Author:John Crowne

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John Crowne
(–1712)

English dramatist
The works listed below are derived from The first Harvard playwright; a bibliography of the Restoration dramatist, John Crowne, with extracts from his Prefaces and the earlier version of the Epilogue to Sir Courtly Nice, 1685 (1922), by George Parker Winship

Works

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  • Juliana, or the Princess of Poland (1671)
  • The History of Charles the Eighth of France, or The Invasion of Naples by the French (1672)
  • The Country Wit: A Comedy (1675)
  • Calisto, or, The Chast Nimph, a Masque (1675)
  • Andromache, a Tragedy (1675), a revision by Crowne of an earlier work
  • The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian (1677), in two parts
  • The Ambitious Statesman, or The Loyal Favourite (1679)
  • The Misery of Civil War (1680)
  • Henry the Sixth, the First Part, with the Death of the Duke of Gloucester, a Tragedy (1681)
  • Henry the Sixth, the Second Part, or The Miseries of Civil War, a Tragedy (1681)
  • Thyestes, A Tragedy (1681)
  • The City Politiques (1683)
  • Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be (1685)
  • Darius, King of Persia (1688)
  • Regulus a Tragedy (1694)
  • The English Frier; or The Town Sparks (1690)
  • The Married Beau; or The Curious Impertinent (1694)
  • Caligula, Emperor of Rome, a Tragedy (1698)

Poetry

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  • Pandion and Amphigenia, or the History of the coy Lady of Thessalia (1665)
  • The Prologue to Calistho, with the Chorus’s Between The Acts (1675)
  • The Prologue and Epilogue to the City Politicks (1683)
  • A Poem, on The Lamented Death of our Late Gratious Soveraign, King Charles the II. of ever Blessed Memory. With a Congratulation to the Happy Succession of King James the II. By Mr. Crown (1685)
  • The Prologue and Epilogue to the New Comedy, called, The English Fryer, Or, The Town Sparks (1690)
  • Dæneids, or the Noble Labours of the Great Dean of Notre Dame in Paris (1692)
  • The History Or the Famous and Passionate Love, Between a Fair Noble Parisian Lady, And A Beautiful Young Singing-Man; A Chanter in the Quire of Notre-Dame in Paris, And A Singer in Opera’s. An Heroic Poem. In TWO Canto’s. Being in Imitation of Virgil’s Dido and Aeneas; and shews all the Passions Of a Proud Beauty, compell’d by Love, to abandon herself to her Inferiour; and being forsaken, how she Reveng’d herself, and recovered her Honor (1692)

Other

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  • Notes and Observations On the Empress of Morocco. Or, Some few Errata’s to be Printed instead of the Sculptures with the Second Edition of that Play . . . Juvenal (1674), co-authored with John Dryden and Thomas Shadwell.

Collected works

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Works about Crowne

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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