The dramatic works of Mr. Otway are,

1.  Alcibiades, a Tragedy, acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre, 1675, dedicated to Charles, Earl of Middlesex.  The story of this play is taken from Cor.  Nepos, and Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades.

2.  Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy, acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 1677, dedicated to John, Earl of Rochester.  This play consists of but three Acts, and is a translation from M. Racine into heroic verse; for the story see Suetonius, Dionysius, Josephus; to which is added the Cheats of Scapin, a Farce, acted the same year.  This is a translation from Moliere, and is originally Terence’s Phormio.

3.  Friendship in Fashion, a Comedy, acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 1678, dedicated to the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex.  This play was revived at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, 1749, and was damned by the audience, on account of the immorality of the design, and the obscenity of the dialogue.

4.  Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, a Tragedy, acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre, 1679.  This play, which was the second production of our author, written in heroic verse, was acted with very great applause, and had a run of thirty nights; the plot from the Novel called Don Carlos.

5.  The Orphan, or the Unhappy Marriage, a Tragedy, acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre, 1680, dedicated to her Royal Highness the Duchess.  It is founded on the History of Brandon, and a Novel called the English Adventurer.  Scene Bohemia.

6.  The History and Fall of Caius Marius, a Tragedy, acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 1680, dedicated to Lord Viscount Falkland.  The characters of Marius Junior and Lavinia, are borrowed literally from Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet, which Otway has acknowledged in his Prologue.

7.  The Soldier’s Fortune, a Comedy, acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 1681.  This play is dedicated to Mr. Bentley his Bookseller; for the copy money, as he tells us himself, see Boccace’s Novels, Scarron’s Romances.

8.  The Atheist, or the Second Part of the Soldier’s Fortune, a Comedy, acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre, 1684, dedicated to Lord Eland, the eldest son to the Marquis of Hallifax.

9.  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, a Tragedy, acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 1685, dedicated to the Duchess of Portsmouth.  Of this we have already given some account, and it is so frequently acted, that any enlargement would be impertinent.  It is certainly one of the most moving plays upon the English stage; the plot from a little book, giving an account of the Conspiracy of the Spaniards against Venice.

Besides his plays, he wrote several poems, viz.

The Poet’s Complaint to his Muse, or a Satire against Libels, London; 1680, in 4to.

Windsor Castle, or a Monument to King Charles the Second.

Miscellany Poems, containing a New Translation of Virgil’s Eclogues, Ovid’s Elegies, Odes of Horace, London 1864.  He translated likewise the Epistle of Phaedra to Hyppolitus, printed in the Translation of Ovid’s Epistles, by several hands.  He wrote the Prologue to Mrs. Bhon’s City Heiress.  Prefixed to Creechis Lucretius, there is a copy of verses written by Mr. Otway, in praise of that translation.