ſpent in reading the j Controverſies of that Time; being diflatisfied with ſeveral of the Tenentsof the Church of Rome, that he had imbib'd with his Mo- ther's Milk, as they fay. In him there was an Example how diff- cult a thing it is, to overcome the Prejudice of uy ap n; for IJ —Yy _ yy y_ am aflur'd that it coſt him above Sevea Years Study a nteſt; before, he coul:! entirely ſhake off all thoſe Opimonsthat hadJ grown up with him from a -_ tho' he cou'd not anſ.ver wh AO MPAS ODS himſelf Y WFR—"R —— FR Boone ang mn "PR Citherea 134} Covent-Garden 103 City Bride 67] Covent-Gargen Weeded * 13 City Heireſs 9 | Counterfeit Bridegroom 158 City Lady ' 38 | Counterfeits thid, City Madam 94 | Country Captain 104 City Match 90 | Country Girl 12 City Night Cap 35 | Country Innocence 85 City Politicks 29| Country Wake 29 City Wit 13j{ Country Wife 159 Citizen turn'd Gent, 116| Country Wit 29 Claricella ' 7 83 } Couragious Turk 64 Cleomenes 2 } Court Beggar 13 Cleopatra 96 | Court Secret 122 Cloridia 78; Coxcomb I: Clouds 137 | Crxſus >. \ Coblers Prophecy 149) Gromwel's Life and Death 127 EET - 4G, | Crom- F ok =" ky ts. 4 CO tle . DBM A. es os * Cruel Debtor 159 Cuckold's Haven 139 Cunning Lovers I2 Cupid and Death 132 Cupid's Revenge 58 Cupid's Whirligig 159 Cure for a Cuckold 147 Cromwel's Couſpiracy pag. 158 Cruel Brother 33 Cuſtom of the Country 58 Cutter of Coleman-ſtreet 27 Cymbeline's Tragedy 127 Cynthia's Revels 78 Cynthia's Revenge 137 Cyrus King of Perſia 159 + Cyrus the Great 6 | D Ame Dobſon x16 Damoylſelle I3 Damoyſell's A-la-mode $6 Damon and Pythias r59 Darius 4,159 Darius, King of Perſia 29, David and Bethſhabe I1O Debauchee I59 Deorum Dona 8 Deſerving Favourite I5 Deſtruction of Jeruſalem 29,159 Deſtru&tion of Troy Devil's an Aſs 8 Devil's Charter 71 Devil's Law-caſe 147 Devil of a Wife 76 Dick Scorner I59 Dido Q. of Carthage 92,104 Diſappointment 135 Diſobedient Child 77 Diſtra&ted State 140 Diſtrefles 33 Ktrefſed Innocence 122 inc Comedian I41 Divine Maſque 159 DoRor Dodipole _ Door Fauſtus The INDE Xx. | with the Humours of Harle- quin and Scaramouch 102 Don Carlos 108 Don Quixot 5Q Don Sebaſtian 44 Double Dealer 22 Double Marriage 58 Doubtful Heir 132 Duke and no Duke 139 Duke Guiſe 144 Duke of Lerma, ſee Great Fa- vourite. Duke of Millain 82,95 Duke's Miſtreſs 132 Dumb Xnight 95 Dumb Lady 385 Dutch Courtezan 93 Dutch Lover 9 Dutcheſs Malfey 147 Dutcheſs of Suffolk 79 E Aſtward Hoe 19 Edgar 120 Edward I, 110 Edward II. 06 Edward III. | I59 w—- With the Fall of Mortimer ib. Edward IV. 70 61] Elder Brother $8 Ele&ra 154 Elvira 159 Emperor of the Eaſt 95 Emperor of the Moon 9 Empreſs of Morocco 123,159 Enchanted Lovers 88 Endymion 87 Engliſh Fryar 29 Englih Lawyer 116 Englt/h Men for Money 159 Er-liſh Monſieur 75 Euzliſh Moor I3 Enzlifh Princeſs I60 Engliſh Rogue I41T Engliſh Traveller Doctor Fauſtus's Life and Death, 70 Enough's as good as 2 Feait 1609 Enter- Entertainment of the K. and Q. at High-Gate pag- 78 Entertainment of the K. of Engl. and Denm. at Theobalds 78 Entertainment at K. James I. Coronation ibid. Entertainment of K.” James 1. and Q. Ann at Theobalds ib:d. Entertainment , of the Q. and Prince at Althrop 33 Entertainment on the Prince's Birth-day 103 Epſom Wells 124 Ci: Aſop 143 Erminia . 