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‘Móirín ní Chuileannáin’, 235 Bacon, Francis, 208, 223, 224 ‘Brian Boru’s March’, 94 Instauratio Magna (1620), 220 ‘Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock so green’, 93 Novum Organum (1620), 220 ‘The Yorkshire Irishman’, 91, 94 Badcock, John Real Life in London; or, the Rambles and Act of Union (1801), 7, 23, 58, 77, 85, 145, 146–147, Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his 156, 159–161, 162, 174 cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through Addison, Joseph the Metropolis (1821), 93 Cato (1713), 26, 168–173 Bailey, Craig, 57, 64, 90, 95, 206, 229 similarities to Gustavus Vasa, 177–179 Baker, David Erskine similarities to Hibernia Freed, 175–177 Biographica Dramatica; or, The Companion to Adolphus, John, 66–67 the Playhouse (1812), 106 Aeschylus, 192 The Companion to the Play-house (1764), 102 Africa, 141, 171, 215 Ballaster, Ros, 196 Altnick, Richard, 221 Bannister, John, 66 Amelia [Emily], Princess, 111 Baratti, Francesco, 110 America, 8 Barnard, Toby, 31 American War of Independence (1775–83), Barrett, E. S. 47, 234 My wife! What wife? (1815), 62 Amsterdam, 108 Barrington, Jonah, 59 Anacreontic Society, 75, 81 Barry, Ann, 37, 41 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 227 Barry, Spranger, 11 Aravamudan, Srinivas, 196 Barrymore, Richard Barry, 7th earl of, 81 Arne, Thomas, 232 Baudrillard, Jean, 143 Comus (1738), 105 Beckett, Samuel, 128 Arnold, Samuel Bedford, Georgiana Gordon, Duchess of, 153–154 ‘Corporal Casey’, 89 Bedford, John Russell, 6th duke of, 154 ‘Looney McTwalter’, 89 Behrendt, Stephen D., 216 ‘Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?’, 89, 94 Belcher, Wendy, 196 The Portrait (1770), 115 Bellamy, George Anne, 5, 11, 50 Arnold, Samuel James Benevolent Society of St Patrick, 75 The Shipwreck (1796), 38 Berkeley, George, Bishop, 185 Asia, 141, 145 Betterton, Thomas Willliam, 210 Aspden, Suzanne, 118 Bhabha, Homi, 246 Asselin, Mademoiselle, 112 Bickerstaff, Isaac, 6 Atwater, John, 183 He Wou’dIfHeCou’d; or, An Old Fool Worse Austin, Joseph, 210 Than Any (1771), 116 Lionel and Clarissa (1768), 61, 81, 84 Bach, Johann Christian The Maid of the Mill (1765), 84 Orione; o sia, Diana vendicata (1763), 113 Blake, William Zanaida (1763), 113 King Edward the Third (1783), 187

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Bluestocking. See Ireland, Dublin Bluestockings Stafford, 128, 131, 136 Boaden, James, 61 Staffordshire, 131, 140 Cambro-Britons (1798), 77 Stroud, 9 Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount, 19 Sunderland, 207, 220 Booth, Barton, 171 Sunderland Subscription Library, 219 Boston, 103, 161 Swansea, 9 Boston Theatre, 162 Tamworth, 9 Boulogne, 192 Walsall, 9 Boulton, Thomas, 218 Wargrave, 81 Braham, John, 85–87 Wearmouth Bridge, 214 Branagan, Thomas, 218 Westminster, 140 Bristol Theatre Royal, 209 Wolverhampton, 9 Britain York, 5, 114 places in Yorkshire, 207–208, 210, 217 Aberdeen, 220 Brooke, Charlotte Bath, 209, 218 Reliques of Irish Poetry (1788), 157 Birmingham, 9, 81, 134 Brooke, Henry, 185 Bishopwearmouth, 210 Gustavus Vasa (1739), 169, 177–180, 182 Brighton, 81 The Indian Emperor (1667), 203 Bristol, 9, 134, 215 Brown, Michael, 3, 12–13, 16, 23, 58, 168, 206, 207, Carmarthen, 9 222, 228 Cheltenham, 8, 209, 218 Brownlow, William, 101, 117 Cheshire, 135 Bullard, Paddy, 17, 168, 185 Cirencester, 9 Burdon, Rowland, 214 