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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)
oward said, writing of the American drama, the native dramatists were concerned with American character, hence Solon Shingle, Colonel Sellers, Judge Bardwell Slote, and Mose the fire-boy. Without them, we should not have had Joshua Whitcomb, Davy Crockett, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Perhaps one of the most typically American pieces produced in this period of the seventies was Frank Murdock's Davy Crockett (NewYork, Niblo's Garden, 9 March, 1874), reminiscent in its colour of the elder Hackett's CDavy Crockett (NewYork, Niblo's Garden, 9 March, 1874), reminiscent in its colour of the elder Hackett's Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, and a romantic forerunner of Moody's The great divide. Mrs. Bateman's Self finds continuation in Howard's Saratoga and Mrs. Logan's Surf, while these point the way to Langdon Mitchell's The New York idea, written when dialogue for the theatre had grown in literary form and feeling, when a sense of atmosphere created an ironic response to fashionable manners and customs. It is because of this isolated, accidental character of American drama that Bronson Howard's posit
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)
en, 579 Das land der Zukunft, 579 Das Mormonenmadchen, 581 Das Paradisische Wunderspiel, 574 Das Schandmal, 582 Das Vermadchtnis des Pedlars, 580 Daughters of men, 286 Davenport, Fanny, 271 David, Urbain, 596 David Copperfield, 268 David Harum, 95 Davidson, Thomas, 247, 247 n., 248 n. Davies, 279 Davis, C. H., 168 Davis, Jefferson, 182, 351 Davis, McFarland, 426 n. Davis, Owen, 287 Davis, Richard Harding, 94, 283, 288, 309 Davis, W. W. H., 132 Davy, Crockett. 275 Dawison, 587 Dawson, H. B., 179 Dawson, Thomas F., 157 Day, the, 601 Daye, Stephen, 533 Day is dying in the West, 500 Day of Doom, the, 391, 538 Days of forty-nine, the, 515 Dazey, C. T., 290 Dead master, the, 44 Dealtry, Wm., 438 Deane, Samuel, 430 Death of Eve, the, 63 Death of Garfield, the, 512 Death Valley in ';49, 150 De Bow, J. D. B., 438 Decision of the Court, 274 Deck and Port, 144 Deerslayer, the, 563 Defense of American policy as