 The early plays include Love in Several Masques , The Temple Beau , The Author 's Farce , Tom Thumb , Rape upon Rape , The Tragedy of Tragedies , The Letter Writers , The Welsh Opera , The Grub @-@ Street Opera , The Lottery , The Modern Husband , The Old Debauchees , The Covent @-@ Garden Tragedy , and The Mock Doctor . These plays start in 1727 , when Fielding first worked on Love in Several Masques , until the disruption of the winter 1732 – 1733 theatre season at the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane . This disruption , caused by illness , management problems , and other incidents , started the Actor Rebellion of 1733 . 
