[8] The Advertisement prefixed to The Happy Captive says: “The interlude, which is added in two comic scenes, is entirely new to our climate; and the success of it is submitted to experiment, and the taste of the audience.” Only this portion of The Happy Captive was ever acted.
[9] Theobald died September 18, 1744. The Temple of Dullness was acted January 17, 1745.
[10] For a history of the pastoral drama in the eighteenth century and a summary of its qualities, see Jeannette Marks, The English Pastoral Drama, London, 1908.
[11] Thorndike, Tragedy, p. 273.
[12] Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, III, 459.
[13] The Tatler, Number 42, July 16, 1709.
[14] Address to the Reader, prefixed to Ximena.
[15] Richard Dohse, Colley Cibber’s Buehnenarbeitung von Shakspere’s Richard III, Bonn, 1899.
[16] Alice I. Perry Wood, The Stage History of Richard III, New York, 1909.
[17] The number and sources of the lines as given by Furness. Variorum Richard III, p. 604, are as follows: Richard II, 14; 1 Henry IV, 6; 2 Henry IV, 20; Henry V, 24; 1 Henry VI, 5; 2 Henry VI, 17; 3 Henry VI, 103; Richard III, 795; Cibber, 1069; total, 2053. The number of lines in the Globe text of Shakspere’s Richard III is 3621.