This compilation of Isaac Bickerstaff''s plays was originally compiled and published in 1981, and the plays written in the 1760s-70s. Edited and with an introduction by Peter A. Tasch, the volume contains seven plays: The Captive; He Wou''d if He Cou''d; or, An Old Fool worse than Any; The Recruiting Serjeant; ''Tis Well it''s no Worse; The Brickdust-Man and Milk-Maid; The Sultan, or A Peep into the Seraglio; and The Spoil''d Child.