The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher;
Collated
with all
the former editions.
the former editions.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George,
King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon His Accession to the
Throne. By Susanna Centlivre.
1716. Ode to Hygeia. (In Verses upon the Sickness and Recovery of the
Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq. in State Poems, by the most
Eminent Hands. ]
Seibt, Robert. Die Komödien der Mrs Centlivre. In Anglia, vols. XXXII
and xxxIII. Halle a. S. 1909-10.
[Summaries of plays and dramatis personae. ]
Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
For bibliography see ante, vol. VIII, pp. 482-3.
George Colman, the elder
A. Plays
1760. Polly Honeycombe, a Dramatick Novel of one act. (Drury lane. )
(Anon. )
1761. The Jealous Wife. C. (Drury lane. )
1762. The Musical Lady. F. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1763. The Deuce is in Him. F. of two acts. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1766. [With Garrick. ] The Clandestine Marriage. C. (Drury lane. )
1770. The Oxonian in Town. C. in two acts. (Covent garden. ) (Dedica-
tion signed “George Colman. ')
1770. Man and Wife; or, The Shakespeare Jubilee. C. of three acts.
(Covent garden. ) (Dedication signed 'George Colman. ')
1770. The Portrait; a Burletta. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. ) Music by
Arnold.
1774. The Man of Business. C. (Covent garden. )
1776. The Spleen, or, Islington Spa; a comick piece, of two acts. (Drury
lane. )
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1776. An Occasional Prelude, performed at the opening of the Theatre-
Royal, Covent-Garden. On the Twenty-first of September, 1772.
1776. New Brooms! An Occasional Prelude, performed at the opening of
the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane, September 21, 1776.
[1780. ] The Manager in Distress. A Prelude on opening the Theatre-Royal
in the Hay-Market, May 30, 1780.
1781. Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. in The Genius of Nonsense: an Original,
Whimsical, Operatical, Pantomimical, Farcical, Electrical, Naval, Mili-
tary, Temporary, Local Extravaganza. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1782. Songs, Airs, &c. in the Entertainment of Harlequin Teague; or, The
Giant's Causeway. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1789. Ut Pictura Poesis ! or, The Enraged Musician. A Musical Enter-
tainment. Founded on Hogarth. (Haymarket. ) Composed by Arnold, S.
B. Dramatic Adaptations
1763. Philaster. T. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. With Alterations
[by C. ). (Drury lane. )
1767. The English Merchant. C. (Drury lane. ) [Based on Voltaire's
L'Écossaise. ]
1768. The History of King Lear. (Covent garden. )
1771. The Fairy Prince: a Masque. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. ) [Chiefly
from Ben Jonson's Oberon. ]
1772. Comus: a Masque. Altered from Milton [by C. ]. (Covent garden. )
Musick by Arne, T. A.
1774. Achilles in Petticoats. 0. (Covent garden. ) Written by Mr Gay.
with Alterations [by C. ). The Music by Arne, T. A.
1776. Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman. C. Written by Ben Jonson.
(Drury lane. ) With Alterations, by George Colman.
1777. The Sheep-Shearing. A Dramatic Pastoral. In three acts. Taken
from Shakespeare [Winter's Tale). (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1778. Bonduca. T. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. With Alterations
[by C. ). (Haymarket. )
1778. [Acted 1767. ] The Tailors; a Tragedy for Warm Weather, in three
acts. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. ) Later' abridged by Mr Colman, with some
additional touches from his pen' (see Biog. Dram. vol. 11, p. 315).
1783. Fatal Curiosity: a true T. Written by George Lillo, 1736. With
Alterations (by C. ], As revived at the Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market, 1782.
1788. Tit for Tat. C. in three acts. (Haymarket, Drury lane, and Covent
garden. ) (Anon. ) [Free alteration of The Mutual Deception, 1785, by
Joseph Atkinson. ]
1777. The Dramatick Works of George Colman. 4 vols.
C. Other Works
1755-6. The Connoisseur. By Mr Town, Critic, and Censor-General (chiefly
by Colman and Bonnell Thornton). 2 vols. [140 nos. 31 January 1754
to 30 September 1756. ]
1760. Ode to Obscurity. (Anon. Published in Two Odes. )
1761. Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatic Writers. Addressed
to David Garrick, Esq. (Anon. In vol. I of The Dramatic Works of
Philip Massinger, compleat, ed. by Coxeter, T. , 4 vols. , 1761. )
1765. The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse.
[Various edns. ]
1778.
