Henry Glapthorn.
I Know no more of this Author, than that he writ five Plays in the time of K. Charles I. which follow:
Albertus Wallenſtein; a Tragedy, 1640. Acted at the Globe on the Bank ſide by his Majeſty’s Servants. See the German writers of Ferdinand the 2.d’s Reign. Spondanus’s Continuation of Baronius, &c.
Argalus and Parthenia, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1639. This Play was preſented before the King and Queen at Court; and afterwards Acted at the private Houſe in Drury Lane by their Majeſties Servants. Plot from Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, fol.
The Hollander; a Comedy, 4 to. 1640. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane, as alſo at Court before their Majeſties.
The Ladies Priviledge; a Comedy, 4 to. 1640. Acted both at Court before their Majeſties, and at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane, by their Majeſties Servants.
Wit in a Conſtable; a Comedy, 4 to. 1640. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane, by their Majeſties Servants.
He alſo Publiſhed a Poem call’d Whitehall, which are Printed in Quarto 1639.
Tho. Goff.
He was born about the year 1592. began his Studies at Weſtminſter-School, finiſh’d them at Christ-Church, Oxon, whether he remov’d at Eighteen. He went out Batchelor of Divinity, and had the Living of Eaſt-Clandon in Surrey, and a Xantippe to his Wife, whoſe Tongue, &c. he could not bear ſo indifferently as ſometimes, but as my Author obſerves, let it ſhorten his Days. He was Buried in the ſaid Pariſh-Church, 1627. and has written divers Poetical Pieces: His Plays five in Number, follow:
The Careleß Shepherdeß, a Paſtoral, 4 to. 1656. Acted at Salisbury-Court, before their Majeſties the King and Queen with good Applauſe. To which Play is added an Alphabetical Catalogue of all Plays till that time publiſhed in English, but very Erronious.
The Couragious Turk; or, Amurath the First, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1656. Acted by the Students of Chriſt-Church in Oxon. For the Plot, ſee Leunclavius, Chalcocondylas, Knolles, &c. in the Reign of Amurath.
Creſtes his Tragedy, 8 vo. 1636. Acted also by the Students of Chriſt-Church in Oxon. Plot from Euripides’s Oreſtes; or, Sophocles’s Electra.
