Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 140 plays, issued separately, each with special title-page. Most of the plays are preceded by biographical sketches of the authors, criticism, etc., and dramatis personae Each set is put together in different combinations of the 140 plays, making each set's contents unique Imprint varies v.1. Plain dealer / Bickerstaff. Rehearsal / Duke of Buckingham. School for guardians / Murph
...y -- v.2. Oroonoko / Southern. Boadicea / Glover. Zenobia / Murphy -- v.3. Love makes a man / Cibber. West Indian / Cumberland. Chances / Duke of Buckingham -- v.4. Creusa, Queen of Athens / Whitehead. Gustavus Vasa / Brooke. Lucius Junius Brutus / Lee -- v.5. City wives' confederacy / Vanbrugh. Committee / Howard. Minor / Foote -- v.6. Country girl / Garrick. Recruiting officer / Farquhar. Clandestine marriage / Colman and Garrick. v.7. Cato / Addison. Countess of Salisbury / Hartson. Oedipus / Dryden and Lee -- v.8. Double gallant / Cibber. All in the wrong / Murphy. Amphitryon / Hawkesworth -- v.9. Good natured man / Goldsmith. Brothers / Cumberland. Foundling / Moore -- v.10. Mourning bride / Congreve. Brothers / Young. Fatal curiosity / Lillo -- v.11. Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Shakspeare. Caractacus / Mason -- v.12. Jane Shore / Rowe. Ximena / Cibber. Edward the Black Prince / Shirley -- v.13. Conscious lovers / Steele. Fashionable lover / Cumberland. Drummer / Addison -- v.14. War of the world / Congreve. Funeral / Steele. Inconstant / Farquhar -- v.15. Tamerlane / Rowe. Lady Jane Grey / Rowe. Alzira / Hill -- v.16. All for love / Dryden. Tanced and Sigismunda / Thomson. Gentle shepherd / Ramsay -- v.17. Busy body / Centlivre. School for lovers / Whitehead. Sir Harry Wildair / Farquhar -- v.18. Edward and Eleonora / Hull. Barbarossa / Brown. Henry II / Hull -- v.19. Carmelite / Cumberland. Rival queens / Lee. Eurydice / Mallet -- v.20. Bold stroke for a wife / Centlivre. She stoops to conquer / Goldsmith. Love for love / Congreve -- v.21. Way to keep him / Murphy. Discovery / Sheridan. Wonder, a woman keeps a secret / Centlivre -- v.22. Careless husband / Cibber. Spanish fryar / Dryden. Tender husband / Steele -- v.23. Miser / Fielding. Every man in his humour / Garrick. Choleric man / Cumberland -- v.24. Falstaff's wedding / Kenrick. Word to the wise / Kelly. School for rakes / Griffiths -- v.25. Love in a village / Bickerstaff. School for fathers / Bickerstaff. Maid of the mill / Bickerstaff -- v.26. Distrest mother / Philips. Albion queens / Banks. Earl of Essex / Jones -- v.27. Suspicious husband / Hoadly. Beaux strategem / Farquhar. Mistake / Vanbrugh -- v.28. Twin rivals / Farquhar. False delicacy / Kelly. Chapter of accidents / Murphy. Bonduca / Colman -- v.29. Samson agonistes / Milton. Cleone / Dodsley. Medea / Glover -- v.30. Provok'd husband / Vanbrugh & Cibber. Country lasses / Johnson. School for wives / Kelly -- v.31. Fair penitent / Rowe. Venice preserved / Otway. Zara / Hill -- v.32. Hypocrite / Bickerstaff. Gamesters / Shirley & Johnson. Constant couple / Farquhar -- v.33. Refusal / Cibber. Jealous wife / Colman. Natural son / Cumberland -- v.34. Provok'd wife / Vanbrugh. Old batchelor / Congreve. Double dealer / Congreve -- v.35. Comus / Milton. Cymon / Arne. Beggar's opera / Gay -- v.36. Elfrida / Mason. Orphan of China / Murphy. Bonduca / Colman -- v.37. King Charles I / Havard. Earl of Warwick / Franklin. Gamester / Moore -- v.38. Cleonice, princess of Bithynia / Hoole. Cyrus / Hoole. Philaster / Beaumont & Fletcher
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