56 Evening's Love 45 Every Man in his Humour 78 Every Man out of his Humour ibid. Every Wom. in her Humour 159 Eunuchus 11 Example 132 Excommunicated Prince 8 Extravagant Shepherd 152 F Aious Citizen 160 Fair Em tbid. Fair Favourite 34 Fair Irerſe 139 Fair Maid of Briſtow 160 Fair Maid of the Exchange 70 Fair Maid of the Inn 58 Fair Maid of the Welt 70 Fair Quarrel 98 Fairy Queen 160 Faithful Shepherd ibid. Faithful Shepherdeſs 58 Falſe Favourite diſgracd 160 Falſe Count | 9 Falſe one 58 Family of Love” 98 Fancies G1 Fancies Chaſt and Noble 61 Fancies Feſtivals 81 Fatal Contrat The INDEX. . 9% Fatal Dowry A Fatal Jealouſy " = Fatal Love 123 Fatal Marriage 135 Fatal Miſtae 68 Fawn Feignd Aſtrologer 160 rk CO 9 emale Academ 105 Female Prelate F Jemab,, 23 Femal Vertuoſo fy UYV®T. 149 Ferrex and Porrex "J A 107 Fidele and Fortunatus 160 Fine Companion 93 Fleir 130 Floating Iſland 137 Flora's Vagaries 160 Folly of Prieſtcraft 160 Fond Husband $0 Fond Lady 160 Fool turn'd Critick $0 Fool wou'd bea Favourite 15g Fools Preferment $0 Forc'd Marriage Fortunate Iſles 7B Fortunatus 36 Fortunate by Land and Sea 70 Fortune Hunters 16 Four London Prentices 70 Four Plays, or Moral Repreſenta- tions $8 Four P's -69 Four Plays in one 58 Fox 8r Free W1ll IST French Conjurer 152 Friendſhip in Faſhion 108 Fryar Bacon 67 Fulgius and Lucrelle 16 G rFNAlathea 87 Game at Cheſs 198 Gameſter 132 Gam. Gurton's Needle $52 Generous Enemies 26 The INDEX. Gentle-Craft pag. 161 Gentleman Dancing Maſter 150 Gentleman of Venice 132 Gentlemen of Verona 129 Gentleman Uſher 18 Ghoſt IG61 Glaſs of Government 63 Gloriana 85 Goblibs 138 Goldenge Reſtored — 58 | e eſtor 7 Gorbodlich* 107 Grateful Servant 132 Great Duke of Florence 95 Great Favourite 75 Green's Tu Quoque 26 Greenwich Park 102 Grim, the Collier of Croyden 153 Gripus and Hegio 8 Guardian 27,95 Guy of Warwick I51 Guzman II H Amlet Paince of Denmark 127 Hannibal and Scipio 103 Heautontimorumenos "11 HeG@or of Germany 134 HeQors I14 Hecyra II Heir 97 Heir of Morocco 123 Hell's HigherCourt of Juſtice 152 Henry lH. 5 Henry IIL. of France 130 Henry TV. 127 Henry V. IT.I21 Henry VI. thid, Henry VI. Part 1. with the Death ' » of the D. of Glouceſter 29 Henry VI. Part 2. or, The Miſeries of Civil War 30 Henry VIII. 127 Heraclius Is Hercules Furens 9 Hercuſes Oetus pag. 138 Hero and Leander 137 Herod and Antipater 92,120 Herod and Mariamne 112 Herod the Great IT Heroick Loye 16,55 Hey for Honeſty I15 Hic & Ubique 68 Hiſtriomaſtix I6T Hoffman's Tragedy tbid, Hog hath loſt his Pearl I4L Hollander 64 Holland's Leaguer 93. Honeſt Lawyer Is Honeſt Man's Fortune 5 Honeſt Whore 36 Honoria and