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and with the fame title, by
Monfieur de la Harpe, was
acted with applaufe. The
performance of Mrs. Yates
was truly excellent.
The Earl of Warwick ;
or. 7he King and Subjeff.
Trag. by Paul Hiffernan,
8vo. 1767.
The Earl of Wefmorland.
Trag. by Henry Brooke,
Efq.° 3vo. 1778. Afted in
Ireland, and favourably re-
ceived.
The Eafl -Indian. Com.
acted at the Haymarket,
1782. This play lias fome
merit, and is capable of im-
provement.
E of ward Hoe. Com. by
G. Chapman, Ben Jonfon,
and John Marflon. Acted
by the children of her Ma-
jelly's Revels, in the Black-
Fryars, 4-to. 1605. From
this play Hogarth took the
plan of his fet of prints,
called, The indifrious and
idle Prentices.
. Edgar ; or , The Englijh
Monarch. An heroic Trag.
by T. Rymer, 4 to. 1678.
This play is written in heroic
verfe, and the plot is taken
from W. or Malmelbury,
and other old Engliih His-
torians.
Edgar and Alfred a. T.
C. by E. Ravenfcroft. Act-
ed at the Theatre Royal, 4*0.
1677. This play is on the
fame flory as the preced-
ing one, but the plot of it
feemingly borrowed from a
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Novel, callei The Annals of
Love.
Edgar and Erne line. A
Fairy Tale, by J. Hawkf-
worth. Acted at Drury-
Lane, 8vo. 1761. This
little piece met with great
faccefs at thereprefentation,
and indeed delervedly.
Edward I. An hiftorical
play, by Geo. Peele, 4 to.
1593. The title at length
runs as follows, i( The fa-
mous Chronicle of King
Edward the Firft, lurnamed
Longiriankes, with his re-
turne from the Holy Land.
Alio the Life of Lleuellen
Rebell in Wales. Laftly,
the finking of Queene Eli-
nor, who funck at Charing
Crofie, and rofe again at
Potter's-hith, now named
Queenhith.
Edward II. Trag. by C.
Marlow. Acted by the
Earl of Pembroke's fer-
vants, 4to. 1598. This
play contains the fall of
Mortimer, and the life and
death of Piers Gavefton,
earl of Cornwall, and chief
favourite of that unfortunate
Prince, together with his
own death, and the trouble-
fome events of his reign.
Edward III. his Reign.
An Hiiiory, fundry times
played about the City of
London. Anon. 4to. 1596.
King Edward III. with
the Fall of Mortimer, Earl
of March. Hiftorical Play,
4to. 1 69 1. Anon. The
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