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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.) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 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)
CVIII, no. 2542, p. 395, 19 March, 1914. Of more direct influence, however, on early dramatic writing, were the performances of plays by the company under David Douglass. There seem to have been theatrical performances in this country since 1703, Sonneck, O. G., Early opera in America, 1915, p. 7. See also, for the beginniny from England in 1752. This company acted in Philadelphia in 1754, where Godfrey doubtless saw them, and it was to this company after its reorganization under Douglass in 1758 that he offered his play, The Prince of Parthia, which he had finished before the end of 1759. It was not performed at this time, but was acted on 24 Apuntenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainments. Douglass and his American Company, which had occupied the theatres in the colonies for almost a quarter century, left for the West Indies and the first period in the hist
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)
non-resistance to the higher powers, 79 D'Israeli, 243 Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law, a, 129 Dissertation on the nature of virtue, 60 Dithyrambic on wine, 176 Divine comedy, the, 266 Divine Goodness, 79 n., 80 n. Divine weeks, 154 Divinity School address, 334 Dogood papers, 94 n., 233 Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians, the, 25 Dolph Heyliger, 256 Domestic life, 240 Don Carlos, 219 Don Juan, 265, 280, 282 Don Quixote, 236 Douglass, David, 216, 217 Dowden, Edward, 277 Down-Easters, the, 309 Drake, Sir, Francis, 2, 194 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 262, 280-281 Drayton, Michael, 28 Dreams and Reveries of a quiet man, 241 Dryden, 112, I16, 152, 157, 158, 161, 162, 176, 182 Dry goods clerk of New York, the, 229 Du Bartas, 154, 155 Dubourg, Jacques Barbeu, 119 Duche, Rev., Jacob, 216 Dudley, Thomas, 154 Dulany, Daniel, 130, 131 Dunciad, the, 118, 171, 174 Dunlap, William, 219-220, 219 n., 223 n.,