The
Dramatick
Works of Henry Carey.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
(Covent garden.
) By the Author of Love in
a Village.
This piece, altered and abridged, later appeared as:
1786. The Romp. A Musical Entertainment. In two acts. Altered
from Love in the City, by Mr Bickerstaff. (Theatres Royal,
Dublin and York, and Drury lane. )
1768. [Early imprints read, erroneously, MDCCXLVIII. ] Lionel and
Clarissa. C. O. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. )
This piece, somewhat altered, later appeared as:
1773. A School for Fathers. C. 0. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. ) New
edn.
1768. The Absent Man. F. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1768. The Royal Garland; a new Occasional Interlude in Honour of His
Danish Majesty. (Anon. ) Music by Arnold, S. (Covent garden. )
1768. The Padlock. C. 0. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1769. The Hypocrite. C. (Drury lane. ) Taken from Molière (Tartuffe]
and Cibber [The Non-Juror], by the Author of the Alterations of the
Plain-Dealer.
1769. The Ephesian Matron. A Comic Serenata, After the Manner of the
Italian. (Ranelagh house. ) (Anon. ) Music by Dibdin, C.
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426
Bibliography
1769. [Early imprints read, erroneously, MDCCXVIX. ] Doctor Last in His
Chariot. C. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1769. The Captive. C. O. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
[1769. ) Judith, a Sacred Drama : As performed in the Church of Stratford
upon Avon, on Occasion of the Jubilee held there, September 6, 1769, in
Honour of the Memory of Shakespeare. Music by Arne, T. A.
1770. 'Tis Well it's no Worse. C. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1770. The Recruiting Serjeant, a Musical Entertainment. (Drury lane. )
(
(Anon. )
1771. He Wou'd if He Cou'd; or, An Old Fool worse than Any: a Burletta.
(Drury lane. ) (Anon. ) Music by Dibdin, C.
1787. (Acted 1775. ] The Sultan, or a Peep into the Seraglio. F. in two
acts. (Drury lane and Covent garden. )
1792. The Spoild Child; in two acts. (Theatre-Royal, Smoke alley. ) (Anon. )
Dublin, 1792. [Sometimes ascribed to Bickerstaff. ]
Mrs Frances Brooke (1724-1789)
A. Plays
1756. Virginia. T.
1781. The Siege of Sinope. T.
1783. Rosina. C. O. Numerous edns.
B. Other Works
1763. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. (Anon. )
1777. The Excursion. 2 vols. [Contains an attack on Garrick. ]
Henry Brooke
See bibliography to chap. III, and to vol. ix, chap. XII, ante.
John Brown, Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1715-1766)
A. Plays
1755. Barbarossa. T. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1756. Athelstan. T. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
B. Other Works
1751. Essays on the Characteristics (of the Earl of Shaftesbury]. 5th edn,
1764.
1757. An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By the
Author of Essays on the Characteristics, &c. _7th edn, 1758.
1763. A Dissertation on. . . Poetry and Music. To which is prefixed, The
Cure of Saul. A Sacred Ode. [Performed as oratorio at Covent
garden. ]
Henry Carey
A. Plays
1715. The Contrivances; or, More Ways than One. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
[1722. ] Hanging and Marriage; or, The Dead Man's Wedding. F.
(Lincoln's inn fields. ) [Preface dated 1722. ]
1732. Amelia. A New English Opera. (Haymarket), after the Italian
Manner. (Anon. ) Music by Lampe, John Frederick.
1732. Teraminta. 0. (Lincoln's inn fields. ) Music by Smith, J. C.
[1734. ] The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: Being the Most Tragical
Tragedy, that ever was Tragediz'd by any Company of Tragedians.
Written by Benjamin Bounce, Esq.
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1736. The Honest Yorkshire-Man. A Ballad Farce. Refus'd to be Acted
at Drury-Lane Playhouse: but now Performd at the New Theatre in
Goodman's Fields, with great Applause.