The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; Collated with all
the former editions. 10 vols. Preface by Colman,
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Bibliography
1783. Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. The Art of
Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos. Translated from Horace. With Notes.
1787. Prose on Several Occasions; accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse.
3 vols.
1841. Memoirs of the Colman Family, including their Correspondence with
the most distinguished personages of their time. By Richard Brinsley
Peake. 2 vols.
Posthumous Letters . . . addressed to Francis Colman, and George Colman,
the Elder. 1820.
Samuel Crisp (d. 1783)
[Often, erroneously, called 'Henry' Crisp. ]
1754. Virginia. T. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
Elijah Fenton
1723. Mariamne. T. (Lincoln's inn fields. )
Henry Fielding
See bibliography to chap. II, ante.
Samuel Foote
A. Plays
1752. Taste. C. of two acts. (Drury lane. )
1753. The Englishman in Paris. C. in two acts. (Covent garden. )
1754. The Knights. C. in two acts. (Drury lane. )
1756. The Englishman return'd from Paris, Being the Sequel to the
Englishman in Paris. F. in two acts. (Covent garden. )
1757. The Author. C. of two acts. (Drury lane. )
1760. The Minor. C. (New Theatre, Haymarket. ) By Authority from the
Lord Chamberlain.
1762. The Orators. (New Theatre, Haymarket. )
1764. The Lyar. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1764. The Mayor of Garret. C. in two acts. (Drury lane. )
1764. The Patron. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1765. The Commissary. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1770. The Lame Lover. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1776. The Bankrupt. C. in three acts.
1778. The Devil upon Two Sticks. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1778. The Maid of Bath. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
Also, an earlier edn, anon. , unauthorised, 1778.
1778. The Nabob. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1778. The Cozeners. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
This and the three preceding plays were published by Colman. Of
The Cozeners there also appeared an earlier edn, anon. , unauthorised,
1778.
1778. A Trip to Calais. C. in three acts. As Originally Written, and
Intended for Representation, by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. To which
is annexed, The Capuchin. (Haymarket. ) Altered from The Trip to
Calais, by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. and now published by Mr Colman.
For some previously unprinted pieces by Foote, see Wilkinson, Tate: The
Wandering Patentee; or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres from 1770 to
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the Present Time, 4 vols. , York, 1795. Vol. IV contains The Second Act of
Diversions of the Morning (Drury lane), 1758-9. Vol. I contains : As
Acted 1763, at the Hay-Market Theatre. Tragedy A-La-Mode, being the
Second Act of Mr Foote's Diversions of the Morning, and substituted in
lieu of the former second act in his farce called Tea. Acted by Mr Foote
and Mr Wilkinson, in Drury-Lane Theatre, 1758-9. See, also, under Cooke,
William, sec. C, post.
For An Occasional Prologue, performed at the opening of the Theatre-
Royal in the Haymarket, 1767, not inserted in the editions of Foote's
Works, see The Monthly Mirror, vol. XVII, 1804.
[1787? ] Dramatic Works. [Individual plays assembled from various edns,
1770-86. ) 4 vols. (Other 4 vol. collections similarly assembled from
different edns of different dates. )
1799. Works. 2 vols.
1809. Dramatic Works; to which is prefixed a Life of the Author. 2 vols.
1830. Works. With remarks on each play, and an Essay on the Life,
Genius, and Writings of the Author. By Jon Bee, Esq. (pseud. of John
Badcock]. 3 vols.
B. Other Works
1747. The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd and Compar'd. With
remarks on the Suspicious Husband. And an Examen into the Merit of
the present Comic Actors.
1762. The Comic Theatre. Being a Free Translation of all the Best French
Comedies. By Samuel Foote, Esq. and Others. 5 vols. (According to
the Advertisement: 'One Comedy in each Volume of this work was
translated by Foote. ')
C. Biography and Criticism
[1777? ] Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Foote, Esq. ; the
English Aristophanes: to which are added the Bon Mots, Repartees,
and Good Things said by that great Wit and Excentrical Genius.
1778. Aristophanes . . . containing the Jests, Gibes, Bon-Mots, Witticisms,
and most extraordinary Anecdotes of Samuel Foote, Esq.
Cooke, William, Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq. With a Collection of
his genuine Bon-Mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c. mostly original. And
three of his Dramatic Pieces not published in his Works. 3 vols. 1805.
Another edn. 2 vols. 1806.
Forster, John. Samuel Foote. In Historical and Biographical Essays,
vol. II, pp. 293-437, 1858.
Fitzgerald, Peroy. Samuel Foote, a biography. 1910.
