An account of the English dramatick poets
Subtitle: or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings, of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces, or opera's in the English tongue
By: By Gerard Langbaine
Series: Burt Franklin bibliography & reference series -- no. 91
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Opera; Bio-bibliography; Theater; English drama
Notes: Facsimile reprint.

"Originally published Oxford: 1691."

A new edition, revised by Charles Gildon, appeared 1699 under title: The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets.

Based on his "New catalogue of English plays, London, 1688. [Dec. 1687]" an unauthorized edition of which had appeared a month earlier under title: Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage.