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Pompey the Great : a tragedy as it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York

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Type of record: Book

Title: Pompey the Great : a tragedy as it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York

Other titles: Mort de Pompée

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/COR

Creator(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684)

Additional creator(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) (Other); Dorset, Charles Sackville Earl of (1638?-1706) (Other); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701) (Other); Sidney, Charles (Other); Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643) (Other)

Related people: Pompey, the Great; Waller, Edmund; Dorset, Charles Sackville; Sedley, Charles; Sidney, Charles; Godolphin, Sidney

Publisher: Printed for Henry Herringman

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1664

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], 54, [3] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274863

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000129609705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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A translation of Corneille's "La mort de Pompée", by Waller, the Earl of Dorset, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sidney, Sidney Godolphin.


Cf. Catalogue of the library of J.H. Wrenn. 1920, v. 5, p. 91-92.


"Prologue at the house", p.[iii]; "Epilogue at the house", "Epilogue to the King at Saint James's" and "Epilogue to the Dutchess at Saint James's" on last three pages.


Edward Waller is consideed responsible for Act I.


Indexed in: Woodward and McManaway 1275, i.e. first edition, sole issue (cf. Bower's Supplement).


Indexed in: Wing C6319.

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