Author:Robert Howard (1626-1698)

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Robert Howard
(1626/1622–1698)

Robert Howard

Works

Poetry

• Poems (1660)
• The Duel of the Staggs; a Poem, (1668)

Plays

• Foure New Plays (1665)
  • Surprisal
  • Committee
  • Vestal Virgin
  • Indian Queen, co-authored with John Dryden
• The Blind Lady
• Great Favourite; or the Duke of Lerma; a Tragedy (1668)

Prose

• Reign of King Richard II (1681)
• Account of the State of his Majesties Revenue (1681)
• Historical Observations on the Reigns of Edward I, II, III, and Richard II. (1689)
• Reigns of Edward and Richard II. (1690)
• History of Religion, by a Person of Quality (1694)

Work about Howard

• "Sir Robert Howard" in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (1698), by Gerard Langbaine
• "Howard, Robert (1626-1698)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Howard, Sir Robert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Howard, Sir Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Howard, Robert," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)