Coventry, 9 Burke, Edmund, 27, 188, 217, 242 Darlington, 218 member of the Club, 15 Daventry, 9 Burke, Helen, 3, 31, 47, 89, 148–149, 151, 173, 206 Durham, 208, 214, 219 Burletta, 101–118 Edinburgh, 81, 114, 211, 218, 220 Burney, Frances Evesham, 9 Edwy and Elgiva (1795), 187 Glamorgan, 6 Burwick, Frederick, 205 Glasgow, 220 Busby, Thomas, 105 Gloucester, 9 Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of, 15, 26, 189, 190–191, 199 Hampshire, 245 Butler, Samuel, 210, 218 Hereford, 9 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 7 Holyrood Palace, 185 Hull, 134, 210, 212 Campbell, Mary, 147 Lancashire, 139, 140 Canning, Stratford, 142 Leeds, 134 Carey, Henry Lichfield, 209 The Contrivances (1715), 49 Liverpool, 81, 134, 215 Caroli, Angiola, 112 London. See London Catholic Committee, 228 Manchester, 114, 131, 134–136, 140, 143, 209 Catholic Emancipation, 7, 151 Monmouth, 9 Catholicism, 12, 16, 26, 33, 53, 182, 186, 192, 193, Newcastle, 114 201, 204, 224, 227–229 Newcastle Theatre Royal, 211 Cave, Richard, 58 Norwich, 134, 135 Cawdell, James, 210, 218, 219 Oswestry, 9 Centlivre, Susanna Oxford, 84 The Wonder (1714), 52 Portobello, 219 Chaudhuri, Una, 247 Portsmouth, 134, 135, 245 Cherry, Andrew Ranelagh Gardens, 116 The Soldier’s Daughter (1804), 8 Richmond, 210 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl Scarborough Theatre, 210 of, 5 Sheffield, 134 China, 190

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Christopher, Emma, 215 D’Amici family, 104–105, 113–114, 116 Churchill, Charles, 191 D’Amici, Domenico, 105 The Rosciad (1761), 193 Daily Post, 179 Cibber, Colley Dalzell, Andrew, 220 The Non-Juror (1717), 183 Darcy, Jane, 221, 223 Cibber, Susannah, 50–52 Declaratory Act (1720), 16, 172–173, 175 Cicero Delane, Dennis, 11, 169, 171, 172, 186 De Oratore (55BCE ), 222 Dennis, John Clarence, George Plantagenet, 1st duke of, 183 Liberty Asserted (1704), 196 Clarkson, Thomas, Reverend, 215 Derrick, Samuel Clifford, James, 228 The dramatic censor; being remarks upon the Clive, Catherine, 5, 19, 23, 24, 34–35, 37, 50, 169 conduct, characters, and catastrophe of conﬂict with Margaret Wofﬁngton, 12 our most celebrated plays (1752), 10 The Faithful Irish Woman (1765), 35, 38 Derricke, John, 152 Cobb, James Dibdin, Charles, 9, 115 English Readings (1787), 38 Harvest Home (1787), 38 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Dibdin, Thomas The Fall of Robespierre (1794), 187 The Ninth Statue, or, The Irishman in Baghdad Colman, George, the Elder, 11 (1814), 66 The Fairy Prince (1771), 231 Dircks, Phyllis T., 106–107, 116 Colman, George, the Younger, 68, 114–115 Dixon, William Hepworth, 147 [?] ‘Paddy M’Shane’s Seven Ages’, 91 Doggett, Thomas, 8 John Bull (1803), 72, 212 Dolben Act (1788), 216 The Heir at Law (1797), 68 Donaldson, Walter, 59 The Mountaineers (1793), 68 Donovan, Julie, 148 The Review; or, The Ways of Windsor (1800), 68 Downs, Major, 91 The Surrender of Calais (1791), 68 Drury Lane Theatre, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 23, 48, 50, 61, Combray, Francis Fénelon, archbishop of, 193 76, 81, 84–85, 90, 96, 111, 116, 128, 135, Comus’s Court, 105–106 141, 172, 180 Congreve, William, 132 Dryden, John Connolly, Claire, 148 ‘Epigram on Milton’ (1688), 6 Conolly, L. W., 177 The Indian Emperor (1667), 194, 196, 199, 203 Cooke, George Frederick, 5, 211 Dublin University Magazine, 74 Cooke, Thomas, 153 Cork, Lady, 146, 150, 151 Eclectic Review, 