Author:George Granville

George Granville
(1666–1735)

George Granville

Works

• The She-Gallants: A Comedy (1696)
• The Genuine Speech of the Lord L————ne, against Repealing the Occasional and Schism Bills (1719)
• A Letter from a Noble-Man Abroad, to his Friend in England (1722)
• Poems upon Several Occasions (1726), 4^th edition
• Peleus and Thetis: A Masque (1740)

Poems

• Index of Titles

Collections of works

• Three Plays (1713) (external scan), containing:
  • The She-Gallants, a Comedy.
  • Heroick-Love, a Tragedy.
  • The Jew of Venice, a Comedy.
• The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, (1732) (external scan), (1736)
• The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1779)

Works about Granville

• "George Granville," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 66), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• “Lansdowne, George Granville, Lord,” from A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, volume 6 (1738), by Pierre Bayle.
• “Greenvile, George,” from Biographia Britannica, volume 4 (1747).
• “G. Granville, L. Lansdowne,” from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 4 (1753), by Mr. Cibber.
• “The Life of G. Granville, L. Lansdowne,” from The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1779).
• “Granville,” from The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, volume 3 (1794), by Samuel Johnson.
• “The Life of Granville,” from the Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain (1795) by Robert Anderson.
• “George Granville, Lord Lansdown,” from A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors, volume 4 (1806), by Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford.
• “Granville, George, Lord Lansdown,” from the Biographia Dramatica, volume 1, part 1 (1812), by David Erskine Baker.
• “Granville, George,” from the General Biographical Dictionary (1814) (Alexander Chalmers, F. S. A., editor).
• “Life of Granville,” from The Works of the British Poets, volume 17, by Ezekiel Sanford (1819).
• “Granville, George,” from A New General Biographical Dictionary (1848) (Rev. Hugh James Rose, B. D., editor).
• “Granville, George,” from the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (1876) (Professor John Eadie, D. D., Ll. D., et al., editors), by Francis Espinasse.
• "Granville, George," in The American Cyclopædia (1879).
• "Granville, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Handasyde, Elizabeth (1933). Granville the Polite: The Life of George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, 1666–1735.

Works about works of Granville

• “Heroick Love,” in Roscius Anglicanus, by John Downes (1708) (edited by Montague Summers, reprint).
• From Some Account of the English Stage (1832), by John Genest:
  • “She Gallants,” in volume 2
  • “Heroic Love,” in volume 2
  • “Jew of Venice,” in volume 2
  • “British Enchanters,” in volume 2
• Baird, John (2004). “Renunciation as Tragedy and Triumph in George Granville’s Heroick Love,” in Lumen, 23, pp. 115–131.