GLAPTHORNE, HENRY (fl. 1635-1642), English poet and dramatist, published Poems (1639), many of them in praise of an unidentified "Lucinda"; a poem in honour of his friend Thomas Beedome, whose Poems Divine and Humane he edited in ; and Whitehall (1642) , dedicated to his "noble friend and gossip, Captain Richard Lovelace." Argalus and Parthenia (1639), his best work, is a pastoral tragedy founded on an epi sode in Sidney's Arcadia; Albertus Wallenstein (1639), his only attempt at historical tragedy, represents Wallenstein as a mon ster of pride and cruelty. Glapthorne's other plays, though they hardly rise above the level of contemporary productions, contain many felicitous isolated passages.