[204] Chapman, Marston (and Jonson), _Eastward Hoe_ (1605);
Middleton, _A Game at Chess_ (1624); Shirley and Chapman, _The Ball_
(1632); Massinger(?), _The Spanish Viceroy_ (1634).
[205] _Twelfth Night._
[206] _The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street_, by "W. S."
(Wentworth Smith?).
[207] _The Alchemist_; _Bartholomew Fair_.
[208] Chapman, _An Humorous Day's Mirth_; Marston, _The Dutch
Courtesan_; Middleton, _The Family of Love_.
[209] Among these was Sir Richard Fanshawe's English version of the
_Pastor fido_ (1646); after his death were published his translations
of two plays by A. de Mendoza.
[210] _A Short View of Tragedy_ (1693).
[211] _The Black Prince_; _Tryphon_; _Herod the Great_; _Altemira._
[212] _The Indian Queen._
[213] _The Indian Emperor_; _Tyrannic Love_; _The Conquest of
Granada._
[214] _Essay of Dramatic Poesy._
[215] _Essay of Heroic Plays._
[216] A direct satirical invective against rhymed tragedy of the
"heroic" type is to be found in Arrowsmith's comedy _Reformation_
(1673).
[217] _The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy._
[218] _All for Love (Antony and Cleopatra)._
[219] _Don Sebastian._
[220] _The Rival Queens_; _Lucius Junius Brutus_; _The Massacre of
Paris._
[221] _Don Carlos_; _The Orphan_; _Venice Preserved._
[222] _Oroonoko_; _The Fatal Marriage._
[223] _The Mourning Bride._
[224] _The Fair Penitent_; _Jane Shore._
[225] A notable influence was exercised upon English comedy as well
as upon other branches of literature by C. de Saint-Evremond, a
soldier and man of fashion who was possessed of great intellectual
ability and of a charming style. Though during his long exile in
England--from 1670 to his death--he never learned English, his
critical works included _Remarks on English Comedy_ (1677), and one
of his own comedies, the celebrated _Sir Politick Would-be_,
professed to be composed "_à la manière angloise_."
[226] _Epsom Wells_; _The Squire of Alsatia_; _The Volunteers._
[227] A dramatic curiosity of a rare kind would be _The Female
Rebellion_ (1682), which has been, on evidence rather striking at
first sight, attributed to Sir Thomas Browne. It is more likely to
have been by his son.
[228] _The Country Wife_; _The Plain-Dealer._
[229] _The Double Dealer._
[230] _The Recruiting Officer_; _The Beaux' Stratagem._
[231] _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage._
[232] Sir Novelty Fashion (Lord Foppington), &c.
[233] _The Lying Lover_; _The Tender Husband._
[234] _The Conscious Lovers._
[235] _The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainments fully
Demonstrated_; _The Stage defended_, &c. (1726).
[236] _The Siege of Damascus._
[237] _Mariamne._
[238] _The Double Falsehood._
[239] _The Revenge (Othello)._
[240] _Fatal Curiosity._
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