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1. ABABLLINO, the Great Bandit. Play, translated from the German, and adapted to the New York theatre, by William Dunlap, Esq. 12mo. 1802. Printed at New York.

2. ABDALLA. Trag. by J. Delap, D. D. Printed at Lewes. 8vo. 1803. Never acted. If the diction of this piece be not of the highest order, the construction of the fable is certainly interesting."

3. ABDELAZAR; or, The Moor's Revenge. Trag. by Mrs. Aphra, or Afra, Behn. Acted at the Duke of York's theatre, in 1671. 4to. 1677. This play is no more than an alteration of Marloe's Lust's Dominion, or The Lascivious Queen, of which see more in its place. From it, however, Dr. Young took the hint of his admirable tragedy of The Revenge; the death of a father, and loss of a crown, being the prime motives of resentment equally in Abdelazar and Zanga. A similar reluctance appears in both at the descending to acts of villainy for the gratification of it, and both alike declare the sum of their crimes at the completion of their revenge. The plot is intricate, much interlarded with

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trivial circumstances, and the ca tastrophe on the whole too bloody; yet with a little alteration this tra gedy might be rendered fit for the present stage.

4. ABDICATED PRINCE; or, The Adventures of four Years. Tragi Com. Anon. Acted at Alba Regalis, by several persons of great quality. 4to. 1690. This piece is entirely political, and seems not to have been intended for the stage: it contains, under feigned names, the transactions of the English court and nation during the reign of James II. with the abdication of that prince, but written with great partiality; the Duke of Monmouth being made the hero; and personal abuse proceeding to so extravagant a length in it, as to charge the King with the death of his brother, Charles II. This play needs no key; Alba Regalis evidently being meant for the English court, and the very names of the personages so closely pointed to real history, as to be obvious to any one ever so slightly acquainted with the public transactions of that period.

5. THE ABDICATION OF FERDI. NAND; or, Napoleon at Bayonne. Historical Play, in five acts. Anon.

9. ABRAHAM'S FAITH. A divine Dialogue, drawn by George Lesley. 8vo. 1675, 1684.

10. A TRAGEDIE OF ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE, written in French, by Theodore Beza, and translated into English, by A[rthur] G[old ing]; finished at Powles Belchamp, in Essex, the 11th day of August, 1575, with wood cuts. Printed by Vantrowllier. 18mo. 1577. This piece, which is rarely met with, sold for 20 guineas, at a sale in King's auction-room, a few years ago.

11. ABRAME AND LOT. In Henslowe's list of plays acted by the Earl of Sussex's servants, 1593.

12. ABRA-MULE; or, Love and Empire. Trag, by Dr. Jos. Trapp. Agted at the new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4to. 1704. The seene lies in Constantinople, and the plot of it may be more fully seen in a book called Abra-Mule, or, The true History of the Dethronement of Mahomet IV. by

13. ABROAD AND AT HOME. Com.Op. Acted at Covent Garden, and very well received. 8vo. Songs only, 1796. Second edi-, tion, 1796. Written by J. G. Holman. This piece was originally named " The King's Bench;" but that title is said to have been dis approved of by the Lord Cham berlain. It is a very diverting performance.

14. THE ABSENT MAN. Farce, by Thomas Hull. Acted at Covent Garden the 28th of April 1764, for the benefit of the author and Miss Miller. N. P.

15. THE ABSENT MAN. Farce, by Is. Bickerstaffe, Acted at Drury Lane. 8vo. 1768. The hint of this piece, and that only, the au, thor says, was taken from the character of Menalcas, in La Bru yere, translated by the Spectator. It met with applause.

16. THE ABSENT NYMPH; Or, The Doating Swain. Musical Interlude, by Messre Daniel Bellamy, sen. and jun. Svo. 1739; 2d edit.

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12mo. 1741. Published in a collection of Miscellanies.

17. THE ACADEMIE; or, The Cambridge Duns. Com.byJ.Barnes. This play has never been published, but still remains in MS. in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It appears to have been written about the year 1675; and from circumstances it may be conjectured to have been acted somewhere in the university. It is, however, wretched ribaldry, which, for the credit of the present times, would not be endured. 18. THE ACCOMPLISHED MAID. Com. Op. by Mr. Toms. Acted at Covent Garden, 8vo. 1766, 1767. A translation of La Buona Figliuola. It was very coolly received.

