EighteenthCentury Plays Author:Ricardo Quintana Collection of eighteenth-century plays with an introduction by Ricardo Quintana. Plays are Cato, by Joseph Addison (1713), The Tragedy of Jane Shore, by Nicholas Rowe (1714), The Conscious Lovers, by Richard Steel (1722), The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay (1728), The Tragedy of Tragedies (Tom Thumb the Great), by Henry Fielding (1731), The London ... more »Merchant, by George Lillo (1731), She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith (1773), and The Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775).« less