The
Development
of the Drama.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Litera-
ture. 1888.
Dibdin, James C. The Annals of the Edinburgh Stage with an account of the
Rise and Progress of Dramatic Writing in Scotland. Edinburgh, 1888.
Baker, H. Barton. The London Stage: Its History and Traditions from
1576 to 1888. 2 vols. 1889.
Revised as: History of the London Stage and its Famous Players
(1576-1903). London and New York, 1904.
Bates, Katherine Lee and Godfrey, Lydia B. English Drama. A Working
Basis. Wellesley College, U. S. A. 1896.
The Haymarket Theatre: some Records & Reminiscences. By Maude, Cyril,
edited by Maude, Ralph. 1903.
Adams, W. Davenport. A Dictionary of the Drama. Vol. 1, A-G. 1904.
Nicholson, Watson. The Struggle for a Free Stage in London. Boston and
New York, 1906. [Also, London edn. ]
Wyndham, A. S. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897.
2 vols. 1906.
Marks, Jeannette. English Pastoral Drama. . . (1660-1798). (With biblio
graphy of English Pastoral Plays. ) (1908. ]
The Stage Censor: an historical sketch: 1544-1907: by G. M. G. 1908.
Thorndike, Ashley H. Tragedy. Boston and New York, 1908. [Chap. ix,
with Note on Bibliography. ]
Clarence, R. "The Stage' Cyclopaedia: A Bibliography of Plays. 1909.
Ward, A. W. Art. Drama (with bibliography) in Encyclopaedia Brit-
annica, 11th edn, vol. viii. Cambridge, 1910.
Materials for the Study of the English Drama (excluding Shakespeare). A
selected list of books in the Newberry Library, Chicago, 1912.
VII. ADDITIONAL WORKS, CHIEFLY BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL
This list is limited to a selection from the more considerable works bearing
(1) on general phrases of the drama, or (2) on individual dramatists,
discussed in chap. IV. Briefer treatises, special dissertations (e. g. on
the sources of separate plays), encyclopaedias, general histories of litera-
ture or biography, and similar works are, with a few exceptions, omitted.
Baker, H. B. Our Old Actors. 2 vols. 1878.
Beers, H. A. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century.
New York, 1899.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-
huitième siècle. Paris, 1881. With index, Paris, 1897.
Betz, L. P. La Littérature comparée, essai bibliographique, Strassburg,
1900.
Boulton, W. B. The Amusements of Old London. 2 vols. 1901. [Vol. 1,
chap. vi. ]
Canfield, D. F. Corneille and Racine in England. New York and London,
1904.
Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Actors
and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland. Part 1. Life of Barton
Booth. 1753.
Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects. 1756.
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Cibber, Theophilus. Theophilus Cibber, to David Garrick, Esq; with
Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects. 1759. [Section V contains attack
on Garrick's Shakespearean perversions. ]
Cook, Dutton. A Book of the Play. 2 vols. 1876.
Hours with the Players. 2 vols. 1881.
Cooke, William. Memoirs of Charles Macklin . . . forming an History of the
Stage during almost the Whole of the last Century. 2nd edn. 1806.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. London and New York,
1895-1905. [Vol. v, chap. XIII. ]
Davies, Thomas. Dramatic Miscellanies. 3 vols. 1783-4.
Dennis, John. The Age of Pope (1700-1744). (Handbooks of English
Literature. ) 1894.
Dobson, Austin. Introduction to The Good Naturd Man and She Stoops to
Conquer. (Belles-Lettres Series. ) Boston and London (1903].
Eloesser, A. Das bürgerliche Drama. Seine Geschichte im 18. und 19.
Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1898.
Galt, John. The Lives of the Players. 2 vols. 1831.
Gosse, Edmund. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780).
1889.
Hastings, Charles. The Theatre: its Development in France and England.
1901.
Hettner, Hermann. Geschichte der englischen Literatur . . . 1660-1770
(Part 1: Literaturgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts). 1856.
[Brunswick, 1894. ]
[? Hill, John. ] The Actor: a Treatise on the Art of Playing. 1750.
The Actor: or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing. A New Work,
written by the Author of the former, and adapted to the Present State
of the Theatres. 1755.
