II.  The Perfidious Brother; a Tragedy acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1716.  This play is written on the model of Otway’s Orphan; the scene is in a private family in Brussels.

III.  Pan and Syrinx; an Opera of one act, performed on the Theatre in Little Lincoln’s Inn-Fields, 1717.

IV.  Decius and Paulina, a Masque; to which is added Musical Entertainments, as performed at the Theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, in the Dramatic Opera of Circe.

V. Electra, a Tragedy; translated from the Greek of Sophocles, with notes, printed in the year 1714, dedicated to Joseph Addison, Esq;

VI.  Oedipus King of Thebes; a Tragedy translated from Sophocles, with notes, translated in the year 1715, dedicated to the earl of Rockingham.

VII.  Plutus, or the World’s Idol; a Comedy translated from the Greek of Aristophanes, with notes, printed in the year 1715.  The author has to this Translation prefixed a Discourse, containing some Account of Aristophanes, and his two Comedies of Plutus and the Clouds.

VIII.  The Clouds, a Comedy; translated from Aristophanes, with notes, printed in the year 1715.

IX.  The Rape of Proserpine; a Farce acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1727.

X. The Fatal Secret; a Tragedy acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, 1725.

XI.  The Vocal Parts of an Entertainment, called Apollo and Daphne, or the Burgo Master Trick’d; performed at the Theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1726.

XII.  Double Falsehood; which we have already mentioned.

Mr. Theobald’s other Works are chiefly these.

The Gentleman’s Library, containing Rules for Conduct in all Parts of
Life, in 12mo. 1722.

The first Book of Homer’s Odyssey translated, with notes, 8vo. 1716.

The Cave of Poverty, written in imitation of Shakespear.

Pindaric Ode on the Union, 1707.

A Poem sacred to the Memory of Queen Anne, Folio 1714.

Translations from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Lives of Antiochus, and Berenice, from the French, 1717.

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The Revd.  Dr. SAMUEL CROXALL,

The celebrated author of the Fair Circassian, was son of the revd.  Mr. Samuel Croxall, rector of Hanworth, Middlesex, and vicar of Walton upon Thames in Surry, in the last of which places our author was born.  He received his early education at Eton school, and from thence was admitted to St. John’s College, Cambridge.  Probably while he was at the university, he became enamoured of Mrs. Anna Maria Mordaunt, who first inspired his breast with love, and to whom he dedicates the poem of the Circassian, for which he has been so much distinguished.  This dedication is indeed the characteristic of a youth in love, but then it likewise proves him altogether unacquainted with the world, and with that easiness of address which distinguishes a gentleman.  A recluse scholar may be passionately in love, but he discovers it by strains of bombast, and forced allusions, of which this dedication is a very lively instance.