Charles Gildon (c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English hack writer and translator. He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters...

Gildon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Gildon (c. 1665–1724), English author Chris Gildon (born 1971 or 1972), American...

the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area The Patriot (play), a 1702 play by Charles Gildon The Patriot, a 1939 novel by Pearl S. Buck The Patriots (play), a 1943...

Queens. Charles Gildon in the early 18th century recommended this play for its beautiful reflections, descriptions, similes, and topics. Gildon thought...

Aphra Behn not only accepted the novel's narrator's claims as true, but Charles Gildon even invented a romantic liaison between the author and the title character...

have succeeded on stage. Charles Gildon returned to Shakespeare's text in a 1699 production at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Gildon's adaptation, entitled Beauty...

just punishment of the two feuding families. In mid-century, writer Charles Gildon and philosopher Lord Kames argued that the play was a failure in that...

terza rima poem. It was uncompleted at the time of his death. In 1708, Charles Gildon published an adaptation of The Golden Ass, titled The New Metamorphosis...

John Dryden's Religio Laici (1682) and its attacks on deism. In 1693, Charles Gildon edited and published The Oracles of Reason. This book is a collection...

influential political satire, The New Atalantis (1709), and also by Charles Gildon in the first fully-fledged it-narrative in English, The Golden Spy;...