"King John" into "Papal Tyranny," and
his version was acted till Macready's time. Cibber's stage version of
"Richard III." is played still. Cumberland "engrafted" new features upon
"Timon of Athens" for Garrick's theater, about 1775. In his life of Mrs.
Siddons, Campbell says that "Coriolanus" "was never acted genuinely from
the year 1660 till the year 1820" (Phillimore's "Life of Lyttelton," Vol.
I. p. 315). He mentions a revision by Tate, another by Dennis ("The
Invader of his Country"), and a third brought out by the elder Sheridan
in 1764, at Covent Garden, and put together from Shakspere's tragedy and
an independent play of the same name by Thomson. "Then in 1789 came the
Kemble edition in which . . . much of Thomson's absurdity is still
preserved."

[18] "Faerie Queene," II. xii. 71

[19] "Essay on Satire." Philips says a good word for the Spenserian
stanza: "How much more stately and majestic in epic poems, especially of
heroic argument, Spenser's stanza . . . is above the way either of
couplet or alternation of four verses only, I am persuaded, were it
revived, would soon be acknowledged."--_Theatrum Poetatarum_, Preface,
pp. 3-4.

[20] "Observations on the Faery Queene," Vol. II. p. 317.

[21] "The Faery Queene," Book I., Oxford, 1869. Introduction, p. xx.

[22] "Canto" ii. stanza i.

"Now had Bootes' team far passed behind
The northern star, when hours of night declined."
--_Person of Quality_

[23] "Eighteenth Century Literature," p. 139.

[24] For a full discussion of this subject the reader should consult
Phelps' "Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement," chap. iv., "The
Spenserian Revival." A partial list of Spenserian imitations is given in
Todd's edition of Spenser, Vol. I. But the list in Prof. Phelps'
Appendix, if not exhaustive, is certainly the most complete yet published
and may be here reproduced. 1706: Prior: "Ode to the Queen." 1713-21:
Prior(?): "Colin's Mistakes." 1713 Croxall: "An Original Canto of
Spenser." 1714: Croxall: "Another Original Canto." 1730 (_circa_):
Whitehead: "Vision of Solomon," "Ode to the Honorable Charles Townsend,"
"Ode to the Same." 1736: Thompson: "Epithalamium." 1736: Cambridge:
"Marriage of Frederick." 1736-37: Boyse: "The Olive," "Psalm XLII."
1737: Akenside: "The Virtuoso." 1739: West: "Abuse of Traveling." 1739:
Anon.: "A New Canto of Spenser's Fairy Queen." 1740: Boyse: "Ode to the
Marquis of Tavistock."