An earlier, (? ) pirated, edn, 1736: A Wonder: or, An Honest York-
shire-Man. A Ballad Opera; As it is Perform’d at the Theatres with
Universal Applause. (Anon. )
1738. The Dragon of Wantley, a Burlesque Opera. (Anon. ) Music by
Lampe, J. F. (Covent garden. ) Thirteenth edition, with additions.
(1743? ] The Dragoness, a Burlesque Opera. (Anon. ) Music by Lampe, J. F.
[Acted 1738, under title, Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the
Dragon. ]
Alterations of Carey's Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers, acted 1739.
1755. The Press Gang: or, Love in Low-Life. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. )
1787. True-Blue. A Musical Entertainment, As performing at the Royalty-
Theatre, Wellelose Square. (Anon. )
1743.
The Dramatick Works of Henry Carey.
B. Other Works
1713. Poems on Several Occasions. [3rd edn, much enlarged, 1729. ]
1737-40. The Musical Century, in one hundred English Ballads . . . The
Words and Musick of the Whole, by Henry Carey. 2 vols. [Vol. 11
contains Sally in our Alley. ]
Mrs Susanna (Carroll) Centlivre
A. Plays
1700. The erju Husband :
: or, The Adventures of Venice. T. (Drury
lane. ) Written by S. Carroll.
1702. The Beau's Duel: or a Soldier for the Ladies. C. (Lincoln's inn
fields. ) (Dedication signed Susanna Carroll. ]
[1703. ) The Stolen Heiress, or the Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. C.
(Lincoln's inn fields. ) (Anon. )
1703. Love's Contrivance, or Le Médecin malgré Lui. C. (Drury lane. )
[Dedication signed R. M. , but play written by Mrs Centlivre. ]
1705. The Gamester. C. (Lincoln's inn fields. ) (Anon. )
1706. Love at a Venture. C. As it is Acted by his Grace the Duke
of Grafton's Servants, at the New Theatre in Bath. Written by the
Author of The Gamester.
1706. The Basset Table. C. (Drury lane. ) By the Author of the Gamester.
1707. The Platonick Lady. C. (Haymarket. ) By the Author of the
Gamester, and Love's Contrivance.
[1709. ) The Busie Body. C. (Drury lane. )
[1710? ] The Man's bewitch'd; or, The Devil to do about Her. C. (Hay-
market. )
This piece was later altered, under the title:
1767. The Ghost. A Comedy of two acts. (Smock alley, Dublin. )
[1710? ] A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders. F. As it
was Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-market, by Her Majesty's Sworn
Servants.
1711. Mar-Plot; or, The Second Part of The Busie-Body. C. (Drury
lane. )
This piece was later altered, as follows:
1760. Marplot, in Lisbon. Or, The Second Part of the Busie-Body.
C. (Theatre-Royal, Crow street. Dublin. )
1712. The Perplex'd Lovers. C. (Drury lane. )
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428
Bibliography
:
1714. The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secret. C. (Drury lane). . . Written
by the Author of the Gamester.
1715. The Gotham Election. F.
This piece later appeared, under the title:
1737. The Humours of Elections. By the Author of The Gamester.
[Running title: The Gotham Election. ]
1715. A Wife Well Manag'd. F. [Frontispiece of Mrs Centlivre. ]
This piece was later altered, under the title:
1732. The Disappointment; a New Ballad Opera of one act. Alter'd
from a Farce after the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. (Hay-
market. )
1717. The Cruel Gift. T. (Drury lane. ) [Running title adds sub-title:ʻor,
The Royal Resentment. ']
1718. A Bold Stroke for a Wife. C. (Little Lincoln's inn fields. ) By the
Author of the Busie-Body and the Gamester. [In A Collection of Plays
by Eminent Hands, vol. iii, 1719. ]
1723. The Artifice. C. (Drury lane. )
1760-1. The Works of the celebrated Mrs Centlivre. In 3 vols. With a
New Account of her Life. Vol. 1, 1761, vols. II, 111, 1760.
1872. The Dramatic Works of the celebrated Mrs Centlivre, with a New
Account of her Life. Complete in 3 vols.
B. Other Works
1715. A Poem. 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.
a Village.
