1691 LANGBAINE 1ed English Poets Theatre Plays Shakespeare Milton Marlowe Dryden

1691 LANGBAINE 1^ed English Poets Theatre Plays Shakespeare Milton Marlowe Dryden

“The earliest work to give biographical and critical information on the playwrights of English Renaissance theatre!”

Gerard Langbaine compiled his “Catalog of English Plays” where he identified many of the sources of the English plays that were written during the English Renaissance. This 1691 edition, entitled ‘Account of the English Dramatick Poets’, includes the lives and characters of various English poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Ben Johnson, Christopher Marlowe, and more!

Item number: #21838

Price: $795

LANGBAINE, Gerard

An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings

London : Printed by Leon Lichfield. for George West and Henry Clements, 1691. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 556, [36]
• References: Wing L 373
• Provenance: Handwritten – M. Donald, 1844
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm)

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