"[A] play, which I presume to call original": Appropriation, creative genius, and eighteenth-century playwriting

The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. London, 1765.

The Hypocrite: A Comedy ... Taken from Moliere and Cibber, By the Author Of the Alterations of the Plain-Dealer. London, 1769.

Cibber, Theophilus. Patie and Peggy: or, The Fair Foundling. A Scotch Ballad Opera. London, 1730. Colman, George, "the Elder." The Dramatick Works of George Colman. 4 vols. London, 1777. Colman, George, "the Younger." The Prodigal. A Dramatic Piece. As Performed at the Theatre Royal,

in the Hay-Market, December 2, 1793. London, 1794. Cowley, Hannah. Albina, Countess Raimond. London, 1779.

-. The Works of Mrs. Cowley. Dramas and Poems. In Three Volumes. London, 1813.

Critical Remarks On the Four Taking Plays Of this Season; viz. Sir Walter Ralegh, The Masquerade, Chit-Chat, and Busiris King of Egypt. Dedicated to the its at Button's Coffee-House. By Corinna, a Country Parson's Wife. London, 1719.

Cumberland, Richard. Joanna of Montfaucon; A Dramatic Romance of the Fourteenth Century. London, 1800.

Davies, Thomas. "Some Account of the Life of Mr. George Lillo." The Works of George Lillo; With Some Account of his Life. 2 vols. London, 1775.

Dibdin, Charles. The Waterman; or, The First of August: A Ballad Opera, in Two Acts. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market. London, 1774.

Dow, Alexander. Zingis. A Tragedy. London, 1769. -. Sethona. London, 1774.

Dryden, John. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late. London, 1679.

Duff, William. An Essay on Original Genius; and its Various Modes of Exertion in Philosophy and the Fine Arts, Particularly Poetry. London, 1767.

---.Critical Observations on the Writings of the Most Celebrated Geniuses in Poetry. Being a Sequel to the Essay on Original Genius. London, 1770.

Dutton, Thomas. "General Remarks." Pizarro in Peru, or The Death of Rolla; Being the Original of the New Tragedy. Now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Translated from the last German Edition of Augustus on Kotzebue. London, [1799].

Farmer, Richard. An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Craddock, Esq;. Cambridge, 1767.

Fielding, Henry. The Mock Doctor: or The Dumb Lady Curd. A Comedy Done from Moliere. London, 1732.

Garrick, David. The Country Girl, A Comedy, (Altered from Wycherley). London, 1766.

The Dramatick Works of David Garrick Esq; Now First Collected. In Three Volumes. London, 1768.

The Dramatic Works of David Garrick, Esq. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author. In Three Volumes. London, 1798.

Gerard, Alexander. An Essay on Genius. Edinburgh, 1774.

Gildon, Charles. "Essay on the Art, Rise and Progress of the Stage in Greece, Rome and England" and "Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear." The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the Seventh, Containing Venus & Adonis. Tarquin & Lucrece And His Miscellany Poems. London, 1710.

The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets. London, [1699].

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