The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Joseph Harris
Joseph Harris.
A Player yet living, and Brother to the Famous Organist of the City of London; he has been more than once aiming at Authority, by the Help of his Friends; he has Publish'd Two Plays under his Name, called,
The Mistakes, or the False Report, a Comedy, 4to. 1691. which Play, as I am inform'd, was originally compos'd by another, and put into his Hands, and so he made shift, by altering it, to spoil it.
The City-Bride, or the Merry Cuckold, a Comedy, Acted at the new Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by his Majesty's Servants; 4to. 1696. and dedicated to the Honourable Sir John Walter, Bar. This Play miscarried, tho' borrowed from John Webster's Cure for a Cuckold, whole Scenes being the same, but spoil'd by the Transposer; for which he wou'd seem to make amends, by the Performances of the Musicians, and so far he is in the Right.