No More Learning

1714.
Hamilton, W. Poets Laureate. 1879.
Schwarz, F. H. On Rowe's The Fair Penitent. Bern, 1907.
Scott, Sir W. Essay on the comparative merits of The Fatal Dowry and
The Fair Penitent in Cumberland's Observer, 88, 89, 90. 3rd ed. 1790.
THOMAS RYMER
Edgar, or the English Monarch. A Tragedy. 1678.
See, also, bibliography to chap. vi B, ante.
THOMAS Scott (A. 1695)
The Mock Marriage. A Comedy. 1696.
The Unhappy Kindness. A Tragedy. 1697.
ELKANAH SETTLE
(1) Plays
Cambyses, King of Persia. A Tragedy acted by his Highness the Duke of
York's servants. 1671.
The Empress of Morocco. A Tragedy. With Sculptures. The like never
done before. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1673.
Notes and Observations on The Empress of Morocco; or some few
Erratas to be printed instead of the Sculptures with the second
edition of the play. 1674. [By Dryden, John; Shadwell, Thomas;
and Crowne, John. ]
Notes and Observations on The Empress of Morocco revised. 1674.
[Defence of the play against Dryden, etc. ]
Love and Revenge. A Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1675.
The Conquest of China by the Tartars. A Tragedy acted at the Duke's
Theatre. 1676.
Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa. A Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre.
1677.
Pastor Fido, or the Faithful Shepherd. A Pastoral as it is acted at the
Duke's Theatre. 1677. [Sir Richard Fanshawe's version of Guarini's
pastoral poem adapted for the stage. ]
Fatal Love, or the Forod Inconstancy. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre
Royal. 1680.
The Female Prelate; being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan.
A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal. 1680.
The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gayland, acted at the Theatre Royal.
1682.
Distress’d Innocence, or the Princess of Persia. A Tragedy as it is acted at
the Theatre Royal 1691.
The Fairy Queen. An opera. Represented at the Queens-Theatre by their
Majesties Servants. 1692. [Attributed to Settle. ]
The New Athenian Comedy. 1693. [Attributed to Settle. ]
The Ambitious Slave, or a Generous Revenge. A Tragedy. 1694.
Philaster, or Love lies a-bleeding. A Tragi-comedy as it is now acted at his
Majesty's Theatre Royal. Revis'd [from Beaumont and Fletcher's Phi-
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The World in the Moon. An Opera. As it is performed at the Theatre in
Dorset Garden by his Majesty's Servants. 1697.
The Virgin Prophetess, or the Fate of Troy. An Opera perform'd at the
Theatre Royal by his Majesty's servants. 1701.
The Siege of Troy. A dramatick performance. 1707.
The City-Ramble. A Comedy. [1711 p. )
The Lady's Triumph. A Comi-dramatic Opera. 1718.
(2) Biography and Criticism
Brown, F. C. Elkanah Settle, his life and works. Chicago, 1910.
City Poets and Pageants. (Including Settle. ) Bentley's Miscellany, vol.
XXXII. 1852.
HENRY SHIRLEY (d. 1627)
The Martyrd Souldier. 1638, 1643.
THOMAS SOUTHERNE
(1) Plays
Works. 2 vols. 1713. 2 vols. 1721. Ed. with Life by E[vans], T. 3 vols. 1774.
The Loyal Brother, or the Persian Prince. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the
Theater Royal by their Majesties Servants. Prologue and Epilogue by
Dryden. 1682.
The Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion. A Play. As it was acted
at the Theatre Royal. Prologue by Dryden. 1684.
Sir Anthony Love, or the Rambling Lady. A Comedy, as it is acted at the
Theatre Royal. 1691.
The Wives Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves. A Comedy, as it is acted
at the Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants. With congratulatory
verses by Dryden comparing Southerne with Terence. 1692.
The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any rather than Fail. A Comedy as it is acted
at the Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants. 1693.
The Fatal Marriage, or the Innocent Adultory. A Play. Acted at the
Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants. 1694.
Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage. A Play. Alter'd from Southern [by David
Garrick]. 1757. 2nd ed. 1758. Revised by Kemble, J. P. 1814. Trans.
into French by P. A. de La Place, Paris, 1749; German by F. U. L.
