colleague Charles Dibdin was frequently accused of plagiarising his songs. Selected works Leucothoé (1756) Thomas and Sally; or, The Sailor's Return (1760) Judith (1761) Love in a Village (1762) Daphne and Amintor (1765) The Maid of the Mill (1765) The Plain Dealer (1766) Love in the City (1767), better known as adapted into The Romp The Padlock (1768) The Hypocrite (1768) Lionel and Clarissa (1768) The Royal Garland (1768) Doctor Last in his Chariot (1769) The Captive (1769) The Recruiting Serjeant (1770) He Wou'd If He Cou'd; or, An Old Fool Worse Than Any (1771) A School for Fathers (1772) The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio (1775) The Spoil’d Child (1792) References Bibliography 1733 births 1812 deaths 18th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights 18th-century LGBT people 19th-century LGBT people 19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights Writers from Dublin (city) Irish male dramatists and playwrights Irish gay writers Irish LGBT dramatists and playwrights Gay dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Irish male writers 18th-century Irish male writers