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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Concerning this Author was, I know no more, than that he was a Batchelor of Arts, of Exe∣ter Colledge in Oxford; and writ a Play, call'd Sicily and Naples, or The Fatal Union; a Tra∣gedy, printed 4^o. Oxon. 1640. This Play is commended by Seven Copies of Verses, which are prefix'd, most of them being writ by Young Academics.