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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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.
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Oxford :: Printed by L.L. for George West and Henry Clements,
1691.
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English drama -- Bio-bibliography.
Opera -- Bio-bibliography.
Theater -- England.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49533.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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George POWEL.
A Person now living, the Author of a Tragedy, call'd
The treacherous Brother, acted by their Ma∣jesties Servants, at the Theatre-Royal; and printed 4o. Lond. 1690. 'Tis dedicated to the Patentees, and Sharers of their Majesties The∣atre; and commended by a Copy of Latin Verses, writ by his Fellow-Actor Mr. John Hudgson. For the Foundation of the Play, I take it to be borrow'd from a Romance in Fol.
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call'd The Wall Flower: and tho' they are not alike in all particulars, yet any One that will take the pains to read them both, will find the Soporifick Potion, given to Istocles and Semanthe, to be the same in quantity, with that given to Honoria, Amarissa and Hortensia, in the asoresaid Romance.
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