Settle, Elkanah 1648-1724

Overview

Works:	678 works in 1,682 publications in 4 languages and 18,721 library holdings
Genres:	Tragedies Librettos Operas
Roles:	Translator, Editor, Lyricist, Redactor, Librettist, Attributed name
Classifications:	pr1121, 999

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1640 |

|2010

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Publications about Elkanah Settle

Publications by Elkanah Settle

Publications by Elkanah Settle, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Elkanah Settle

Juvenalis redivivus, or, The first satyr of Juvenal taught to speak plain English a poem by Thomas Wood ( Book )
The empress of Morocco a farce : acted by His Majesties servants by Thomas Duffett ( Book )
A vindication of Dr. Titus Oates from two late scurrilous libels written to create a dis-belief of the Popish plot : the one entituled A narrative by E. Settle : the other a modest vindication of Titus Oates, the Salamanca doctor, from perjury &c by Titus Oates ( Book )
Elkanah Settle his life and works by Frank Clyde Brown ( Book )
A Character of the true blue Protestant poet, or, The pretended author of The character of a popish successor ( Book )

The Empress of Morocco a farce by Thomas Duffett ( Book )
More last words and sayings of the True Protestant Elm-board, or, A Full answer to a late pretended sober vindication of the Dr. and the Board ( Book )
The Weekly miscellany ( Serial )
More last words and sayings of the True Protestant Elm-board, or, A Full answer to a late pretended sober vindication of the Dr. and the Board ( Book )
A character of the true blue Protestant poet: or, The pretended author of The character of a popish successor ( Book )
Here let my life by Theatre of Early Music ( Recording )
More last words and sayings of the True Protestant Elm-board, or, A Full answer to a late pretended sober vindication of the Dr. and the Board ( Book )
A Diaglogue between the earl of Sh---ry, E. Settle and Dr. Oats at parting ( Book )
Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers ca. 1710 ( )
A Character of the true blue Protestant poet, or, The pretended author of The character of a popish successor ( Book )
The life and works of Elkanah Settle by Ira Lee Baker ( Book )
The Dryden-Settle controversy : a symptom of the multifaceted conflicts in Restoration England and a catalyst for Dryden's satire by Delpha Buntin Charles ( Book )
Elkanah Settle and the genesis of "Mac Flecknoe by George McFadden ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Elkanah Settle

The music in The fairy queen; English opera (1692) by Henry Purcell ( )
31 editions published between 1692 and 2000 in English and held by 402 libraries worldwide

Cambyses, King of Persia a tragedy by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
12 editions published between 1671 and 1995 in English and held by 226 libraries worldwide

The character of a popish successour, and what England may expect from such a one humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament, appointed to meet at Oxford, on the one and twentieth of March, 1680/1 by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
11 editions published in 1681 in English and held by 190 libraries worldwide
In reference to the succession of the Duke of York, afterwards, James II.

The notorious impostor (1692) ; Diego redivivus (1692) by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
3 editions published between 1957 and 1967 in English and held by 187 libraries worldwide

A defence of dramatick poetry; and, A farther defence of dramatick poetry by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
4 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 185 libraries worldwide

The female prelate being the history of the life and death of Pope Joan : a tragedy: as it is acted at the Theatre Royal by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
14 editions published between 1680 and 1689 in English and held by 179 libraries worldwide
A tragic play about a legendary female pope.

Love and revenge a tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
10 editions published in 1675 in English and held by 168 libraries worldwide

The world in the moon an opera as it is perform'd at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden by His Majesty's servants by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
12 editions published between 1697 and 1984 in English and held by 167 libraries worldwide

The heir of Morocco, with the death of Gayland acted at the Theatre Royal by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
8 editions published between 1682 and 1995 in English and held by 165 libraries worldwide

The Empress of Morocco a tragedy, with sculptures ; as it is acted at the Duke's theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
10 editions published in 1673 in English and held by 165 libraries worldwide

Herod and Mariamne a tragedy by Samuel Pordage ( Book )
6 editions published between 1673 and 1953 in English and held by 164 libraries worldwide

The new Athenian comedy containing the politicks, oeconomicks, tacticks, crypticks, apocalypticks, stypticks, scepticks, pneumaticks, theologicks, poeticks, mathematicks, sophisticks, pragmaticks, dogmaticks, &c. of that most learned society by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
9 editions published between 1693 and 1953 in English and held by 163 libraries worldwide

Fatal love, or, The forc'd inconstancy a tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
7 editions published in 1680 in English and held by 159 libraries worldwide
Based on a Greek romance by Achilles Tatius, Clitiphon and Leucippe.

Glory's resurrection being the triumphs of London revived, for the inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of the city of London : containing the description (and also the sculptures) of the pageants, and the whole solemnity of the day : all set forth at the proper cost and charge of the honourable Company of Goldsmiths by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
7 editions published between 1698 and 1953 in English and held by 157 libraries worldwide
Dedication signed: E. Settle.

The city-ramble, or, A play-house wedding a comedy ; as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by Her Majesty's company of comedians by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
13 editions published in 1711 in English and held by 148 libraries worldwide

Azaria and Hushai a poem by Samuel Pordage ( Book )
11 editions published in 1682 in English and held by 142 libraries worldwide
A counter allegory to Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, usually attributed to Samuel Pordage, though it has been ascribed also to Elkanah Settle. cf. BM., Halkett & Laing; Stonehill, Block, & Stonehill; DNB.; Camb. hist. Eng. lit., v. 8, p. 104, 459.

Pastor fido, or, The faithful shepherd a pastoral, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
11 editions published between 1677 and 1689 in English and held by 123 libraries worldwide
In verse.

Absalom Senior, or, Achitophel transpros'd a poem by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
10 editions published in 1682 in English and held by 122 libraries worldwide
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Cambyses, King of Persia a tragedy, acted by His Highness the Duke of York's servants by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
10 editions published between 1671 and 1692 in English and held by 121 libraries worldwide

The siege of Troy a tragi-comedy, as it has been often acted with great applause. Containing a description of all the scenes ... and particulars of the entertainment by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
57 editions published between 1701 and 2005 in English and held by 71 libraries worldwide

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