New Drama
- Susanna Centlivre - The Artifice
- Elijah Fenton - Marianne
- Eliza Haywood - A Wife to be Let
- Charles Johnson - Love in a Forest (adapted from As You Like It)
- Pierre de Marivaux - La Double Inconstance
- Ambrose Philips - Humfrey, Duke of Floucester
- Richard Steele - The Conscious Lovers
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