Author:Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland
(1732/1731–1811)

Richard Cumberland

Works

Drama

• The Banishment of Cicero (1761)
• Summer's Tale (1765)
• The Brothers (1769)
• The West Indian (1771) (external scan)
• Fashionable Lover (1772)
• Choleric Man (1774) (external scan)
• The Note of Hand (1774), a farce
• The Princess of Parma (1778)
• The Battle of Hastings (1778), a tragedy
• Calypso (1779)
• Songs for a musical comedy, The Widow of Delphi (1780)
• The Walloons (comedy, 1782, printed 1813)
• The Mysterious Husband (1783), a prose domestic drama
• The Carmelite (1784), a romantic domestic drama in blank verse, in the style of John Home's Douglas
• The Natural Son (1785), in which Major O'Flaherty who had already figured in The West-Indian, makes his reappearance
• Alcanor (tragedy, acted as The Arab, 1785, printed 1813)
• The Country Attorney (1787)
• The Impostors (1789), a comedy of intrigue
• The School for Widows (1789)
• The Box-Lobby Challenge (1794), a protracted farce
• The Jew (1794), a drama
• The Wheel of Fortune (1795)
• First Love (1795)
• The Days of Yore (1796), a drama
• Don Pedro (drama, acted 1796, printed 1813)
• The Last of the Family (1797)
• The Village Fete (1797)
• False Impressions (1797)
• The Passive Husband (comedy, acted as A Word for Nature, 1798, printed 1813)
• The Eccentric Lover (comedy, acted 1798, printed 1813)
• Joanna of Mondfaucon (1800)
• Lovers' Resolutions (comedy, once acted in 1802, printed 1813)
• Confession, a quasi-historic drama, printed 1813
• The Sailor's Daughter (1804)
• Hint to Husbands (1806), in blank verse
• The Jew of Mogadore (1808)
• Torrendal (tragedy), printed 1813
• The Sibyl, or The Elder Brutus, printed 1813)
• Tiberius in Capreae (tragedy), printed 1813
• The False Demetrius (tragedy on a theme which attracted Schiller), printed 1813)

Poetry

• Calvary; or, The death of Christ; a poem in eight books (1792), in 2 vols.
• Exodiad (1807), co-authored with Sir James Bland Burges (external scan)

Adaptations

• Timon of Athens (1771), from the play by William Shakespeare
• The Bondman (1779), by Philip Massinger
• The Duke of Milan (1779), by Philip Massinger

Novels

• Arundel (1789)
• Henry (1795), in 4 vols.
• John de Lancaster (1809), in 3 vols.

Translations

• "The Clouds" in Comedies. Translated into English, with notes (1797), by Aristophanes (external scan)

Non-fiction

• Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom (1782), in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays (1786)
• A few Plain Reasons for believing in the Christian Revelation (1801)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland (1806)

Collected works

• The posthumous dramatick works of the late Richard Cumberland, esq, (1823), in 2 vols., edited by Frances Marianne Cumberland Jansen

Works about Cumberland

• "Cumberland, Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Cumberland, Richard (dramatist)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)