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tic pieces, and met with
very good fuccefs. The
characters are well fupport-
edj yet they are not luffici-
ently new and ftriking. The
loves of Tancred and Sigif-
munda are tender, pathetic
and affecting ; yet there is
too little variety of inci-
dent or furprize, to pre-
ferve the attention of an au-
dience fufficiently to it ; and
the language in many places
poetical and flowery, yet in
the general too declamatory
and fentimental. On the
whole, therefore, the piece,
though far from wanting
fome mare of merit, appears
heavy and dragging in the
reprefentation, and ieems
therefore better adapted to
the clofet than the theatre.
Tantara Rara ; or, Ro-
gues all. Farce. Acted at
Covent-Garden, 1788. This
piece is tranflated from the
French, and, though it has
much merit, was interdict-
ed on the reprefentation.
Tartuffe ; or, The French
Puritan. Com. by Mavh.
Medbourne. Acted at the
Theatre Royal, 410. 1670.
This play is an improved
tranflation of Moliere's
Tart::Jfe, and according to
the author's own account
met with very great ap-
plaufe.
Tartuffe ; or, The Hypo-
crite. Com. by J. Ozell.
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Tnis is only a literal tranf-
lation froiv Moliere.
Tarugti's Ms iles ; or, The
Coffee-houfe. Com. by Sir
Thomas St. Serfe. Acted
at the Duke of York's Thea-
tre, 4to. 1 663 This piece,
if not in titled to the firft,
may, without prefumption,
lay claim to a place in the
fecond rank of our dramatic
writings.
Tafie. Com . of two acts ,
by Samuel Foote. Acled at
Drury-Lane., 8vo. 1752.
This piece and its profits
were given by its author to
Mr. Vvorfdale the painter,
who acted the part of Lady
Pentweafle in it with great
applaufe. The general in-
tention of it is to point out
the numerous impofitions
that perfons of fortune and
fa mi on daily fuffer in the
purfuit of what is called Tafie
or a love of Vertu t from the
tricks and confederacies of
painters, actioneers, Medal
Dealers. &c. and to mew
the abiurdity of placing an
ineitimable value en, and
giving ifnmenfe prizes for,
a parcel o'i maimed buffs,
erazed pictures, and inex-
plicable coins, only becaufe
they have the mere name-
and appearance of antiqui-
ty, while the more perfect
and really valuable perform-
ances of the molt capital
artifts of our own age and
country,