Schröder, Augsburg, 1792.
Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal
by his Majesty's Servants. Epilogue by Congreve. 1696.
Oroonoko, a Tragedy as it is now acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
By his Majesty's Servants. By Thomas Southern. With alterations [by
Hawkesworth, J. ]. 1759, 1775.
Oroonoko altered from the original play . . . to which the editor has added
near six hundred lines in place of the comic scenes, together with an
addition of two new characters. 1760.
The Prince of Angola. A tragedy altered (by Ferrier, J. ] from the play of
Oroonoko, and adapted to the circumstances of the present times. Man-
chester, 1788.
The Fate of Capua. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn
Fields, by his Majesty's Servants. 1700.
The Spartan Dame. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-
Lane, by his Majesty's Servants. 1719. Written in part by Hon. John
Stafford.
Money the Mistress. A Comedy, as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal in
Lincoln's Inn Fields. 1726.
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(2) Criticism
Bromilow, A. H. Tales from the Dramatists [in the manner of Lamb's
Tales from Shakespeare). Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage. Colburn's
New Monthly Magazine, New Ser. vol. xiv. 1878.
Hamelius, P. The Source of Southerne's Fatal Marriage. Mod. Lang.
Review, vol. iv. 1909.
NAHUM TATE (1652–1715)
(1) Plays
Bratus of Alba, or The Enchanted Lovers. A Tragedy acted at the Duke's
Theatre. 1678.
The Loyal General. A Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1680.
The History of King Lear. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1681. [Adapted
from Shakespeare. )
Richard the Second. A History acted at the Theatre Royal under the name
of The Sicilian Usurper. 1681. [Adapted from Shakespeare. ]
The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth, or The Fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus,
acted at the Theatre Royal. 1682. [Adapted from Shakespeare. ]
Cuckolds Haven, or An Alderman no Conjuror. A Farce acted at the
Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden. 1685. [Adapted from Ben Jonson. ]
A Duke and No Duke, as it is acted by their Majesties Servants. . . . To which
is now added a Preface concerning Farce. . . . 1685.
The Island Princess. A Tragi-Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal.
1687. [Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. ]
Injurd Love, or The Cruel Husband. A Tragedy design'd to be acted at the
Theatre Royal. 1707. [Founded on Webster's The White Divel. ]
(2) Other Works
Tate, N. and Brady, N. New version of the Psalms, in metre. 1696, 1698.
See, also, bibliography to chap. 1, Poems, A. 1.
CHAPTER VIII
THE COURT POETS
JOHN SHEFFIELD, EARL OF MULGRAVE, MARQUIS OF NORMANBY,
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
An Essay on Poetry. 1682. 2nd ed. 1691.
A Letter from the Earl of Mulgrave to Dr Tillotson. 1689.
The Temple of Death. A Poem, written by the Marquess of Normanby.
Trans. from the French of Habert, P. , Le Temple de la Mort. 1695.
The Character of Charles II, with a short account of his being poyson'd.
Written by a Person of Honour. 1696.
The Works of the most noble John Sheffield, late Duke of Buckingham.
Published by his Grace in his lifetime. 1721.
The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby and
Duke of Buckingham. 2 vols. 1723.
Buckingham restord: being two Essays, which were castrated from the
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Humanum est Errare, or False steps on both sides. [This is in manuscript,
and is a critical account of the revolution of 1688. See Brit. Mus. Add.
MSS, 27382, f. 77. ]
His poems are also printed in such collections as the following:
Examen Miscellaneum. Consisting of Verse and Prose. Of Verse by The
Most Honourable the Marquis of Normanby, The late Lord Rochester,
Mr Waller, Mrs Wharton, Mr Wolseley, with Satires and Fables and
Translation from Anacreon. 1702.
A Collection of Poems: viz. , The Temple of Death, By the Marquis of
Normanby. An Epistle to the Earl of Dorset, By Charles Montague,
Lord Halifax. The Duel of the Stags, By Sir Robert Howard. With
Several Original Poems, Never before Printed by The Earl of Roscom-
mon, the Earl of Rochester, the Earl of Orrery, Sir Charles Sedley, etc. ,
etc. 1701.
Biography and Criticism
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account of the pedigree of the Sheffield family. To which is annex'd his
grace's last will and testament. 1729.