221, 223 Covent Garden Theatre, 5, 6, 7, 11, 23, 49, 52, 61, Edelstein, Dan, 15 68, 69, 81–82, 84, 85, 90, 95, 108, 110, Edgeworth, Maria, 64 114, 116, 172, 199, 226, 229 Edgeworth, Richard, 64 Crewe Hall, 135–136 Edinburgh Theatre, 8 Crewe, Frances Anne, 135, 143 Edward IV, 183 Critical Review, 161, 221, 223, 224 Edward Augustus, Prince, duke of York and Crosa Company, 110 Albany, 111 Crosa, John Francis, 107–108, 109 Egan, Pierce Cross, James C. Life in London (1821), 93 ‘A Man An’t a Horse’ (1795), 80 Eleradi, Signora, 112 British Gratitude and Hibernian Friendship, or Eliot, T. S., 183 An Escape from France (1794), 77 Elisi, Philippo, 112 Crow Street Theatre, 81, 113, 231–233 Emery, John, 94 Cruikshank, Isaac Enlightenment, 1–4, 25 ‘Paddy M’Shane’s Seven Ages’, 91 and abolition, 214–220 Cumberland, Richard, 7, 58 and biography, 208 The Banishment of Cicero (1761), 187 and burletta, 107 The West Indian (1771), 18, 59, 68, 69, 149 and Catholicism, 227–229 Curran, John Philpot, 63–64 and civility, 3, 15–17, 176–177 Curry, John, 228 and civilization, 175

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Enlightenment (cont.) George Farquhar and cosmopolitanism, 227–228, 246 The Recruiting Officer (1706), 5 and freemasonry, 214 George I, 8 and hospitality, 241 George III, 90, 189, 245 and performance, 19 Gheradi, Jean Baptiste, 112 and religion, 235 Giardini, Felice, 113 and rhetoric, 17–19, 222–223 Gibbons, Luke, 238 and social class, 235–236 Gilliland, Thomas, 71 and the history play, 168–169 Giordani Company, 110 and toleration, 193–194, 200–202 Giordani, Giuseppe, 108 history writing, 167 Giordani, Nicolina, 109 imperialism, 195 Giovanni in Ireland (1821), 97 Scottish Enlightenment, 208, 221, 224 Glee Club, 82 Evening Mail, 226 Godwin, William, 2, 16 Examiner of Plays, 22, 114, 160 St Dunstan (1790), 187 Goethe, Wilhelm Farquhar, George Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Love and a Bottle (1698), 245 (1795–96), 222 Farren, Elizabeth, 37, 209–210 Goldsmith, Oliver, 6, 11, 27, 58, 109, 128, 204 Fawcett, John, 213 member of the Club, 15 Fielding, Henry Essay on Theatre (1773), 10 The Old Debauchees (1732), 183 She Stoops to Conquer (1773), 13, 186 Tom Thumb (1730), 49, 115 The Captivity (1763), 187 Fiske, Roger, 107 The Citizen of the World (1762), 216–217 Fleetwood, Charles, 8, 17 The Good Natur’d Man (1768), 11 Florida, 191 Goodman’s Field, 172 Foote, Samuel, 9 Gordon Riots (1780), 193 The Englishman in Paris (1753), 52 Gordon, Katherine, 184 Ford, John Gordon, Thomas and John Trenchard Perkin Warbeck (1634), 183–185 Cato’s Letters (1724), 170 Fox, Charles James, 11, 117, 128 Goring, Paul, 32 India Bill (1783), 137 Grace, Ann, 48, 52 Fox, Henry, 189 Graham, George, 211, 219 France, 183, 190 Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne Freeholder’s Journal, 173 The Jew of Venice (1701), 17 Freeman, Lisa, 170 Grattan, Henry, 139 Freeman’s Journal, 154, 155 Gray, Thomas, 109 Freemasons’ Magazine, 219 Green, Jane, 50 French Revolution (1789), 62, 242 Griffin, William, 6, 11 Fryon [Frion], Étienne, 183 Griffith, Elizabeth, 6 Theodorick, King of Denmark (1752), 187 Galuppi, Baldassare Griffith, Richard Il cicisbea alla moda (1759), 111 Variety (1782), 38 The Cocquette, 112 Guerini [Guirini], Mauro, 113 Garber, Marjorie, 37 Guerini [Guirini], Rosa, 113 Garrick Head Coffee House (and Tavern), 75 Garrick, David, 5, 12, 49, 180, 199 Hall, Stuart, 236 Lethe (1740), 34 Hallam, Thomas, 172 The Irish Widow (1772), 33, 38, 41–43 Harris, Thomas, 12 Gay, John Harvey, Karen J., 240 The Beggar’s Opera (1728), 5, 84 Harvey, William, 91 Genovisi, Giuseppe, 104 Hasse, J. A. Gentleman, Francis, 172 Il tutore (Lucilla e Pandolfo) (1730), 111 The Dramatic Censor (1770), 10 Hasse, Johann Adolph Gentleman’s Magazine, 61, 81, 88, 191, 217 The Ridiculous Guardian (1761), 112

