A Collection of the most esteemed farces and entertainments performed on the British stage.

1. The guardian / by David Garrick. The apprentice / by Arthur Murphy. The anatomist, or, The sham doctor / by Edward Ravenscroft. Florizel and Perdita, or, The sheep-shearing / altered from Shakespeare [Winter's tale]. High life below stairs / by David Garrick. The mock doctor, or, The dumb lady cur'd / by Henry Fielding. Taste / by Samuel Foote. The upholsterer, or, What news? / by Arthur Murphy. Lethe, or, aesop in the shades / by David Garrick. The knights / by Samuel Foote. The deuce is in him / by Geo. Coleman. The Sultan, or, A peep into the seraglio. The chaplet, a musical entertainment / by Moses Mendez. Miss in her teens, or, The medley of lovers / by David Garrick.2. The mayor of Garrat / by Samuel Foote. The reprisal, or, The tars of old England / by Dr. Smollet. The Devil to pay; or, The wives metamorphos'd / by Charles Coffey. The lying valet / by David Garrick. The virgin unmask'd / by Henry Fielding. The lyar / by Samuel Foote. The cunning man, a musical entertainment / by Dr. Charles Burney. The old maid / by Mr. Murphy. Thomas and Sally, or, The sailor's return / by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff. Chrononhotonthologos / by Mr. Henry Carey. Neck or nothing / by David Garrick. The lottery / by Henry Fielding. The musical lady / by George Coleman. Midas, a burletta / by Kane O'Hara.3. The citizen / by Arthur Murphy. The toyshop / by Mr. Dodsley. The golden pippin / by Mr. O'Hara. The Englishman in Paris / by Samuel Foote. The Englishman return'd from Paris / by Samuel Foote. The intriguing chambermaid / by Henry Fielding. Polly Honeycombe / by George Coleman. Captain O'Blunder, or, The brave Irishman / by Thomas Sheridan. The author / by Samuel Foote. The miller of Mansfield / by Mr. Dodsley. The padlock / by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff. Catharine and Petruchio / by David Garrick. The register-office / by Joseph Reed. Cymon / altered from Mr. Garrick.4. The twins, or, which is which? / by Mr. Woods. The deserter / by C. Dibdin. The commissary / by Samuel Foote. Edgar and Emmeline / by Dr. Hawkesworth. The rival candidates / by Dr. Bate. Three weeks after marriage, or, what we must all come to / by Arthur Murphy. Bon ton, or, High life above stairs / by David Garrick. Comus / altered from Milton, by Mr. Colman. The orators / by Samuel Foote. All the world's a stage / by Mr. Jackman. The contrivances / by Mr. Harry Carey. Flora, or, Hob in the well / by Mr. Colley Cibber. The spirit of contradiction / by a gentleman of Cambridge. The Patron / by Samuel Foote. Bucks have at ye all / by David Garrick.5. The Irish widow / by David Garrick. The what d'ye call it / by Mr. Gay. Dragon of Wantley / by H. Carey. The minor / by Samuel Foote. Trick upon trick, or, The vinter in the suds. Dr. Laft in his chariot / translated from Molierre's Malade Imaginaire, by Isaac Bickerstaff; and some new scenes by Mr. Samuel Foote. The boarding school, or, The sham captain / by C. Coffey. Duke and no duke, or, Trapolin's vagaries. Damon and Phillida / by Colley Cibber. The desert island / by Arthur Murphy. He wou'd if he cou'd, or, An old fool worse than any / by Isaac Bickerstaff. The romance of an hour / by Hugh Kelly. Barnaby Brittle, or, A wife at her wit's end / altered from Molliere and Betterton's Wanton wife. Daphne and Amintor / altered from The oracle of Monsieur St. Foix and Mrs Cibber; by Isaac Bickerstaff.6. The lame lover / by Samuel Foote. The Ephesian matron / by Isaac Bickerstaff. Cross purposes / by William O'Brien. The waterman, or, The first of august / by Charles Dibdin. A trip to Scotland / by William Whitehead. May-day, or the little Gipsey / by David Garrick. The theatrical candidates / by David Garrick. The ghost / from Mrs. Centliver's Man bewitch'd, or The devil to do about her. The absent man / by Isaac Bickerstaff. The cooper / by Dr. Arne. The romp / altered from Love in the city, by Mr. Bickerstaff. The maid of the oaks / altered into an afterpiece of two acts, by a gentleman of the Theatre-Royal, Edingburgh. Amintas. Lilliput / by David Garrick. The recruiting serjeant / by Isaac Bickerstaff. The rehearsal / by the duke of Buckingham, altered into an afte-piece of three acts, by Mr. Richard WilsonEuropeana-GoogleBook