Kilbourne, Frederick W. Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare.
Boston, U. S. A. , 1906.
Lewes, Charles Lee. Memoirs of Charles Lee Lewes. . . . Written by himself.
4 vols. 1805.
Lounsbury, T. R. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: with an account of his
reputation at various periods. New York and London, 1902.
The Text of Shakespeare. New York, 1906.
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art. Translation by Louise von
Cossel. 1904, etc. [Vol. v (1909), The Great Actors of the Eighteenth
Century. ]
Matthews, Brander.
The Development of the Drama. New York, 1904.
Millar, J. H. The Mid-Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh and London, 1902.
[Chap. vi. ]
Molloy, J. F. The Romance of the Irish Stage. 2 vols. 1897.
Morley, Henry. English Plays. (Cassell's Library of English Literature. )
[1878. ] [Chap. ix. ]
Perry, T. S. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century. New York,
1883. [Chap. VIII. ]
Seccombe, T. The Age of Johnson (1748-1798). (Handbooks of English
Literature. ) 1899. [Chap. ix. ]
Stephen, Sir Leslie. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth
Century. 1904.
Straus, R. Robert Dodsley: Poet, Publisher & Playwright (with full
bibliography). London and New York, 1910.
Ward, A. W. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of
Queen Anne. New and revised edn. 3 vols. London and New York,
1899.
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Bibliography
Waterhouse, O. The development of English Sentimental Comedy in the
18th century. In Anglia, vol. xxx. Halle a. S. , 1907.
Wilkinson, Tate. Memoirs of His Own Life. 4 vols. York, 1790.
The Wandering Patentee, or a history of the Yorkshire Theatre from
1770 to the present time. 4 vols. York, 1795.
Wright, C. H. Conrad. A History of French Literature. New York and
London, 1912.
CHAPTER V
THOMSON AND NATURAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY
A. JAMES THOMSON
(1) Separate Poems
Winter. A Poem. 1726. 2nd, 3rd and 4th edns. 1726.
Summer. A Poem. 1727. 2nd edn, 1728; 3rd edn, with additions, 1730.
A Poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton. 1727. 3rd edn. 1727.
Spring. A Poem. 1728. 2nd edn. 1729.
Britannia. A poem written in the year 1729. 2nd and 3rd edns. 1730
A Poem to the Memory of Mr Congreve. 1729.
Winter, a Hymn on the Seasons, a Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton,
and Britannia. 1730.
The Seasons, a Hymn, a Poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and
Britannia. 1730. (Containing Autumn, of which a 2nd edn appeared in
the same year. ) Five parts, paged separately. 2nd edn, 1730; 3rd edn,
1734; 4th edn, 1735. A copy in the British Museum (The Four Seasons
and other Poems, 1735) is made up in four parts from these later edns.
Edns of the Seasons alone bear dates 1744, 1746, 1752, 1758, 1766, 1768,
1774(with life of Thomson by Murdoch, P. ),1787(with Murdoch’s life), 1788,
1792 (with essay by Aikin, J. ), 1793 (with life and critical essay by Heron,
R. ), 1793 (with index, glossary and notes by Stockdale, P. , another edn,
1794), 1794, 1799 (with Murdoch’s life and Aikin's essay), 1802 (with illus-
trative remarks by Evans, J. ), etc. An edn with notes, etc. , by Wright,
G. , is undated (probably 1770). Illustrated edns, 1792, 1797, 1805, etc.
Dublin, 1758, 1761, 1793 (with Johnson's life). Glasgow, 1769. Paris, 1780.
Hamburg, 1791 (ed. Timaeus, J. J. C. , with Aikin's essay). Parma, 1794.
Antient and Modern Italy compared, being the First part of Liberty, a Poem.
1735.
Greece (Liberty, part 11). 1735.
Rome (Liberty, part 111). 1735.
Britain (Liberty, part iv). 1736.
The Prospect (Liberty, part v). 1736.
Liberty, a Poem. 1736. (Five parts, made up of copies of the above sections
of the poem. ) An edn was published at Glasgow, 1776.
A Poem to the Memory of the Rt Hon. the Lord Talbot, late Chancellor of
Great Britain. 1737.
