Author:Charles Sedley

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Charles Sedley
(1639–1701)

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English noble, dramatist and politician

Works

Poems

"Ah, Chloris", from the play The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
"Answer"
"Constancy"
"A Dialogue between Amintas and Celia"
Epigrams: or, Court Characters
"Falling in Love with a Stranger at a Play"
"Hears Not My Phillis"
"The Indifference"
"Indifference Excused"
"Not, Celia, that I Juster Am"
"Pastoral Dialogue"
"Phyllis is My Only Joy"
"The Platonick"
"Song" ("Aurelia, Art thou mad")
"Song" ("Love still has something of the Sea")
"Song" ("When Aurelia first became")
"The Submission"
"To a Devout Young Woman"
"To a Lady, who told him he could not Love"
"To Celia" ("As in those Nations where they yet adore")
"To Celia" ("Princes make Laws, by which their Subjects live")
"To Celia" ("You tell me, Celia, you approve")
"To Chloris" ("Chloris, I cannot say, your Eyes")
"To Chloris" ("Chloris, I justly am betray'd")
"To Chloris" ("Chloris, you live ador'd by all")

Plays

Pompey the Great (1664), adaptation and translation of Corneille's La mort de Pompée (1644), together with Charles Sackville (later Earl of Dorset), Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, and Sir Edward Filmer.
The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
Antony and Cleopatra (1677)
Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687)
The Tyrant King of Crete (1702)
Beauty the Conquerour: or, The Death of Marc Antony (posthumous 1702)
The Grumbler (1702), an adaptation of Le Grondeur of Brueys and Palaprat.

Works about Sedley

"Sir Charles Sidley," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 134), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
"Sedley, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Sedley, Sir Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Sedley, Sir Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Sir Charles Sedley," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 120−121), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, 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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