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what the author has taken
verbatim from Shakfpeare.
Timon of Athens. Alter-
ed from Shakfpeare and
Shadwell, by James Love.
Acted at Richmond, 8vo.
1768.
Timon of Athens. Trag.
Altered from Shakfpeare.
by R. Cumberland. Acted
at DruryLane, 8vo. 17.71;
but with little fuccefs.
'Tis better than it nvas.
Com. by George Digby,
Earl of Briftol. This play
is taken from the Spanifh,
and acted at the Duke's
Theatre between 1662 and
1665. Not printed.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Trag. by John Ford. A&-
ed at the Phoenix, Drury-
Lane, 4to. 1633. We can-
not help considering this
play as the mailer-piece of
this great author's works.
There are fome particulars
in it both with refpect to
conduct, character, fpirit,
and poetry, that would have
done honour to the pen of
the immortal Shakfpeare
himfelf.
'Tis <well if it Takes. C.
by Williarh Taverner, 8vo.
1719. This play was acted
with fuccefs at the Theatre
in Lincoln's - Inn - Fields,
yet, like moil of its author's
pieces, quickly funk into
oblivion.
Tis Well its no Worfe.
Com. by Ifaac B icker ifcdte.
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Acted at Drury-Lane, 8vo.
1770. It was not unfuccefs-
fully performed.
Tittle Tattle ; or, Tafte
a-la-Mode. F. 8vo. 1749.
This is no other than Ex-
tracts from Swift's Polite
Con-verfation.
Titus. Opera, translated
from Metaftafio, by John
Hoole, 8vo. 1768.
Titus Andronicus. Trag.
by Wm. Shakfpeare, 4to.
1594. This play has by
fome been denied to be
Shakfpeare's ; and Raven-
fcroft, in the epiille to his
alteration of it, too positive-
ly after ted that it was not
originally Shakfpeare's, but
brought by a private author
to be acted, and that he
only gave fome matter -
touches to one or two of the
principal partsor characters.
However, as Theobald ad-
mitted it into his edition of
this author's works, we can-
not think ourfelves entitled
to deny it a place. It is true,
there is fomewhat more ex-
travagant in the plot, and
more horrid in the cataitro-
phe, than in'moft of Shak-
fpeare's Tragedies ; but as
we know that he fometimes
gave an unlimited fcope to
his imagination, and as
there are fome things in the
characters of Aaron, Tamo-
ra, and Titus, which are
fcarcely to be equalled, we
can hardly deny our hom-
age