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The German Hotel. Com.
tranllated from the German
by Mr. Marftiall. Afted at
Covent-Garden, 1790, and
well received.
Germanic us. Trag. by a
gentleman of the Univerfity
of Oxford, 8vo. 1775.
The Ghojl ; or, The Wo-
man wears the Breeches. C.
Anonym, written in 1640,
printed, 410. 1653.
The Ghofl of Moliere.
This is only the tranflation
of a little piece of fourteen
fcenes, called, L' Ombre de
Moliere, written by M. Bre-
court. The fcene lies in
the Elyfian Fields.
The GhoJL Com. A&ed
at Smock-Alley, Dublin,
gvo. 1767. This is taken
from Mrs. Centlirre's play
of The Man's bewitched ;
or, The Devil to do about her.
It has iince been acled at
Covent-Garden.
The Ghojls. Comedy, by
Mr. Holden. A&ed at the
Duke's Theatre between
1662 and 1665. Not
printed.
Gibraltar ; or, The Spa-
nijb Ad-venture. C. by J.
Dennis, 4to. 1705. Per-
formed at the Theatre -
Royal in Drury-Lane, but
without fuccefs. The firfl
day it being well afted in
mod of its parts, but not
fuffered to be heard ; the
fecond day for the moil part
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faintly and negligently at-
tended, and confequently
not feen. The fcene lies at
a village in the neighbour-
hood of Gibraltar.
Gil Bias, C. by Edward
Moore. Acled at Drury-
Lane, $vo. 1751. This is
by much the leafl meritori*
ous of the three dramatic
pieces of our author, and in-
deed, notwithstanding its
being very ftrongiy fupport-
ed in the a&ing, met with
the leafl fuccefs. The de-
fign is taken from the flory
of Aurora, in the novel of
Gil Bias, but bears too near
a refemblance to the plot of
the Kind Tmpojhr ; and the
author has deviated greatly
from truth in the manners of
his characters, having in-
troduced a Spaniih gentle-
man drunk on the ilage,
which is ib far from being a
charac~teriflic of that nation f
that it is welt known they
had formerly a law fubfiil-
ing among them, though
now, perhaps, out of force,
which decreed that if a
gentleman was convicted of
even a capital offence, he
mould be pardoned in plead-
ing his having been intoxi-
cated at the time he com-
mitted it, it b_'ing fuppofed
that any one who bore the
character of gentility would
more readily fufFer death,
than confefs himfelf capable
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