Mammon 132 Honour of Wales Horace 26,111 Horatius 88 How to chuſe a good Wife from a Bad IGT Humorous Courtier 133 Humorous Days Mirth 13 Humorous Lieutenant 58 Humorous Lovers 04 Humoriſts 124 Humour out of Breath 35 Huntingdon's Nivertiſement 1 51 Husband hjs own Cuckold 47 Hyde Park 132 Hymenz1 78 Hymen's Triumph 32 Hyppolitus 114,138 AckDrum's Entertainment 16 r ack Jugler 1bid. Jack Straw's Life and Death 76:4. Jacob and Eſau 162 James the Fourth ibid. Ibrahim 111,123 Ibrahim XIII, Emperor of the Turks. Rf Jealous Lovers I1I5 Jeron ymo 162 Jew + 'The I N. ew of Malta pag- A | w's Tragedy 69 this been't a good Play, = Devils in't 3 If you know not me, you know no.,Body | 71 Ignoramus * 152 Impatient Poverty 162 Imperial Tragedy Imperiale 83,165 Impoſture 133 Inchanted Lovers 88 Indian Emperor + ha Indian Queen Ingratitude of a conbaniti 139 Injured Lovers 102 gopured Princeſs $0 nner-Femple Mafque 99 Innocent Miſtriſs IT Innocent Uſurper 6 Infatiate Countefs 93 Interlude of Youth 162 Intreagues of Verſailles 50 ocaſta 63 ohn the Evangel. 162 ohn K. of England 125 ohn and Matilda 35 oſeph 65 ſept? s Affli tions ovial Crew 13,162 riſh Maſque 79 Iron Age 70 Iſland Princeſs 58 Ifle of Gulls 35 Italian Husband I16 Juliana Princeſs of Poland 3o Tulius Czfar 4,128 uſt General 91 uſt Italian 34 Ing Arthur 45 K Kind Keeper 6 King and no King | D E X. King Lear and his 3 Daughters, ſee Lear K. of had, « King and Queen's Entertainment at Richmond ' 162 King's Entertainmenat Welbeck 79 Knack to know an Honeſt Man 162 Knack to know a Knave ibid. Knave in Grain 163 Knavery 1n all Trades tbid, Knight of the Burning Peſtle 59 Knight of the Gold den-Shield, ſee St. Clyomon Knight of Malta 59 L Br Alimony x63 Lady Contemplation xros Lady Errant 16 Lady of Pleaſure 133 Ladies Priviledge 64 Ladies Tryal 61 Lancaſh. Witches 71,124 Landgartha r4 Late Revolution 163 Law againſt Loyers 34 Law Tricks 36 Laws of Candy 59 Laws of Nature I63 Lear's Traged 128,149, Levyellers levelled 163 Liberality and Prodigality ibid. Libertine 124 Kiog Edgar and Alfreda 1 117,162 2 4 Like will to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier 63 Lingua 163 Little French Lawyer 59 Locrine 128 London Chanticleers 163 London Cuckolds 17 London Prodygal r28 Longer thou liv'ſt, the more Fool thoy art 146 Aber y about you 16 #: ” a L A /; 44 Treas Ee re 2 on a Hs HT Th INDEX. Logking-glaſs for London and | Loving Enemies pag: 859 England pag. 67,88 | Loyal Brother 135,142 Loſt Lady +63 | Loyal General 140 Loſt Lover 91 | Loyal Lovers 91 Love A-la-mode 163 | Loyal Subject 59 Love and Honour 24 | Lucius Junius Brutus 85 Love for Love 22 | Lucky Chance | 9 Love for Money 51 | Luminalia .163 Love and Revenge 123| Luſts Dominion 92 Love and War 97 | Luſty Juventus 146 Love Crowns the End 140 | Lyer, ſee Miſtaken Beauty Love freed from Ignorance 79 M Love only for Love's Sake 55 a gAckbeth 128 Lovein a Tub '$3 Nad Conple well matcht Love in a Wood