Author:William Cavendish

William Cavendish
(1592–1676)

William Cavendish

Works

• Rules for the races which were to be run every month during six months of the year, which have been preserved by the care of Anthony à Wood (broadside in the Bodleian).
• A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses, and Work them, according to Nature; as also to Perfect Nature by the Subtlety of Art; which was never found out but by the thrice noble, high, and puissant Prince, William Cavendish, &c. (1667)

Plays

• The Country Captain (1649)
• The Variety
• The Humorous Lovers (1677)
• The Triumphant Widow, or the Medley of Humours (1677).

Translations

• Etourdi by Molière

Works about Cavendish

• The Life of the thrice noble High and Puissant Prince, William Cavendish (1667) by Margaret Cavendish
• The first Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1910) by Thomas Longueville
• "Cavendish, William (1592-1676)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.