arrives at Plymouth, September 26, 1580, 373.
receives a visit from queen Elizabeth on board his ship at Deptford, when he is knighted, ibid.
commands a fleet of twenty-five ships against the Spaniards, 1585, ibid.
his success against the Spaniards, 374.
in conjunction with sir John Hawkins sent with a fleet to the East Indies, 1595, 375.
died 1597, and buried in the sea, ibid.
Drama. See Stage.
Drowsy, Tom, his history, iv. 49.
Drugget, Ned, his history, iv. 195.
his false conceptions of pleasure, such as pursued by mankind in general, 201.
Dryden, John, his life, vii. 245.
born at Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, Aug. 9, 1631, ibid.
said to have inherited an estate of two hundred pounds a year, and to have been bred an anabaptist, ibid.
educated at Westminster school under Dr. Busby, 246.
admitted bachelor at Cambridge, 1653, ibid.
his first poem on the death of lord Hastings, ibid.
wrote stanzas on the death of Cromwell, and on the restoration Astrea Redux, 247.
commenced a writer for the stage about 1663, 248.
his first play the Wild Gallant, ibid.
published the Rival Ladies, 1664, 249.
joins sir Robert Howard in writing the Indian Queen, ibid.
the Indian Emperor published, 1667, ibid.
published his Annus Mirabilis, 1667, 250.
has a controversy with sir Robert Howard on dramatick rhyme, ibid.
succeeds sir W. Davenant as poet laureate, 251.
publishes his Essay on Dramatick Poetry, ibid.
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ibid.
sir Martin Mar-all, 252.
in conjunction with Davenant, alters Shakespeare's Tempest, ibid.
his quiet disturbed by Settle's Empress of Morocco, ibid.
his character of Settle, with remarks on the Empress of Morocco, 253.
his Mock Astrologer, dedicated to the duke of Newcastle, 258.
Tyrannick Love, or the Virgin Martyr, ibid.
Conquest of Granada, 259.
that play attacked by Martin Clifford, 260.
Settle vindicates himself, ibid.
his Marriage A-la-mode, dedicated to the earl of Rochester, 265.
the Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, dedicated to sir Charles Sedley, ibid.
Amboyna, ibid.
Troilus and Cressida, altered from Shakespeare, ibid.
the Spanish Fryar, ibid.
the duke of Guise, written in conjunction with Lee, 266.
Albion and Albanius, ibid.
State of Innocence and Fall of Man, 267.
many hundred copies in manuscript before it was printed, ibid.
Aureng Zebe, 268.
All for Love, or the World well Lost, founded on the story of Antony and Cleopatra, ibid.
Limberham, or the Kind Keeper, 269.
Œdipus, formed by him and Lee from Sophocles, ibid.
Don Sebastian, ibid.
Amphitryon, derived from Plautus and Molière, ibid.
Cleomenes, ibid.
King Arthur, 270.
Love Triumphant, ibid.
did not raise his fortune by the number of his pieces, ibid.
wrote a dedication to almost every piece, 271.
used to add a preface of criticism to his plays, ibid.
wrote prologues to many plays, the price of which was two guineas, and afterwards raised to three guineas, ibid.
contracted to furnish four plays a year, 272.
in 1678, produced six full plays, ibid.
attacked by criticks, and opposed by rivals, ibid.
characterized by the name of Bayes in the Rehearsal, ibid.
criticks nor rivals did him no harm, 274.
repels censure by an adamantine confidence, ibid.
waylaid and beaten for being supposed to have been the author of an Essay on Satire, 275.
his name thought necessary for the success of every poetical and literary performance, ibid.
he wrote the lives of Polybius, Lucian, and Plutarch, and translated the first book of Tacitus, ibid.
assisted in translating Ovid's Epistles, and adds a preface on translation, ibid.
writes Absalom and Achitophel, which is several times answered, 276.
the Medal, which is answered by Settle and others, 277.
after the accession of James, declared himself a convert to popery, 278.
engaged to defend the papers found in the strong box of Charles the second, 279.
translates Maimburg's History of the League, and the Life of Francis Xavier, ibid.
supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas's History of Heresies, and to have answered Burnet, 280.
Burnet's observation on the answer, ibid.
publishes the Hind and Panther, which is answered by the earl of Halifax, Prior, Tom Brown, etc. 281.
writes on the birth of a prince, 283.
at the revolution loses the place of laureate, ibid.
celebrates Shadwell's inauguration in Mac Flecknoe, ibid.
lord Dorset is said to have continued the salary of laureate
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