Colley Cibber was not well received. In the middle of the play, he whispered to fellow actor Benjamin Victor that he wanted to go home, perhaps realising he was too old for the part and its physical demands. Cibber also essayed tragic parts in plays by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Dryden and others, but with less success. By the end of his acting career, audiences were being entranced by the innovatively naturalistic acting of the rising star David Garrick, who made his London debut in the title part in a production of Cibber's adaptation of "Richard III" in 1741. He returned to
Scottish literature in the eighteenth century throughout a Scottish novel. Physician John Moore's novel "Zeluco" (1789) focused on an anti-hero, the Italian nobleman of the title, and was a major influence on the work of Byron. Female novelists included Jean Marishall (f. 1765–89), who published the epistolary novels, "The History of Miss Camilla Cathcart, and Miss Fanny Renton" (1766) and "The History of Alicia Montague" (1767). Scottish literature in the eighteenth century Scottish literature in the eighteenth century is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers in the eighteenth century. It includes literature written in English, Scottish Gaelic and Scots, in forms including poetry, drama