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Four new plays ... : as they were acted by His Majesties servants at the Theatre-Royal / written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 279:5.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 279:5.
- Standardized Title:
- Plays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 15 unnumbered pages, 242 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portraits
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1665.
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) The surprisal
- The committee
- The Indian-queen
- The vestal-virgin.
- Notes:
- Each play has special t.p.
- "To the reader" contains a discussion of the use of rhyme 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. Cf. DNB.
- "Imprimatur, March 7, 1664/5. Roger L'Estrange"
- Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1968. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 279:5)
- Cited in:
- Wing H2995
- MacDonald, H. John Dryden 68a
- Contains:
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Indian queen.
- OCLC:
- 12484065
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