Author:Roger Boyle

Roger Boyle
(1621–1679)

Roger Boyle

Works

Plays

• The Tragedy of Mustapha (1668) (external scan)
• The History of Henry the Fifth (1668)(external scan)
• Black Prince (1669)
• Tryphon (1672)
• Mr. Anthony, a comedy (1690) (external scan)
• Guzman, A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (1693)
• Herod the Great, a Tragedy (1694)
• Altemira (1702)

Non-fiction

• An Answer to a Scandalous Letter . . . A Full Discovery of the Treachery of the Irish Rebels (1662)
• English Adventures by a Person of Honour (1676)
• Treatise of the Art of War (1677)

Poetry

• On the Death of Abraham Cowley (1677)
• "To My Honoured Friend Edward Howard Esq. on his Heroick Poem, The Brittish Princes", in The Brittish Princes: An Heroick Poem (1679), by Edward Howard
• Poems on most of the Festivals of the Church (1681)

Novels

• Parthenissa (1654)

Works about Boyle

• "Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 11−12), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Boyle, Roger, Lord Broghill," in A Compendium of Irish Biography, by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878)
• "Boyle, Roger (1621-1679)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)