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Sedley, Sir Charles
Sedley, Sir Charles or Sir Charles Sidley, (?1639–1701), dramatist and poet, friend of Rochester and Dryden, was famous for his wit and urbanity and notorious for his profligate escapades. His tragedy Antony and Cleopatra (1677) was followed by two comedies, Bellamira (1687) and The Mulberry Garden (1668), which was based partly on Molière's L'École des maris. His poems and songs (‘Phillis is my only joy’, ‘Love still has something of the sea’, etc.) were included with his Miscellaneous Works (1702). Malone identified him as the Lisideius of Dryden's Of Dramatick Poesie.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Sedley, Sir Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Sedley, Sir Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SedleySirCharles.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Sedley, Sir Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SedleySirCharles.html |
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Sedley, Sir Charles
Sedley, Sir Charles (c.1639–1701), Restoration dramatist, wit, and man of letters, friend of Rochester and Etherege. He wrote several plays, of which the best are The Mulberry-Garden (1668), a comedy of contemporary manners which owes something to Molière's L'École des maris (1661) and something to Etherege's Comical Revenge (1664), and the lively but licentious Bellamira; or, The Mistress (1687), based on the Eunuchus of Terence. Sedley was also the author of a dull tragedy on the subject of Antony and Cleopatra, written in imitation of Dryden's heroic drama All for Love (1677).
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Sedley, Sir Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Sedley, Sir Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-SedleySirCharles.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Sedley, Sir Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-SedleySirCharles.html |
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