• Peter Anthony Motteux (born Pierre Antoine Motteux French: [mɔtø]; 25 February 1663 – 18 February 1718) was a French-born English author, playwright, and...
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    Hutchins, Robert Maynard; Adler, Mortimer J. (eds.). Rabelais. Great Books of the Western World. Vol. 24. Translated by Urquhart, Thomas; Motteux, Peter...
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    of Pierre Antoine Motteux) Charles Henry Wilmot (1774) Mary Smirke with engravings by Robert Smirke (1818) Pierre Antoine Motteux, edited by John Gibson...
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    Sandringham was bought by John Motteux, a London merchant, who already owned property in Norfolk and Surrey. Motteux had no direct heir, and on his death...
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  • Henrietta Moore as Steward's wife. The prologue was written by Peter Anthony Motteux. In 1981 it was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Bond & Sherburn...
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  • Forensic, Medical, and Social Aspects by Sheleg et al. (2006). Peter Anthony Motteux, English author, playwright, translator, publisher and editor of The Gentleman's...
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    (1863). Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Revised Translation Based on Those of Motteux, Jarvis and Smollett. New York: D. Appleton. Fletcher, Richard A. (1984)...
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    1693 translation, completed and considerably augmented by Peter Anthony Motteux by 1708. According to Radio-Canada, the novel Gargantua permanently added...
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  • 1635) 1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1695) 1663 – Peter Anthony Motteux, French-English author, playwright and translator (d. 1718) 1670 – Maria...
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  • 16th-century pentalogy Gargantua and Pantagruel, literally translated by Motteux in the late 17th century. In the 1930s cocktails known as Corpse Revivers...
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    Most humbly inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Ryalton. By P. Motteux". hathi.trust.org. HathiTrust Digital Library. Retrieved 8 December 2019...
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    musicologist, pianist and composer Céline Minard (b. 1969), writer Pierre Antoine Motteux (1663–1718), French-born English dramatist. Iliman Ndiaye (b. 2000), footballer...
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    Gos et Magos (p. 150) Rose (2001), Gemmagog (p. 135) Urquhart, Thomas; Motteux, Peter Anthony, eds. (1934), Gargantua and Pantagruel, vol. 1, Oxford University...
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  • Dennis; music by John Eccles The Island Princess (1699) libretto by Peter Motteux, adapted from plays by John Fletcher and Nahum Tate; music by Daniel Purcell...
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  • of Peter Anthony Motteux" (PDF). Études anglaises. 66 (2): 147–160. doi:10.3917/etan.662.0147. S2CID 191133889. "Peter Anthony Motteux | European scholar...
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    Granville, Lord Lansdowne – Poems Upon Several Occasions Peter Anthony Motteux – A Poem Upon Tea John Philips (died 1709) – Poems Alexander Pope The Rape...
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  • for Love Robert Gould – The Rival Sisters George Granville – The She-Gallants Charles Hopkins – Pyrrhus King of Epirus Peter Anthony Motteux – The Loves...
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    years, writing little except The Stage Coach in collaboration with Peter Motteux; this was an adaptation of a French play. He drew on his recruiting experience...
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  • Milton – Mary Mollineux – Henry More – Thomas Morton – Pierre Antoine Motteux – Nicholas Murford – Thomas Nabbes – John Norris – Dudley North, Lord North...
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    Quixote, "translated from the original by many hands and published by Peter Motteux", begins publication in London. While popular among readers, it will eventually...
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  • the Great by John Banks (1695) Lord Lovewel in Love's a Jest by Peter Motteux (1696) Beaumont in The Innocent Mistress by Mary Pix (1696) Ismael in The...
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  • United States) Itamar Moses (born 1977, United States) Peter Anthony Motteux (1663–1718, England) Dimitrios Mpogris (1890–1964, Greece) Sławomir Mrożek...
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  • Airs (first performed December 18) Charles Goring – Irene Peter Anthony Motteux – Love's Triumph (opera) Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert William Taverner...
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    been attempts, such as The Gentleman's Journal, which was edited by Peter Motteux and ran from 1692 to 1694). Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as...
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  • Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux – first complete English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel...
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  • 1860. Morris, John 1814–17, 19–22, 24–7, 29–32, 34–7, disq. Jan 1838. Motteux, John 1769, 1784–86*–87** April 1893 Muspratt, John Petty Mar 1824, 25–28...
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  • "[year] in poetry" article: February 25 – Peter Anthony Motteux, born Pierre Antoine Motteux (died 1718), French-born English playwright, translator,...
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  • changing tastes, as were other Fletcher plays; a version by Peter Anthony Motteux was scored with music and songs by John Eccles and Daniel Purcell and staged...
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  • Anthony Motteux – The Island Princess; or, The Generous Portuguese (opera, adapted from John Fletcher) Mary Pix – The False Friend April 17 – Robert Blair...
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  • or, The Fatal Divorce George Granville – The Heroick Love Peter Anthony Motteux – Beauty in Distress John Oldmixon – Amintas (adapted from Aminta of Tasso)...
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