I INTRODUCTION. Am advised, in order to render this History as compleat as poffible, to add the following Annual Register of all the Plays, the Names of their Authors, and the Theatres they were performed at, fince the Year 1712, being the Period when CIBBER, WILKS, and BOOTH commenced Managers of the Theatre-Royal in DruryLane; from whence my Readers may form their Judgment of the Encouragement given by Managers to Authors who have wrote for the Stage. London, Nov. 7. 1760. B. VICTOR. ΑΝ The WIFE OF BATH, a Comedy, by Mr. John Gay. 1714. The HEROIC DAUGHTER, a Tragedy, by Mr. Cibber. The The WONDER, a Comedy, by Mrs. Centlivre. The COUNTRY LASSES, a Comedy, by Mr. Johnson. 1715. LADY JANE GRAY, a Tragedy, by Nicholas Rowe, Efq; The VICTIM, a Tragedy, by Mr. Charles Johnson. The WHAT D'YE CALL IT, a comi-paf toral Farce, by Mr. Gay." 1716. The CRUEL GIFT, a Tragedy, by Mrs. Centlivre. The HUMOURS OF THE ARMY, a Comedy, by Mr. Charles Shadwell. DIDO and ENEAS, a Mafque, by Mr. Booth. 1717. The SULTAN ESS, a Tragedy, by Mr. Johnson. THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE, a Comedy, by Mr. Gay. The PLAY'S THE PLOT, a Comedy, by Mr. Breval. BICKERSTAFF'S BURIAL, or WORK FOR THE UPHOLDERS, a Farce, by Mrs. Centlivre. The NONJUROR, a Comedy, by Mr. Cibber. This Comedy was acted foon after the fettling the Troubles which attended that defperate Rebellion in the Year 1715; and as Nonjurors and Jacobites were, at that Time, plenty in London, the Author's Enemies were encreased and exafperated, and and they miffed no Opportunity to revenge themselves, but baited him, to the laft Moment, as Manager and Author; as an Actor, he was protected by his fuperior Merit. This Play was, of course, properly supported by the Whigs, and all Friends to the Hanover Succeffion, and was a bold Stroke for future Court Favour and Preferment, which fucceeded; and got the Author the Laureatship, which he acknowledges in Page 431, where he fays, "I am not un 66 willing my Enemies fhould know, (how ever unequal the Merit may be to the "Reward) that Part of the Bread I now "eat was given me for writing the Non LUCIUS, the first Chriftian King of Bri tain, a Tragedy, by Mrs. Manley. A BOLD |