JOHN KIRKE (A. 1638).

"The Seven Champions of Christendome." 1638. Acted at the Cock-pit, and at the Bull, in St. John's Street.

HENRY KILLIGREW (1613-1700).

"The Conspiracy." 1638. Written for the Entertainment of the King and Queen at York House, on the occasion of the Nuptials of Lord Charles Herbert with Lady Mary Villiers.

THOMAS NABBES (d. cir. 1645).

"Tottenham Court." 1638. Acted in 1633 in Salisbury Court. "The Bride." 1640. Acted in 1638, at Drury Lane, by their Majesties' Servants.

HENRY GLAPTHORNE (f. 1639).

"Wit in a Constable." 1640. Acted at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane.

THOMAS RAWLINS (1620-1670).

"The Rebellion." 1640. Acted by the Company of Revels.

SAMUEL HARDING (fl. 1641).

"Sicily and Naples, or The Fatal Union." 1640.

JOHN DAY (A. 1606).

"The Parliament of Bees, with their proper characters; or a bee-hive furnished with twelve honey-combs, as pleasant as profitable; being an allegorical description of the actions of good and bad men in these daies." 1641.

"Acorn bowls." "Acorn boughs," 4to.

EDMUND PRESTWICH.

"The Hectors; or, The False Challenge." 1656. Written in 1655.

66 Antique ; " "antic," 4to.

FRANCIS QUARLES (1592-1644).

The Stationer, in an address to the Reader, writes::-"This enterlude, to sweeten the brackish distempers of a deluded age, is here (curteous reader) to thy judicious view freely offered;

having been sometimes at Chelsie privately acted (by a company of young gentlemen) with good approvement. The author, whose divine works have sufficiently proclaim'd his abilities, may give thee assurance of finding in it, wit, worth, and well-season'd mirth. Invention to quicken conceipt; disposition to beautifie art. It is confest that this dramatick poem was Mr Quarles his very first assay in that kind; yet shalt thou collect by this piece, that he knew as well to be delightfully facetious, as divinely serious."

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667).

"The Guardian." 1650. Acted, 1641, before Prince Charles, at Trinity College, Cambridge.

THOMAS RANDOLPH (1605-1635).

"Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery." A pleasant Comedy. Translated out of Aristophanes, his Plutus. 1651.

In the preface it states: "This is a pleasant Comedy, though some may judge it satyrical: "Tis the more like Aristophanes the father: besides, if it be biting, 'tis a biting age we live in: then biting for biting."

The authorship of this play is questioned.

"Riches above Poverty," 4to. Apparently a mistake for "Poverty above Riches."

COSMO MANUche.

"The Bastard." 1652. Published anonymously.

RICHARD FLECKNOɛ (d. 1678?).

"Love's Dominion." 1654. Written as a pattern for the Reformed Stage.

WILLIAM RIDER.

"The Twins.” 1655. Acted at the Private House, Salisbury Court.

SIR EDWARD SHERBURNE (1618-1702).

"Filli di Sciro; or, Phillis of Scyros." 1655. From the Italian of C. Giudubaldo de' Bonarelli.

ROBERT DAVENPORT (A. 1623).

"King John and Matilda. 1655. Acted with great applause by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane."

"The City Nightcap; or, Crede quod habes, et habes." 1661. Acted at the Cock-pit, and later on at the Phoenix.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN.

“The London Chaunticleres. A witty Comedy, full of Various and Delightfull Mirth. Often Acted with great Applause, And Never before Published." 1659.

The characters in this play are London Criers.

"PHILONAX Lovekin."

"Andronicus; Tragedy. Impietie's long Successe, or Heaven's late Revenge." 1661. No author's name is given on the title page, but a short preface is signed "Philanax," in which the author doubts not if he "hath intrench't on his Fancie, upon him who wrote the life of Andronicus in the Holy State," that he will "obtain his Pardon."

JOHN FOUNTAIN.

"The Rewards of Virtue." 1661. This play was not in. tended by the author for the stage, but after his death it was revived with a few alterations by Shadwell under the title of the Royal Shepherdess.

SIR WILLIAM KILLIGREW (1606–1695).

These verses are introductory to the 1665 Edition of Sir W. Killigrew's three plays—Selindra, Pandora, and Ormasdes.

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE (1608-1666).

"Querer Por Solo Querer; To love only for Love's Sake." From the Spanish of Antonio de Mendoza, written 1623, in celebration of the birthday of Philip IV. of Spain. Translated into English 1654.

NEVIL PAYNE.

"The Fatal Jealousy." 1673. Acted at the Duke's Theatre.

HON. JAMES HOWARD (fl. 1674).

"The English Mounsieur." 1674.

"Eat out of a French house; 4to adds, "an English Cook's shop is Hell."

EDWARD RAVENSCROFT (fl. 1671-1697).

"Mamamouchi; or, The Citizen turn'd Gentleman." 1675. Borrowed from Molière's Monsieur Pourceaugnac and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

WILLIAM, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE (1592–1676).

"The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours." 1677. Acted at the Duke's Theatre.

NAHUM TATE (1652–1715).

"Brutus of Alba; or, The Enchanted Lovers." 1678. Acted at the Duke's Theatre.

W. M.

"The Huntingdon Divertisement; or, An Enterlude for the General Entertainment at the County Feast, held at Merchant Taylors' Hall, June 20, 1678."

JOHN CROWNE (d. 1703).

"The Ambitious Statesman; or, The Loyal Favourite." 1679. Acted at the Theatre Royal.

66 Thyestes." 1681. Acted at the Theatre Royal.

"The Married Beau; or, The Curious Impertinent." 1694. Acted at the Theatre Royal.

JOHN WILSON (1627?-1696).

"Belphegor; or, The Marriage of the Devil." 1691. Acted at Dorset Gardens.

THOMAS D'URFEY (1653-1723).

"The Comical History of Don Quixote," in three parts. 1694-96. Acted, with success, at Dorset Gardens. The Dirge is

taken from the 1st part.

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