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1771.

Timon of Athens, altered from Shakespear. A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. London: printed for the proprietors of Shakespear's works. 1771. [By Richard Cumberland.]

1773.

She Stoops to Conquer: or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Doctor Goldsmith. London: Printed for F. Newbery. 1773.

1774.

Cursory Remarks on Tragedy, on Shakespear, and on certain French and Italian Poets, principally Tragedians. London: printed for W. Qwen. 1774. [By Edward Taylor.]

Analysis of Shakespeare's Characters. A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters. By William Richardson, Esq. Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow. The second edition, corrected. London: Printed for J. Murray; and W. Creech at Edinburgh. 1775. [Contains the characters of Macbeth, Hamlet, Jaques, and Imogen.]

1775.

*The Correspondents. An Original Novel in a series of Letters. London, 1775.

The Rivals, a Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in CoventGarden. London: Printed for John Wilkie. 1775. [By R. B.

Sheridan.]

*The Elements of Dramatic Criticism; containing an analysis of the stage, &c. By William Cooke, Esq; of the Middle Temple. London, Kearsly, 1775.

1777.

Discours sur Shakespeare et sur Monsieur de Voltaire par Joseph Baretti, sécretaire pour la correspondence étrangère de l'Academie Royale Britannique. Londres, chez J. Nourse, libraire du Roi, et à Paris, chez Durand neveu. 1777. Biographia Literaria; or a Biographical History of Literature: Containing the Lives of English, Scottish, and Irish Authors, from the dawn of letters in these Kingdoms to the present time, chronologically and classically arranged. By John Berkenhout, M. D. Volume I. From the beginning of the fifth to the end of the sixteenth century. London: Printed for J. Dodsley. 1777. [Volume I was the only one published.]

* A new Translation of the Heauton-timorumenos and Adelphi of Terence: in Prose. Together with a preface, containing a free enquiry into

Mr. Colman's arguments for translating the comedies of that author into blank verse. By a member of the University of Oxford. London. Dodsley. 1777.

An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff. London: Printed for T. Davies. 1777. [By Maurice Morgann.]

1779.

The Law of Lombardy; a Tragedy: As it is performed at the TheatreRoyal in Drury-Lane. Written by Robert Jephson, Esq. author of Braganza. London. Printed for T. Evans. 1779.

1780.

Zoraida: a Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. To which is added a postscript, containing observations on Tragedy. London: Printed for G. Kearsly. 1780. [By William Hodson.]

1781.

Nathan the Wise. A Philosophic Drama. From the German of G. E. Lessing, late Librarian to the Duke of Brunswick. Translated into English by R. E. Raspe. London, Fielding. 1781.

1782.

Biographia Dramatica, or a Companion to the Playhouse, &c. By David Erskine Baker, Esq. A new edition: carefully corrected, greatly enlarged; and continued from 1764 to 1782. [In two volumes.] Dublin, 1782. [An enlarged edition of the Companion to the Playhouse, 1764.]

1783.

Dissertations Moral and Critical. On Memory and Imagination. On
Dreaming. The Theory of Language. On Fable and Romance. On
the Attachments of Kindred. Illustrations of Sublimity. By James
Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logick in the
Marischal College and University of Aberdeen; and Member of the
Zealand Society of Arts and Sciences. London: Printed for W.
Strahan and T. Cadell; and W. Creech at Edinburgh. 1783.
Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola ad Pisones, de Arte Poetica. The Art of
Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos. Translated from Horace. With
notes. By George Colman. London: Printed for T. Cadell. 1783.
The Mysterious Husband. A Tragedy in Five Acts. As it is acted at
the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Richard Cumberland, Esq.
London: Printed for C. Dilly and J. Walter. 1783.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. By Hugh Blair, D. D. One of the ministers of the High Church, and professor of rhetoric and belles lettres in the University of Edinburgh. In three volumes. Dublin. 1783.

1784.

Plays of Three Acts; written for a Private Theatre. By William Hayley, Esq. London. Cadell. 1784. [Among the comedies is The Two Connoisseurs.]

Dramatic Miscellanies: consisting of critical observations on several plays of Shakspeare: with a review of his principal characters, and those of various eminent writers, as represented by Mr. Garrick, and the celebrated comedians. With Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &c. By Thomas Davies, Author of Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq. In three volumes. London. Printed for the Author. 1784. Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon of Athens. To which are added, an Essay on the Faults of Shakespeare; and additional observations on the Character of Hamlet. The second edition: By Mr. Richardson, Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow. London: Printed for J. Murray. 1786.

1785.

The Mine: a Dramatic Poem. The second edition. To which are added, Two historic odes. By John Sargent, Esquire. London: Printed for T. Cadell. 1788.

1786.

*The Disbanded Officer; or, The Baroness of Bruchsal: a Comedy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket. Cadell. London. 1786.

The New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Being a collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, not in any other Collection. With sev eral pieces never before published. A new edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. In six volumes. London: Printed for J. Debrett. 1786. [Edited by J. Almon. This is the second edition.]

1789.

Essays by W. Belsham. Essays Philosophical and Moral, Historical and Literary. By W. Belsham. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson. 1799.

1790.

Memoirs of His own Life, by Tate Wilkinson, Patentee of the Theatres

Royal, York and Hull.

Author. Anno 1790.

In four volumes. York: Printed for the

1792.

Columbus: or, A World Discovered. An Historical Play. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Thomas Morton, of the honourable society of Lincoln's-Inn. London: Printed for W. Miller. 1792.

1832.

Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830. In ten volumes. Bath: 1832.

[By John Genest.]

1838.

The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. Speaker of the House of Commons. With a memoir of his life. To which are added other Relicks of a Gentleman's Family. Edited by Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. London: Edward Moxon.

1838.

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