Author:Elkanah Settle

Elkanah Settle
(1648–1724)

Works

Drama

• Cambyses King of Persia: a tragedy (1671) (external scan)
• The Empress of Morocco: a tragedy (1673). (external scan)
• Love and Revenge: a tragedy (1675). (external scan)
• Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa, a tragedy (1676)
• The Female Prelate: being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan, a tragedy (1680)
• The Ambitious Slave (1691). (external scan)

Poetry

• An heroick poem on the Right Honourable, Thomas Earl of Ossory (1681). (external scan)
• Azaria and Hushai: a poem (1682), attributed to Samuel Pordage and Elkanah Settle
• A pindaric poem on the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts (1711). (external scan)

Opera libretto

• The Fairy-Queen (1692). (external scan)
• The World in the Moon (1697)
• The Virgin Prophetess, or The Fate of Troy (1701)

Other

• The notorious impostor, or the history of the life of William Morrell, alias Bowyer, sometime of Banbury, Chirurgeon (1692). (external scan)
• A funeral tear, to the memory of the Honourable Capt. James Killigrew (1695). (external scan)

Works about Settle

• "Settle, Elkanah," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Settle, Elkanah," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Settle, Elkanah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Elkanah Settle: His Life and Works (1910), Frank Clyde Brown. (external scan)