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Total number of records: 49

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English Literature49
Brotherton Collection36

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operas3
english drama1
english drama (comedy)1
greek drama1
immortality (philosophy)1
masques with music1
pantomimes with music1

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Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)49
Theobald, Lewis22
Fletcher, John (1579-1625)11
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)11
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)10
Seward, Mr10
Simpson, Sidrach (1600?-1655)10
Sophocles6
Aristophanes2
Lampe, John Frederick2

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Orpheus and Eurydice; An opera. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden

Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744); Lampe, John Frederick (1703?-1751)

1740

Words only (by Lewis Theobald).

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A complete key to the last new farce The what d'ye call it. : To which is prefix'd a hypercritical preface on the nature of burlesque and the poets design

Griffin, Benjamin (1680-1740); Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1715

Anonymous; by Benjamin Griffin and Lewis Theobald.

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The perfidious brother : a tragedy: as it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744); Mestayer, Henry (fl. 1716)

1715

Written by Mestayer and corrected by Theobald, who claimed to "have created it anew". cf. Pref.; also, Baker, Biog. dram.; Dict. nat. biog.; R.F. Jones, Lewis Theobald, p. 21-22.

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A miscellany on taste

Concanen, Matthew (1701-1749); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1732

An attack on Pope. Pieces by him which are reprinted are: Of taste, the First psalm, To the ingenious Mr. Moore..., and The looking-glass, also entitled Mr. Pope's Satire on Mrs. P---. "Of Mr. Pope'...

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The censor (v.2)

Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1717

Vol. 1, 2d ed. Head-pieces. No. 1-96; Apr. 11, 1715-June 1, 1717.

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The censor (v.3)

Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1717

Vol. 1, 2d ed. Head-pieces. No. 1-96; Apr. 11, 1715-June 1, 1717.

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Ajax of Sophocles : translated from the Greek, with notes

Sophocles; Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1714

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The clouds : a comedy

Aristophanes; Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1715

Title vignette.

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Oedipus, King of Thebes : a tragedy. Translated from Sophocles, with notes

Sophocles; Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1715

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Electra : a tragedy. Translated from the Greek of Sophocles

Sophocles; Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1714

Translated by L. Theobald. Page viii misnumbered xviii.

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The cave of poverty : a poem

Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

[1715]

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Plutus : or, The world's idol. A comedy

Aristophanes; Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1715

"A prefatory discourse, containing some account of Aristophanes, and his two comedies of Plutus, and the Clouds": p.[11-21] (1st group).

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