Author:Thomas D'Urfey

Thomas D'Urfey
(1653–1723)

Thomas D'Urfey

Works

• Siege of Memphis (1676)
• Madame Fickle (1677)
• Virtuous Wife (1680)
• Love for Money; or The Boarding School (Theatre Royal, 1691)
• The Marriage-Hater Match’d (1692)
• The Comical History of Don Quixote in three parts (1694, 1694 and 1696)
• The Campaigners (1698)
• An Essay Towards the Theory of the Intelligible World (1700, as Gabriel John).
• Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719)

• Songs compleat, pleasant and divertive; set to musick (1876) (transcription project)

• The Night Her Blackest Sable Wore (1682)

Works about D'Urfey

• "Thomas d’Urfey," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 48−52), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Tom D'Urfey" in Devonshire Characters and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould
• "D'Urfey, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "D'Urfey, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "D'Urfey, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "D'Urfey, Thomas," by William Henry Husk in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (v. 1, p. 472), (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)