The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/George Peel
George Peel.
THis Author was Master of Arts in Christ-Church-College, Oxon, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, writ two Plays.
David and Bethshabe, their Love, with the Tragedy of Absalom, 4 to. 1599. This Play, as the Title says, was divers times play’d on the Stage. Plot from Holy Scripture.
Edward the first, a History 4 to. 1593. This King was sirnamed Long-Shanks, and the Play gives an Account of his return from the Holy Land, with the Life of Kewellin, Rebel in Wales; it also relates the Story of Queen Eleanor’s sinking by Chairing-Cross, and rising again at Queen-Hithe, before called Potters-Hithe. See Grafton, Martin, Hollingshead, Stow, and other English Chronicles.
The Tragedy of Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, by mistake, plac’d to him, in some Catalogues, is not his, but Chapman’s.