Gildon, C. The Laws of Poetry as laid down by the Duke of Buckingham-
shire in his Essay on Poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon in his Essay on
Translated Verse, and by the Lord Lansdowne on Unnatural Flights in
Poetry, Explain'd and Illustrated. 1721.
CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET
Dorset's poems have never been published separately. They are to be
found in the many Miscellanies of the period, such as:
A new Miscellany of Original Poems on Several Occasions. Written by the
Earl of Dorset, by Sir Charles Sedley, Sir F. Shepheard etc.
Ed.
Gildon, C. 1701.
The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets, vol. 1. 1749.
The Works of the English Poets, vol. II. Edited by Dr Johnson. 1779.
For a sketch of Dorset's character see Prior's Dedicatory Epistle in
Poems on Several Occasions, 1718.
THOMAS FLATMAN (1637-1688)
Poems and Songs. 1674. 4th ed. 1686.
On the death of Thomas, Earl of Ossory. Ode. 1681.
Ovid's Epistles, translated by Flatman and others. 1683, 1701, 1712.
On the death of Charles II. Ode. 1685.
ANNE KILLIGREW (1660-1685)
Poems. 1686.
JOHN POMFRET (1667–1702)
Reason. 1700.
The Choice. 1701.
Miscellany poems on several occasions. 1702.
Poems. 1735, 1736, 1751, 1773.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
A Satyr against Mankind. 1675.
The Enjoyment. 1679.
A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Strephon written at the Bath. 1682.
Upon Nothing. A Poem now first correctly printed. 1711.
The above are broadsides. No collected edition of his poems was published
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death the ascription of poems was not always scrupulously exact. Many of
his pieces are to be found in the Poems upon Affairs of State and other
Miscellanies. The following editions of his works are noteworthy:
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. Poems . . . on Several Occasions: with
Valentinian; A Tragedy. 1680, 1685, 1691, 1696.
Valentinian : A Tragedy. As 'tis Alter'd by the late Earl of Rochester, and
Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Together with a Preface concerning the
Author and his Writings. By one of his Friends. 1685.
The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of
Rochester and Roscommon. With the Memoirs of the Life and Character
of the late Earl of Rochester, in a Letter to the Dutchess of Mazarine,
by Mons. St Evremont. To which is added A Curious Collection of
Original Poems and Translations by The Earl of Dorset, The Lord
S[ome]rs, The Lord H[alifa]x, The Lord G[ranvi]lle, Sir Roger l'Estrange,
Mr Otway, Mr Prior, Mr Walsh, Mr Smith, Mr Rowe, etc. 1707, 1709,
1711.
The Works of John Earl of Rochester, containing Poems on Several
Occasions: His Lordship’s Letters to Mr Savil and Mrs *** with
Valentinian, A Tragedy. 1714, 1732.
Rochester's Poems are to be found in the 10th volume of Johnson's Works
of the English Poets, 1779.
Sodom. 1684. No copy of the printed work is known. The play exists in
manuscript in the British Museum, Harl. MSS, 7312. See, also, Pisanus
Fraxi, Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, 1879.
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. Letters to his wife and others. British
Museum, Harl. MSS, 7003; Add. MSS, 4162.
A Letter to Dr Burnet from the Earl of Rochester. 1680.
Biography and Criticism
Brown, Tom, and Gildon, Charles. A Select Collection of Original Letters
written by the most Eminent Persons on various Entertaining Subjects,
and on many Important Occasions: from the Reign of Henry the
Eighth, to the present Time. 1697.
Burnet, Gilbert. Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honour-
able John Earl of Rochester, who died the 26th of July 1680. Written
by his own Direction on his Death-Bed, by Gilbert Burnet, D. D. 1680.
History of my own Time. A new edition based on that of M. J.
Routh D. D. Part 1. The Reign of Charles the Second. Ed. Airy, 0.
1897.
Dryden, John. The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John
Dryden, now first collected: with Notes and Illustrations: an account of
the Life and Writings of the Author, grounded on Original and Au-
thentick Documents, and A Collection of His Letters, The Greater Part
of which has never before been published. By Malone, Edmond. 1800.
Etheredge, Sir George, The Works of. Plays and Poems. Ed.