Chapter III: Part 3

SERIES V: DRAMA

Thomas Southerne, _Oroonoko_ (1696) Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busie Body_ (1709) Charles Johnson, _Caelia_ (1733) Charles Macklin, _Man of the World_ (1781) [#14463]

SERIES VI: POETRY AND LANGUAGE

Andre Dacier, _Essay on Lyric Poetry_ _Poems_ by Thomas Sprat _Poems_ by the Earl of Dorset Samuel Johnson, _Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749), and one of the 1750 _Rambler_ papers. [#13350]

EXTRA SERIES:

Lewis Theobald, _Preface to Shakespeare’s Works_ (1733)

A few copies of the early publications of the Society are still available at the original rate.

GENERAL EDITORS

H. RICHARD ARCHER, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ R.C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_ E.N. HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_ H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_

PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

First Year (1946-1947)

1. Richard Blackmore's _Essay upon Wit_ (1716), and Addison’s
_Freeholder_ No. 45 (1716). (I, 1) [#13484]

2. Samuel Cobb’s _Of Poetry_ and _Discourse on Criticism_ (1707).
(II, 1) [#14528]

3. _Letter to A.H. Esq.; concerning the Stage_ (1698), and Richard
Willis’ _Occasional Paper No. IX_ (1698). (III, 1)

4. _Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and
Joseph Warton’s _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133. (I, 2) [#14973]

5. Samuel Wesley’s _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700) and
_Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693). (II, 2)

6. _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_ (1704)
and _Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704). (III, 2) [#15656]

Second Year (1947-1948)

7. John Gay’s _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on Wit
from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702). (I, 3) [#14800]

8. Rapin’s _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684). (II, 3)
[#14495]

9. T. Hanmer’s (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736).
(III, 3) [#14899]

10. Corbyn Morris’ _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
etc._ (1744). (I, 4) [#16233]

11. Thomas Purney’s _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717). (II, 4) [#15313]

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood
Krutch. (III, 4) [#16335]

Third Year (1948-1949)

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720). (IV, 1) [#15999]

14. Edward Moore’s _The Gamester_ (1753). (V, 1) [#16267]

15. John Oldmixon’s _Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley_
(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’s _The British Academy_ (1712). (VI, 1)

16. Nevil Payne’s _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). (V, 2)

17. Nicholas Rowe’s _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear_
(1709). (Extra Series, 1) [#16275]

18. Aaron Hill’s Preface to _The Creation_; and Thomas Brereton’s
Preface to _Esther_. (IV, 2) [#15870]

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[Transcriber’s Corrections:

ARS title page: Publication Number 20
_text reads_ 19, corrected by hand to 20. "Number 20" agrees with
later years' ARS publication lists.

vii: before he could write full Many.
_text reads_ Man .

xxiv: that surprizing Knowledge of human Nature
_text reads_ surpizing

xlii: its Causes, (which takes in a great Number
_text has_ blank space before "which" at beginning of line

lv: the Look of a _Visor_
_text reads_ the Look o a _with extra blank space_

Also Noted:

xii: intirely synonomous Terms
_spelling "synonomous" as in original_

xvii: the Stanza's sung by the Gravedigger
_apostrophe in original_

xxiii: frustráq; laboret
_abbreviation "q;" (-que) as in original_

xxxvii: Sidenote: The old Editions faulty, whence.
_exact text as in original_

lx note 1: Ὂυρον
_accent as in original_

lxi: For Safety lent him on the watry Waste,
_no apostrophe in "watry"_

ARS List of Publications: _Preface to Shakespeare’s Works_
_wording as in original_ ]