Early American drama
By: edited with an introduction and notes by Jeffrey H. Richards.
Contributors: Richards, Jeffrey H.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: American drama -- 18th century; American drama -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Drama
Description: This unique volume includes The Gladiator and seven other early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tyler's The Contrast (1787), a Sheridian satire about fashion-conscious New Yorkers; William Dunlap's Andre (1798); James Nelson Barker's telling of the Pocahontas story, the Indian Princess (1808); William Henry Smith's The Drunkard (1844); Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845), the most successful nineteenth-century play by a female American playwright; George L.

Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin; and The Octoroon (1859), Dion Boucicault's tragedy concerning a young woman doomed by her racial heritage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-512).
Table of contents: title: The contrast / by Royall Tyler; title: Andŕe / by William Dunlap; title: The Indian princess / by James Nelson Barker; title: The gladiator / by Robert Montgomery Bird; title: The drunkard / by William Henry Smith; title: Fashion / by Anna Cora Mowatt; title: Uncle Tom's cabin / by George L. Aiken; title: The octoroon / by Dion Boucicault.