Note 37 — Chapter IX

The following list includes all eighteenth century tragedies, not mentioned in the text, that achieved any considerable popularity. These all became stock plays, and most were acted in the nineteenth century. Hughes, Siege of Damascus(1720); Fenton, Mariamne(1723); Jones, Earl of Essex (1753), which superseded Banks's play as a stage favorite; Brown, Barbarossa (1754); Francklin, Earl of Warwick (1766); Hartson, Countess of Salisbury (1767); Murphy, Zenobia (1768), and The Grecian Daughter (1772), which gave a famous part, Euphrasia, to Mrs. Siddons and later to Miss Fannie Kemble.