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night when King William
landed. Our quarrel with
Lewis has been long over,
and it now gratifies neither
zeal nor malice to fee him
painted with aggravated
features, like a Saracen up-
on a ngn.
The Taming of the Shrew .
A pleafaunt conceited Hii-
torie. As it hath beene fun-
dry times a&ed by the right
honourable the Earle of
Pembrooke his iervants, 4to.
1607. ^ n ^ s P^ a Y ' s a ^'
ferentone fromShakfpeare's,
and fuppofed to be prior
to it. The merit of it, in
any other light than being
what our great bard availed
himfelf of, is but {lender.
The Taming of the Shrew. .
Com. by William Shak-
fpeare. Acted at the Black-
Fryars and the Globe, . fol.
1623. This is very far from
being a regular play, yet
, has many very great beau-
ties in it. The plot of the
drunken Tinker's being
taken up by the Lord, and
made to imagine himfelf a
man of quality, is borrowed
from Goulart's Hiftoires ad-
mirables. Thefcene, in the
latter end of the third and
the beginning of the 4th
acts, is at Petrucio's houfe
in the country ; for the reft
of the play, at Padua. This
Comedy has been the ground
work of fome other pieces,
particularly Sawney the.Scot 3
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The Cohler of Prefton, and
Catharine and Pttruchio ;
among which the laft is much
the moil regular and perfect
Drama that has ever been
formed from it. Dr. John-
fon fays, i( Of this play
the two plots are fo well
united, that they can hard-
ly be called two without in-
jury to the art with which
they are intervowen with all
the variety of a double plot,
yet is not diftracled by un-
connected incidents. The
part between Katherine and
Petruchio is eminently
fpritely and diverting. At
the marriage of Bianca, the
arrival of the real father per-
haps produces more per-
plexity than pleafure. The
whole play is very popular
and diverting." '
Tattered'. Trag. by Sir
Henry Wotton, cempofed
when the author was a young
man at Queen's College,
but never printed.
Tancred and Sigifmund.
Trag. This play was the
work of five gentlemen of
the Inner Temple, and was
performed there before
Queen Elizabeth in the year
l6 5>
Tancred and Sig?.fmunda»
Trag. by James Thomfon.
Acted atDrury-Lane, 8vo a
1744. The plot of this play
is taken from the novel of
Gd Bias. Ic is one of the
bell of this author's drama-
lie'