The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Robert Gould
Robert Gould.
A Gentleman now living, formerly a Domestick of the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex; and since teaches School in the Country. He has given us One Play, called,
The Rival Sisters, or the Violence of Love, a Tragedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majesty’s Servants 4 to. 1696. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Abingdon, &c. This Play was well received, tho’ delay’d for sometime the Acting, as the Author complains in his Epistle. The Plot is almost entirely taken out of Shirly’s Maids Revenge, tho’ he has left out the Characters of Signior Sharkino, a sharking Doctor, and his Man Scarabeo; the Story is taken originally out of Reynolds’s God’s Revenge against Murder, Book 2. Hist. 7.