[40] Dedication to The London Merchant.
[41] Translated into English as Dorval, or the Test of Virtue(1767).
[42] Translated 1770, and as A Family Picture (1781). Also, cf. General Burgoyne's Heiress (1786), which borrows from Le Père de Famille, and Holcroft's Love's Frailties (1794), based on a German adaptation.
[43] Criticised in The Critical Review, lv, 151, because of its introduction of a comic character.
[44] The elder Colman was a leader in this revival. Besides the few comedies which remained on the stock list and "Philaster," which was frequently acted at this time, the following Elizabethan plays were revived in the decade 1778-88: Bonduca, Bondman, City Madam, Duke of Milan, Knight of Malta, A King and No King, Marcella (based on The Changeling), Maid of Honor, The Picture, The Pilgrim, Scornful Lady (altered as The Capricious Lady), Triumph of Honor, Women Pleased.
CHAPTER X
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
The last few years of the eighteenth century and the first few of the nineteenth made up a decade full of movement and change in the drama. The eighteenth century had been, as we have seen, a time of stagnation in tragedy and of little dramatic advance in any direction. The theatregoer of 1720 would in 1780 have found the same plays or others similar in kind; but, had he postponed his visit yet twenty years, he would have entered a new theatrical world of romance, musical plays, and German novelties. By that time nearly all the factors of importance in the history of the stage during the first half of the nineteenth century had made their appearance. New departures in both tragedy and comedy, and a theatrically important tertium quid were all instituted. And new ideas, new themes, and new stories witnessed the changing taste and gave promise of the enlargement of the imaginative horizon which the new romanticism was to produce.