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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
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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.
Published
Oxford, Printed by L.L. for G. West and H. Clements, 1691.
Physical Description
8 p. l., 556, [31] p., 1 l. 18 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN: With J.M. Osborn's ms. notes from W. Oldys, T. Percy, G. Steevens, and E. Malone. (Osborn fpb38)
BEIN: Interleaved and bound to 38 cm. (Osborn fpb38)
Notes
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.
Signatures: a⁸A-Oo⁸.
A new edition, revised by Charles Gildon, appeared 1699 under title: The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets.
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English
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June 01, 2002
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