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Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)1
Brewer, Anthony (1630-1655)1
Canute I, King of England, 995?-10351
Dryden, John, 1631-17001
Fletcher, John (1579-1625)1
Lowin, John (1576-1659)1
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640)1
Milbourne, Luke (1649-1720)1
Taylor, Joseph (1586?-1653?)1
Virgil1

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Notes on Dryden's Virgil : in a letter to a friend : with an essay on the same poet

Milbourne, Luke (1649-1720); Virgil

1698

"The I. book of Virgil's Georgics made English" [by Milbourne]: p.206-232. Title-leaf, preceded by free end-paper and fly-leaf, is B1; B3 signed A3 in error - an irregularity not noted by Macdonald....

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The wild-goose chase. : A comedie as it hath been acted with singular applause at the Black-Friers: : being the noble, last, and onely remaines of those incomparable drammatists, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gent. Retriv'd for the publick delight of all the ingenious and private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, servants to His late Majestie

Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Lowin, John (1576-1659); Taylor, Joseph (1586?-1653?)

1652

Acted at court in 1621, but not printed until 1652. In 1647 when the folio of Beaumont's and Fletcher's works was published, this play was omitted, as it had long been lost and was supposed to be irre...

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The love-sick king, an English tragical history : with the life and death of Cartesmunda, the fair nun of Winchester

Brewer, Anthony (1630-1655)

1655

Probably originally written for the visit of James I to Newcastle in 1617 (vendor). Contains allusions to "Hamlet", "The tragedy of Hoffman", and Beaumont's "Knight of the burning pestle", from whic...

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