Author:Charles Gildon

Charles Gildon
(1665–1724)

Works

• Miscellaneous Works of the Deist, Charles Blount (1654–1693) (1695)
• Deist's Manual (1705)
• New Rehearsal, or Bays the younger, containing an examen of Mr. Rowe's plays, and a word or two on Mr. Pope's “Rape of the Lock,” (1714)
• The history of the Athenian Society, for the resolving all nice and curious questions (1691)
• Postboy robbed of his Mail … containing some 500 letters to several persons of quality
• Miscellany Poems upon various occasions (1692)
• Examen Miscellaneum (1701)
• A Comparison of the two Stages (1702)
• Life and Adventures of Defoe
• Canons, or the Vision, addressed to James, Earl of Carnarvon’ (afterwards Duke of Chandos) (1717)
• A Grammar of the English Tongue (anonymously, 1711), also known as:
  • Steele’s Grammar
  • Brightland’s Grammar
  • Bickerstaff’s Grammar
• The Complete Art of Poetry (1718), in 2 vols.
• The Laws of Poetry laid down by … Buckingham … Roscommon, and … Lansdown, illustrated and explained (1721)

Plays

• The Roman Bride's Revenge (1697)
• Phaethon, or the Fatal Divorce (1698), based on the Medea of Euripides
• Measure for Measure (1700), based on William Shakespeare
• Love's Victim (1701)
• The Patriot, or the Italian Conspiracy (1703)

Epistles

• Epistle Dedicatory in The younger brother, or, The amorous jilt: a comedy (1696) by Aphra Behn

As editor

• An Account of the English Dramatic Poets, or some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and Writings of all those that have published either Comedies, Tragedies, Tragicomedies, Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Operas, in the English Tongue (1699), by Gerard Langbaine
  • The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (1698)

Works about Gildon

• "Charles Gildon," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Gildon, Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gildon, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "The Life of Charles Gildon" in Robinson Crusoe examin'd and criticis'd; or, A new edition of Charles Gildon's famous pamphlet now published with an introduction and explanatory notes, together with an essay on Gildon's life (1923) by Paul Dottin[[1]]