Author:John Dancer

John Dancer
(1660–1675)

Works

• Aminta, the Famous Pastoral, translated into English verse, with divers Ingenious Poems (1660)
• Nicomede, a tragicomedy translated out of the French of Monsieur Corneille, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (1671)
• Judgment on Alexander and Cæsar, and also on Seneca, Plutarch, and Petronius, from the French of Renaud Rapin (1672)
• The Comparison of Plato and Aristotle, with the Opinions of the Fathers on their Doctrine, and some Christian Reflections (1673)
• Mercury Gallant, containing many true and pleasant relations of what hath passed at Paris from January 1st 1672 till the king's departure thence (1673)
• Agrippa, King of Alba, or the False Tiberinus. As it was several times acted with great applause before the Duke of Ormonde, L.L. of Ireland, at the Theatre Royal in Dublin; from the French of Monsieur Quinault (1675)

Works about Dancer

• "John Dancer," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Dancer, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.