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Born in 1562 / Died in 1620 / United Kingdom / English

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: Play Productions

  • The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, Hampton, Hampton Court Palace, 8 January 1604.
  • Philotas, London, at Court, 3 January 1605.
  • The Queen's Arcadia, Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1605.
  • Tethys' Festival, Westminster, Whitehall Palace, 5 June 1610.
  • Hymen's Triumph, London, Somerset House, 2 February 1614.
Books
  • The Worthy Tract of Paulus Jouius, Contayning a Discourse of Rare Inuentions, Called Imprese (London: Printed by G. Robinson for Simon Waterson, 1585).
  • Delia, Contayning Certayne Sonnets: With the Complaint of Rosamond (London: Printed by J. Charlewood for Simon Waterson. 1592).
  • Delia and Rosamond Augmented, Cleopatra (London: Printed by J. Roberts & E. Allde for Simon Waterson, 1594).
  • The First Fowre Books of the Ciuile Warres betweene the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke (London: Printed by P. Short for Simon Waterson, 1595).
  • The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel (London: Printed by P. Short for Simon Waterson, 1599)-comprises books 1-5 of The Civil Wars, the first revision of Cleopatra, Musophilus, and Letter from Octavia:
  • A Panegyrike Congratulatorie to the Kings Maiestie. Also Certaine Epistles (London: Printed by V. Simmes for E. Blount, 1603); republished with A Defence of Ryme (London: Printed by V. Simmes for E. Blount, 1603).
  • The Vision of the 12. Goddesses (London: Printed by T. Creede for Simon Waterson, 1604).
  • Certaine Small Poems Lately Printed: With the Tragedie of Philotas (London: Printed by G. Eld for Simon Waterson, 1605).
  • A Funerall Poeme uppon the Death of the Late Noble Earle of Devonshyre (London, 1606).
  • The Queenes Arcadia (London: Printed by G. Eld for Simon Waterson, 1606).
  • Certaine Small Workes (London: Printed by J. Windet for Simon Waterson, 1607)—includes The Queen's Arcadia, the second revision of Cleopatra, and the revised version of Philotas;
  • The Tragedie of Philotas (London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount, 1607).
  • The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke Corrected and Continued (London: Printed by H. Lownes for Simon Waterson, 1609).
  • Tethys' Festival, in The Order and Solemnitie of the Creation of the High and Mightie Prince Henrie (London: Printed by W. Stansby for John Budge, 1610).
  • The First Part of the Historie of England (London: Printed by N. Okes, 1612).
  • Hymens Triumph (London: Printed by J. Legat for Francis Constable, 1615).
  • The Collection of the Historie of England (London: Printed by N. Okes, 1618).
  • The Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel (London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1623).
Editions
  • The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel, 5 volumes, edited by Alexander B. Grosart (London: Privately printed, 1885-1896).
  • The Tragedy of Philotas, edited by Laurence Michel, Yale Studies in English, 110 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949; revised and enlarged edition, Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1970).
  • The Tragedie of Cleopatra, in Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, volume 5, edited by Geoffrey Bullough (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul/New York: Columbia University Press, 1964). pp. 406-449.
  • The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, edited by Joan Rees, in A Book of Masques: In Honour of Allardyce Nicoll (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), pp. 18-42.
  • Tethys' Festival, in Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, by Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, volume 1 (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1973), pp. 191-201.