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THE DRAMA.
This day is psdslialtdd, in Itre. peke Birk bawd,
APHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY hit° tke Source di
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Jul... to Tragedies intended for the Stage. Praord by a Cri.
W Illumination of the various Theories adopted on the Suhjess
by like English, French, and German Pbiledopbers.
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3. TALES of the DRAMA fan
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3. TALES of the DRAMA ; founded an the Tragedies of
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NI Mt this view the Authoress kas turned twenty of the Tragedies
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and subservient to the best purposes of morality.
4. IN MD'S BEAUTIES of SHAKSPEARE ; a new edition.
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EGI ; translated from the German.
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as follows:—The Robbers, embellished with a tine Engraving,
3s. 6.1.—" This Drama dues honour to Germany and to modem
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6. COUNT HENVOIVSKI ; from the German of Kotzebue,
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DIBDIN'S POCKET EDITION OF THE NEW
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The most elegant, and, with reference to its execution, the cheapent
Edition of the Drama extant ; originally published at a Shining
each Play, but now republishing at Sixpence,
E NEW LONDON THEATRE, being a Care-
-1 lion of the most esteemed and popular Stock- Tragedies,
Comedies, Operas and Farces, now performing on the Lnglisb,
Stage: with CritiCal Remarks,
By THOMAS I)IBDIN, Author of several Dramatic Pieces.
The following are amongst the advantages peculiar to thia Edition :
1. Each Play is correctly given from the copies now used in the
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and Epilogue. It contains also the cast of Characters at the prin.'
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Edition will consequently be found a most valuable acquisition.
2. Each Play is complete in itself, elegantly printed in a pocket
size, suitable to the Theatre, from a distinct clear type, and is
embellished with six beautiful illustrative Engravings.
3. The Collection comprites all the best Pieces, from the days of
Ben Janson and Beaumont and Fletcher, down to our own tunes,
as shown in the following List.
4. The paging of each Play being unconnected with any other,
the purchaser can bind them in any order he pleases. On the loss
of any volume it may be instantly replaced.
List of Pieces already
.published, several of which are only to be
found in this Collection, the copyright being the exclusive pro-
perty of the Publisher :
TRAGEDIES.
Fair Penitent
iamester
George Barnwell
irecian Daughter
1 asibelLa
Jane Shore
Lady Jane Grey
3I ahomet
Mourning Bride
Orciouoko

Alexander the Great
All for Love
('ato
Count of Narbonne
Distress Mother
Douglas
Duke of Milan
Earl of Eau:
Earl of Warwick
Edward the Black
Prince

.111 in the Wrong
Meaux Stratagem
Illeggani Opera
Itelle's Stratagem
lioldStrokelueaWife
Heathen

COMEDIES.
Farmer's Atrifc
Faatnonable Lower
Ono!-natured Man
Hypocrite
Inconstant

Orphan
Orphan of China
Revenge
Roman Father
Siege of Damascus
Tamerlane
Tanertii and Sigis-
munda
Venice Preserved
Zara

Refusal
locale
Rule a Wife and
have a Wife
She Stoops to Con-

Bush Bod
Chapter of Accidents
Clandestine Marriage
Confederacy
Conscious Goren
Constant Couple
Country Obi
Double Dealer
Double Gallant

quer
She Would and She
Would Not
suspicious Husband
Tender Husband
Trip to Scarbo-
rou
Way oghf the World
v‘%Tchro Keep him
is the Nan?
West Indian
Wonder
'KS.
Richard Cala de
Lion
Rosins
Sultan
Three Weeks After

Jealous Wife
Lionel and Choi-sit
Lord of the Manor
Love for Love
Love in a Village
Maid of the Mill
Mari of the World
Merchant of Bruges
New Way to Pay Old
Debts
Provoked Husband
Recruiting I /Seer
--'ERAS AND F.IID.
Apprentice Lying Valet
Citizen Maid of the Oaks
(amnia Mayor of (lanai
('elite Midas
Cymon Miser
Devil to Pal Miss in her Teens
Fortune's k ralic Mock Doctor
livardian My Spouse and I
High Life Below I Pastkies
Main Polly Iloneyeombe
Hit Of Miss I Quaker
Irish Widow Recruiting Sergeant ,
•, The above Collection tray be had complete, in Eighteen
neat Cabinet ►'olumcs, price X. in boards ; err any of the Pieces
separately.
Loodou: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Vacancy:ex-row.

Eli amourvery Man ix his

Marriage
Tobacconist
Twenty l'cr ('ent.
Two Nicer,
Virgin Unmasked
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