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Havana, 191, 199 Newry, 81 Havard, William, 186 Offaly, 9, 228 Charles I (1737), 5, 187 Roscommon, 6 Haymarket Theatre, 23, 61, 68, 80, 81, 106, Tipperary, 8, 79, 81, 218 112–113, 229 Waterford, 81, 184 Hazlitt, William, 5, 6, 62–63, 230 Westmeath, 6, 8 ‘On Actors and Acting’ (1817), 224 Wexford, 8 Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft (1816), 205 brogue, the, 60, 62, 63–66, 76, 80, 91 The Spirit of the Age (1825), 7 civility, 34 Henry II, 183–184 Defenders, 236 Hiffernan, Paul, 109 Dublin Bluestockings, 157, 160 Hill, Aaron historiography, 20–22, 168 Alzira (1744), 197–200 Irish networks, 10–12 Hill, John, 19 Irish language, 22 Hoad, Mary, 209 Irish identity, 31–33, 57–58, 129–130 Hoadly, John. See Miller, James Irish Orpheus. See O’Carolan, Turlough Hochschild, Adam, 214 Illustrious Order of the Knights of St Patrick, Holcroft, Thomas 231–233 Alwyn: or the Gentleman Comedian (1780), pastoral, 230–241 205, 222 patriotism, 18, 20 Seduction (1787), 38, 43–45 Rightboys, 236, 237 Horn, Charles Edward, 66 Volunteers, 232–233 Hotham, Charles, 217 Whiteboys, 236 Howard, Robert, 149, 152 Irish Rebellion (1798), 23, 58, 77, 85, 146 The Committee (1665), 148, 158, 169 Italy, 230 Hunt, Leigh, 60, 77 on the brogue, 65 Jackman, Isaac, 9, 11 Huntley, George Gordon, 2nd earl of, 184 Jackson, William, 9 Jacob, Margaret C., 212 Illustrated Dublin Journal, 77 Jacobite Rebellion (1715), 185 Inchbald, Elizabeth, 209 Jacobite Rebellion (1745), 15, 180, 185 India, 248 Jacobitism, 95 Ireland Jamaica, 193 places in James IV, 184 Antrim, 237 Jenkins, Eugenia Zuroski, 196 Clonmel, 60 Jephson, Robert, 11 Cavan, 177 Braganza (1775), 7, 187 Cork, 5, 6, 81, 84, 183, 193, 209 The Campaign (1784), 11 Donegal, 5, 22, 180 The Count of Narbonne (1781), 7, 11 Dublin, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22, 61, 77, 81, 83, 84, Johnson, Samuel, 12, 22 106, 113–114, 117, 141, 147, 153, 163, 173, the Club, 15 180, 183, 208, 210, 211 Irene (1749), 187, 196 Christ Church Cathedral, Rasselas (1759), 196 183 The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), 190 Cuffe Street, 156 Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), 196 Dublin Castle, 180, 231 Johnstone, John, 5, 11, 24, 57–78, 79–89, 158, 163 Fishamble Street, 149 as actor, 60–63 National Music Hall, 156 brogue, 63–66 Fermanagh, 210 his will, 90 Galway, 172 roles, 66–72 Kerry, 6 Jordan, Dorothy, 37 Kildare, 45, 232 Josephus, Flavius, 20 Kilkenny, 5, 7, 60, 61, 81, 84 Limerick, 81 Keating, Geoffrey, 24, 171, 186 Louth, 5 A General History of Ireland (1723), 173

