Author:Thomas Rymer

Thomas Rymer
(1641–1713)

Works

• Of the antiquity, power, and decay of parliaments (1684)
• Fœdera
  • Volume 1 (1704)
  • Volume 2 (1705)
  • Volume 3 (1706)
  • Volume 4 (1707)
  • Volume 5 (1708)
  • Volume 6 (1708)
  • Volume 7 (1709)
  • Volume 8 at British History Online external link, (1709, 1st ed.)
  • Volume 9 at British History Online external link, (1709, 1st ed.)
  • Volume 10 at British History Online external link, (1710, 1st ed.)
  • Volume 11 at British History Online external link, (1710, 1st ed.)
  • Volume 12 at British History Online external link, (1711, 1st ed.)
  • Volume 13 (1712)
  • Volume 14 (1712)
  • Volume 15 (1713)
  • Volume 16 (1715)
  • Volume 17 (1717)
  • Volume 18
  • Volume 19
  • Volume 20 (1735)

Translations

• Cicero's Prince (1668), an anthology of works by Cicero
• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie (1674) by Rapin

Plays

• Edgar, or the English Monarch: an Heroick Tragedy (1678)

Criticism

• The Tragedies of the Last Age consider'd and examin'd by the Practice of the Ancients, and by the Common Sense of all Ages, in a letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, esq. (1678)
• A Short View of Tragedy: its Original Excellency and Corruption; with some Reflections on Shakespeare and other Practitioners for the Stage. (1692)
• An Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning, in which are contained some short Reflections on the Controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton, and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl, (1698)

Works about Rymer

• "Rymer, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Rymer, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Rymer, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)