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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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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Bio-bibliography--Early works to 1800.
- English drama.
- Opera--Bio-bibliography--Early works to 1800.
- Opera.
- Theater--England--Early works to 1800.
- Theater.
- England.
- Genre:
- Bio-bibliography.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Dyneley, Joseph (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 556 pages, 31 unnumbered pages, 1 leaf : portrait ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Account of the dramatick poets
- Langbaine's account of the dramatick poets
- Fingerprint:
- a-a- vean rees FrPa (3) 1691 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Printed by L.L. for George West and Henry Clements, An. Dom. 1691.
- Notes:
- Title within double-ruled border.
- Based on his "New catalogue of English plays, London, 1688 [Dec. 1687]" an unauthorized edition of which had appeared a month earlier under title: Momus triumphans, or, The plagiaries of the English stage.
- A new edition, revised by Charles Gildon, appeared 1699 under title: The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets.
- Includes index and appendix.
- With penultimate errata leaf; last leaf bears vertical half-title: Langbaine's account of the dramatick poets.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate and autograph of Henry Charles Lea, 1846.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Joseph Dyneley.
- Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: plate wanting.
- Culture Class Collection copy has preliminary pages numbered i-xiv in ms.
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L373
- Pforzheimer, 577
- ESTC, R20685
- OCLC:
- 1300358
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