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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
the large luxurious audiences that throng the Broadway theatres betwixt dinner and bedtime. But the poetic purple patches of Aldrich's verse might be another explanation for its short life on the stage. When 1860 dawned, Dion Boucicault (1822-1890) and John Brougham (1810-1880) reigned supreme in American popularity, and they were both Irish. The former had yet to do his most popular and characteristic pieces, in which he won deserved success both as an actor and playwright: to read Jessie Brown; or, the relief of Lucknow (Wallack's Theatre, 22 February, 1858) and The Colleen Bawn (Laura Keene's Theatre, 29 March, 1860), and to compare them with the later Arrah-na-pogue; or, the Wicklow Wedding (London, 22 March, 1865) and The Shaughraun (Wallack's Theatre, 14 November, 1874), is to sound the genial depths of a flexible workman, who could find it as easy to shape a drama for Laura Keene as to re-fashion Charles Burke's version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle for presentatio
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, 265, 312, 419, 421 Jameson, J. A., 347 Janice Meredith, 91, 287 Janvier, T. A., 312 Jarvis, Edward, 439 Jealous lover, the, 512 Jean et Sebastien Cabot, 185 Jeanne d'arc, 277 Jefferson, Joseph, 48, 268 Jefferson, Thomas, 18, 226, 227, 229 n., 338, 339, 341, 346, 397, 429, 430, 447, 448, 451, 453, 459, 478 Jefferson College, 592 Jeffrey, Francis, 126 Jenckes, T. A., 353, 354, 355 Jenks, Albert Ernest, 166 Jennison, Wm., 434 Jesse James, 512, 514, 515 Jessie Brown, 268 Jesuit relations, 179 Jesuits in North America, the, 190 Jevons, 442 Jewett, John P., 306 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 86, 291, 312 Jewish daily forward, the, 601, 607 Jewish daily news, the, 601 Jewish morning journal, the, 601 Jim, 53 Jim along Jo, 516 Jim Bludso, 53 Jinrikisha days in Japan, 55 Joan of Arc, 19, 20 Joaquin et al, 54 John Barleycorn, 94 John Brent, 68 John Brown's body, 516 Johnelle, 595 John McLoughlin, the father of Oregon, 140 J