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Love the Cause and Cure of Grief is a 1743 tragedy by the British writer Thomas Cooke. It is a revised version of Cooke's earlier published but unperformed play The Mournful Nuptials.

It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a cast that included Dennis Delane as Weldon, Henry Giffard as Briar, William Havard as Young Freeman, Richard Winstone as Judge and Anna Marcella Giffard as Charlotte.

References

1. Watson p.541

Bibliography

• Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Watson, George. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660–1800. Cambridge University Press, 1971.

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