The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Goff
Tho. Goff.
He was born about the year 1592. began his Studies at Westminster-School, finish’d them at Christ-Church, Oxon, whether he remov’d at Eighteen. He went out Batchelor of Divinity, and had the Living of East-Clandon in Surrey, and a Xantippe to his Wife, whose Tongue, &c. he could not bear so indifferently as sometimes, but as my Author observes, let it shorten his Days. He was Buried in the said Parish-Church, 1627. and has written divers Poetical Pieces: His Plays five in Number, follow:
The Careleß Shepherdeß, a Pastoral, 4 to. 1656. Acted at Salisbury-Court, before their Majesties the King and Queen with good Applause. To which Play is added an Alphabetical Catalogue of all Plays till that time published in English, but very Erronious.
The Couragious Turk; or, Amurath the First, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1656. Acted by the Students of Christ-Church in Oxon. For the Plot, see Leunclavius, Chalcocondylas, Knolles, &c. in the Reign of Amurath.
Crestes his Tragedy, 8 vo. 1636. Acted also by the Students of Christ-Church in Oxon. Plot from Euripides’s Orestes; or, Sophocles’s Electra.
Raging Turk; or, Bajazet the Second; a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1656. which was likewise Acted by the Students of Christ-Church, Oxon. For the Plot consult the same Turkish Histories before mentioned.
Solimus Emperor of the Turks, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1638. For the Plot consult also the Turkish Historians, as Paul. Jovius, Mezeray, &c. in the Reign of Solimus the First.
Three of these five Plays mentioned to be Acted at Oxon, are Printed together in one Volume 8 vo.