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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49533	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.; New catalogue of English plays	Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.	1691 (1691)	Wing L373; ESTC R20685	281,582	608

Tragiques de nôtre temps under the feign'd Names of Lysis Silvie Hist. 17. pag. 363. Bussy d' Amboise his Revenge a Tragedy often presented at the Private-house in the White-Friars printed in quarto Lond. 1613. and dedicated to the Right Virtuous and Truly Noble Knight Sr. Thomas Howard This Play is far short in value to the former and was not received on the Stage with that universal Applause Neither is it so strictly founded on Truth as the other tho' the Author calls them poor Envious Souls that cavil at Truth 's want in these natural Fictions Material Instruction elegant and sententious excitation to Virtue and deflection from her contrary being the Soul limbs and limits of an Authentical Tragedy Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron Marshal of France in two Plays acted at the Black-friars in the Reign of King James the First printed in quarto Lond. 1608. and Dedicated to his Honourable and constant Friend Sr. Thomas Walsingham and to his much Loved from his Birth the right Toward and Worthy Gentleman his son Thomas Walsingham Esq This Play is founded on History in the Reign of Henry IV. of France and many are the Authors that have mention'd the Marshal's Story See Davila's Civil Wars of France Montluc's Memoires Mezeray's Chron. Pierre Mathiew's Contin of De Serres Thuanus Anselmus Gemblacensis Scipion Du pleix P. Mathiew c. Caesar and Pompey a Roman Tragedy declaring their Wars out of whose Events is evicted this Proposition Only a Just Man is a Freeman printed in quarto Lond. 1631. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable his exceeding good Lord the Earl of Middlesex I cannot pass by that our Author has here laid down the same Rule with Father Le Bossu the Learned regular Canon of St. Genevieve That the Moral ought to be the foundation of a Play Instruction being the chief design of a Poet. As he says La premiere chose par où l'ou doit commencer pour fair une Fable est de choisir l'Instruction le point de Morale qui luy doit servir de fond selon le dessein la fin que l'on se propose This is that Passage which Mr. Dryden hints at in his Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy and tho' he takes the French for his Guide I believe there have not been wanting those of our own Countrymen who have been able to decide all Controversies in Dramatick Poetry as well as Strangers Many Authors have treated on this Story See Suetonius's Life of Julius Caesar. Plutarch's Lives of Pompey Caesar and Cato Velleius Paterculus Florus Dion and Lucan who by some is rather accounted an Historian than a Poet. Gentleman Usher a Comedy printed in quarto Lond. 1606. I know not whether ever this Play was acted but I have heard it commended by some for a good Comedy though if I may presume to give my Opinion 't is but indifferent Humourous days Mirth a Comedy printed as I am told in quarto and a passable Play but this I must leave to those who have read it Masque of the Two Honourable Houses or Inns of Court the Middle-Temple and Lincolns Inn Perform'd before the King at White-hall on Shrove-monday at Night being the fifteenth of February 1613 at the Princely Celebration of the Most Royal Nuptials of the Palsgrave and his thrice Gracious Princess Elizabeth c. With a description of their whole Shew in the manner of their March on Horse-back to the Court from the Master of the Rolls his House with all their Right Noble Consorts and shewful Attendants Invented and Fashion'd with the ground and special structure of the whole Work-by our Kingdoms most Artfull and Ingenious Architect Inigo Jones Supplied applied digested and written by George Chapman printed in quarto Lond. 1614. and dedicated to the most Noble and constant Combiner of Honor and Virtue Sr. Edward Phillips Master of the Rolls At the end of the Masque is printed an Epithalamium called a Hymne to Hymen for the most time-fitted Nuptials of our Thrice Gracious Princess Elizabeth c. I leave it to their Judgments who have perus'd this Piece to determine whether it answer the swelling Title-page or whether the Authors Defence before the Masque be just and solid May-day a Witty Comedy divers times acted at the Black-friars and printed in quarto Lond. 1811. Monsieur d'Olive a Comedy sundry times acted by her Majesties Children at the Black Friars printed in quarto Lond. 1606. Revenge for Honor a Tragedy printed in quarto Lond. 1654. This Play I have seen acted many years ago at the Nursery in Barbican Temple a Masque which I never saw Two Wise Men and all the rest Fools or a Comical Moral censuring the Follies of that Age divers times acted and printed in quarto Lond. 1619. The Prologue and Epilogue to this Play are writ in Prose which was practic'd formerly by several of the Poets as William Lilly in his Court Comedies and others But there is One thing in this Play far more remarkable that it is extended to Seven Acts a thing which I never saw in any other either in our own or Foreign Languages and which is directly contrary to that Rule of Horace Néve minor neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula quae posci vult spectata reponi But I suppose this might rather be the Printer's Ignorance than the Poets Intention for certainly Mr. Chapman better understood the Rules of the Dramma tho'I am led only by Tradition to believe this Play to be his since 't is published without any mention of the Author or the Place where 't was printed Widow's Tears a Comedy often presented in the Black and White-Friars printed in quarto Lond. 1612. and dedicated to the right Virtuous and truly Noble Gentleman John Reed of Mitton in the County of Gloucester Esq. The Plot of Lysander and Cynthia is borrow'd from Petronius Arbyters Satyricon being the Story of the Matron of Ephesus related by Eumolpus a Story since handled by several other Pens as Janus Dousa the Father in his Notes on this Story and Gabbema in the last Edition of Petronius who observe That it was translated into Latine Verse by Romulus an Antique Gramarian that it was translated from the German Language into Latine and into French Rhime by Hebertus We have it not only in the Seven Wife Masters a Book vulgarly known and which if I may believe my Author is a translation of Modius who new modell'd the Story and publisht his Version under this Title Ludus septem Sapientum de Astrei regii adolescentis educatione periculis c. But also I have read the same Story with little alteration in the Cento Novelle Antiche di Carlo Gualteruzzi Nov. 51. We have it likewise much improv'd with a Philosophical Comment upon it by a Countryman of our own under the Title of the Ephesian Matron printed in octavo Lond. 1668. and others These are all the Plays which I