The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Sir Robert Stapleton

by Gerard Langbaine

Sir Robert Stapleton.

A Learned Author who was Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to King Charles the Second; and is, I suppose, still living. He writ Two Plays:

Hero and Leander, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1669. dedicated to her Grace, the Dutchess of Monmouth. Plot from Ovid’s Epistles, and Musæus’s Erotopagnion, Greek, and Latin.

The Slighted Maid, a Comedy, 4 to. 1663. dedicated to his Grace, the Duke of Monmouth. Plot from Mart. Epigr. 4. &c.