King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon His Accession to the
Throne. By Susanna Centlivre.
1716. Ode to Hygeia. (In Verses upon the Sickness and Recovery of the
Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq. in State Poems, by the most
Eminent Hands. ]
Seibt, Robert. Die Komödien der Mrs Centlivre. In Anglia, vols. XXXII
and xxxIII. Halle a. S. 1909-10.
[Summaries of plays and dramatis personae. ]
Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
For bibliography see ante, vol. VIII, pp. 482-3.
George Colman, the elder
A. Plays
1760. Polly Honeycombe, a Dramatick Novel of one act. (Drury lane. )
(Anon. )
1761. The Jealous Wife. C. (Drury lane. )
1762. The Musical Lady. F. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1763. The Deuce is in Him. F. of two acts. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1766. [With Garrick. ] The Clandestine Marriage. C. (Drury lane. )
1770. The Oxonian in Town. C. in two acts. (Covent garden. ) (Dedica-
tion signed “George Colman. ')
1770. Man and Wife; or, The Shakespeare Jubilee. C. of three acts.
(Covent garden. ) (Dedication signed 'George Colman. ')
1770. The Portrait; a Burletta. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. ) Music by
Arnold.
1774. The Man of Business. C. (Covent garden. )
1776. The Spleen, or, Islington Spa; a comick piece, of two acts. (Drury
lane. )
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429
1776. An Occasional Prelude, performed at the opening of the Theatre-
Royal, Covent-Garden. On the Twenty-first of September, 1772.
1776. New Brooms! An Occasional Prelude, performed at the opening of
the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane, September 21, 1776.
[1780. ] The Manager in Distress. A Prelude on opening the Theatre-Royal
in the Hay-Market, May 30, 1780.
1781. Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. in The Genius of Nonsense: an Original,
Whimsical, Operatical, Pantomimical, Farcical, Electrical, Naval, Mili-
tary, Temporary, Local Extravaganza. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1782. Songs, Airs, &c. in the Entertainment of Harlequin Teague; or, The
Giant's Causeway. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1789. Ut Pictura Poesis ! or, The Enraged Musician. A Musical Enter-
tainment. Founded on Hogarth. (Haymarket. ) Composed by Arnold, S.
B. Dramatic Adaptations
1763. Philaster. T. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. With Alterations
[by C. ). (Drury lane. )
1767. The English Merchant. C. (Drury lane. ) [Based on Voltaire's
L'Écossaise. ]
1768. The History of King Lear. (Covent garden. )
1771. The Fairy Prince: a Masque. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. ) [Chiefly
from Ben Jonson's Oberon. ]
1772. Comus: a Masque. Altered from Milton [by C. ]. (Covent garden. )
Musick by Arne, T. A.
1774. Achilles in Petticoats. 0. (Covent garden. ) Written by Mr Gay.
with Alterations [by C. ). The Music by Arne, T. A.
1776. Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman. C. Written by Ben Jonson.
(Drury lane. ) With Alterations, by George Colman.
1777. The Sheep-Shearing. A Dramatic Pastoral. In three acts. Taken
from Shakespeare [Winter's Tale). (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1778. Bonduca. T. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. With Alterations
[by C. ). (Haymarket. )
1778. [Acted 1767. ] The Tailors; a Tragedy for Warm Weather, in three
acts. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. ) Later' abridged by Mr Colman, with some
additional touches from his pen' (see Biog. Dram. vol. 11, p. 315).
1783. Fatal Curiosity: a true T. Written by George Lillo, 1736. With
Alterations (by C. ], As revived at the Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market, 1782.
1788. Tit for Tat. C. in three acts. (Haymarket, Drury lane, and Covent
garden. ) (Anon. ) [Free alteration of The Mutual Deception, 1785, by
Joseph Atkinson. ]
1777. The Dramatick Works of George Colman. 4 vols.
C. Other Works
1755-6. The Connoisseur. By Mr Town, Critic, and Censor-General (chiefly
by Colman and Bonnell Thornton). 2 vols. [140 nos. 31 January 1754
to 30 September 1756. ]
1760. Ode to Obscurity. (Anon. Published in Two Odes. )
1761. Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatic Writers. Addressed
to David Garrick, Esq. (Anon. In vol. I of The Dramatic Works of
Philip Massinger, compleat, ed. by Coxeter, T. , 4 vols. , 1761. )
1765. The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse.
[Various edns. ]
1778.
The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; Collated with all
the former editions. 10 vols. Preface by Colman,
## p. 430 (#456) ############################################
430
Bibliography
1783. Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. The Art of
Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos. Translated from Horace. With Notes.
