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The Female Fortune Teller is a 1726 comedy play by the British writer Charles Johnson. It is a reworking of Edward Ravenscroft's 1683 restoration comedy Dame Dobson.
Kensington Gardens is a 1719 comedy play by the Irish actor John Leigh. It is also known as Kensington Gardens, or, The Pretenders. It follows the attempts of several suitors to woo a wealthy rich widow, and the serious of complications that ensue.
The Coquet, or the English Chevalier is a 1718 comedy play by the Irish writer Charles Molloy.
Mariamne is a 1723 tragedy play by the British writer Elijah Fenton. It is based on the biblical Mariamne, wife of Herod the Great of Judea. The following year Voltaire produced a French play of the same title.
The Capricious Lovers is a 1725 comedy play by the British writer Gabriel Odingsells. The play revolves around a vain militia colonel.
The Bath Unmasked is a 1725 comedy play by the British writer Gabriel Odingsells. The action takes place in the fashionable spa town of Bath.
The Dissembled Wanton is a 1726 comedy play by the British writer Leonard Welsted.
The Fair Captive is a 1721 tragedy by the British writer Eliza Haywood.
'Tis Well if it Takes is a 1719 comedy play by the British writer William Taverner.
The Imperial Captives is a 1720 tragedy by the British writer John Mottley.
Hibernia Freed is a 1722 tragedy by the writer William Phillips. It is set during the ninth century during the Viking Invasion of Ireland. It was part of a growing Anglo-Irish interest in traditional Irish history, and part of a tendency to switch tragedy from Ancient Rome or Greece to more native settings.
Hob's Wedding is a 1720 farce by the Irish writer John Leigh.
Hanging and Marriage is a 1722 farce by the British writer Henry Carey. Written as an afterpiece it premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre accompanying a revival of Dryden's The Spanish Friar.
Sylvia is a 1730 ballad opera by the British writer George Lillo, written as part of a boom in ballad operas in the wake of John Gay's 1728 hit The Beggar's Opera.
Belisarius is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer William Phillips. It is based on the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius, sometimes dubbed the "Last of the Romans".
Hecuba is a 1726 tragedy by the British writer Richard West. It is named after Hecuba a figure in Greek Mythology from the time of the Trojan War.
The Compromise is a 1722 comedy play by the British writer John Sturmy.
The Fatal Legacy is a 1723 tragedy by the British writer Jane Robe. It was inspired by Jean Racine's 1664 play La Thébaïde. It concerns the children of Oedipus in Ancient Thebes.
The Ladies Visiting Day is a 1701 comedy play by the English writer William Burnaby.
Sir Walter Raleigh is a 1719 tragedy by the British writer George Sewell. It is based on the downfall of Walter Raleigh a successful courtier and sailor in the reign of Elizabeth who was executed in the reign of her successor James I. It was originally staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, one of the two patent theatres operating in London.