19. THE ACCOMPLISHED RAKE. A MS. Comedy, under this title, stood for sale in Mr. Barker's Catalogue of Plays, 1799.

20. ACHILLES; or, Iphigenia in Aulis. Trag. by Abel Boyer. Acted at Drury Lane. 4to. 1700. This is a translation from the Iphigenia of Racine. It was acted without any success. On the appearance of the Victim, by Charles Johnson, in 1714, Mr. Boyer republished this play, under the title of The Victim, or Achilles and Iphigenia in Aulis, 12mo.; and in the preface to it says, that it passed the correction and approbation of Mr. Dryden. On the 23d of March 1778, it was revived at Covent Garden, under the title of Iphigenia, for the benefit of Mrs. Barry.

21. ACHILLES. Opera, by John Gay. 8vo. 1733. This piece, which is in the manner of the Beggar's Opera, is a ludicrous relation of the discovery of Achilles by Ulys ses. The scene lies in the court of Lycomedes. Achilles is in wo

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man's clothes through the whole play, and it concludes by his marriage with Deidamia. It was acted in 1733, at Covent Garden, eighteen nights.

22. ACHILLES IN PETTICOATS. Opera, altered from Gay, by Geo. Colman. Acted at Covent Garden. 8vo. 1774. This alteration met with little success.

23. ACHILLES IN SCYROS. Op. translated from Metastasio, by John Hoole. 8vo. 1800.

24. ACIS ANDGALATEA. Masque, by P. Motteux, from Ovid's Metam. book xiii. set to music by John Eccles, and performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury Lane, by His Majesty's servants. 4to. 1701. Performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields. 8vo. N. D. The scene Sicily. With this Masque are published the rest of the musical entertainments, in an Opera called The Mad Lover.

25. ACIS AND GALATEA. An Entertainment of dancing performed at Drury Lane, 1728.

26. ACIS AND GALATEA. An English Pastoral Opera, in three acts, by John Gay. It is in recitative and air; the story taken from the 13th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses; the music composed by Handel; and was performed at the Haymarket, 1732, with scenes and dresses; Galatea being represented by Miss Arne, afterwards the celebrated Mrs. Cibber. 8vo. 1732.

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"The comedye of ACOLASTUS, "translated into oure englyshe "tongue, after such maner as chylderne are taught in the "grammar schole; fyrst, worde for "worde, as the latyne lyeth; and "afterwarde, accordynge to the sense and meanyng of the Latin "sentences: by shewing what they do value and countervayle "in our tongue, with admoni"tions set forth in the margyn, "so often as any such phrase, that "is to say, kynde of spekyng used "of the Latyns, which we use "not in our tonge, but by other "wordes expresse the said Latyn maners of speakinge, and also "adages, metaphores, sentences, "or other fygures, poeticall or "rhetoricall do require, for the more perfyte instructynge of the lerners, and to leade theym "more easilye to see howe the exposytion gothe; and afore the "seconde sceane of the fyrst acte, "is a brefe introductory to have "some general knowledge of the dyvers sortes of meters used of our auctour in this comedy. "And afore Acolastus balade is "shewed of what kyndes of meters his balade is made of. And "afore the syxte sccane of the "fourthe acte, is a monition of "the rhetorycall composytion used "in that sceane, and certayne other after it ensuyinge. "Interpreted by John Palsgrave,

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30. ACTEON AND DIANA. Interlude, by Mr.Robert Cox, with a pastoral story of the nymph Enone, followed by the several conceited humours of Bumpkin the huntsman, Hobbinal the shepherd, Singing Simkin, and John Swabber the seaman. 4to. No date. The story is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. In the 2d edition, 8vo. 1656, it is said to have been acted with great applause at the Red Bull. In this edition was also the addition of Simpleton the Smith, not before extant. These Drolls were afterwards published in Kirkman's collection, called The Wils,orSport upon Sport; which see.

31. ACT AT OXFORD. Com. by Thomas Baker. 4to. 1704. This author, in his dedication to Lord Dudley andWard, informs us, that it was forbid to be represented; and at the same time disclaims any intention of treating the university of Oxford with rudeness, as it had been reported. It was afterwards altered, and brought out under the title of HAMPSTEAD HEATH.

32. ADELA. Trag. by Mrs.West. Never acted; but printed in the first volume of her Poems and Plays. 8vo. 1799. It possesses considerable merit; the language is highly poetical, and the characters are well discriminated: it was, however, offered in vain to the managers of the winter theatres.

33. ADELAIDE. Trag. by Miss Alderson (now Mrs. Opie), acted at Mr. Plumtre's private theatre at Norwich, on the 4th and 6th of Jan. 1791, the part of Adelaide by the author. Not printed, we believe. The fable, though simple, was interesting, and the whole performance did credit to the fair writer.

34. ADELAIDE. Trag. by Henry