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Peter Anthony Motteux (1663-1718)

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Type de notice: PersonneNom et dates: Peter Anthony Motteux (1663-1718)Lieu de naissance: Rouen (Seine-Maritime)Lieu de décès: Londres (Royaume-Uni)Bibliothèque nationale de France: Notice n^o 14848058, https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148480585ISNI: Notice n^o 0000000117625347, https://isni.org/isni/0000000117625347Source: Catalogue général de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Poète, traducteur et librettiste.

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Auteur d'oeuvres:

Beauty in distress, a tragedy... with a Discourse of the lawfulness and unlawfulness of plays, lately written in French by the learned Father Caffaro… (1698)

Love's a jest, a comedy... (1696)

Oeuvres de Maître François Rabelais suivies des remarques publiées en anglois, par M. Le Motteux et traduites en françois, par C. D. M. [César de…

Remarques de Pierre Le Motteux sur Rabelais, traduites de l'anglais par C**** D* M****... Édition revue, corrigée et augmentée (1740)

Songs in the new opera call'd Thomyris collected out of the works of the most celebrated Itallian authors viz Scarlatti Bononcini and other… (1707)

Songs in the opera call'd Arsinoe queen of Cyprus (1706)

The Amorous miser, or the Younger the wiser, a comedy (1705)

The Island princess, or the Generous Portuguese, made into an opera... All the musical entertainments and the greatest part of the play new and… (1734)

The Loves of Mars and Venus, a play set to music... (1697)

The Mistake, a comedy as written by Sir John Vanbrugh, distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre royal in Drury… (1778)

The Novelty, every act a play... (1697)

The novelty. Every act a play. Being a short Pastoral, Comedy, Masque, Tragedy, an Farce after the Italian manner. As it is acted at the New-Theatre… (1697)

The Present state of the empire of Morocco, with a faithful account of the manners, religion and government of that people, by M. de Saint-Olon,... [… (1695)

The Twin rivals, a comedy... (1772)

The Twin-Rivals : a comedy [...] acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants (1772)

The Works of F. Rabelais,... in two volumes, or the Lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel, done out of French by Sir Thomas… (1708)

The Works of Francis Rabelais,... Formerly translated by Sir Thomas Urquart,... and explained by Mr. Motteux... revised and compared throughout with… (1750)

Thomyris queen of Scythia, an opera... (1707)