A Select Collection of Old Plays, Vol. 12 of 12: With Additional Notes and Corrections, by the Late Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, and the Editor (Classic Reprint) baixar o livro de graça

Excerpt from A Select Collection of Old Plays, Vol. 12 of 12: With Additional Notes and Corrections, by the Late Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, and the Editor Sir Samuel Tuke, of Temple Cressy, in the County of Essex, was a colonel of horse in the king's army, and served against the parliament, as long as the affairs of his master had any prospect of success. He was very active in that rising in the County of Essex, which ended fatally to some of the chief actors in it. From the prologue to the present play, spoken at court, it appears that he intended to retire from business, soon after the Restoration, but was diverted from that design for some time, by his majesty's recommending him to adapt a Spanish play to the English stage, which he executed with some degree of success. On the 31st March, 1664, he was created a baronet. He married Mary, the daughter of Edward Sheldon, a lady who was one of the dressers to Queen Mary, and probably a Roman Catholic, of which persuasion our author seems also to have been. He died at Somerset House, on the 26th of January, 1673, and was buried in the vault under the chapel there. Langbaine, by mistake, says he was alive at the time he published his Lives of the Dramatic poets. Sir Samuel did not escape the censure of his brother poets. One of them, speaking of Cowley, says, he Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke. And in the same poem: Sam Tuke sat, and formally smil'd at the rest;But Apollo, who well did his vanity know, Call'd him to the bar to put him to the test, But his muse was so stiff, she scarcely could go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.