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.
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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 20, 2025.

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Hell's Higher Court of Justice, or The Tryal of the Three Politick Ghosts, viz. Oliver Crom∣well, King of Sweden, and Cardinal Mazarine; printed quarto Lond. 1661.

Histriomastix, or The Player whipt; printed quarto Lond. 1610. This Play was writ in the time of Queen Elizabeth, tho' not printed till afterwards; as appears by the last Speech,

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spoken by Peace to Astraea, under which Name the Queen is shadowed.

Henry the Fifth his Victories, containing the Honourable Battle of Agin-court; a History, acted by the Kings Majesties Servants, printed quarto Lond. 1617. For the Plot, see the En∣glish Chronicles, as Hollingshead, Stow, Speed, &c.

Hector, or The False Challenge; a Comedy written in the Year 1655. and printed quarto Lond. 1656. I know not the Author of this Play; but I think it may vye with many Co∣medies writ since the Restauration of the Stage.

Hyppolitus, a Tragedy, which (as I have been told) is printed in octavo, and translated from Seneca by Edmund Prestwith. For the Plot, see the Poets, as Ovid's Epistle of Phae∣dra to Hyppolitus: his Metamorphosis, Lib. 6. Virgil. AEn. Lib. 7. &c.

Hoffman his Tragedy, or A Revenge for a Fa∣ther; acted divers times with great applause, at the Phoenix in Drury-lane; and printed 4o. Lond. 1631. This Play was adopted by One Hugh Perry, and by him sent to the Press, and dedicated to his Honoured Friend Mr. Richard Kilvert.

How a Man may chuse a Good Wife from a Bad; a pleasant conceited Comedy, sundry times acted by the Earl of Worcester's Servants; and printed 4o. Lond. 1634. The Story of An∣selme's saving of Young Arthur's Wife, by tak∣ing her out of the Grave, and carrying her to his Mother's House, is the Subject of other

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Plays: and such a Story is related in several Novels; see the 9. Nov. of the Pleasant Com∣panion (printed octavo Lond. 1684.) call'd Love in the Grave. But the Novel which I take to be the foundation of this Play, is in Cynthio Giraldi, Dec. 3. Nov. 5.

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