Playwright
Carlell began his dramatic career by the late 1620s. His early plays were acted by the King's Men and Queen Henrietta's Men. Thomas Dekker dedicated his Match Me in London to Carlell in 1631.
His extant plays (followed by date of publication) are: The Deserving Favourite (1629), Arviragus and Philicia, parts 1 and 2 (1639), The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2 (1655), The Fool Would be a Favorite, or The Discreet Lover (1657), Osmond the Great Turk, or The Noble Servant (also 1657), and Heraclius, Emperor of the East (1664), the last a translation of the 1647 play by Pierre Corneille.
Some critics have judged his plays to be significant in the evolution of serious drama in the 17th century, from the tragedy and tragicomedy of John Fletcher and his collaborators to the "heroic drama" of the Restoration era. In this view, Carlell is "one of the chief intermediaries between Beaumont and Fletcher, and Dryden and Settle."
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