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Title: To the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorsett & Middlesex etc
Author: Gould, Robert
Date(s): 1685
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: In praise of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as a model nobleman,
dedicating to him the subsequent poem, "The Playhouse" (BCMSV 412). Subscribed
"I am (my Lord) your Lordshipps etc".
Title: The playhouse. A satyr
Author: Gould, Robert
Date(s): 1685
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Outspoken satire on the London theatre as a home of vice of all kinds,
particularly prostitution; attacking also society men and ladies, critics,
actors and actresses, and most contemporary playwrights, but praising some,
as well as Shakespeare, Jonson an