Author:Richard Cumberland
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Works
[edit]Drama
[edit]- The Banishment of Cicero (1761)
- Summer's Tale (1765)
- The Brothers (1769)
- The West Indian (1771) (external scan)
- Fashionable Lover (1772)
- Choleric Man (1774) (external scan)
- The Note of Hand (1774), a farce
- The Princess of Parma (1778)
- The Battle of Hastings (1778), a tragedy
- Calypso (1779)
- Songs for a musical comedy, The Widow of Delphi (1780)
- The Walloons (comedy, 1782, printed 1813)
- The Mysterious Husband (1783), a prose domestic drama
- The Carmelite (1784), a romantic domestic drama in blank verse, in the style of John Home's Douglas
- The Natural Son (1785), in which Major O'Flaherty who had already figured in The West-Indian, makes his reappearance
- Alcanor (tragedy, acted as The Arab, 1785, printed 1813)
- The Country Attorney (1787)
- The Impostors (1789), a comedy of intrigue
- The School for Widows (1789)
- The Box-Lobby Challenge (1794), a protracted farce
- The Jew (1794), a drama
- The Wheel of Fortune (1795)
- First Love (1795)
- The Days of Yore (1796), a drama
- Don Pedro (drama, acted 1796, printed 1813)
- The Last of the Family (1797)
- The Village Fete (1797)
- False Impressions (1797)
- The Passive Husband (comedy, acted as A Word for Nature, 1798, printed 1813)
- The Eccentric Lover (comedy, acted 1798, printed 1813)
- Joanna of Mondfaucon (1800)
- Lovers' Resolutions (comedy, once acted in 1802, printed 1813)
- Confession, a quasi-historic drama, printed 1813
- The Sailor's Daughter (1804)
- Hint to Husbands (1806), in blank verse
- The Jew of Mogadore (1808)
- Torrendal (tragedy), printed 1813
- The Sibyl, or The Elder Brutus, printed 1813)
- Tiberius in Capreae (tragedy), printed 1813
- The False Demetrius (tragedy on a theme which attracted Schiller), printed 1813)
Poetry
[edit]- Calvary; or, The death of Christ; a poem in eight books (1792), in 2 vols.
- Exodiad (1807), co-authored with Sir James Bland Burges (external scan)
Adaptations
[edit]- Timon of Athens (1771), from the play by William Shakespeare
- The Bondman (1779), by Philip Massinger
- The Duke of Milan (1779), by Philip Massinger
Novels
[edit]- Arundel (1789)
- Henry (1795), in 4 vols.
- John de Lancaster (1809), in 3 vols.
Translations
[edit]- "The Clouds" in Comedies. Translated into English, with notes (1797), by Aristophanes (external scan)
Non-fiction
[edit]- Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom (1782), in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays (1786)
- A few Plain Reasons for believing in the Christian Revelation (1801)
- Memoirs of Richard Cumberland (1806)
Collected works
[edit]- The posthumous dramatick works of the late Richard Cumberland, esq, (1823), in 2 vols., edited by Frances Marianne Cumberland Jansen
Works about Cumberland
[edit]- "Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Cumberland, Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Cumberland, Richard (dramatist)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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