An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.

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Title: An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.
Author: Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed by L.L. for George West and Henry Clements,; 1691.
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Subject terms: English drama -- Bio-bibliography.; Opera -- Bio-bibliography.; Theater -- England.
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Sam. PORDAGE, Esq

A Gentleman who was lately (if he be not so at present) a Member of the Worthy Socie∣ty of Lincolns-Inn. He has publisht two Plays in Heroick Verse, viz.

Herod and Mariamne, a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre, and printed 4^o. Lond. 1673. This Play was writ a dozen Years, before it was made publick, and given to Mr. Settle by a Gentleman, to use and form as he pleas'd: he preferr'd it to the Stage, and dedicated it to the Dutchess of Albermarle. For the Plot, I think the Author has follow'd Mr. Calpranede's Cleopatra, a Romance, in the Story of Tyrida∣tes: but for the true History, consult Jo∣sephus, Philo-Judaeus, Eberus, Egysippus, &c.

Siege of Babylon, a Tragi-comedy, acted at the Theatre; dedicated to her Royal Highness the Dutchess, and printed 4^o. Lond. 1678. This Play is founded on the Romance of Cassandra.