_The Dutch
Courtesan_; Middleton, _The Family of Love_.

[209] Among these was Sir Richard Fanshawe's English version of the
_Pastor fido_ (1646); after his death were published his translations
of two plays by A. de Mendoza.

[210] _A Short View of Tragedy_ (1693).

[211] _The Black Prince_; _Tryphon_; _Herod the Great_; _Altemira._

[212] _The Indian Queen._

[213] _The Indian Emperor_; _Tyrannic Love_; _The Conquest of
Granada._

[214] _Essay of Dramatic Poesy._

[215] _Essay of Heroic Plays._

[216] A direct satirical invective against rhymed tragedy of the
"heroic" type is to be found in Arrowsmith's comedy _Reformation_
(1673).

[217] _The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy._

[218] _All for Love (Antony and Cleopatra)._

[219] _Don Sebastian._

[220] _The Rival Queens_; _Lucius Junius Brutus_; _The Massacre of
Paris._

[221] _Don Carlos_; _The Orphan_; _Venice Preserved._

[222] _Oroonoko_; _The Fatal Marriage._

[223] _The Mourning Bride._

[224] _The Fair Penitent_; _Jane Shore._

[225] A notable influence was exercised upon English comedy as well
as upon other branches of literature by C. de Saint-Evremond, a
soldier and man of fashion who was possessed of great intellectual
ability and of a charming style. Though during his long exile in
England--from 1670 to his death--he never learned English, his
critical works included _Remarks on English Comedy_ (1677), and one
of his own comedies, the celebrated _Sir Politick Would-be_,
professed to be composed "_a la maniere angloise_."

[226] _Epsom Wells_; _The Squire of Alsatia_; _The Volunteers._

[227] A dramatic curiosity of a rare kind would be _The Female
Rebellion_ (1682), which has been, on evidence rather striking at
first sight, attributed to Sir Thomas Browne. It is more likely to
have been by his son.

[228] _The Country Wife_; _The Plain-Dealer._

[229] _The Double Dealer._

[230] _The Recruiting Officer_; _The Beaux' Stratagem._

[231] _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage._

[232] Sir Novelty Fashion (Lord Foppington), &c.

[233] _The Lying Lover_; _The Tender Husband._

[234] _The Conscious Lovers._

[235] _The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainments fully
Demonstrated_; _The Stage defended_, &c. (1726).

[236] _The Siege of Damascus._

[237] _Mar