1787. Prose on Several Occasions; accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse.
3 vols.
1841. Memoirs of the Colman Family, including their Correspondence with
the most distinguished personages of their time. By Richard Brinsley
Peake. 2 vols.
Posthumous Letters . . . addressed to Francis Colman, and George Colman,
the Elder. 1820.
Samuel Crisp (d. 1783)
[Often, erroneously, called 'Henry' Crisp. ]
1754. Virginia. T. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
Elijah Fenton
1723. Mariamne. T. (Lincoln's inn fields. )
Henry Fielding
See bibliography to chap. II, ante.
Samuel Foote
A. Plays
1752. Taste. C. of two acts. (Drury lane. )
1753. The Englishman in Paris. C. in two acts. (Covent garden. )
1754. The Knights. C. in two acts. (Drury lane. )
1756. The Englishman return'd from Paris, Being the Sequel to the
Englishman in Paris. F. in two acts. (Covent garden. )
1757. The Author. C. of two acts. (Drury lane. )
1760. The Minor. C. (New Theatre, Haymarket. ) By Authority from the
Lord Chamberlain.
1762. The Orators. (New Theatre, Haymarket. )
1764. The Lyar. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1764. The Mayor of Garret. C. in two acts. (Drury lane. )
1764. The Patron. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1765. The Commissary. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1770. The Lame Lover. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1776. The Bankrupt. C. in three acts.
1778. The Devil upon Two Sticks. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1778. The Maid of Bath. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
Also, an earlier edn, anon. , unauthorised, 1778.
1778. The Nabob. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
1778. The Cozeners. C. in three acts. (Haymarket. )
This and the three preceding plays were published by Colman. Of
The Cozeners there also appeared an earlier edn, anon. , unauthorised,
1778.
1778. A Trip to Calais. C. in three acts. As Originally Written, and
Intended for Representation, by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. To which
is annexed, The Capuchin. (Haymarket. ) Altered from The Trip to
Calais, by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. and now published by Mr Colman.
For some previously unprinted pieces by Foote, see Wilkinson, Tate: The
Wandering Patentee; or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres from 1770 to
## p. 431 (#457) ############################################
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431
the Present Time, 4 vols. , York, 1795. Vol. IV contains The Second Act of
Diversions of the Morning (Drury lane), 1758-9. Vol. I contains : As
Acted 1763, at the Hay-Market Theatre. Tragedy A-La-Mode, being the
Second Act of Mr Foote's Diversions of the Morning, and substituted in
lieu of the former second act in his farce called Tea. Acted by Mr Foote
and Mr Wilkinson, in Drury-Lane Theatre, 1758-9. See, also, under Cooke,
William, sec. C, post.
For An Occasional Prologue, performed at the opening of the Theatre-
Royal in the Haymarket, 1767, not inserted in the editions of Foote's
Works, see The Monthly Mirror, vol. XVII, 1804.
[1787? ] Dramatic Works. [Individual plays assembled from various edns,
1770-86. ) 4 vols. (Other 4 vol. collections similarly assembled from
different edns of different dates. )
1799. Works. 2 vols.
1809. Dramatic Works; to which is prefixed a Life of the Author. 2 vols.
1830. Works. With remarks on each play, and an Essay on the Life,
Genius, and Writings of the Author. By Jon Bee, Esq. (pseud. of John
Badcock]. 3 vols.
B. Other Works
1747. The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd and Compar'd. With
remarks on the Suspicious Husband. And an Examen into the Merit of
the present Comic Actors.
1762. The Comic Theatre. Being a Free Translation of all the Best French
Comedies. By Samuel Foote, Esq. and Others. 5 vols. (According to
the Advertisement: 'One Comedy in each Volume of this work was
translated by Foote. ')
C. Biography and Criticism
[1777? ] Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Foote, Esq. ; the
English Aristophanes: to which are added the Bon Mots, Repartees,
and Good Things said by that great Wit and Excentrical Genius.
1778. Aristophanes . . . containing the Jests, Gibes, Bon-Mots, Witticisms,
and most extraordinary Anecdotes of Samuel Foote, Esq.
Cooke, William, Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq. With a Collection of
his genuine Bon-Mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c. mostly original. And
three of his Dramatic Pieces not published in his Works. 3 vols. 1805.
Another edn. 2 vols. 1806.
Forster, John. Samuel Foote. In Historical and Biographical Essays,
vol. II, pp. 293-437, 1858.
Fitzgerald, Peroy. Samuel Foote, a biography. 1910.