This piece, altered and abridged, later appeared as:
1786. The Romp. A Musical Entertainment. In two acts. Altered
from Love in the City, by Mr Bickerstaff. (Theatres Royal,
Dublin and York, and Drury lane. )
1768. [Early imprints read, erroneously, MDCCXLVIII. ] Lionel and
Clarissa. C. O. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. )
This piece, somewhat altered, later appeared as:
1773. A School for Fathers. C. 0. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. ) New
edn.
1768. The Absent Man. F. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1768. The Royal Garland; a new Occasional Interlude in Honour of His
Danish Majesty. (Anon. ) Music by Arnold, S. (Covent garden. )
1768. The Padlock. C. 0. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1769. The Hypocrite. C. (Drury lane. ) Taken from Molière (Tartuffe]
and Cibber [The Non-Juror], by the Author of the Alterations of the
Plain-Dealer.
1769. The Ephesian Matron. A Comic Serenata, After the Manner of the
Italian. (Ranelagh house. ) (Anon. ) Music by Dibdin, C.
## p. 426 (#452) ############################################
426
Bibliography
1769. [Early imprints read, erroneously, MDCCXVIX. ] Doctor Last in His
Chariot. C. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
1769. The Captive. C. O. (Haymarket. ) (Anon. )
[1769. ) Judith, a Sacred Drama : As performed in the Church of Stratford
upon Avon, on Occasion of the Jubilee held there, September 6, 1769, in
Honour of the Memory of Shakespeare. Music by Arne, T. A.
1770. 'Tis Well it's no Worse. C. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1770. The Recruiting Serjeant, a Musical Entertainment. (Drury lane. )
(
(Anon. )
1771. He Wou'd if He Cou'd; or, An Old Fool worse than Any: a Burletta.
(Drury lane. ) (Anon. ) Music by Dibdin, C.
1787. (Acted 1775. ] The Sultan, or a Peep into the Seraglio. F. in two
acts. (Drury lane and Covent garden. )
1792. The Spoild Child; in two acts. (Theatre-Royal, Smoke alley. ) (Anon. )
Dublin, 1792. [Sometimes ascribed to Bickerstaff. ]
Mrs Frances Brooke (1724-1789)
A. Plays
1756. Virginia. T.
1781. The Siege of Sinope. T.
1783. Rosina. C. O. Numerous edns.
B. Other Works
1763. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. (Anon. )
1777. The Excursion. 2 vols. [Contains an attack on Garrick. ]
Henry Brooke
See bibliography to chap. III, and to vol. ix, chap. XII, ante.
John Brown, Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1715-1766)
A. Plays
1755. Barbarossa. T. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
1756. Athelstan. T. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
B. Other Works
1751. Essays on the Characteristics (of the Earl of Shaftesbury]. 5th edn,
1764.
1757. An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By the
Author of Essays on the Characteristics, &c. _7th edn, 1758.
1763. A Dissertation on. . . Poetry and Music. To which is prefixed, The
Cure of Saul. A Sacred Ode. [Performed as oratorio at Covent
garden. ]
Henry Carey
A. Plays
1715. The Contrivances; or, More Ways than One. (Drury lane. ) (Anon. )
[1722. ] Hanging and Marriage; or, The Dead Man's Wedding. F.
(Lincoln's inn fields. ) [Preface dated 1722. ]
1732. Amelia. A New English Opera. (Haymarket), after the Italian
Manner. (Anon. ) Music by Lampe, John Frederick.
1732. Teraminta. 0. (Lincoln's inn fields. ) Music by Smith, J. C.
[1734. ] The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: Being the Most Tragical
Tragedy, that ever was Tragediz'd by any Company of Tragedians.
Written by Benjamin Bounce, Esq.
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Chapter IV
427
1736. The Honest Yorkshire-Man. A Ballad Farce. Refus'd to be Acted
at Drury-Lane Playhouse: but now Performd at the New Theatre in
Goodman's Fields, with great Applause.
