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British theatre

John Bell
Print Book, English, 1791-1799
J. Bell, London, 1791-1799
34 volumes portraits 15 cm
2766284
[V.3] Cato / by Joseph Addison ; The fair penitent / by Nicholas Rowe ; Douglas / by John Home ; Jane Shore / by William Whitbread ; The Roman father / altered from Mr. Whitehead
[v.5] The choleric man / by Richard Cumberland ; Cleone / by Robert Dodsley ; Isabella, or, The fatal marriage / by Thomas Southerne ; She wou'd and she wou'd not, or, The kind imposter / by Colley Cibber
[v.6] The discovery / by Mrs. Frances Sheridan ; The distrest mother [Andromaque] / by Racine; translated by Ambrose Philips ; The Earl of Essex / by Henry Jones ; Medea / by Richard Glover ; The gamesters / by James Shirley and C. Johnson
[v.7] The Roman father / altered from Mr. Whitehead ; Every man in his humor / by Ben Johnson, altered by David Garrick ; The suspicious husband / by Dr. Hoadly ; The Grecian daughter / by Arthur Murray
[v.8] The maid of the mill / by Isaac Bickerstaff ; Rule a wife and have a wife / by Beaumont and Fletcher ; The careless husabnd / by Colley Cibber ; The revenge / by Edward Young [V.11] The relapse, or, Virtue in danger / by Sir John Vanbrugh ; The inconstant / by George Farquhar ; The double dealer / by William Congreve
Cymon / the music by Mr. Arne
[v.13] Love in a village / by Isaac Bickerstaff ; The country girl / by William Wycherly ; The conscious lovers / by Sir Richard Steele ; The recruiting officer / by George Farquhar
[v.14] The fair Quaker of Deal, or, The humours of the navy / by Charles Shadwell ; Tancred and Sigismunda / by James Thomson ; George Barnwell / by George Lillo ; The clandestine marriage / by George Coleman and David Garrick
[v.16] The busy body / by Mrs. Centlivre ; All for love, or, the world well lost / by Mr. Dryden ; The constant couple, or, a trip to the jubilee / by George Farquhar ; The Carmelite/ by Richard Cumberland
[v.19] The mourning bride / by William Congreve ; Oroonoko / by Thomas Southerne ; The West Indian / by Richard Cumberland ; King Charles I / by William Havard [V.22] The Albion queens, or, The death of Mary, Queen of Scots / by John Banks ; Tamerlane / by Nicholas Rowe ; The city wives' confederacy / by Sir John Vanbrugh ; The drummer, or, The haunted house / by Joseph Addison
[v.23] The fatal curiousity / by George Lillo ; Irene / by Samuel Johnson ; Cleonice, princess of Bithynia / by John Hoole ; Mahomet / by the Rev. Mr. Miller ; The man of the world / by Charles Macklin
[v.26] Eurydice / by David Mallet ; Timanthes / by John Hoole ; Edward and Eleonora / altered from James Thomson by Thomas Hull ; Cyrus / by John Hoole ; Barbarossa / by Dr. Brown
[v.27] The royal convert / by Nicholas Rowe ; Busiris, king of Egypt / by Edward Young ; Pericles, prince of Tyre / by William Shakespeare ; Bonduca / altered from Beaumont and Fletcher
[v.29] Lucius Junius Brutus / Nathaniel Lee ; Henry II, or the fall of Rosamond / by Thomas Hull ; The provok'd wife / by Sir John Vanbrugh ; Albina, Countess Raimond / Mrs. Cowley
[v.31] The twin rivals / by George Farquhar ; The mistake / by Sir John Vanbrugh ; Caractacus / by W. Mason ; The gentle shepherd / Allan Ramsay
Cover title: British theatre
140 plays, issued separately, each with special title page and frontispiece showing an actor in a leading part