[DOC] [TLE] The Contrast (play) - Wikipedia [PAR] Mr. Billy Dimple Maria Van Rough Colonel Henry Manly Van Rough Jessamy 
Jonathan Jenny Servants. Date premiered, 1787. Original language, English. 
Genre, Comedy. Setting, New York City. The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall 
Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English ... Royall Tyler's 
introduction of Johnathan established the Yankee, a type of... [DOC] [TLE] Introduction - NYU Press [PAR] questions were at the heart of Royall Tyler's play, The Contrast, which opened at 
the John ... of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, Americans experienced political 
uncer- tainty ... By 1787, some Americans supported the creation of a more pow- 
erful central ...... into the anglicized fop Billy Dimple, while novel-reading led 
Maria to. [DOC] [TLE] The Contrast at Metropolitan - Metropolitan Playhouse [PAR] In 1787, The Contrast became the first play by an American to ever receive a ... 
and standards of education were appropriate to citizens of the new United States
. ... and scholar Royall Tyler with a play to engage the cultural debate, The 
Contrast. ... becoming dangerously well-readwas betrothed as a child to Billy 
Dimple,... [DOC] [TLE] Reviews - The Contrast - Metropolitan Playhouse [PAR] Oct 14, 2009 ... "The Contrast" by Royall Tyler is the first American play ever performed in ... 
effete Billy Dimple (Bryan Close), although we see Dimple openly flirting ... the 
first play by an American author to be produced in the new United States. ... 
World and New World pretenses with every character, from bumpkin to fop. [DOC] [TLE] Tossing "the Book" Out With the Bath Water : Republican Sentiment ... [PAR] Richardson, for instance, contends that Tyler's play along with William Dunlap's 
.... Maria, the two gossips then disclose, began doubting her Billy Dimple 
because ..... See Seibert's "Royall Tyler's 'Bold Example': The Contrast and the 
English .... late eighteenth- century comedy" might conclude that '"sentiment 
made way for... [DOC] [TLE] The Contrast by Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826 - Scribd [PAR] **The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Contrast by Royall Tyler** The first play .... 
To create these etexts, the Project expends considerable efforts to identify, 
transcribe ..... I was dangling o'er the battery with Billy Dimple; a knot of young 
fellows were ... LETITIA Well, I won't argue with you; you always out-talk me; let 
us change... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "American plays" - Internet Archive [PAR] These two plays have not survived, though the first, an opera, met with "unusual 
... ROYALL TYLER 5 current novels were not of American manufacture, and as 
also in his ... The Contrast is an outgrowth of the period in which it was written. .... 
I was dangling o'er the battery with Billy Dimple; a knot of young fellows were 
upon... [DOC] [TLE] American Elements in the Drama of the Revolutionary Period [PAR] The Contrast - Jonathan, the stage Yankee. ... The historians of this early drama 
tell us that Dunlap and Payne were the outstanding ... (3) American comedies of 
an American type and character. .... It was Governor Robert Hunter of New York 
who created the first play ...... with Billy Dimple; a knot of young fellows were upon
. [DOC] [TLE] Satirical Tendencies in Modern American Drama - Loyola eCommons [PAR] Historic Backgrounds. Early American. Types. A Survey of the Modern Period in 
American ...... the United states, that the first play was acted upon this continent 
accord- ing to A. .... with Billy Dimple; a knot of young fellows were upon the .... 
satirical thrust at the Yankee in The Contrast, Tyler flays prudish Purita.n- i$m in 
its... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Wit and humor of colonial days" - Internet Archive [PAR] Come, with thy dimples, animate these lays, While universal peals attest thy 
praise. .... COLONIAL STAGE I. The colonists and the theatre  The first 
American play, ... first American comedy, The Contrast, by Royall

Question: Royall Tyler created the flirtatious fop Billy Dimple in "The Contrast", the USA's first play of this type
Answer: Comedy