George Gerbier d'Ouvilly
Dutch-English playwright and translator
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| Intro | Dutch-English playwright and translator | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| is | Writer Playwright Translator | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | |
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Biography
George Gerbier d'Ouvilly (fl. 1661) was a Dutch soldier, dramatist and translator. He was the son Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and, like him, had William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven as a patron.
He joined Lord Craven's regiment in the Low Countries, and rose to be a captain. At the English Restoration of 1660 he was residing in London.
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Gerbier d'Ouvilly wrote:
- A tragi-comedy The False Favourite Disgrac'd, and the Reward of Loyalty, 12mo, London, 1657, not acted.
- Prosopagraphia, or some Select Pourtraitures and Lives of Ancient and Modern Illustrious Personages, forming the third part of William Lee's edition of Thomas North's Plutarch,London, 1657; translations of biographies from the French of André Thévet.
Il Trionfo d'Inghilterra overo Racconto et Relatione delle Solennità fatte & osservate nella … Incoronatione … di Carlo Secondo … nel terzo giorno di Maggio, 1661, Venice, 1661.