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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Dr. Robert WILD.

A Doctor of the Presbyterian Leven; but yet (who it seems) in his Juvenile Years, was the Author of a Comedy, call'd The Benefice; which was printed 4^o. Lond. 1689. His Opinion of the Orthodox Clergy, may easily be collected from this Play; tho' he is beholding to ano∣ther Play, call'd The Return from Pernassus, or The Scourge of Simony, for his Design. His Poems are well known, octavo 1605.