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English noble, dramatist and politician
Charles Sedley
Works
Poems
- Epigrams: or, Court Characters
- "Phyllis is My Only Joy"
- "Not, Celia, that I Juster Am"
- "Hears Not My Phillis"
- "Ah, Chloris", from the play The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
Plays
- Pompey the Great (1664), adaptation and translation of Corneille's La mort de Pompée (1644), together with Charles Sackville (later Earl of Dorset), Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, and Sir Edward Filmer.
- The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1677)
- Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687)
- The Tyrant King of Crete (1702)
- Beauty the Conquerour: or, The Death of Marc Antony (posthumous 1702)
- The Grumbler (1702), an adaptation of Le Grondeur of Brueys and Palaprat.
Works about Sedley
- "Sir Charles Sidley," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 134), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
- "Sedley, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Sedley, Sir Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Sedley, Sir Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Sir Charles Sedley," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 120−121), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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