Otway
But Thee, my Otway, from the Grave I'll raise,
And crown thy Mem'ry with Immortal Praise;
At least, Sweet Bard, it should Immortal be,
If I cou'd reach the Clouds, and Charm the Ear like thee!
Thy Orphan and Venetian Piece Sublime
Shall ever stand, and dare the Teeth of Time.
But honest Truth obliges me to tell,
Your other Tragick Plays are not so well;
Not with ease and that Exactness writ,
With Less of Nature too;-and Nature here is wit:
Not but they may assume a decent Pride
To vye ev'n with our Noblest Plays beside.
Etheridge & Wycherly
The Name of Etheridge next renown'd we see
For easy stile, and Wit in Comedy,
Tho' not so strong as that of Wycherly:
His Play of *Manly (ne'er to be out-writ)
A Prodigy of Satyr, Sence and Wit!
* Plain Dealer
Dryden
His All For Love, and most Correct of all,
Of just and vast Applause can never fail,
Never! but when his Laimberham I name
I hide my head and blush with Friendly shame,
To think the Author of both of these the same
Thus tho' Time and Place they boast their Skill,
For Five good Poets there's Five Hundred Ill.1
Robert Gould, 1685
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1 Montague Summers, The
Restoration Theatre, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1934, p.307.
2 Anthony Masters, The Play of
Personality in the Restoration Theatre, ed. Simon Trussler, the Boydell
Press 1992, p.53.
3 Encyclopaedia Britanica, Eleventh
Edition, Volume IX, Cambridge University Press 1910, p.807.
4 Anthony Masters, The Play of
Personality in the Restoration Theatre, ed. Simon Trussler, the Boydell
Press 1992, p.80.
5 Ibid., p.81.
6 Ibid., p.41.
7 Encyclopaedia Britanica, Eleventh
Edition, Volume XXVIII, Cambridge University Press 1910, p.864.
8 Anthony Masters, The Play of
Personality in the Restoration Theatre, ed. Simon Trussler, the Boydell
Press 1992, p.63.
9 Martha Fletcher Bellinger, A Short
History of the Theatre, Henry Holt & Co 1927, p.254.
10 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Volume XII, Micropaedia, University of Chicago 1993, p.260.
11 Encyclopaedia Britanica,
Eleventh Edition, Volume XXVII, Cambridge University Press 1910, p.880.
12 http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc58.html
13 Encyclopaedia Britanica,
Eleventh Edition, Volume VI, Cambridge University Press 1910, p.938.
14 http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc94.html
15 The Restoration Stage, ed.
John I. McCollum, Jr, Greenwood Press 1976, p.99.