I 50 | I3 Love in its Extaſy 110 | Mad World my Maſte 99 Love in the Dark 54 | Mad Lover $9 Love Reſtored 79 | Madam Fickle SI Love-fick Court 13 | Magnetick Lady 79 Love-fick King x2 | Maid of Honour 95 Love Tricks 133 | Maid in the Mill 59 Love Triumphant 45 | Maiden Queen, ſee Secret Love. Love's Adventures 105 | Maiden-head well loſt 7I Love's Cruelty ibid. | Maid's Metamorphoſis 87 Love's Cure $9 | Maids of Moorclack 4 Love's Dominion 56 | Maid's Revenge 133 Love's a Jeſt 101 | Maid's Tragedy $9,146 Love's Kingdom Tbid. | Male-content 93 Love's Labour loſt 128 | Mall * 152 Love's Labyrinth 62 | Mamamouchi, ſee Cit.turn'dGent. Love's Laſt Shift 20 | Manhood and Wiſdom 164 Love's Loadftone 163 | Man of Mode 53 Loves of Mars and Venus bid. | Man of New-market 74 Love's Triumph thro! Calipolis | Man's the Maſter 34 79 | Marriage A-la-mode 46 Lovers Melancholy 61 | Marriage Broker 154 Lovers Progreſs 59 | Marriage Hater match'd SI Lovers Metamorphoſis 87 | Marriage Night - 55 Lovers Miſtreſs 714 Marriage of Oceanus and Britan- Lovers Pilgrimage $9 |. nia $57 Lovers Riddle 28] Marriage of the Arts 72 Lovers Sacrifice - 61 | Marriage of Wit and Science 164 Lovers Triumph 26 | Married Beau 30 Lovers Vidtory 459} Mariam 14 "Lovers Welcome 751 Marcelia II , '-þ Marcus T O_ WY _=_ © ip OO in a OO OE 1 I IS PI Thee INDE X. Marcus Tullius Cicero 1644 Marius and Scilla, ſee Wounds of Civil War. Fe Martyr | Martyred Soldier I31 Mary Magdalen's Repentance 145 Mary, Q. of Scotland ; ſee Iſland ens. Maſque at Berthie 21 Maſque at the Lord Haddington's ' Houſe | 79 Maſque at Lord Hayes Houſe 79 Maſque at Ludlow Caſtle 100 Maſque of Augurs 79 Maſque of Flowers 164 - Maſque of Grays-Inn 59 Maſque of Owls 79 Maſque of Queens ibid, Maſque of the Middle Temple and Lincolns-Inn Gent. 19 Maſquerade du Ciel 153 Maſlacree at Paris 86,92 Maſlacree of Paris MaſTianello 164 Maſter Anthony II Maſter Turbulent 164 Match at Midnight 118 Match me in London 36 Match in Newgate, ſee Revenge. Matrimonial Trouble Io5 May Day * I9 Mayor of Quinborough 99 Meaſure for Meaſure 128 Medea 130,138 Menechmus 155 Merchant of Venice I28 Mercurius Britannicus 164 Mercury vindicated Merry Devil of Edmonton Merry Milk-maids Merry Wives of Windſor Meſlalina 118 Metamorphoſed Gypſies 79 Michaelmas Term 95 Microcoimus 103 Midas / pag. 87 Midſummer Night's Dream 128 Mirza 8 Miſer 125 Miſeries of Civil War, ſee Henry VI. Part 2. | Miſeries of inforc'd Marriage 147 Miſtaken Beauty 164 Miſtakes; or, Falſe Reports 67 Miſtaken Husband 45 Mithridates 66 Mock Duellift * I5E Mock Marriage I2r Mock Tempe 43 Mock Thyeſtes 149 Monſieur D'Olive I9 Monſieur Thomas $9 Money 1s an Aſs 81 More Diflemblers beſides Wo- men 99 Morning Ramble 164 er Fall 79 Mother Bomby 87 Mother Shipton's Life and Death I41T Mourning Eride 22 Mucedorus 164 Much ado about nothing r28 Mulberry Garden 134 Muleafles the Turk 94 Muſe of New-market 164 Muſes Looking-glafs I15 Muſtapha I1 » ; N g—_ 3 