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Kelly, Hugh, 6 Garrick’s Head Coffee House (and Thespis; or, A Critical Examination into the Tavern), 82 Merits of all the Principal Performers Great Russell Street, 82 belonging to Drury Lane theatre (1766– Lambeth, 211 67), 10 Marylebone Gardens, 108 Kelly, Michael, 57, 64, 81, 90 New Burlington Street, 146 Kelso Mail, 212 St Giles, 82, 95, 96 Kemble, John Philip, 8, 209, 211 St Paul’s Church, 82 Kemble, Roger, 8, 209 Tavistock Row, 82 Kemble, Stephen, 210, 211 Westminster, 137 Kennedy, Margaret Doyle, 37, 45–48 London Chronicle, 9 Kenney, James, 23 Lucas, Charles Raising the Wind (1803), 7 A Nineteenth Address to the Free-Citizens and Kenrick, William, 6 Free-Holders of the City of Dublin The Widowed Wife (1767), 6 (1749), 203 Kildare, Gerald Fitzgerald, 8th earl of, 183 Lucchi, Vincenza, 104 King, William, Archbishop, 173 Lyceum Theatre, 156, 162 King’s Theatre, 108, 109, 117 Kirkman, James, 18 Macklin, Charles, 6, 11, 13, 23, 27, 57, 169, 185 Knowles, James Sheridan, 23, 187 advice from Arthur Murphy, 11 Virginius (1820), 7 and Maria Macklin, 48–55 Kondiaronk, 197 and the British Inquisition, 20 as ﬁgure of Enlightenment, 23 Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d‘Arce, as historian, 20 baron de as Shylock, 11, 19–20 New Voyages to North America (1703), 197 as theatre manager, 8 Lalor Sheil, Richard at Trinity College Dublin, 18 Evadne, or, The Statue (1819), 7 British Inquisition, 54 Lambton, William Henry, 219 conﬂict with James Quin, 12 Larpent, John, 114, 160 epilogue from Frederick Pilon, 11 Lawson, John, 18 his library, 20 Le Fanu, Alicia, 11, 129, 130, 135 manslaughter of Thomas Hallam, 172 The Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiments (1812), support for John O’Keeffe, 11, 61 7, 25, 147, 156–162 support for John Johnstone, 90 Lee, Nathaniel King Henry the VII; or, The Popish Impostor Theodosius (1690), 49 (1746), 26, 169, 180–186 Leerssen, Joep, 239 Love à la Mode (1759), 11, 13, 18, 52, 54, 66, 68, Leibniz, Gottfried, 193 69, 76, 149 Leinster, William Fitzgerald, 2nd duke of, 233 The Irish Fine Lady (1767), 38, 52 Leland, Thomas, 18 The Man of the World (1781), 169, 212 Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, 5, 173 The School for Husbands (1761), 52, 54–55 Link, Frederick, 242 The True-born Irishman (1760), 33, 58 Linley, Thomas, 172 Macklin, Maria, 24, 33, 37, 48–56 Lisbon, 199 MacNally, Leonard, 6, 9 Little Dublin. See Seven Dials Robin Hood (1784), 187 Liverpool Theatre, 8 Sentimental Excursions to Windsor (1781), 11 London Macready, William, 90 places in The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African Bloomsbury, 84 (1792), 68–69, 84 Bow Street, 75, 82 Madden, Samuel, 18 Brown Bear Tavern, 82 Malone, Edmond, 10 Carlton House, 81 epilogue for Robert Jephson, 11 Covent Garden Piazza, 82 Manchester Times, 212 Crown and Anchor Tavern, 82 Manning, Elizabeth, 221 Fleet Street, 83, 209 Marjoribanks, John, 218

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Marylebone Gardens, 110–112, 116 Napoleonic Wars, 95 Massereene, Clotworthy Skefﬁngton, 2nd earl Nassau Court Club, 106 of, 237 Navigation Acts, 139 Mathews, Anne, 63 New Monthly Magazine, 62, 96 Mathews, Charles, the elder, 63 New York, 103 Mattei, Colomba, 112–113, 116 Nussbaum, Felicity, 189 Mattocks, George, 117 Maturin, Charles O’Hara, Kane, 101–113 Bertram (1816), 7 April-Day (1777), 101, 103 McBride, Ian, 187, 206 The Golden Pippin (1773), 101 McConwick, Thomas, 93 The Two Misers (1775), 101 Meadley, George W., 210, 215, 218, 219–220 O’Keeffe, Charlotte, 211 Mellini, Eugenia, 110 O’Keeffe, Fanny, 211 Mendicity Report (1818), 91 O’Keeffe, John, 6–7, 11, 13, 26–27, 38, 68, 90, 113, Merry, Robert 187, 211 The Picture of Paris (1790), 87–89 and music, 25 Metastasio, 105 on John Johnstone, 61 Mexico, 203 on the Stage Irishman, 60 