22. The Life and Death of Richard III. with the landing of the Earl of Richmond, and the battle of Bosworth field. In this part Mr. Garrick was first distinguished. 23. The famous history of the Life of King Henry VIII. 24. Troilus and Cressida, a Tragedy; the plot from Chaucer. 25. Coriolanus, a Tragedy; the story from the Roman History. 26. Titus Andronicus, a Tragedy. 27. Romeo and Juliet, a Tragedy; the plot from Bandello's Novels. This is perhaps one of the most affecting plays of Shakespear: it was not long since acted fourteen nights together at both houses, at the same time, and it was a few years before revived and acted twelve nights with applause at the little theatre in the Hay market. 28. Timon of Athens, a Tragedy; the plot from Lucian's Dialogues. 29. Julius Cæsar, a Tragedy. 30. The Tragedy of Macbeth; the plot from Buchanan, and other Scotch writers. 31. Hamlet Prince of Denmark, a Tragedy. 32. King Lear, a Tragedy; for the plot see Leland, Monmouth. 33. Othello the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy; the plot from Cynthio's Novels. 34. Anthony and Cleopatra; the story from Plutarch. 35. Cymbeline, a Tragedy; the plot from Boccace's Novels. 36. Pericles Prince of Tyre, an historical play. 37. The London Prodigal, a Comedy. 38. The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, the favourite of King Henry VIII. 39. The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham, a Tragedy. See Fox's Book of Martyrs. 40. The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling-street, a Comedy. 41. A Yorkshire Tragedy; this is rather an Interlude than a Tragedy, being very short, and not divided into Acts. 42. The Tragedy of Locrine, the eldest son of King Brutus. See the story in Milton's History of England. Our age, which demonstrates its taste in nothing so truly and justly as in the admiration it pays to the works of Shakespear, has had the honour of raising a monument for him in Westminster Abbey; to effect which, the Tragedy of Julius Cæsar was acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, April 28, 1738, and the profits arising from it deposited in the hands of the earl of Burlington, Mr. Pope, Dr. Mead, and others, in order to be laid out upon the said monument. A new Prologue and Epilogue were spoken on that occasion; the Prologue was written by Benjamin Martyn esquire; the Epilogue by the hon. James Noel esquire, and spoke by Mrs. Porter. On Shakespear's monument there is a noble epitaph, taken from his own Tempest, and is excellently appropriated to him; with this let us close his life, only with this observation, that his works will never be forgot, 'till that epitaph is fulfilled.--When The cloud capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself And all which it inherit shall dissolve, And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind. [Footnote 1: Preface to Shakespear] [Footnote 2: Alluding to the sea voyage of Fletcher.] * * * * * JOSHUA SYLVESTER,