Author:Elkanah Settle

Elkanah Settle
(1648–1724)

English poet and playwright.

Works

Drama

  • Cambyses King of Persia: a tragedy (1671) (external scan)
  • The Empress of Morocco: a tragedy (1673). (external scan)
  • Love and Revenge: a tragedy (1675). (external scan)
  • Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa, a tragedy (1676)
  • The Female Prelate: being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan, a tragedy (1680)
  • The Ambitious Slave (1691). (external scan)

Poetry

  • An heroick poem on the Right Honourable, Thomas Earl of Ossory (1681). (external scan)
  • Azaria and Hushai: a poem (1682), attributed to Samuel Pordage and Elkanah Settle
  • A pindaric poem on the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts (1711). (external scan)

Opera libretto

  • The Fairy-Queen (1692). (external scan)
  • The World in the Moon (1697)
  • The Virgin Prophetess, or The Fate of Troy (1701)

Other

  • The notorious impostor, or the history of the life of William Morrell, alias Bowyer, sometime of Banbury, Chirurgeon (1692). (external scan)
  • A funeral tear, to the memory of the Honourable Capt. James Killigrew (1695). (external scan)

Works about Settle


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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