Milbanke, Ralph, 219 Fontainebleau; or, Our Way in France (1784), Miller, James and John Hoadly 86–87 Mahomet [the Impostor](1744), 187 Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia (1786), Mills, John, 213 45, 75 Milton, John, 6 Recollections of the Life of John O’Keeffe (1826), Minelli, Antonio, 104, 113 102, 105, 240, 242, 245 Molesworth, Robert, 18, 177, 185 The Agreeable Surprise (1781), 11, 244 An Account of Denmark (1694), 170, 175 The Maid’s the Mistress (1783), 116 Molloy, Charles The Poor Soldier (1783), 38, 45, 61, 75, 86, 210, Common-Sense; or, The Englishman’s Journal, 9 234–236 Molyneux, William, 25, 171, 174 The Prisoner at Large (1788), 236–241, 243 Moncrieff, William Thomas The Shamrock (1783), 231, 232–234 Sam Weller (1837), 93 The Son-in-Law (1779), 11 Montagu, Elizabeth, 157 The Wicklow Mountains (1796), 236 Monthly Mirror, 72, 74 The World in a Village (1793), 241–244 Monthly Review, 218, 221, 223 Tony Lumpkin in Town (1774), 11 Moody, Jane, 205 Tony Lumpkin’s Rambles (1773), 245 Moody, John, 148 Wild Oats: or the Strolling Gentlemen (1791), Moore, Sean, 217 226–227, 241, 244–248 Moore, Thomas, 135 O’Bryen, Dennis, 11, 130 Morning Chronicle, 135, 138 O’Carolan, Turlough, 25, 45, 157, 232 Morning Herald, 141 O’Connell, Daniel, 7, 79 Morning Post, 9, 11 O’Connell, Pat, 102 Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 7 O’Conor, Charles, 24, 158, 171, Mornington, Garrett Wellesley, 1st earl of, 101, 186, 228 104, 117 O’Conor, Dermod Mossop, Henry, 172 A General History of Ireland (1723), 173 Murphy, Arthur, 6, 109, 187 O’Donohue, Joseph, 107 as critic, 9 O’Keeffe, Mary, 211 advising Charles Macklin, 11 O’Leary, Arthur, 238 Alzuma (1773), 26, 189–204 O’Neill, Eliza, 5, 23 Zenobia (1767), 189, 192 O’Quinn, Daniel, 171 The Grecian Daughter (1770), 189 Odell, Thomas, 181, 182 The Auditor (1762), 190, 193 Orde, Thomas, 137, 138 Gray’s Inn Journal, 193–194 Orr, Bridget, 69, 206 Murray, John, 135, 136 Ossian, 157 Musical Academy of Dublin, 101 Oswald, James, 111

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Otway, Thomas Quin, James, 5, 11, 19, 169, 171–172, 177 The Orphan (1680), 50 conﬂict with Charles Macklin, 12 Ovid, 102 Quintilianus, 222 Owenson, Robert, 89, 149, 155–156, 162–163, 231 Racine, Jean, 193 Owenson, Sydney, 146–158 Ragussis, Michael, 3, 32, 58, 66, 76 St Clair; or, The Heiress of Desmond (1803), 157 Ramsay, James, Reverend, 216 The Book of the Boudoir (1829), 151 Rauzzini, Venanzio, 85 The First Attempt; or, The Whim of a Moment Rediker, Marcus, 207, 215, 216 (1807), 25, 153–155 Reed, Joseph, 221 The Wild Irish Girl (1806), 25, 148 Reeve, William, 85 'A Man An’t A Horse!’ (1795), 80 Paganini, Carlo, 112 ‘O’Whack’s Journey to Paris’, 89 Paganini, Angiola, 112 ‘The Land of Potatoes’, 89 Paine, Thomas, 188 ‘The Tight Irish Boy’, 89 Paisiello, Giovanni, 117 ‘The Tipsy Hibernian’, 89 Parke, William, 82 Reinhold, Frederick Charles, 110 Pascal, Blaise, 193 Reynolds, Joshua, 133 Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista Ricci, Marianna, 104 La serva padrona (1733), 110–112, 116, 117 Richmond Theatre, 210 La stratagemma (1733), 111–112 Roberts, Thomas, 232 Peru, 190, 198, 203 Robson, William, 65–66 Philips, William, 185 Rock, Edward, 76, 149 Hibernia Freed (1722), 38, 169, 173–177, 182 Rome, 190 St Stephen’s-Green; or, The Generous Lovers Rosenfeld, Sybil, 205 (1699), 173 Rosenthal, Laura, 171 Phillips, Mark Salber, 186 