to represent Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, the mistress of Charles II. While The Mulberry-Garden exuberantly praises the achievements of the Restoration, Bellamira displays a dark cynicism which has to be accounted for within a changed historical context. His two tragedies, Antony and Cleopatra (1677) and The Tyrant King of Crete (1702), an adaptation of Henry Killigrew's Pallantus and Eudora, have little merit. He also produced The Grumbler (1702), an adaptation of Le Grondeur of Brueys and Palaprat. However, many contents of Sedley's posthumous edition are spurious. Apart from the prologues of his own plays, Sedley wrote at least four more prologues to comedies, the best-known of which was written for Shadwell's Epsom Wells. Editions 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); party modelled on Molière's L'École des Maris (1661). Antony and Cleopatra (1677) Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687); partly modelled on Terence's Eunuchus Beauty the Conquerour: or, The Death of Marc Antony (posthumous 1702) The Miscellaneous Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, 2 vols (London, 1722). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, 2 vols (London, 1776). (possibly by Sedley) The Tyrant King of Crete; shortened version of Henry Killigrew's Pallantus and Eudora. (possibly by Sedley) The Grumbler; translation of a French farce Le Grondeur The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto. 2 vols (London, 1928; repr. New York: AMS Press, 1969).Sir Charles Sedley's "The Mulberry-Garden" (1668) and "Bellamira: or, The Mistress" (1687): An Old-Spelling Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Commentary'', ed. Holger Hanowell, Münster Monographs on English Literature (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001). References Citations Bibliography External links 1639 births 1701 deaths 17th-century English poets 17th-century male writers Baronets in the Baronetage of England 17th-century English dramatists and playwrights English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701 English male dramatists and playwrights English male poets People from Aylesford