" PASTOR Fido, or the Faithful Shepherd a play by Elkanah Settle. Many lines in the first printed edition of 1677 are here wanting. The names of the actors, all women, are inserted (f. 1 b), and this version may perhaps represent the piece as it was ... Early 18th century

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" PASTOR Fido, or the Faithful Shepherd a play by Elkanah Settle. Many lines in the first printed edition of 1677 are here wanting. The names of the actors, all women, are inserted (f. 1 b), and this version may perhaps represent the piece as it was ... Early 18th century

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Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724

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Elkanah Settle (1 February 1648 – 12 February 1724) was an English poet and playwright. He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His first tragedy, Cambyses, King of Persia, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667. The success of this play led the Earl of Rochester to encourage the new writer as a rival to John Dryden. Through his influence, Settle's The Empress of Morocco (1673) was twice performed at Whitehall, and proved a ...

Pastor Fido

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