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Pilkington, Laetitia, 27 Le Devin du Village (1752), 107 Pilon, Frederick, 6–7, 9, 11, 187 Rowe, Nicholas epilogue for Charles Macklin, 11 Jane Shore (1714), 50 Aerostation (1784), 7 The Fair Penitent (1703), 50 Pitt, Ann, 50 Rutland, Charles Manners, 4th duke of, 137 Pitt, William, the Elder, 190 Rutland, Duchess of, 154 Pitt, William, the Younger, 117, 130, 138 Rutland, Duke of, 154 Irish trade propositions (1785), 137–143 Rycaut, Paul. See Vega, Garcilaso de la Playfair, 220 Pope, Alexander, 19–20 Scarth, Michael, 214 An Essay on Man (1733–34), 193 Schaffer, Jason, 172 Epistle to A Lady (1735), 34 Scotland, 26, 185, 219–222 Pope, Alexander [actor], 5 Scottophobia, 15 Porter, Roy, 3 Scott, Walter, 95 Powell, Martyn J., 107 ‘Scrutineer’. See Jackson, William Power, Tyrone, 76 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, 116 Presbyterianism, 16 Seratina [Saratina], Domenica, 110, 116 Price, Cecil, 134, 205 Seven Dials, 95 Prince of Wales [later George IV], 74, 81, 117 Seven Years’ War (1756–63), 15, 190, 199 Pritchard, Hannah, 50 Shadwell, Thomas Protestantism, 12, 16, 32, 53, 182, 193, 195 The Lancashire Witches, and Teague O’Divelly Pry, Kevin B., 240 the Irish Priest (1682), 18, 23 Public Advertiser, 50, 116, 138, 226 Shakespeare, William, 5, 10, 18, 245 Public Ledger, 9 parody, 91 Pyne, Louisa, 118 Hamlet, 52, 209 King John, 49 Queen’s Theatre at Haymarket, 8 King Lear, 246–247 Quilice, Gaetano, 112 Othello, 5

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Richard III, 5, 48 Stage Irishman, 11, 23, 58, 80, 95–96, 146, 149, Romeo and Juliet, 5 158–159, 212 The Merchant of Venice, 11, 17, 52, 180, 183 Stage Irishwoman, 31–56, 152, 159–161, 162 Shaw, George Bernard, 128 cross-dressing, 37–41, 43, 54–56 Shelley, Harriet, 153 Stage Licensing Act (1737), 5, 9, 15, 114, 168, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5, 153 177, 180 Charles I (1822), 187 Stam, Robert, 195 Sheridan, Charles, 142 Stanﬁeld, Clarkson, 209 Sheridan, Elizabeth, 130, 142 Stanﬁeld, James Field, 26, 205–225 The Triumph of Prudence over Passion (1781), ‘Poor Patrick O’Neal; or, the Irishman’s 129, 159 Description of a Man of War’, 212 Sheridan, Frances, 6, 129 ‘The Wedding of Ballyporeen’, 212 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 6, 8, 11, 27, 156, 163, ‘Written on the Coast of Africa in the year 172, 190, 204 1776’ (1795), 213 biography, 128 An Essay on the Study and Composition of Pizarro (1799), 194 Biography (1813), 220, 221 St Patrick’s Day (1775), 131, 157 Observations on a Guinea Voyage, in a Series of The Critic (1779), 141 Letters Addressed to the Rev. Thomas The Legislative Independence of Ireland Clarkson (1788), 207, 217 Vindicated (1785), 141 Slave Trade, 215 The Rivals (1775), 59, 61, 128, 131–132 The Guinea Voyage, A Poem in Three Books The School for Scandal (1777), 25, 128–145, (1789), 217–219 186 Steele, Richard, 11, 193, 207 Sheridan, Thomas, 18, 129, 149, 172, 173, 222 Stevens, George Alexander, 105–107 Hibernian Academy, 185 ‘Burlesque Burletta’, 105 Shield, William, 68, 85 Distress upon Distress (1753), 106 ‘None Can Love Like An Irishman’, 88 The Lecture on Heads (1764), 106 ‘A Man An’t A Horse’, 87–89 Stewart, Dugald, 220 ‘Let Fame Sound the Trumpet’, 90 Storace, Stephen, 108, 110 ‘There Was An Irish Lad’, 87 Stratford, Thomas with John O’Keeffe Lord Russell (1784), 187 ‘Dear Sir, This Brown Jug’, 87 Sublime Society of