iamne._

[238] _The Double Falsehood._

[239] _The Revenge (Othello)._

[240] _Fatal Curiosity._

[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 regime.

[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] _Ma