The Censorship of British Theatre, 1737-1843

• Edward Phillips, Britons Strike Home; or, The Sailor’s Rehearsal (1739)
• James Miller, The Camp Visitants (1740)
• Charles Macklin, Covent Garden Theatre; or, Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir (1752)
• Joseph Reed, The Universal Register Office (March 1761) and The Register Office (April 1761)
• Elizabeth Griffith, The Platonic Wife (1765)
• Charles Macklin, The Man of the World [1770]
• Kane O’Hara, The Golden Pippin (February 1772 and October 1772)
• George Colman, The Election of the Managers (May 1784 and May-June 1784)
• John St. John, The Island of St Marguerite (October 1789 and November 1789)
• Charles Stuart, She Would be a Duchess (1791)
• Lady Eglantine Wallace, The Whim (1795)
• Thomas Holcroft, He’s Much to Blame (1798)
• John O’Keeffe, Quarter Day (1800)
• Richard Cumberland, The Sailor’s Daughter (1804)
• Matthew Lewis, Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore (1809)
• Theodore Edward Hook, Killing No Murder (June 1809 and August 1809)
• Thomas Moore, M.P.; or, The Bluestocking (1811)
• Anon., Fingal; or, Erin Delivered (1813)
• Anon., The Duke’s Coat (1815)
• Anon., The Hustings (1818)
• James Robinson Planché, Sherwood Forest; or, The Merry Archers (1821)
• Lord Byron, Marino Faliero (1821)
• William Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry; or, Life in London (1821)
• Anon., Giovanni in Ireland (1821)
• Anon., Spanish Bonds; or, Wars in Wedlock (1823)
• Richard Brinsley Peake, Jonathan in England (1824)
• Anon., Killigrew! or King Charles at Tunbridge Wells! (1825)
• Mary Russell Mitford, Charles the First (1825)
• John Howard Payne, Richelieu (1826) & The French Libertine (1826)
• Anon., The Prodigal Son; or, Parental Kindness (1828)
• Joseph Stirling Coyne, The Humours of an Election (1837)
• Edward Sterling Guido Fawkes (15 August and 27 August 1840)
• Samuel Atkyns, The Thieves House!; or, The Murder Cellar of the Fleet Ditch !!! (1844)