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Brotherton Collection15
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cantatas, secular1
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Dryden, John16
Dryden, John (1631-1700)8
Banks, John2
Banks, John (1706)2
Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698)2
Saunders, Charles (1681-)2
Timur, 1336-14052
Dryden1
E. B1
Gay, John (1685-1732)1

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The disappointment; or, The mother in fashion: a play as it was acted at the Theatre Royal

Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Stafford, J (fl. 1684); Hindmarsh, Joseph (fl. 1678-1696); E. B; Ormonde, James Butler Duke of (1665-1745)

1684

First edition. Pforzheimer Library 954. For printing history of gathering E see F. Bowers, The supposed cancel in Southerne's The disappointment reconsidered, The Library, 5th series v. 5, (1951), 140...

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Four new plays, viz: : // The Surprisal,/Committee, Comedies. // The Indain-queen,/Vestal-virgin, Tragedies. // As they were acted by His Majesties servants at the Theatre-Royal

Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1665

The titles of the two comedies are bracketed together on the title-page, as are those of the two tragedies. Each play has special t.-p. "To the reader" contains a discussion of the use of rime in ...

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Five new plays, viz. The Surprisal; The Committee; And The Indian-Queen; The Vestal-virgin; The Duke of Lerma; As they were acted by His Majesty's servants at the Theatre-Royal

Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1700

Signatures: A-2K⁴. The titles of the two comedies are bracketed together on the title-page, as are those of the three tragedies. A reissue of the "Five new plays" published in 1692; this collect...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1670 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Verses on fate and fortune, from Act 3 of Dryden's play "The Tempest"

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Tamerlane the Great : a tragedy : as it is acted by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal

Saunders, Charles (fl. 1681); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Banks, John (1706)

1681

"... I drew the design of this play, from a late novell, call'd Tamerlane and Asteria..."--Pref. In the Preface, the author states that the play 'had received some rules for correction from Mr. Dryd...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Attribution: Dryden

Date(s): 1694 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: On the suffering that jealousy causes lovers, abridged from a song in

Dryden's play "Love Triumphant"

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Tamerlane the Great : a tragedy : as it is acted by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal

Saunders, Charles (fl. 1681); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Banks, John (1706)

1681

"... I drew the design of this play, from a late novell, call'd Tamerlane and Asteria..."--Pref. In the Preface, the author states that the play 'had received some rules for correction from Mr. Dryd...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1667 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 86

Contents: Lines extracted, with some variations, from Dryden's play "The Indian Emperour", to produce a love poem

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 34

Contents: Song in which a woman complains of being abandoned by her lover, and of men's

unfaithfulness in love in general. From Dryden's play, "The Spanish Friar",

V.

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Title: On the conquest of Mexico

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1664

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Part of the prologue to Dryden and Howard's play "The Indian Queen", in which

the natives of Mexico realise that the Spanish conquest has brought their

idyllic paradisal life to an end

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Title: A letter from Mr Dreyden to Sir George Etherige

Author: Dryden, John

Attribution: Mr Dreyden

Date(s): 1686

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Lighthearted epistle answering Etherege's two verse epistles to the Earl of

Middleton (BCMSV 422, 424), praising his accomplishments and urging him,

while in Ratisbon, to write another play

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Title: Prologue to The Prophetess [1690 May, Mr Dridens Prologue to The

Prophetesse. Verses Misc. Cupbd (?) (verso)].

Author: Dryden, John

Attribution: Mr Dryden

Date(s): 1690 (published)

Manuscript: Lt q 11

Contents: Dryden's prologue to the musical play "The Prophetess" by Thomas Betterton,

alluding critically to current affairs, especially the expense of William

III's Irish wars; with the men away, the theatre will depend on the support of

women.

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