An answer to Mr. Pope's preface to Shakespear : in a letter to a friend : being a vindication of the old actors who were the publishers and performers of that author's plays, whereby the errors of their edition are further accounted for, and some memoirs of Shakespear and stage-history of his time are inserted, which were never before collected and publish'd / by a stroling player.

Written by an obscure actor to defend his profession against what he thought were aspersions cast upon it by Alexander Pope. Cf. Pamphlet attacks on Alexander Pope, 1711-1744. / J.W. Guerinot. 1969. p. 180-181; B.M. and Andrew William, Andrew Clark Library catalogs.
Signed at end: Anti-Scriblerus Histrionicus [i.e. John Robert?].
Attributed (probably incorrectly) in NUC pre-1956 to the politician John Roberts, 1712?-1772.