New Drama
- John Durant Breval (as "Mr. Gay") - The Confederates (attack on John Gay, Alexander Pope, and the other members of the Scribblerus Club)
- Christopher Bullock - The Perjuror
- Susanna Centlivre - The Cruel Gift
- Benjamin Griffin - The Masquerade
- Charles Johnson - The Sultaness
- Delarivière Manley - Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain
- William Taverner - The Artful Husband
- - The Artful Wife
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