Principal Works
Archerie Reviv'd, or, The Bow-Man's Excellence: An Heroick Poem [with Robert Shotterel] (poetry) 1676
The Fool Turn'd Critic (play) 1676
Madam Fickle: Or, The Witty False One (play) 1676
The Siege of Memphis: Or, The Ambitious Queen (play) 1676
A Fond Husband: Or, The Plotting Sisters (play) 1677
Squire Oldsapp: Or, The Night-Adventurers (play) 1678
The Virtuous Wife: Or, Good Luck at Last (play) 1679
The Royalist, London (play) 1681
Sir Barnaby Whigg: Or, No Wit Like a Woman's (play) 1681
The Injured Princess: Or, The Fatal Wager [adaptor; from William Shakespeare's play Cymbeline] (play) 1682
A New Collection of Songs and Poems (songs and poetry) 1683
Choice New Songs Never Before Printed (songs) 1684
Several New Songs (songs) 1684
An Elegy Upon the Blessed Monarch King Charles II. And Two Panegyricks Upon Their Present Sacred Majesties, King James and Queen Mary (poetry) 1685
A Third Collection of New Songs Never Printed Before (songs) 1685
The Banditti; Or, A Ladies Distress (play) 1686
A Compleat Collection of Mr. D'Urfey's Songs and Odes, Whereof the First Part Never Before Published (songs and poetry) 1687
A Poem Congratulatory on the Birth of the Young Prince, Most Humbly Dedicated to Their August Majesties King James, and Queen Mary (poetry) 1688
Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster: A Poem in Burlesque (poetry) 1690
New Poems, Consisting of Satyrs, Elegies, and Odes: Together with a Choice Collection of the Newest Court Songs, Set to Musick by the Best Masters of the Age (poetry and songs) 1690
Bussy D'Ambois: Or, The Husband's Revenge [adaptor; from George Chapman's play Bussy D'Ambois] (play) 1691
Love for Money: Or, The Boarding School (play) 1691
A Pindarick Ode on New-Year's-Day, Perform'd By Vocal and Instrumental Musick, Before Their Sacred Majesties K. William and Q. Mary (poetry) 1691
The Marriage-Hater Match'd (play) 1692
A Pindarick Poem on the Royal Navy. Most Humbly Dedicated to Their August Majesties, K. William, and Q. Mary (poetry) 1692
The Richmond Heiress; Or, A Woman Once in the Right (play) 1693
The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 1 (play) 1694
The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 2 (play) 1694
The Songs To the New Play of Don Quixote. As They Are Sung at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden. Part the First Sett by the Most Eminent Masters of the Day (songs) 1694
The Songs to the New Play of Don Quixote. As They Are Sung at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden. Part the Second Sett by the Most Eminent Masters of the Age (songs) 1694
The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 3 (play) 1695
Gloriana. A Funeral Pindarique Poem: Sacred to the Blessed Memory of That Ever-Admir'd and Most Excellent Princess, Our Late Gracious Soveraign Lady Queen Mary (poetry) 1695
Cinthia and Endimion: Or, The Loves of the Deities (play) 1696
New Songs in the Third Part of the Comical History of Don Quixote Written by Mr. D'Urfoy. And Sung at the Theatre Royal. With Other New Songs by Mr. D'Urfoy (songs) 1696
A Wife for Any Man (play) c. 1696-97
The Intrigues at Versailles: Or, A Jilt in All Humours (play) 1697
Albion's Blessing: A Poem Panegyrical On His Sacred Majesty King William the III. And on His Happy Return, and the Publishing the Late Glorious Peace (poetry) 1698
The Campaigners: Or, The Pleasant Adventures at Brussels (play) 1698
The Famous History of the Rise and Fall of Massaniello, In Two Parts (play) 1699
A Choice Collection of New Songs and Ballads. The Words Made to Several Pleasant Tunes (songs) 1699
An Ode, For the Anniversary Feast Made in Honour of St. Caecilia. Nov. 22. Anno Domini, 1700 (poetry) 1700
The Bath: Or, The Western Lass (play) 1701
The Old Mode and the New: Or, Country Miss with her Furbeloe (play) 1703
Tales Tragical and Comical … From the Prose of Some Famous Antique Italian, Spanish and French Authors. Done into Several Sorts of English Verse, with Large Additions and Improvements [translator and adaptor] (poetry) 1704
Wonders in the Sun: Or, The Kingdom of the Birds (play) 1706
An Essay Towards the Theory of the Intelligible World; Intuitively Considered. Designed for forty nine parts. Par III. Consisting of a preface, a postscript, and a little something between. (satire) c. 1707
The Modern Prophets: Or, New Wit for a Husband (play) 1709
*Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive. 5 vols. [editor and contributor] (songs) 1719
†Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy. 6 vols. [editor and contributor] (songs) 1719-20
New Opera's, With Comical Stories and Poems, On Several Occasions, Never Before Printed. Being the Remaining Pieces, Written by Mr. D'Urfey (poetry, short stories, and plays) 1721
*D'Urfey edited all five volumes of this collection. The first two volumes consist of works by D'Urfey himself.
†The contents of the first five volumes of this collection are the same as Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive. Volume six adds new material edited by D'Urfey.
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