John Poole (playwright) - Partial Works

Partial Works

Plays

• Hamlet travestie: in three acts (1810)
• Othello-travestie in three acts. (1813)
• The hole in the wall: a farce, in two acts (1813)
• Intrigue, or, Married yesterday: a comic interlude, in one act (1814)
• Who's who?, or, The double imposture: a farce, in two acts (1815)
• A short reign and a merry one: a petite comedy, in two acts (1819). First performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 1819-11-19
• The two pages of Frederick the Great: a comic piece, in two acts (1821)
• Deaf as a post: a farce, in one act, two scenes (1823) First performed at Drury Lane February, 1823.
• Simpson and Co. a comedy in one act (1823)
• A year in an hour, or, The cock of the walk: a farce, in two acts (1824)
• Scapegoat: a farce, in one act (1824)
• Paul Pry: a comedy, in three acts (1825)
• Tribulation, or, Unwelcome visitors: a comedy, in two acts (1825)
• Twixt the Cup and Lip (1827)
• Simpson & co. : a comedy, in two acts (1827)
• The wife's stratagem, or, more frightened than hurt : a comedy, in three acts (1827)
• The wealthy widow, or, They're both to blame: a comedy, in three acts (1827)
• Lodgings for Single Gentlemen (1829)
• Turning the tables: a farce, in one act (1830)
• Old and young, a farce, in one act. (1831) First performed at English Opera Company, Theatre Royal, Adelphi with 31 performances during the period of 1831-07-04 through 1831-09-28
• A soldier's courtship; [or love at first sight: a comedy, in one act. (1833)
• Patrician & parvenu, or, Confusion worse confounded: a comedy, in five acts (1835)
• Atonement, or, The god-daughter: a drama, in two acts (1836)
• 'Twould puzzle a conjurer, or, The two Peters (1838)
• The atonement; or, The God-daughter: a drama, in two acts (1840)
• Rumfuskin, King of the North Pole, or, Treason rewarded: a tragedy for the first of April (1841)
• Phineas Quiddy, or, Sheer industry (1842)
• Lodgings for single gentlemen a farce in one act (1850)
• Scan. Mag, or, The village gossip: a popular farce, in two acts (1850)
• Past and present; or, The hidden treasure: a drama, in three acts (1850)
• The Dutch governor, or, 'Twould puzzle a conjuror : a modern standard drama (185-)
• Intrigue, or, The Bath road ; a comic interlude, in one act (186?)
• My wife! What wife? a farce, in one or two acts (1872)
• Match making: a petite comedy, in one act (18--)
• A pair of razors : a farce, in one act (18--)
• Uncle Sam, or, A nabob for an hour: a farce, in two acts

Other

• Two papers : a theatrical critique and an essay (being no. 999 of the Pretender) on sonnet-writing, and sonnet-writers in general : including a Sonnet on myself (1819)
• Phineas Quiddy A new novel. (1842)
• Paul Pry's Journal of a residence at Little Pedlington. (1836)
• Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians (1839) (expanded version of 1836 Paul Pry's Journal)
• Christmas festivities: tales, sketches, and characters, with Beauties of the modern drama, in four specimens (1845)