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 22, 2025.
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The Author of a Play, call'd New Trick to cheat the Devil, a Comedy, printed 4o. Lond. 1639. The Plot of Fryar John's Discovering the Constable and the Woman's Intrigue, and pretending to conjure for Victuals at the Hus∣band's Return, Act 3. Sc. 1. is the same with
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that made use of in the London Cuckolds; and which is related since the Writing of this Play, by M. D'Ouville in his Tales, part. 2. page 257. Slight-all's teaching the Art of Love, to the two Gentlemen, in the second Scene of the first Act, is borrow'd from Ovid De Arte Amandi, Lib. 2.
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