The Castle of Indolence: an allegorical Poem written in imitation of Spenser.
1748. 2nd edn. 1748.
(2) Pamphlet
Areopagitica [by John Milton). With a Preface by another hand. 1738.
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(3) Plays
The Tragedy of Sophonisba. 1730.
Agamemnon, a Tragedy. 1738.
Alfred, a Masque. 1740. Another edn. 1751.
Edward and Eleonora, a Tragedy. As it was to have been acted at the
Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. 1739. Another edn. 1739. Altered
and adapted to the Stage by Hull, T. 1775.
Tancred and Sigismunda, a Tragedy in verse. 1745. Other edns: 1752, 1766, etc.
Coriolanus, a Tragedy, 1749.
Alfred the Great, a Drama for Music. Formerly composed by command of
His Late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and performed at Cliefdon
(sic), on the Birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta. The
musical Part of this performance being then too short for an Evening's
Entertainment of itself, the Drama is new written, greatly improved from
Mallet [D. ]'s Play; and the Music (excepting two or three things, which
being particularly Favourites at Cliefdon, are retained by Desire) new-
Composed by Arne, T. A. 1753.
(4) Collected and Modern Editions
Works, vol. 11 (containing Liberty and Sophonisba, vol. 1 being the collected
ed. of the Seasons, as above, 1730 etc. ). 1736.
2 vols. 1738. The British Museum copy is of vol. 1 alone, containing
Thomson's MS corrections with those attributed to Pope.
2 vols. 1744.
3 vols. 1749.
The Works of James Thomson. In Four Volumes Complete. With his last
Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Vols. II, III, IV. 1750. Vol. I.
1752. Other edns: 2 vols. (with Murdoch's life), 1762; 2 vols. 1763; 1 vol.
(with Murdoch's life), 1768; 4 vols. (with Collins' ode), 1773; 3 vols. 1788;
2 vols. 1788; Edinburgh, 4 vols. 1772.
Poetical Works, collected in British Poets, vols. XXXVIII, XXXix, 1773;
Works of English Poets, ed. Johnson, S. , vols.
ture. 1888.
Dibdin, James C. The Annals of the Edinburgh Stage with an account of the
Rise and Progress of Dramatic Writing in Scotland. Edinburgh, 1888.
Baker, H. Barton. The London Stage: Its History and Traditions from
1576 to 1888. 2 vols. 1889.
Revised as: History of the London Stage and its Famous Players
(1576-1903). London and New York, 1904.
Bates, Katherine Lee and Godfrey, Lydia B. English Drama. A Working
Basis. Wellesley College, U. S. A. 1896.
The Haymarket Theatre: some Records & Reminiscences. By Maude, Cyril,
edited by Maude, Ralph. 1903.
Adams, W. Davenport. A Dictionary of the Drama. Vol. 1, A-G. 1904.
Nicholson, Watson. The Struggle for a Free Stage in London. Boston and
New York, 1906. [Also, London edn. ]
Wyndham, A. S. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897.
2 vols. 1906.
Marks, Jeannette. English Pastoral Drama. . . (1660-1798). (With biblio
graphy of English Pastoral Plays. ) (1908. ]
The Stage Censor: an historical sketch: 1544-1907: by G. M. G. 1908.
Thorndike, Ashley H. Tragedy. Boston and New York, 1908. [Chap. ix,
with Note on Bibliography. ]
Clarence, R. "The Stage' Cyclopaedia: A Bibliography of Plays. 1909.
Ward, A. W. Art. Drama (with bibliography) in Encyclopaedia Brit-
annica, 11th edn, vol. viii. Cambridge, 1910.
Materials for the Study of the English Drama (excluding Shakespeare). A
selected list of books in the Newberry Library, Chicago, 1912.
VII. ADDITIONAL WORKS, CHIEFLY BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL
This list is limited to a selection from the more considerable works bearing
(1) on general phrases of the drama, or (2) on individual dramatists,
discussed in chap. IV. Briefer treatises, special dissertations (e. g. on
the sources of separate plays), encyclopaedias, general histories of litera-
ture or biography, and similar works are, with a few exceptions, omitted.
