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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Robert YARRINGTON.

An Ancient Writer in Queen Elizabeth's Time; who has publisht a Play, call'd Two Tragedies in One. The One, of the Murther of Mr. Beech a Chandler, in Thames-street, and his Boy; done by Thomas Mern: The Other, of a Young Child, murther'd in a Wood by two Ruffins, with the Consent of his Uncle; print∣ed in quarto Lond. 1601.