TALES OF THE DRAMA. SHAKSPEARE, MASSINGER, SHIRLEY, ROWE, MURPHY, AND ON THE COMEDIES OF STEELE, FARQUHAR, CUMBERLAND, BICKERSTAFF, BY MISS MACAULEY. Good unexpected-evil unforeseen Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene. Some, raised aloft, come tumbling down amain: LANSDOWN. CHISWICK: PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, College House; FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. 1822. PREFACE. "GOOD wine needs no bush!" exclaimed the authoress, when asked for a Preface" and bad wine is made worse by apologies!"-The Publishers, however, cannot permit this little work to go forth to the world, even on its own merits, which they trust are not scanty, without a line of explanatory introduction. It has been much the practice to dramatize Tales-yet there must be, at least, novelty in the attempt to restore, |