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 Caesar, 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 Caesar 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 clo