New Drama
- Robert Dodsley - Sir John Cockle at Court
- Sir Hildebrand Jacob
- The Happy Constancy
- The Prodigal Reformed
- The Trial of Conjugal Love
- George Lillo - Marina (adapted from Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
- James Miller - Art and Nature
- António José da Silva - Precipicio de Faetonte
- James Thomson - Agamemnon
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