New Drama
- Anonymous - Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant
- Robert Dodsley - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play)
- David Garrick - The Lying Valet
- John Kelly - The Levee
- Voltaire - Mahomet (first performed)
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