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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drama, early American. (search)
Drama, early American.
As early as 1733, there appears to have been a sort of theatrical performance in the city of New York.
In October of that year, George Talbot, a merchant, published a notice in Bradford's Gazette, directing inquiries to be made at his store next door to the Play-house.
In 1750 some young Englishmen and Americans got up a coffee-house representation of Otway's Orphans in Boston.
The pressure for entrance to the novelty was so great that a disturbance arose, which gave the authorities reason for taking measures for the suppression of such performances.
At the next session of the legislature a law was made prohibiting theatrical entertainments, because, as it was expressed in the preamble, they tended not only to discourage industry and frugality, but likewise greatly to increase immorality, impiety, and a contempt for religion.
Regular theatrical performances were introduced into America soon afterwards, when, in 1752, a company of actors from London, l
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fine Arts, the. (search)