Note 33 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
Le théâtre anglais (1746-49) of Pierre de La Place contained in its 8 vols. synopses and partial translations of the following plays: Othello, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, Cymbeline, Julius Cæsar, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Maid's Tragedy, Catiline, The Fair Penitent, Venice Preserved, Aureng Zebe, The Mourning Bride, Tamerlane, Siege of Damascus (by Hughes, 1720), Busiris, Love for Love, The Innocent Adultery, Cato, The Funeral (Steele, 1702). This list, in which it will be noticed tragedy greatly predominates, represents fairly the English taste of the time.