In addition to plays, a novel, verse, fables, and aesthetic treatises, this distinguished author of the German Enlightenment translated Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4).

A French advocate whose Causes célèbres et interesantes avec les jugemens qui les out decidees, a collection of notorious criminal cases that had come to his attention in his official capacities, was published in periodic installments and various expanded editions beginning in 1734 and continuing throughout the eighteenth century.

Best known for The Beggar's Opera, which debuted in London in 1728, Gay authored numerous other noteworthy works, a few of which include the play The Distress'd Wife (1734), a body of poetry, some collections of fables, and the libretto for Handel's Acis and Galatea (1731).

The Chief Justice of England during the reign of Henry IV, Gascoigne refused the king's orders to pronounce sentences upon prisoners who had not been tried by their peers.

English lawyer, soldier, member of Parliament, and poet. An important literary figure in the English Renaissance, Gascoigne's writing innovatively adapted foreign literary forms to the English language.

English physician and poet whose mock-heroic poem The Dispensary gained instant success. In the poem, Garth ridicules apothecaries and their physician supporters.

An exceptionally productive playwright and adapter, Garrick was also an effective theater manager and one of the most powerful and popular actors in the history of British theater. Most of Garrick's dramatic compositions consisted of adaptations of existing plays, especially those of Shakespeare.

Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who, by means of telescopic observation, disproved the Ptolomeaic theory of the universe.

Anna Letitia Barbauld suggests as a possible model for Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740-1) the story of Noel Baptist, Fourth Earl of Gainsborough (1708-1751, Bernard Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage), who married Elizabeth Chapman, the daughter of his gameskeeper, Christopher Chapman.

Character in Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1754), sister to the title character.