[241] _Irene_ (1749); _The Patriot_ attributed to Johnson, is by Joseph Simpson. [242] _Elfrida_; _Caractacus_. [243] _Rosamunda._ [244] _Love in a Village_, &c. [245] _The Waterman_, &c. [246] _Pasquin_; _The Historical Register for 1736._ [247] _The Golden Rump._ [248] The first dramatic performance licensed by the lord chamberlain after the passing of the act was appropriately entitled _The Nest of Plays_, and consisted of three comedies named respectively _The Prodigal Reformed_, _In Happy Constancy_ and _The Trial of Conjugal Love_. It is a curious fact that in the first decade of the reign of George III. a severe control of the theatre was very actively exerted after a positive as well as a negative fashion--objectionable passages being ruthlessly suppressed and plays actually written and licensed for the purpose of upholding the existing régime. [249] J. Townley, _High Life Below Stairs_ (1759). [250] _The Minor_; _Taste_; _The Author_, &c. [251] This celebrated play was at first persistently attributed to Miss Elizabeth Carter. [252] _The School for Lovers._ [253] _False Delicacy._ [254] _The Jealous Wife_; _The Clandestine Marriage._ [255] _The Heiress._ [256] _The West Indian_; _The Jew._ [257] _The Belle's Stratagem_; _A Bold Stroke for a Husband_, &c. [258] _The Road to Ruin_, &c. [259] _John Bull_; _The Heir at Law_, &c. [260] _Midas_; _The Golden Pippin._ [261] _Bertram._ [262] _Ion._ [263] _Fazio._ [264] _Philip van Artevelde._ [265] _The Death of Marlowe._ [266] _Becket_; _The Cup._ [267] _Merope._ [268] _The Golden Legend._ [269] _Love is Enough._ [270] _Strafford_; _The Blot on the Scutcheon._ [271] _Atalanta in Calydon_; _Bothwell_; _Chastelard_; _Mary Stuart._ [272] _Virginius_; _The Hunchback._ [273] A drama entitled _Speculum vitae humanae_ is mentioned as produced by Archduke Ferdinand of the Tirol in 1584. [274] _Susanna_ (_Geistliches Spiel_) (1536), &c. Sixt Birk also brought out a play on the story of _Susanna_, which he had previously treated in a Latin form, in the vernacular (1552). [275] _Siegfried_; _Eulenspiegel_, &c. [276] _Susanna_; _Vincentius Ladislaus_, &c. [277] _Mahomet_; _Edward III._; _Hamlet_; _Romeo and Juliet_, &c. [278] _The Tempest_ (Ayrer, _Comedia v. d. schonen Sidea_). [279] _Herr Peter Squenz_ (_Pyramus and Thisbe_); _Horribilicribrifax_ (Pistol?). [280] His son, Christian Gryphius, was author of a curious dramatic summary (or _revue_) of German history, both literary and political; but the title of this school-drama is far too long for quotation. [281] One of his _aliases_ was _Pickelharnig_. In 1702 the electress Sophia is found requesting Leibniz to see whether a more satisfactory specimen of this class cannot be procured from Berlin than is at present to be found at Hanover.