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Rh HE Rampant Alderman; or, News from the Exchange; a Farce, 4to. 1685. This is taken out of several other Plays, as Fine Companion, &c.

The Rape; or, The Innocent Impostors, a Tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesties Servants, 1692. 4to. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, &c. This Play was writ by a Divine, tho' introduc'd by our late Laureat, Mr. Shadwel. It met with no great Success, tho' it is not the worst of our English Tragedies.

The Reformation, a Comedy, 4to. 1673. acted at the Duke's Theatre. This Play is accounted to be written by Mr. Arrowsmith.

The Rehearsal, a Comedy, 4to. 1683. This being an excellent Farce, and ascribed to the late Duke of Buckingham, as Author, has bore several Impressions, and is frequently acted of late Days. This Play lashes the ridiculous Model of our modern Tragedies.

The Religious Rebel, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1671.

The Return from Parnassus; or, The Scourge of Simony, a Comedy, 4to. 1606. It was acted by the Students of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge. This Play censures the Poets, and is the Original Dr. Wild's Play, call'd, The Benefice.

The Revenge; or, A Match in Newgate; a Comedy, 4to. 1680. acted at the Duke's Theatre. This is only a Play of Marston's, called, The Dutch Courtezan, reviv'd and ascribed to Mrs. Behn.

The Rivals, a Tragi-Comedy, in 4to. printed 1668.

Robin Conscience. This has been stiled a Play, but is rather an old Dialougue, entituled, Robin Conscience against his Father Covetous, his Mother Newguise, and his Sister Proud Beauty.

Robin Hood's Pastoral May Games.

Robin Hood and his Crew of Soldiers.

Romulus and Hersilia; or, The Sabine War; a Tragedy, 4to. 1683. Plot from Livii Hist. lib. 1. Ovidii Metamorph. lib. 14, &c.

The Royal Cuckold; or, the Great Bastard; giving an Account of the Birth and Pedigree, of Lewis le Grand, the First French King of that Name and Race, a Tragi-Comedy, as it is acted by his Imperial Majesty's Servants, at the Amphitheatre in Vienna; translated out of the German Language, by Paul Veegerius, 1695. 4to. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Edward Russel, Lord High Admiral of England, &c. This Play was never acted, and is taken from a little Book in 8vo. called, The Secret History of Lewis the Fourteenth.

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