Baker, H. B. Our Old Actors. 2 vols. 1878.
Beers, H. A. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century.
New York, 1899.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-
huitième siècle. Paris, 1881. With index, Paris, 1897.
Betz, L. P. La Littérature comparée, essai bibliographique, Strassburg,
1900.
Boulton, W. B. The Amusements of Old London. 2 vols. 1901. [Vol. 1,
chap. vi. ]
Canfield, D. F. Corneille and Racine in England. New York and London,
1904.
Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Actors
and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland. Part 1. Life of Barton
Booth. 1753.
Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects. 1756.
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Cibber, Theophilus. Theophilus Cibber, to David Garrick, Esq; with
Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects. 1759. [Section V contains attack
on Garrick's Shakespearean perversions. ]
Cook, Dutton. A Book of the Play. 2 vols. 1876.
Hours with the Players. 2 vols. 1881.
Cooke, William. Memoirs of Charles Macklin . . . forming an History of the
Stage during almost the Whole of the last Century. 2nd edn. 1806.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. London and New York,
1895-1905. [Vol. v, chap. XIII. ]
Davies, Thomas. Dramatic Miscellanies. 3 vols. 1783-4.
Dennis, John. The Age of Pope (1700-1744). (Handbooks of English
Literature. ) 1894.
Dobson, Austin. Introduction to The Good Naturd Man and She Stoops to
Conquer. (Belles-Lettres Series. ) Boston and London (1903].
Eloesser, A. Das bürgerliche Drama. Seine Geschichte im 18. und 19.
Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1898.
Galt, John. The Lives of the Players. 2 vols. 1831.
Gosse, Edmund. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780).
1889.
Hastings, Charles. The Theatre: its Development in France and England.
1901.
Hettner, Hermann. Geschichte der englischen Literatur . . . 1660-1770
(Part 1: Literaturgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts). 1856.
[Brunswick, 1894. ]
[? Hill, John. ] The Actor: a Treatise on the Art of Playing. 1750.
The Actor: or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing. A New Work,
written by the Author of the former, and adapted to the Present State
of the Theatres. 1755.
Kilbourne, Frederick W. Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare.
Boston, U. S. A. , 1906.
Lewes, Charles Lee. Memoirs of Charles Lee Lewes. . . . Written by himself.
4 vols. 1805.
Lounsbury, T. R. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: with an account of his
reputation at various periods. New York and London, 1902.
The Text of Shakespeare. New York, 1906.
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art. Translation by Louise von
Cossel. 1904, etc. [Vol. v (1909), The Great Actors of the Eighteenth
Century. ]
Matthews, Brander.
The Development of the Drama. New York, 1904.
Millar, J. H. The Mid-Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh and London, 1902.
[Chap. vi. ]
Molloy, J. F. The Romance of the Irish Stage. 2 vols. 1897.
Morley, Henry. English Plays. (Cassell's Library of English Literature. )
[1878. ] [Chap. ix. ]
Perry, T. S. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century. New York,
1883. [Chap. VIII. ]
Seccombe, T. The Age of Johnson (1748-1798). (Handbooks of English
Literature. ) 1899. [Chap. ix. ]
Stephen, Sir Leslie. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth
Century. 1904.
Straus, R. Robert Dodsley: Poet, Publisher & Playwright (with full
bibliography). London and New York, 1910.
Ward, A. W. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of
Queen Anne. New and revised edn. 3 vols. London and New York,
1899.
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446
Bibliography
Waterhouse, O. The development of English Sentimental Comedy in the
18th century. In Anglia, vol. xxx. Halle a. S. , 1907.
Wilkinson, Tate. Memoirs of His Own Life. 4 vols. York, 1790.
The Wandering Patentee, or a history of the Yorkshire Theatre from
1770 to the present time. 4 vols. York, 1795.
Wright, C. H. Conrad. A History of French Literature. New York and
London, 1912.
CHAPTER V
THOMSON AND NATURAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY
A. JAMES THOMSON
(1) Separate Poems
Winter. A Poem. 1726. 2nd, 3rd and 4th edns. 1726.
Summer. A Poem. 1727. 2nd edn, 1728; 3rd edn, with additions, 1730.
A Poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton. 1727. 3rd edn. 1727.