An earlier, (? ) pirated, edn, 1736: A Wonder: or, An Honest York-
shire-Man. A Ballad Opera; As it is Perform’d at the Theatres with
Universal Applause. (Anon. )
1738. The Dragon of Wantley, a Burlesque Opera. (Anon. ) Music by
Lampe, J. F. (Covent garden. ) Thirteenth edition, with additions.
(1743? ] The Dragoness, a Burlesque Opera. (Anon. ) Music by Lampe, J. F.
[Acted 1738, under title, Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the
Dragon. ]
Alterations of Carey's Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers, acted 1739.
1755. The Press Gang: or, Love in Low-Life. (Covent garden. ) (Anon. )
1787. True-Blue. A Musical Entertainment, As performing at the Royalty-
Theatre, Wellelose Square. (Anon. )
1743.
The Dramatick Works of Henry Carey.
B. Other Works
1713. Poems on Several Occasions. [3rd edn, much enlarged, 1729. ]
1737-40. The Musical Century, in one hundred English Ballads . . . The
Words and Musick of the Whole, by Henry Carey. 2 vols. [Vol. 11
contains Sally in our Alley. ]
Mrs Susanna (Carroll) Centlivre
A. Plays
1700. The erju Husband :
: or, The Adventures of Venice. T. (Drury
lane. ) Written by S. Carroll.
1702. The Beau's Duel: or a Soldier for the Ladies. C. (Lincoln's inn
fields. ) (Dedication signed Susanna Carroll. ]
[1703. ) The Stolen Heiress, or the Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. C.
(Lincoln's inn fields. ) (Anon. )
1703. Love's Contrivance, or Le Médecin malgré Lui. C. (Drury lane. )
[Dedication signed R. M. , but play written by Mrs Centlivre. ]
1705. The Gamester. C. (Lincoln's inn fields. ) (Anon. )
1706. Love at a Venture. C. As it is Acted by his Grace the Duke
of Grafton's Servants, at the New Theatre in Bath. Written by the
Author of The Gamester.
1706. The Basset Table. C. (Drury lane. ) By the Author of the Gamester.
1707. The Platonick Lady. C. (Haymarket. ) By the Author of the
Gamester, and Love's Contrivance.
[1709. ) The Busie Body. C. (Drury lane. )
[1710? ] The Man's bewitch'd; or, The Devil to do about Her. C. (Hay-
market. )
This piece was later altered, under the title:
1767. The Ghost. A Comedy of two acts. (Smock alley, Dublin. )
[1710? ] A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders. F. As it
was Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-market, by Her Majesty's Sworn
Servants.
1711. Mar-Plot; or, The Second Part of The Busie-Body. C. (Drury
lane. )
This piece was later altered, as follows:
1760. Marplot, in Lisbon. Or, The Second Part of the Busie-Body.
C. (Theatre-Royal, Crow street. Dublin. )
1712. The Perplex'd Lovers. C. (Drury lane. )
## p. 428 (#454) ############################################
428
Bibliography
:
1714. The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secret. C. (Drury lane). . . Written
by the Author of the Gamester.
1715. The Gotham Election. F.
This piece later appeared, under the title:
1737. The Humours of Elections. By the Author of The Gamester.
[Running title: The Gotham Election. ]
1715. A Wife Well Manag'd. F. [Frontispiece of Mrs Centlivre. ]
This piece was later altered, under the title:
1732. The Disappointment; a New Ballad Opera of one act. Alter'd
from a Farce after the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. (Hay-
market. )
1717. The Cruel Gift. T. (Drury lane. ) [Running title adds sub-title:ʻor,
The Royal Resentment. ']
1718. A Bold Stroke for a Wife. C. (Little Lincoln's inn fields. ) By the
Author of the Busie-Body and the Gamester. [In A Collection of Plays
by Eminent Hands, vol. iii, 1719. ]
1723. The Artifice. C. (Drury lane. )
1760-1. The Works of the celebrated Mrs Centlivre. In 3 vols. With a
New Account of her Life. Vol. 1, 1761, vols. II, 111, 1760.
1872. The Dramatic Works of the celebrated Mrs Centlivre, with a New
Account of her Life. Complete in 3 vols.
B. Other Works
1715. A Poem. 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.
