Author:Charles Sedley

Charles Sedley
(1639–1701)

Charles Sedley

Works

Poems

• Epigrams: or, Court Characters
• "Phyllis is My Only Joy"
• "Not, Celia, that I Juster Am"
• "Hears Not My Phillis"
• "Ah, Chloris", from the play The Mulberry-Garden (1668)

Plays

• Pompey the Great (1664), adaptation and translation of Corneille's La mort de Pompée (1644), together with Charles Sackville (later Earl of Dorset), Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, and Sir Edward Filmer.
• The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1677)
• Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687)
• The Tyrant King of Crete (1702)
• Beauty the Conquerour: or, The Death of Marc Antony (posthumous 1702)
• The Grumbler (1702), an adaptation of Le Grondeur of Brueys and Palaprat.

Works about Sedley

• "Sir Charles Sidley," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 134), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Sedley, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Sedley, Sir Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sedley, Sir Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Sir Charles Sedley," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 120−121), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)