Principal Works
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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