Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage: expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c. both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine; from whence most of them have stole their plots. By Gerard Langbaine Esq;
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Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage: expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c. both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine; from whence most of them have stole their plots. By Gerard Langbaine Esq;
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Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.
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London :: printed for Nicholas Cox, and are to be sold by him in Oxford,
MDCLXXXVIII. [1688, i.e. 1687]
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"Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage: expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c. both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine; from whence most of them have stole their plots. By Gerard Langbaine Esq;." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88673.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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A Catalogue of Plays. WITH THEIR Known or Supposed AUTHORS, &c.
These two of R. Baron are mentioned in former Catalogues, but are part of a Romance writ by him, and called the Cy∣prian Academy. Printed at London, 1647.
Part of the City Heiress, from a Play of Middleton's, call'd, A Mad World my Masters, Quarto; and part from a∣nother of Massenger's, called, The Guar∣dian, Octavo.
The first of Carlell's Plays, (viz.) in two Parts, Bound in one Volume, Twelves. The three next Printed in another Volume, Octavo. London, 1657. And the next in Octavo. Printed 1659.
Plot of the serious Part, from the An∣nals of Love: In the Story of Constance the Fair Nun. The Part of Aureleo, from Scarron's Comical Romance: In the Story of Destiny and Madam Star.
Plot, Almanzor and Almahide, from Cleopatra in the Story of Artaban: and Almahide the Romance. Ozmyn and Benzaida, from Osman and Alibech, in Ibrahim. Abdalla, Abdelmelech, Lyn∣daraxa, from Prince Ariantes, Agathir∣ses, and Elibesis, in the First Book of the Ninth Part of Cyrus.
Plot, from Cleobuline, Queen of Co∣rinth, in the Second Book of the Seventh Part of Cyrus: and the Character of Ce∣ladon and Florimel, from Pisistrate and Cerinthe in Cyrus, Part Ninth, Book Third; and from the French Marquess in Ibrahim, Part Second, Book the First.
Plot of the serious Part, and the Cha∣racters from Sesostris and Timareta in Cyrus, Part the Sixth, Book the Second: and Palamedes from the Prince of Sala∣mis, in the Story of Timantes and Par∣thenia, Part Sixth, Book First, of Cy∣rus; and from Nagaret, in the Annals of Love, Octavo.
Plot, Tacitus, Suetonius, Seneca, &c. There is an Edition of this Play, 4o, Print∣ed Lond. 1605, by the Authour's own Or∣ders, with all the Quotations from whence he borrowed any thing of his Play.
The first Fourteen of her Plays, are Print∣ed together in one Volume, Folio. The o∣ther Three are in another Volume, with o∣ther Scenes, Printed London 1668.
Plot, part from Scarron's Novels, 8o, Novel first, The Fruitless Precaution, part from Les-Contes Du-Sieur D' Ouvil∣le, 8o, 2de. pte. page 121. And part from Boccace's Novels, Day 7th, Novel 6 and 7 of the 7th Day.
In a Book call'd The Ternory of Plays, 8o Lond. 1662. Plot from Mat∣chiavil's Marriage of Belphegor, a No∣vel, Folio: The same is Printed with Quevedo's Novels, 8o.