Author:John Crowne

John Crowne
(–1712)

Works

• Juliana, or the Princess of Poland (1671)
• The History of Charles the Eighth of France, or The Invasion of Naples by the French (1672)
• The Country Wit: A Comedy (1675)
• Calisto, or, The Chast Nimph, a Masque (1675)
• Andromache, a Tragedy (1675), a revision by Crowne of an earlier work
• The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian (1677), in two parts
• The Ambitious Statesman, or The Loyal Favourite (1679)
• The Misery of Civil War (1680)
• Henry the Sixth, the First Part, with the Death of the Duke of Gloucester, a Tragedy (1681)
• Henry the Sixth, the Second Part, or The Miseries of Civil War, a Tragedy (1681)
• Thyestes, A Tragedy (1681)
• The City Politiques (1683)
• Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be (1685)
• Darius, King of Persia (1688)
• Regulus a Tragedy (1694)
• The English Frier; or The Town Sparks (1690)
• The Married Beau; or The Curious Impertinent (1694)
• Caligula, Emperor of Rome, a Tragedy (1698)

Poetry

• Pandion and Amphigenia, or the History of the coy Lady of Thessalia (1665)
• The Prologue to Calistho, with the Chorus’s Between The Acts (1675)
• The Prologue and Epilogue to the City Politicks (1683)
• A Poem, on The Lamented Death of our Late Gratious Soveraign, King Charles the II. of ever Blessed Memory. With a Congratulation to the Happy Succession of King James the II. By Mr. Crown (1685)
• The Prologue and Epilogue to the New Comedy, called, The English Fryer, Or, The Town Sparks (1690)
• Dæneids, or the Noble Labours of the Great Dean of Notre Dame in Paris (1692)
• The History Or the Famous and Passionate Love, Between a Fair Noble Parisian Lady, And A Beautiful Young Singing-Man; A Chanter in the Quire of Notre-Dame in Paris, And A Singer in Opera’s. An Heroic Poem. In TWO Canto’s. Being in Imitation of Virgil’s Dido and Aeneas; and shews all the Passions Of a Proud Beauty, compell’d by Love, to abandon herself to her Inferiour; and being forsaken, how she Reveng’d herself, and recovered her Honor (1692)

Other

• Notes and Observations On the Empress of Morocco. Or, Some few Errata’s to be Printed instead of the Sculptures with the Second Edition of that Play . . . Juvenal (1674), co-authored with John Dryden and Thomas Shadwell.

Collected works

• The dramatic works of John Crowne, with prefatory memoir and notes (1873), in 4 vols., edited by James Maidment and William Hugh Logan

Works about Crowne

• "John Crown," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 28−30), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Crowne, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Crowne, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Crowne, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• John Crowne, His Life and Dramatic Works, (1922), by Arthur Franklin White