The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Fulk Grevile, Lord Brook
Fulk Grevile, Lord Brook.
THis Right Honourable Author was Son to Sir Fulk Grevile the Elder of Beauchamp-Court in Warwick-shire; he left Cambridge in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; was made a Baron in the Seventeenth Year of King James the First; and was famous for Valour and Learning: among other Poems he gave us two Plays: He lies buried in Warwick-Church under a Black and White Marble, on which he's stil'd Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. See more of him in Fuller's History.
Alaham, a Tragedy, fol. 1633. This Play is built on the Model of the Ancients; the Prologue is spoken by a Ghost, and the Spectre gives an Account of each Character. The Scene of the Drama lies at the Entrance of the Persian Gulph, of which Place you may read in Mr. Herbert's Travels, fol. the Third Edition, p. 114.
Mustapha, a Tragedy, 4to. 1609. fol. 1633. This Play seems also an Imitation of the Ancients, and for the Plot consult Paulus Jovius, and other Turkish Chronicles.
These Two Plays are printed together with other Poems of his Lordships, in fol. 1633. The Life of Sir Philip Sidney before his Arcadia, is said to be written by this our Author; as also another Volume of Poems and Remains, 8vo. not printed till the Year 1670.