[36] This is a focus of Clifford's charges as well: "There is one of your Virtues which I cannot forbear to animadvert upon, which is your excess of Modesty; When you tell us in your Postscript to Granada, That Shakespeare is below the Dullest Writer of Ours, or any precedent Age" (p. 10).
[37] Although Shakespeare's "Learning was not extraordinary," Langbaine "esteem his Plays beyond any that have ever been published in our Language" (Account, pp. 453-454). In both Momus and the Account Langbaine employed the 1685 folio edition of Shakespeare's works which was printed for Herringman and others and dedicated to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery (Wing 2915, 2916, 2917). He catalogues the seven plays added in this edition to those of the earlier collected editions, but contrary to its genre designation in the First Folio and in this edition, Langbaine refers to Merchant of Venice as a tragi-comedy and, in Momus, lists two parts of "John King of England." In the Account he changes the designation of Winter's Tale from comedy to tragi-comedy, and in both catalogues appends "Birth of Merlin," altering his description of its genre from pastoral to tragi-comedy.
[38] Wood, III, 449.
[39] See, for example, a review in the Moderator, no. 3 (23 June 1692); quoted in Wood, III, 367.
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This facsimile of Momus Triumphans (1688 [1687]) is reproduced from a copy (*ZPR/640/L271m) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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[Momus Triumphans: OR, THE PLAGIARIES OF THE ENGLISH STAGE]
[INTRODUCTION]
[NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION]
[BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE]
[Momus Triumphans: OR, THE PLAGIARIES OF THE English Stage; Expos'd in a CATALOGUE]
[The Preface.]
[A Catalogue of Plays, WITH THEIR Known or Supposed Authors, &c.]
[Supposed Authors]
[Unknown Authours.]
[The Alphabetical Index of PLAYS, Referring to their AUTHOURS, &c.]
[REGULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR 1970-1971]
[SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1969-1970-1971]
[The Augustan Reprint Society]