The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Robert Baron
Robert Baron, Esq;
A Gentleman who Liv'd in the Reign of King Charles I. and the Interregnum of Oliver, first bred at Cambridge, and afterwards was a Member of the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn: He writ these three Plays,
Deorum Dona, a Mask, 8vo. This is part of a Romance, writ by Baron, call'd the Cyprian Academy, Printed at Lond. 1647.
Gripus and Hegio, Past. 8vo. A Play consisting of three Acts only, and borrowed a great part from a Play of Webster's, call'd, The Dutchess of Malfey, and the aforesaid Romance.
Mirza, Trag. 8vo. Plot from Herbert's Travels, fol. accounted by his Friends a good Play, is Dedicated to the King, and recommended to the world by divers Copies of Verses; for most of the Scenes and Language he seems to have Consulted Ben. Johnson's Catiline. Sir John Denham's Sophy is on the same Subject, and writ about the same time.