Works

• The West Indian

Among his later comedies were:

• Calypso (1779)
• The Natural Son (1785), in which Major O'Flaherty who had already figured in The West-Indian, makes his reappearance
• The Country Attorney (1787)
• The Impostors (1789), a comedy of intrigue
• The School for Widows (1789)
• The Box-Lobby Challenge (1794), a protracted farce
• The Jew (1794), a drama
• The Wheel of Fortune (1795)
• First Love (1795)
• The Last of the Family (1797)
• The Village Fete (1797)
• False Impressions (1797)
• The Sailor's Daughter (1804)
• Hint to Husbands (1806), which, unlike the, rest, is in blank verse.

The other works printed during his lifetime include:

• The Note of Hand (1774), a farce
• The Princess of Parma (1778)
• Songs for a musical comedy, The Widow of Delphi (1780)
• The Battle of Hastings (1778), a tragedy
• The Carmelite (1784), a romantic domestic drama in blank verse, in the style of John Home's Douglas
• The Mysterious Husband (1783), a prose domestic drama
• The Days of Yore (1796), a drama
• The Clouds (1797)
• Joanna of Mondfaucon (1800)
• The Jew of Mogadore (1808)

His posthumously printed plays (published in 2 vols. in 1813) include:

• The Walloons (comedy, acted in 1782)
• The Passive Husband (comedy, acted as A Word for Nature, 1798)
• The Eccentric Lover (comedy, acted 1798)
• Lovers' Resolutions (comedy, once acted in 1802)
• Confession, a quasi-historic drama
• Don Pedro (drama, acted 1796)
• Alcanor (tragedy, acted as The Arab, 1785)
• Torrendal (tragedy)
• The Sibyl, or The Elder Brutus (afterwards amalgamated with other plays on the subject into a very successful tragedy for Edmund Kean by Payne)
• Tiberius in Capreae (tragedy)
• The False Demetrius (tragedy on a theme which attracted Schiller)

Works about Cumberland

• "Cumberland, Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Cumberland, Richard (dramatist)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)