Spring. A Poem. 1728. 2nd edn. 1729.
Britannia. A poem written in the year 1729. 2nd and 3rd edns. 1730
A Poem to the Memory of Mr Congreve. 1729.
Winter, a Hymn on the Seasons, a Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton,
and Britannia. 1730.
The Seasons, a Hymn, a Poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and
Britannia. 1730. (Containing Autumn, of which a 2nd edn appeared in
the same year. ) Five parts, paged separately. 2nd edn, 1730; 3rd edn,
1734; 4th edn, 1735. A copy in the British Museum (The Four Seasons
and other Poems, 1735) is made up in four parts from these later edns.
Edns of the Seasons alone bear dates 1744, 1746, 1752, 1758, 1766, 1768,
1774(with life of Thomson by Murdoch, P. ),1787(with Murdoch’s life), 1788,
1792 (with essay by Aikin, J. ), 1793 (with life and critical essay by Heron,
R. ), 1793 (with index, glossary and notes by Stockdale, P. , another edn,
1794), 1794, 1799 (with Murdoch’s life and Aikin's essay), 1802 (with illus-
trative remarks by Evans, J. ), etc. An edn with notes, etc. , by Wright,
G. , is undated (probably 1770). Illustrated edns, 1792, 1797, 1805, etc.
Dublin, 1758, 1761, 1793 (with Johnson's life). Glasgow, 1769. Paris, 1780.
Hamburg, 1791 (ed. Timaeus, J. J. C. , with Aikin's essay). Parma, 1794.
Antient and Modern Italy compared, being the First part of Liberty, a Poem.
1735.
Greece (Liberty, part 11). 1735.
Rome (Liberty, part 111). 1735.
Britain (Liberty, part iv). 1736.
The Prospect (Liberty, part v). 1736.
Liberty, a Poem. 1736. (Five parts, made up of copies of the above sections
of the poem. ) An edn was published at Glasgow, 1776.
A Poem to the Memory of the Rt Hon. the Lord Talbot, late Chancellor of
Great Britain. 1737.
The Castle of Indolence: an allegorical Poem written in imitation of Spenser.
1748. 2nd edn. 1748.
(2) Pamphlet
Areopagitica [by John Milton). With a Preface by another hand. 1738.
1
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I
ܕ7ܐ
(3) Plays
The Tragedy of Sophonisba. 1730.
Agamemnon, a Tragedy. 1738.
Alfred, a Masque. 1740. Another edn. 1751.
Edward and Eleonora, a Tragedy. As it was to have been acted at the
Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. 1739. Another edn. 1739. Altered
and adapted to the Stage by Hull, T. 1775.
Tancred and Sigismunda, a Tragedy in verse. 1745. Other edns: 1752, 1766, etc.
Coriolanus, a Tragedy, 1749.
Alfred the Great, a Drama for Music. Formerly composed by command of
His Late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and performed at Cliefdon
(sic), on the Birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta. The
musical Part of this performance being then too short for an Evening's
Entertainment of itself, the Drama is new written, greatly improved from
Mallet [D. ]'s Play; and the Music (excepting two or three things, which
being particularly Favourites at Cliefdon, are retained by Desire) new-
Composed by Arne, T. A. 1753.
(4) Collected and Modern Editions
Works, vol. 11 (containing Liberty and Sophonisba, vol. 1 being the collected
ed. of the Seasons, as above, 1730 etc. ). 1736.
2 vols. 1738. The British Museum copy is of vol. 1 alone, containing
Thomson's MS corrections with those attributed to Pope.
2 vols. 1744.
3 vols. 1749.
The Works of James Thomson. In Four Volumes Complete. With his last
Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Vols. II, III, IV. 1750. Vol. I.
1752. Other edns: 2 vols. (with Murdoch's life), 1762; 2 vols. 1763; 1 vol.
(with Murdoch's life), 1768; 4 vols. (with Collins' ode), 1773; 3 vols. 1788;
2 vols. 1788; Edinburgh, 4 vols. 1772.
Poetical Works, collected in British Poets, vols. XXXVIII, XXXix, 1773;
Works of English Poets, ed. Johnson, S. , vols.