Daughters 105 Negletted Vertue 16g Neptune's Triumph Nero's Life and Death 86,16 5 New Cuſtom 165 New Exchange 13 .New Inn 3r New Trick to cheat the Deyil New-market Fair 155 New Way to pay old Debts 95 News The INDE X. Pan's Anniverſary pag. 8 News from Plymouth pag. 34 News from the World in the (Putbiemeat of Bees 2 Moon 80 | Parſon's Wedding 83 Nice Valour $9 | Paſſionate Lover ts Nice Wanton 165 | Paſtor Fido 56 Nicomede 31 | Pathomachia 166 Night Walker $91 Patient Grifle tbid. Noah's Flood 53 | Patrick for Ireland 133 Noble Gentleman ibid. | Pauſanias ibid. Noble Ingratitude 88 | Pedlar's Prophecy 166 Noble Spaniſh Souldicr 119] Peleus and Thetis 76 Notle Stranger 129] Pericles Prince of Tyre 128 No Body and Some Body 165 | Perjured Nun 12 Novel 01 | Perkin Warbeck 6T No Wit, no Help like a Wo- I Philaſter 60 man's 99 | Phillis of Scyros 152 Northern Laſs 13 | Philotas 32 Northward-hoz 36 | Philotus'Scotch | 166 Novella 13; Phoenix 99 O Phoenix in her Flames 88 A\Beron the Fairy Prince 8o | Phormio II Nſtinate Lady 21 | Picture 95 Oftavia 107 | Pilgrim 60,83 Oedipus 45,104 ' Pinder of Wakefield. | Old Batchelour 25 | Piſh's Conſpiracy 166 O!d Caſtle's Hiftory 128 | Pity ſhe's a Whore 61 Old Couple 97 j Platonick Lovers _ 34 Old Law $5,991 Play-houſe to be Lett hid, Oſd Man's Leſſon 12 | Play between John the Husband, Old Troop 25|* and Tib his Wife 69 Old Wives Talc 16s | Play betwixt the Pardoner and Opportunity r33} the Fryar, the. Curate and Ordinary 17] Neighbour Prat — thid. | Oreſtes 541 Play of Gentlenefs and Nobilit Orgula I 54 ibid. Orlando Furioſo 155 | Play of Love. ibid, Ormaſdes 83 | Ply of the Weather ibid, Oroonoko 135 j Plain Dealer 150 Orphan 108 | Plcalure at Kenelworth Caſtle Oſmund the great Turk Is 63 | Othello 128 | Pleaſure reconciled to Virtue 80 Oyia 21 | Plot and no Plot "LO P Plutus TI5Ek FP Allantus and Eudora 82 | Poctaſter 89 Pandora 92 Politician LY + - | | Politiciay” D-E X. Sls The I N Politician Cheated 66 | Revenge p27, 167 Pompey 111 | Regulus - Pompey his Fair Cornelias. 84 | Revenge for Honour ' Poor Man's Comfort 35 | Revengers Tragedy, ſee Loy Poor Scholar 104] Brother matical Jeſuite 16 | Reward of Vertue 62 = cr Laſh 166 | Rhodon and Iris %4 Preſence 105 | Richard the Second 128,140 Prince of Prigg's Revels 153 | Richard the Third 128 Princeſs 83 | Richmond Heireſs "68 Princeſs of Cleve 86 | Rival Friends 68 Priſoners an Rival Kings 7 ProjeQors 9 | Rival Ladies 46 Promiſes of God manifeſted. 166 5| Rival Queens 86 Promus and Caflandra ibid. j Rival Siſters 6s Propheteſs 60 | Rivals 167 Provok'd Wite 144 | Roaring Girl 99 Pſyche 125 | Robert ,. Earl of Huntingdon's Pſyche Debauched 4 Downfal and Death 71 Publick Wooing / 106 | Robin Conſcience ibid. Puritan Widow 128] Robin Hood's Paſtoral May-games 167 Ueen 166 | Robin Hood and his Crew of Sol. Queen and Concubine 13 diers thid. Queen of Arragon 67 | Roman Actor 96 een of Corinth 60 | Roman Empreſs 82 n's