from A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html by José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

ARTHUR MURPHY (1727-1805)

(English man of letters, dramatist and essayist)

Works

Murphy, Arthur. The Gray's Inn Journal. 52 nos. 1753-54. Rpt. 2 vols. 104 nos. 1756. - - -. (On King Lear). Gray's-Inn Journal 12 Jan. 1754. - - -. The Apprentice. Farce. 1756. - - -. The Way to Keep Him. Comedy. 1760. - - -. The Citizen. Farce. 1761. - - -. All in the Wrong. Comedy. 1761. - - -. "Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding." In The Works of Henry Fielding. Ed. Arthur Murphy. 1762. - - -. Three Weeks after Marriage. (Rewritten farce). 1776. - - -. The Way to Keep Him. Comedy. 1760. - - -. Know Your Own Mind. Comedy. 1777. - - -. The Orphan of China. Tragedy. 1759. Adapted from Voltaire. - - -. The Grecian Daughter. Tragedy. 1772. - - -. Alzuma. Tragedy. 1773. - - -. Works. 7 vols. 1786. - - -. The Auditor. Periodical. 43 nos. 1762-63. - - -. The Test. With Henry Fox et al. 35 nos 1756-57. - - -. Life of Garrick. 2 vols. 1801. - - -, ed. Works. By Henry Fielding. 4 vols. 1762, etc. - - -, ed. The Works of Samuel Johnson. With an Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy. 12 vols. 1792. - - -, ed. Anecdotes. By Hester Lynch Piozzi. Ed. Arthur Murphy. 1792.

Biography Emery, John P. Arthur Murphy, an Eminent English Dramatist of the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, 1946. Foot, Jesse. Life of Arthur Murphy. 1811.

Criticism

Caskey, John Homer. "Arthur Murphy and the War on Sentimental Comedy." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 30 (1931): 563-77. Dunbar, Howard H. The Dramatic Career of Arthur Murphy. (MLA Revolving Fund Ser., 14). 1946. Emery, John P. "Murphy's Criticisms in The London Chronicle." PMLA 54 (1939): 1099-1104.