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Five new plays, viz.; The Surprisal; The Committee; And The Indian-Queen; The Vestal-virgin; The Duke of Lerma; As they were acted by His Majesty's servants at the Theatre-Royal. / Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PR3517 .H3 1700
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 252 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered eaf of plate l;eaf of plates : portrait ; 30 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- Second edition cor.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be Sold by Jacob Tonson, Daniel Browne, Thomas Bennet, and Richard Wellington, 1700.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-2K4
- Each play has special t.-p. dated 1692.
- "To the reader" contains a discussion of the use of rime in dramatic verse, which occasioned Dryden's Essay of dramatick poesie. Howard replied in the preface to "The great favourite; or, The Duke of Lerma".
- "The Indian Queen" is partly by Dryden.
- Apparently the 1692 edition issued with a new t.-p.
- Cited in:
- Wing(2nd ed.) H2994
- OCLC:
- 7403099
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