Settle, Elkanah 1648-1724

Overview

Works:	658 works in 2,401 publications in 3 languages and 28,422 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Poetry Controversial literature History Musical settings Sources Librettos
Roles:	Translator, Editor, Librettist, Lyricist, Redactor, Other, Attributed name
Classifications:	PR1121, 782.154

Publication Timeline

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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

The empress of Morocco a farce : acted by His Majesties servants by Thomas Duffett ( Book )
Juvenalis redivivus, or, The first satyr of Juvenal taught to speak plain English a poem by Thomas Wood ( 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 )
A Character of the true blue Protestant poet, or, The pretended author of The character of a popish successor ( Book )
Elkanah Settle, his life and works by Frank Clyde Brown ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Elkanah Settle

Cambyses, King of Persia a tragedy acted at the Duke's Theater by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
50 editions published between 1671 and 2011 in English and held by 791 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Empress of Moroccco a tragedy, with sculptures by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
52 editions published between 1673 and 2011 in English and held by 643 WorldCat member 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 )
39 editions published between 1680 and 2011 in English and held by 577 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tragic play about a legendary female pope

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 )
35 editions published between 1697 and 1996 in English and held by 484 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Herod and Mariamne a tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre by Samuel Pordage ( Book )
24 editions published between 1671 and 1953 in English and held by 467 WorldCat member 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, Machines, and Movements, with the whole Decoration of the Play, and particulars of the entertainment by Elkanah Settle ( )
38 editions published between 1707 and 1791 in English and held by 461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The music in The fairy queen; English opera (1692) by Henry Purcell ( )
11 editions published between 1692 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pastor fido, or, The faithful shepherd a pastoral, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
23 editions published between 1677 and 1953 in English and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The heir of Morocco, with the death of Gayland acted at the Theatre Royal by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
39 editions published between 1682 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 419 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ibrahim the illustrious Bassa a tragedy : acted at the Duke's Theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
30 editions published between 1677 and 1694 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eusebia triumphans the Hannover succession to the imperial crown of England, an heroick poem by Elkanah Settle ( )
25 editions published between 1702 and 1705 in Latin and English and held by 397 WorldCat member 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 )
20 editions published in 1681 in English and held by 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In reference to the succession of the Duke of York, afterwards, James II

Absalom Senior, or, Achitophel transpros'd a poem by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
23 editions published between 1682 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 )
14 editions published between 1698 and 1953 in English and held by 330 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Azaria and Hushai a poem by Samuel Pordage ( Book )
17 editions published in 1682 in English and held by 321 WorldCat member 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

A view of the times with Britain's address to the Prince of Orange, a pindarick poem by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
11 editions published in 1689 in English and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Love and revenge a tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
30 editions published between 1674 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Animadversions on the last speech of the late William Lord Russel by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
18 editions published in 1683 in English and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The conquest of China by the Tartars a tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
26 editions published between 1676 and 2011 in English and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fatal love, or, The forc'd inconstancy a tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal by Elkanah Settle ( Book )
21 editions published between 1680 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on a Greek romance by Achilles Tatius, Clitiphon and Leucippe

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