Arcadia 32 | Roman Generals 39 Queen's Exchange 13 | Romeo and Julict 129 Queen's Maſque of Beauty 80 | Rome's Follies ISI n's Maſque of Blackneſs jb. | Romulus and Herſilia 167 Nuerer per Sol querer, ſee To | Roundheads Love only for Love's Sake Rover R, Royal Cuckold Aging Turk 65 | Royaliſt R Ram Alley 8 [Royal King and Loyal Subject = | Rambling Juſtice - (Royal Maſque at Hampton-Court Rampant Alderman 168 Rape id. | ' Royal Maſter 133 Rape of Lucrece 71 | Royal Miſchicf FL Rebellion 117 | Royal Shepherdeſs 125 Reformation 167 | Royal Slave 7 Rehearſal ibid. | Royal Voyaze 168 >XReligious 166 | Rule a Wife, and have a Wife Religious Rebel 167 , 60 R_ do 95 | Rump Th 40 fron: Parnaſſus h 7 _ 45 O S Sacrifice . Sampſon Agoniſtes Sapho and Phaon Satyromaſtix Scaramouch, (Fc. School of "Complements Love Tricks Scornful Lady Scots Figaries + Scottiſh Politick Presbyter Scowrers | Sea Voyage dom See mee, and fee me not Sejanus's Fall Selimus Emperor of the Selmdra Sertortus / Several Wits Sforza, Duke of Millain Sham Lawyer She Gallants »-.... Shepheards Holyday tS TS Shepheards Paradice © Shoomaker's a Gentleman Shoomakers Hohday Sicehides Sicily and Naples Srege . Siege of Babylon Siege of Conſtantinople Siege of Meinphis Siege of Rhodes Siege of Urbin Stent Woman Silver Age Sr Anthony Love Sir Barnahy Whig 100 | Str Patient Fancy 87 ; Sir Solomon 136 | Siſters 117 | Six Days Adventure , ſee | Slighted Maid Sociable Companions 60 | Sodom 140 | Soliman and Perſeda 168 | Sophiſter 124 | Sophompaneos 60 | Sophonisba Seven Champions of Chriſten- | Sophy 84 | Soldiers Fortune 10 | Spaniſh Bawd 80 | Spaniſh Curate Turks | Spaniſh Fryar 65 | Spaniſh Gypſies 83 | Spaniſh Regue 5 | Spaniſh Wives 106 | Sparagus Garden 40 | riers 66 | Spightful Siſter She Ventures and he Wins 76:4. | Sport upon Sport "119 | Springs Glory 101 |Squire of Alſatia 118 | Squire old Sap. tbid. | Staple of News 168 | State of Innocence * 152 | Step-mother 17,33 | Strange OY 112 | Subjects 168 | Succeſsfu Steangith 52 | Sullen Lovers 83| ment 80 | Sun's Darling Suppolſes Surprifal 52 Suſanna S "Y or > O 9 & Kr 7 # AVC 169 \ The INDEX | S. | Sir Clyomon , Kmght of the Acrifice Pig. 54| Golden Shield Sad One * 138) | Sir Courtly Nice Sad Shepheard 80 ; Sir Giles Gooſe-Cap Saint Cicely 1511 »Sir Hercules Buffoon Salmacida Spoha 168 | Sir Martin Mar-all 3 65 | Speecnes at Prince Henry's Bar- 80 5 169 103 124 133 80 45 tid. 169 tbid. pac 124 34 | Summers's Laſt Will and Teſta- HH Fhe © INDEX. Swagzering Damoiſelle *p. 17 Swetnam the Woinan- EF Ar- raign'd 4 159: T, TF alc of a Tub 75 Tamberlain the Great 92, I2I Taming of the Shrew 129 Tancred and Giſmond 148 Tartuf 97 Tarugo's Wiles 120 Tempe reſtor'd 170 EF Tempeſt 47,129 Temple 19 Temple of Love 34 Terrence's Comedies. _ 73 The longer thou liv'ſt, the more Fool thou art 146 Thebais 106 Theodoſius 86 Therſytes 21,170 Thomaſo 83 Thornby Abby ISS Thracian Wonder 147 Three Ladies of London 155 Thyerry and Theodoret 60 Thyeſtes 29,69,149 Tiberius (Claudius, Nerg) 170 Time vindicated to himſelf and _ to his Honours \8 Timolion 170 Timon of Athens 125,129 'Tis pity ſhe's a Whore 61 Titus Andronicus I17,129 Titus and Berenice 108 Tom Eſlence | 1%0 Tom Tyler and his Wife ibjd Tottenham Court t03 Town Fop Io Town Shifts | "In Trapolin ſippoſed a Prince 21 Travels of Three Enghſh Bro- thers 36 Traytor . 