George Colman the Elder

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The Connoisseur, nos. 1-140 [editor; with Bonnell Thornton] (magazine) 1754-56

Poems by Eminent Ladies. Particularly, Mrs. Brother, Mrs. Behn, Miss Carter, Lady Chudleigh, Mrs. Cockburn, Mrs. Grierson, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Killigrew, Mrs. Leapor, Mrs. Madan, Mrs. Masters, Lady M. W. Montague, Mrs. Monk, Duchess of Newcastle, Mrs. K. Philips, Mrs. Pilkington, Mrs. Rowe, Lady Winchelsea. 2 vols. [editor; with Bonnell Thornton] (poetry) 1755

A Letter of Abuse to D—-d G——k, Esq. (pamphlet) 1757

Polly Honeycombe (play) 1760

Two Odes [with Robert Lloyd] (poetry) 1760

Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatick Writers; Intended as a Preface to the Works of Massinger, Addressed to David Garrick (essay) 1761

The Jealous Wife (play) 1761

The Musical Lady (play) 1762

The Deuce is in Him (play) 1763

A Midsummer Night's Dream [adaptor; with David Garrick; from the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare] (play) 1763; revised as A Fairy Tale, 1763

Philaster [adaptor; from a play by Francis Beaumont and John Flectcher] (play) 1763

The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse [translator] (plays) 1765

The Clandestine Marriage [with David Garrick] (play) 1766

The English Merchant [adaptor; from the play L'Ecossaise by Voltaire] (play) 1767

The Oxomian in Town (play) 1767

King Lear [adaptor; from the play King Lear by William Shakespeare] (play) 1768

Man and Wife; or, The Shakespeare Jubilee (play) 1769

Mother Shipton; or, The Harlequin Gladiator (play) 1770

The Portrait [adaptor; from the play Tableau parlant by Louis Anseaume] (play) 1770

The Recitatives, Airs, &c. in the New Pantomime Entertainment of Mother Shipton As it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (opera libretto) 1770

The Fairy Prince [adaptor; from the play Oberon, the Faery Prince by Ben Jonson] (play) 1771

Comus [adaptor; from the masque Comus by John Milton] (play) 1772

Elfrida [adaptor; from a play by William Mason] (play) 1772

An Occasional Prelude (play) 1772

Achilles in Petticoats [adaptor; from the play Achilles by John Gay] (play) 1773

The Man of Business [The White Lyar] (play) 1774

Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman [adaptor; from a play by Ben Johnson] (play) 1776

New Brooms! An Occasional Prelude (play) 1776

The Spleen; or, Islington Spa (play) 1776

The Tailors; A Tragedy for Warm Weather [Wet Weather; adaptor; from the play The Tailors (play) 1776

The Dramatick Works of George Colman. 4 vols. (plays) 1777

Polly [adaptor; from a play by John Gay] (play) 1777

The Sheep-Shearing [adaptor; from the play The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare] (play) 1777

The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution [adaptor; from the play Le Barbier de Seville by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchiais] (play) 1777

Bonduca [adaptor; from a play by John Fletcher] (play) 1778

The Cozeners; a comedy, in three acts, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket. Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq., and now published by Mr. Colman [editor] (play) 1778

The Devil upon Two Sticks; a comedy in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket. Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq., and now published by Mr. Colman [editor] (play) 1778

The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; collated with all the former editions, and corrected; with notes, criticald and explanatory, by various commentators. 10 vols. [editor] (play) 1778

The Female Chevalier [adaptor; from the play The Artful Husband by William Taverner] (play) 1778

The Maid of Bath; a comedy, in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq., and now published by Mr. Colman [editor] (play) 1778

The Nabob; a comedy, in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket. Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq., and now published by Mr. Colman [editor] (play) 1778

The Suicide (play) 1778

A Trip to Calais; a comedy in three acts. As written, and intended for representation, by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. To which is annexed, The Capuchin; … altered from The Trip to Calais, by the late Samuel Foot [sic], Esq. [editor] (play) 1778

The Separate Maintenance (play) 1779

The Genius of Nonsense (play) 1780; revised as Blade Bone; or, The Agreeable Companion [Harlequin's Frolic] (play) 1788

The Manager in Distress (play) 1780

Preludio (to The Beggar's Opera Reversed 1781

The Fatal Curiosity [adaptor; from a play by George Lillo] (play) 1782

Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Couseway [with John O'Keefe] (play) 1782

Volpone; or, The Fox [adaptor; from the play Volpone by Ben Jonson] (play) 1782

The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos. Translated from Horace. With Notes [translator] (prose) 1783

The Election of the Managers (play) 1784

Tit for Tat [adaptor; from the play The Mutual Deception by Joseph Atkinson] (play) 1786

Prose on Several Occasions, Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse. 3 vols. (nonfiction) 1787

The Village Lawyer (play) 1787

Ut Pictura Poesis! or, The Enraged Musician (play) 1789

Some Particulars of the Life of the Late George Colman, Written by Himself, and Delivered by Him to Richard Jackson … for Publication after His Decease (autobiography) 1795

Posthumous Letters, from Various Celebrated Men: Addressed to Francis Colman and George Colman the Elder: with Annotations and Occasional Remarks, &c., edited by George Colman the Younger (letters) 1820

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