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 21, 2025.

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Cyril TURNEUR.

This Author liv'd in the Reign of King James the First, and published Two Trage∣dies; viz.

Atheist's Tragedy: Of the Date of this Play, or to whom dedicated, I can give no Account, the Title-page and Epistle, (if there were any) of my Copy being lost. The Plot of Levidulcia, her Conveying Sebastian and Fresco out of her Chamber, when she was surpris'd by her Hus∣band Belleforrest's Coming, is borrow'd from Boccace, Day the 7. Nov. the 6.

Page 506

Revenger's Tragedy, sundry times acted by the Kings Majesties Servants; and printed 4o.

Of these two Plays, Mr. Winstanley quotes a Distich, I know not from what Author, as follows.

His Fame unto that pitch so only rais'd, As not to be despis'd, nor too much prais'd.
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