Dr. Robert Wild. His Author, tho' a Presbyterian Doctor, writ one Play and T divers Poems, but is most famous for his Iter Boreale. The Play is intituled, The Benefice, a Comedy, 4to. 1689. The Defign taken from another Play, call'd, The Return from Parnaffus; or, A Scourge for Simony. Leonard Willan. THE Author of a Play, publifh'd one Paftoral in Verfe, call'd, George Wilkins. E liv'd in the Reign of King Charles the Firft, and writ (be. fides one he join'd with Day and Rowley in) a Play, call'd, The Miferies of Inforced Marriage, a Tragi-comedy, 4to. 1637. Mrs. Behn took her Plot and great part of the Language of this Play, to her Town Fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdry. The other Play he join'd-in, is called, The Travels of Three English Brothers. Robert Wilmot. Poet of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, and at the Requeft of the Tancred and Grifmond, a Tragedy, 4to. 1592. acted before her Majefty by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple; and dedicated it to the Right Worshipful and Vertuous Ladies, the Lady Mary Pe ter, and the Lady Ann Grey. Plot, Nov. 1. Day 4. of Boccace's Novels. John Wilson. AN Author of the Place of whose Birth I am ignorant; he was once Recorder of Londonderry, and fometime refided in Dub lin, where he writ Belphegor, which was afterwards acted in London He He died about three Years fince, near Leicester-Fields, but where buried I know not. He is Author of four Plays; viz. Andronicus Commenius, a Tragedy, 4to. 1663. Plot from Heylin's Cofmography in the Defcription of Greece, Cantacufenus, Leunclavius, &c. Belphegor; or, The Marriage of the Devil; a Comedy, 4to. 1690. acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorfet-Garden. Plot taken from a Novel of Machiavel, and Quevedo's Novels, 8vo. The Cheats, a Comedy, 4to. Printed two Editions, the last 1671. This Play met with Applaufe when firft acted, and is a diverting Comedy. The Projectors, a Comedy, 4to. 1665. This Play met with no great Success. Robert Wilson. A Gentleman that liv'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and writ one Play, call'd, The Gobler's Prophecy, a Comedy, 4to. 1655. Nathaniel Wood. E was a Clergy-man, and liv'd in the Reign of Queen ElizaHbeth, in the City of Norwich; writ one Play, calling it, The Conflict of Confcience, a Paftoral, 4to. 1581. This is a Play of Morality, and may be prefented by fix Perfons. A John Wright... Gentleman, if I mistake not, of the Middle-Temple, and is yet living, has writ Two Plays, of which in their Order: Thyeftes, a Tragedy, 8vo. 1674. dedicated to Bennet, Lord Sherrard. Tranflated from Seneca. Mock Thyeftes, a Farce, 8vo. 1674. This is writ in Burlesque Verfe, and printed to be bound up with the former. Thomas Wright. I Can give no Account of this Author, only that he has a Play in print, call'd, The Female Vertuofo's, a Comedy, 4to. 1693. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Winchelsea. The Design our L 3 Author Author owns none of his own, but of fome Friend from the French. The Prologue written and spoke by Mr. Dogget; yet all not enough to make it take. William Wycherley. A Shropshire Gentleman, who has excell'd all Writers in all Languages, in Comedy, and moft of the Poets of the prefent Age in generous Dealing with thofe he owns his Friends, he has writ Four Plays, The Country Wife, a Comedy, 4to. 1683. acted at the Theatre Royal. This Play from the beginning has been frequently acted with great Applaufe. The Gentleman Dancing Mafler, a Comedy, 4to. 1673. acted at the Duke's Theatre. Love in a Wood; or, St. James's Park; a Comedy, 4to. 1672. afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majesty's Servants; and dedicated to the Dutchefs of Cleveland. The Plain Dealer, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majefty's Servants. This is accounted the most excellent of all his Comedies, of which and the Author, Mr. Dryden and Mr. Evelyn gives a large Encomium. Some of the Characters are in Molliere's Le Mifanthrope, and Scarron's City Romance, Evo. Y Robert Tarrington. N Author in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, who writ one Play, A entituled, der in die, den 1 for. Two one Α Two Tragedies in one, 4to. 1601. Two Murthers, one of a Chandler and his Boy, the other of a Child in a Wood, by Or der or Contrivance of his Uncle, are the Subject of this Play. SUPPO SUPPOSED AUTHOR S. T R. A. Gent. HIS Author writ one Play, call'd, The Valiant Welch Man; or, The True Chronicle HiStory of the Life and Valiant Deeds of Charadoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales; a TragiComedy, 4to. 1663. acted by the Prince of Wales's Servants, the Plot from Ubaldine le vite del donne illustre, p. 6. Tacitus Annals, Milton's History of England, and from our British Chronicles. H. B. His Author has publifh'd one Play, entituled, The World's Idol; or, Plutus, a Comedy, 8vo. 1650. Transla ted from Ariftophanes, with Notes and a Discourse upon it. THE P. B. HE Mock Dueft; or, The French Vallet; a Comedy, fuppofed to be writ by Peter Bellon, Gent. 4to 1675 atted at the Theatre Royal by his Malay Servants and dedicated to the vertuous, accomplisht Lady, Madam S.C. 522 17.67. J. C. His Author writ a very diverting Play, call'd, The Two Merry Milk Maids; or, the best Words near the Garland, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. play'd before the King with great Applaufe, by the Company of the Revels. Part of the Plot from the Tenth Day, Nov. 5. of Boccace's Novels, and is the Foundation of feveral Plays, as Fletcher's Four Plays in One, bc. UNder J. D. Nder thefe Two Letters are these Two Plays following: Hell's High Court of Justice; or, The Tryal of Three Poli fick Ghofts, viz. Oliver Cromwell, King of Sweeden, and Cardinal Mazarine; a Tragedy, 4to. 1661. The Mall; or, The Modifh Lovers; a Comedy, 4to. 1674. acted by the King's Servants, and dedicated to William Whitcom, Junior, Efe (fuppofed by Dr. Hide, the Proto-Bibliothicarius to the Univerfity) to be Mr. Dryden's, tho' it differs much from the Stile of his Works. R. G. His Tranflator and Author was fome time Mafter of Arts of Alphonfus, King of Arragon, a comical Hiftory, 4to. 1599. as it has been fundry times acted. Ignoramus, a Comedy, 4to. 1662. very often acted with Applaufe before King James the First, written originally in Latin and translated by our Author. Samual S. H. Harging Son of Robert Harding of Ipswich Sicily and Naples; or, The Fatal Union; a Tragedy, 4to. 1640. There were feveral Copies of Verfes in Praise of this Play, writ by the Students of Oxon. |