The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Richard Head
Richard Head.
This Author, born in Ireland of English Parents, his Father was a Minister, and murdered in the Massacree 1641. He had a little smattering of the University of Oxon, but was soon removed to a Book-seller in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London. He writ one Play, call’d,
Hic & Ubique, or the Humours of Dublin, a Comedy, 4 to. 1663. Dedicated to Charles, Duke of Monmouth. He writ the First, and most of the Third Parts of the English Rogue, The Art of Wheedling, 8 vo. The Complaisant Companion, 12 mo. Venus’s Cabinet unlock’d, 12 mo. with several other small Treatises.