The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Henry Glapthorn
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.