132 Thx on to himſelf wh I - Treacherous Brother LI 13 Trick for Trick _ | Frick to catch the Old One | -- Triumph of Beauty 133 Triumph of Love and Antiqua Triumph of Peace | N44 Triumph of the Prince D'Amour Triumphs of Vertue os Triumphant Widow 10g Troades I 30,152 Troas | 69,153 Troylus and Creffida 47,129 True Trojans 170 True Widow Tryal of Chiyalry I25 170 _ of Treaſure ihig IL ys wer Wells I7E Twelfth Night I29 Twins 118 Two angry Women of Abington II2 Two Noble Kinſmen 60 Two Tragedies in One I 59 Two Wiſe Men, and all the _-_ Fools Tide Tarrieth for no Man Yo Tyrangical Government - 37x Tyranick Love / vp. FAlentinian _ 1; 00 yY Valiant Scot. 154 Valiant Welchman I9T Varieties 105 Venice preſerv'd tos Very Good Wife 113 Very Woman ek SES | Veſtat Virgin 75 | Vilain I12 O 2 Vir- PL - _- . : =. Virgin Martyr ap. g6 Vir of Avidony £70 IT4 Virtuoſo r78 Vettuous Oftavia I2 Vertuous Wife 52. Vertue betra Viſion of Delight I Viſion of 'the Twelve Goddeffes 32 Unfortunate Lovers 103 Unfortunate Mother 382 Unfortunate Shepheard 142 Utfortunate U! I7I Ungrateful avi tbid. Wha þy Fair _ T39 UdtriPpy Favourite 7 Utdhappy Kindnefs 122 Urinatura! Brother 5” Urnatural Combat Uinatura! Tra dy i% Untruffing the orous Poet, '? ſee Satyromaſtix. ** Volunteers 125 Vow-breaker 120 Afurper '74 Valpone, ſee Fox W Wis of Iſlington and Hogr den | \ Yandrfh; 7 Lover % rning for fait Women I71 Wary Wilkes 25 gg Weakeſt zoes to the Wall 171 Wealth and Health wbid. Weddinz | I 34 Weſtward-hoe 37 What you will 94 When you ſee me you know me I7 "White Devil * Whore of Babylon 37 Wiat's Hiſtory * _ thid. 't% INDEX. yi IV 8c | w Ranter Fo Willow $ Tears T9 Wife for a Month 60 | Wild Gallant 47 7] Wild Gooſe-chaſe 60 Wily beguil'd I7E Win her and take her I7E 171 Winters Tale 129 Wiſe Wonien of Hogſden ' 72 Witch of Edmonton 37,118 Wit at ſeveral Weapons "8 Wit of a Wo | a Wit iti a Conſtable 64 Wit without Money 60 Wits 34 Wits Caba] 105 Wits led by the Noſe 172 Witty Combat © I 52 Witty Fair one 134 Wives Excuſe 135 Woman Captain 126 Woman Hater "61 Woman Hater Arrajgn d, ſe Swetnam | Womdii ih the Moon 87 Woman kita with Kindneſs 72 'd Bully 172 \ cam Ibex exthiereoch 55 oman's Conqueſt HI; 74 Woman's Prize GT Woman will have hes Will Woma 172 "Woman's Wit 20 Women bewafe Women 100 omg, _ 61 Wonder of a "gdom thid. Wonder, a Woman ney ver Y br FRA bo 124 Worlds World to Worly 0 t at. Tennis We Moon Wine, Beer, Ale,” and Tobacco + The INDEX F ISI 17 World's Idol wrangling Lovers 7. 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