The Hamlet Travestie. By John Poole. Was published in 1810, and acted at Drury Lane in 1813.
The Stranger, translated by Benjamin Thompson from Menschenhass und Reue, by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819)—one line is remembered: 'There is another and a better world'—and George Barnwell, by George Lillo (1693-1739), based on the ballad in Percy's Reliques, were sensational plays that enjoyed considerable popularity in the early part of the nineteenth century.
[P. 72.] Mrs. Haller. One of the principal characters in The Stranger.
[P. 76.] Punch's Apotheosis. By Horace Smith. Theodore Hook wrote a number of light plays and farces before he was out of his teens, and was long notable for the way in which he could improvise such false gallop of verses as is parodied in Punch's Apotheosis.
[P. 82.] Can Bartolozzi's... Could Grignion's. The work of the engravers, Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) and Charles Grignion (1717-1810), was much in use for sumptuously illustrated books.
The epic rage of Blackmore. Sir Richard Blackmore (d. 1729), a physician-poet, who wrote Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem; Eliza, an Epic Poem; Alfred, an Epic Poem; and various other works which the world has willingly let die.
[P. 83.] With Griffiths, Langhorne, Kenrick, etc. Ralph Griffiths (1720-1803) was founder, proprietor, publisher, and sometime editor of The Monthly Review, the contributors to which included John Langhorne (1735-1779), the translator of Plutarch, and William Kenrick (1725?-1779).
[P. 86.] The first lines are an imitation of Pope's Dunciad:
The mighty Mother, and her son, who brings