The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Sir Francis Fane, Junior Knight of the Bath

3187119The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets — Sir Francis Fane, Junior Knight of the BathGerard Langbaine

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Sir Francis Fane, Jun. Knight of the Bath.

This Honourable Author is lately deceased, his late Residence was at Fulbeck in Lincolnshire; he was Grandson to the Earl of Westmorland, and has given us the two following Plays:

Love in the Dark; or, The Man of Business; a Comedy, 4to. 1675. Acted at the Theatre Royal by his Majesties Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester. The Plot taken from the Invisible Mistress in Scarron's Novels, 8vo. Boccace's Novels, Day 3. Nov. 3, and Day 7. Nov. 7. Loves of Great Men, p. 59.

The Sacrifice, a Tragedy 4to. 1686. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. This Play tho' Published without Acting, was highly commended by two Copies of Verses to the Author by Mr. Tate and Mrs. Behn; For the Plot see Chalcocondylas, lib. 3. Leundavius, lib. 6. See also the Lives of Bajazet and Tamerlain, the last by Mr. D'Assigny, and the former by Knoll's in his Turkish History.