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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)
and permanence has confused the history of playwriting in America. There was a time when Joaquin Miller's The Danites held audiences spellbound; when Campbell's My partner was considered as representative of America as Bret Harte's The luck of roaring camp. Way down East (7 February, 1898) and In Old Kentucky (27 April, 1897), by their extended acceptance, should place Lottie Blair Parker and Charles T. Dazey in the forefront of the theatre. But they are not widely known today. Nor is Martha Morton the significant figure she bid fair to be when she wrote His wife's father (Miner's Fifth Avenue Theatre, 25 February, 1895). Even the success of Little Lord Fauntleroy (10 September, 1888) did not make Frances Hodgson Burnett a dramatist, though she commanded the stage in several other plays for many years. The allurement held forth by large profits at first attracted the literary worker and then the layman in any field who thought playwriting lucrative. Colleges began offering course
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)
arch), 465 Moran of the Lady Letty, 93 More, Hannah, 412, 523, 541 More, Henry, 228 More, P. E., 129, 491 Morgan, A. T., 352 Morgan, Lewis H., 196 Morgan, William, 521 Moriscoes in Spain, the, 194 Mormons, the, 142 Mormons, or the latter day Saints in the Valley of the great Salt Lake, the, 151 Morning call (San Francisco), 4 Morris, Clara, 271 Morris, G. S., 239 n. Morse, Jedidiah, 401, 431, 546, 54 Morse, S. F. B., 345, 348 Morte d'arthur, 17 Morton, Martha, 290 Morton, Nathaniel, 533 Morton oder die Grosse tour, 579 Moth and the flame, the, 274, 280 Motley, 126, 178, 188, 190, 302, 306, 472 Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 158 Mount Holyoke Seminary, 411 Mower in Ohio, the, 59 Mozart, 449, 450 M. Quad. See Lewis, Charles Bertrand Mr. Dooley. See Dunne, F. P. Mr. Isaacs, 87 Mrs. Bumpstead Leigh, 294 Mrs. Leffingwell's boots, 283 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage patch, 288 Mr. Waddy's Return, 68 n. Muh