The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Shipman

by Gerard Langbaine

Tho. Shipman, Esq.

THis Gentleman dy’d in King Charles the Second’s Time, having writ one Play, called,

Henry the Third of France, Stab’d by a Fryar; with the Fall of the Guises; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1678. acted at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Marquess of Dorchester. Plot from Davila, and the Duke of Espernon’s Life, fol.