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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Lady Elizabeth CAREW.

A Lady that flourisht in the Reign of Qu: Elizabeth, of whom I am able to give no other Account, than what I collect from the Title-page of a Play, call'd Mariam the Fair Queen of Jewry, her Tragedy, written (says the Publisher) by that Learned, Virtuous, and truly Noble Lady, Elizabeth Carew, and prin∣ted in quarto Lond. 1613. The Play is writ in the same measure of Verse, with the Tra∣gedies of the Earl of Sterline, viz. in Alter∣nate Verse, and the Chorus is writ in Settines, or a Stanza of Six Lines, four interwoven and a Couplet in Base. For the Play itself, it is very well Pen'd, considering those Times, and the Lady's Sex: I leave it to the Readers to compare it with that modern Tragedy of Herod and Mariamne. Her Story is written at large in Josephus his History of the Jews. See lib. 14 and 15. Salian. Tom. 6. A.M. 4012. &c. Torniel. Tom. 2. A. M. 4026.