Author:Richard Flecknoe

Richard Flecknoe
(c. 1600 – c. 1678)

Works

• Hierothalamium, or the Heavenly Nuptials of our Blessed Saviour with a Pious Soule (1626)
• The Affections of a Pious Soule unto our Saviour Christ, expressed in a mixed Treatise of Verse and Prose (1640)
• Miscellania, or Poems of all Sorts, with divers other Pieces (1653)
• Love's Dominion, a dramatick piece full of excellent Moralities, written as a pattern for the reformed stage (1654) anon.
• A Relation of Ten Years' Travels in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America (1656)
• The Diarium or Journal, divided into twelve Jornadas in burlesque Rhime or Drolling Verse (1656)
• Enigmaticall Characters, all taken to the Life from several Persons, Humours, and Dispositions (1658}
  • 2nd edition, called Sixty-nine Characters, &c. (1665)
• The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia (1659)
• The Idea of his Highness Oliver, late Lord Protector, with certain brief Reflections on his Life (1659)
• Heroick Portraits, with other Miscellany Pieces (1660)
• Love's Kingdom, a Pastoral Trage-Comedy’ (‘Love's Dominion’ altered); appended is a short treatise of the English stage (1664)
• Erminia, or the Fair and Virtuous Lady, a Trage-Comedy (1661 and 1665)
• Enigmatical Characters, &c. … being rather a new work than a new impression of the old (1665)
• A Farrago of Several Pieces (1666}
• The Damoiselles à la Mode (1667}
• Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the other World, with his Adventures in the Poets' Elyzium: a Poetical Fiction (1668)
• Epigrams of all Sorts (1669)
• Epigrams of all Sorts, made at divers times on several occasions, with ‘Epigrams Divine and Moral (1670}
• Epigrams of all Sorts, made at divers times on several occasions (‘rather a new work than a new impression’) (1671}
• A Collection of the choicest Epigrams and Characters of R. F. (rather a ‘new work than a new impression’) (1673)
• Euterpe Revived, or Epigrams made at several times … on persons … most of them now living (1675}
• A Treatise of the Sports of Wit (1675)

Works about Flecknoe

• "Richard Flecknoe," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 56), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Flecknoe, Richard," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Flecknoe, Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Flecknoe, Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)