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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Unfortunate Usurper, a Tragedy, printed 4^o. Lond. 1663. This Play is dedicated by the Au∣thor (who ever he was) to his Honoured and Highly Esteemed Friend, Mr. Edward Umfre∣ville. Fox the Plot, 'tis founded on History; being the Story of Andronicus Comnenus: See Glycas, Leunclaius, Choniates, Cantacusenus, Ni∣cetas, Baronius, &c. This Play is short of that of Willson's on the same Subject: but in the Fifth Act Sc.3. there is a paralel between those Times and Ours, in Reference to the Late Re∣bellion; which I take to be the best thing in the Play.

Ungrateful Favourite, a Tragedy written by a Person of Honour; and printed quarto Lond. 1664. The Scene of this Play lies in Naples; but in what King's Reign this happened, I am not able to guess; so that whether it be founded on Romance or History, I leave to the Enquiry

of those who have read Pandulphus Collenuctius, Jov. Pontanus, Guicciardine, or others Writers of the Affairs of Naples.