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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the early drama, 1756-1860 (search)
Bibliography are based upon the manuscripts of Boker, in the possession of his family. produced successfully in Philadelphia and New York in 1850, and played in England in 1853, is laid in Italy. With the exception of Under a Mask, a prose comedy, performed in Philadelphia in 1851, all of Boker's acted plays are of a distinguished quality. His masterpiece, however, was his tragedy Francesca da Rimini, first acted by E. L. Davenport in 1855 in New York and Philadelphia, and revived by Lawrence Barrett in 1882 and by Mr. Otis Skinner in 1901. The art with which the medieval Italian life is depicted, the music of the verse and the noble conception of Lanciotto, the wronged husband and brother, lift this tragedy to its deserved place in the first rank of verse dramas written in the English language during the nineteenth century. It is not to be supposed that dramatic talent was limited to Philadelphia. Epes Sargent and Julia Ward Howe in Boston, Nathaniel Parker Willis of Boston an
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
umnal reflections, 238 B Backwoodsman, the, 238-239, 279 Bacon, Lord, 82, I 10, I 16 Bacon, Nathaniel, 24, 150 Bailey, John J., 224 Baker, Benjamin A., 229 Ballad of reading gaol, the, 264 Baltimore Company, 218 Baltimore Company, Lord, 18 Bancroft, George, 332 Banks, Joseph, 91, 193 Barbe-Marbois, Marquis de, 201 Barclay, Robert, I16 Barker, James N., 220, 224, 225, 227 Barlow, Joel, 164, 169-171, 174, 261 Barnard, John, 156 Barnes, 221 Barrett, Lawrence, 223 Barrow, Robert, 8 Bartram, John, 194-195, 201 Bartram, William, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191,192, 194, 195-198,212,213 Batchelor's Hall, 161 Byteman, Mrs. Sidney F., 230 Battle of Brooklyn, the, 218 Battle of Lovell's Pond, the, 166 Battle of the kegs, 167 Baviad, 178 Bay Psalm Book, the, 156 Beattie, William, 163 Beauchamp, Colonel, 224 Beauchampe, 225 n., 317 Beauties of Santa Cruz, the, 181 Beaux-Stratagem, the, 117 Beers, Professor H. A., 2