Beef Steaks, 82 ‘Sleep On, Sleep On’, 87 Sunderland Literary and Philosophical Shohat, Ella, 195 Society, 214 Siddons, Sarah, 5, 189, 209 Swift, Jonathan, 174, 185 Simnel, Lambert, 183 friend of Henry Brooke, 177 Siskin, Clifford, 14–15, 18 on the brogue, 64 Slowey, Desmond, 40, 173, 175 Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Smith, Adam, 137 Manufacture (1720), 173 Smith, John Thomas, 93 Woods ha’pence affair, 178–179 Smock Alley Theatre, 8, 49, 61, 81, 101, 104, 106, Swiny, Owen, 8, 11 114, 156, 173 Synge, John Millington, 128 Smollett, Tobias Roderick Random (1748), 181 Tate, James, Reverend, 207, 210, 213, 215, 220 The Briton (1762–63), 190 Taylor, David Francis, 8 Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Taylor, John, 74 214–215 The Chronicle, 191 Sophocles, 192 The Diary; or, Woodfall’s Register, 226 Sorbelloni, Giovanni, 112 The Freemasons’ Magazine: or General and Spain, 203 Complete Library (1793–98), 213 Sparks, Isaac, 106 The North Briton, 191, 192 Spenser, Edmund, 149, 152 The Patriot (1742). See Brooke, Henry Gustavus Spinoza, Baruch, 193 Vasa (1739) St. James’s Chronicle, 191, 202 The Polite Songster (1758), 105 Staffordshire, 25 The Satirist, 161

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The Thousand and One Nights, 196 Walpole, Robert, 177 The Times, 152 Walsh, John, 111 The World, 226 Warbeck, Perkin, 180 Theatrical Review, 50, 84, 161 Warner, William, 14–15, 18 Thespian Dictionary, 74 Washington, George, 170 Thornberry, Job, 72 Waterloo, Battle of (1815), 85 Tickell, Elizabeth Anne, 135 Watson, John Boles, 8, 209, 218 Tioli, John, 104 Wedgwood, Josiah, 138, 139 Toland, John, 18, 170 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first duke of, Treason Trials (1794), 80 79 Trenchard, John. See Gordon, Thomas West Indies, 141 Trinity College Dublin, 18, 22, 101 Westminster, 16, 128 Trusler, Elizabeth, 110 Westminster Cavalry Association, 76 Trusler, John, 108, 110 Whiggism, 8, 25, 131, 135, 137, 141, 142, 145, 172, 175, 182, 203 Ulster Rebellion (1641), 16, 17, 20, 23, 238 Whitehall Evening Post, 233 United Irishmen, 27 Whitehead, William Universal Magazine, 161 The Roman Father (1750), 187 Ussher, James, Archbishop, 17 Whitlock, Charles Edward, 210 Wilberforce, William, 219 Vanbrugh, John Wilde, Oscar, 128 The City Wives’ Confederacy (1705), 49 Wilkes, John, 191 with Colley Cibber Wilkinson, Tate, 210, 211, 212, 215, 218 The Provok’d Husband (1697), 50 Wilks, Robert, 8 Vanneschi, Francesco, 108 Williams, Raymond, 230 Vega, Garcilaso de la and Paul Rycaut Wilson, George, 214 Royal Commentaries of Peru (1688), 199 Withers, Charles W. J., 14, 208 Venice, 8, 104 Woffington, Margaret, 5, 11, 19, 23, 24, 37, 50, Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth, 118 169, 186 Victoria, Queen, 153 conflict with Catherine Clive, 12 Vienna, 183 Woodward, Richard, Bishop, 237 Virgil, 6 Worden, Blair, 170 Aeneid, 190 Wright, Edward, 104 Eclogues, 230 Wright, Herbert, 177 Vision of the Golden Rump, 9 Vivaldi, Antonio, 25 Yang, Chi-Ming, 196 Voltaire, 198 Yates, Elizabeth, 189 Alzire (1736), 197, 200 Yearsley, Ann Earl Goodwin (1789), 187 Walker, Joseph Cooper, 158 York, Richard of Shrewsbury, duke of, 183 ‘An historical essay on the dress of the ancient Young, Arthur and modern Irish’ (1788), 152 A Tour in Ireland [1780], 239 Wallis, Fielding, 210 Younger, Joseph, 209 Wallis, Margaret, 210 Walpole, Horace, 108–110, 113 Zarate, Augustin de, 198