Representative plays by American dramatists
By: ed., with an introduction to each play, by Montrose J. Moses ... illustrated with portraits and original title-pages.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: American drama
Description: For contents, see Author Catalog.
Notes: Bibliographies: v. 1, p. [11]-18; v. 2, p. 3-8; v. 3, p. [4]-14.
II. 1815-1858. Fashionable follies, by J. Hutton. 1815.--Brutus; or, The fall of Tarquin, by J.H. Payne. 1818.--Sertorius; or, The Roman patriot, by D.P. Brown. 1830.--Tortesa, the usurer, by N.P. Willis. 1839.--The people's lawyer, by J.S. Jones. 1839.--Jack Cade, by R.T. Conrad. 1841.--Fashion, by Mrs. Anna C. Mowatt. 1850.--Uncle Tom's cabin, dramatized by G.L. Aiken. 1852.--Self, by Mrs. Sidney F. Bateman. 1856.--Horseshoe Robinson, by C.W. Tayleure. 1858.
III. 1856-1911. Rip Van Winkle: a legend of the Catskills; a comparative arrangement with the Kerr version, by C. Burke. 1850.--Francesca da Rimini, by G.H. Boker. 1855.--Love in '76; an incident of the revolution, by O.B. Bunce. 1857.--Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy, by S. Mackaye. 1887.--Shenandoah, by B. Howard. 1888.--In Mizzoura, by A. Thomas. 1893.--The moth and the flame, by C. Fitch. 1898.--The New York idea, by L. Mitchell. 1906.--The easiest way, by E. Walter. 1909.--The return of Peter Grimm, by D. Belasco. 1911.
Table of contents: title: I. 1765-1819. The Prince of Parthia, by T. Godfrey, Jr. 1765.; title: Ponteach; or, The savages of America, by R. Rogers. 1766.; title: The group; a farce, by Mrs. Mercy Warren. 1775.; title: The battle of Bunkers-Hill, by H.H. Brackenridge. 1776.; title: The fall of British tyranny; or, American liberty, by J. Leacock. 1776.; title: The politician out-witted, by S. Low. 1789.; title: The contrast, by R. Tyler. 1790.; title: Andre,́ by W. Dunlap. 1798.; title: The Indian princess; or, La belle sauvage, by J.N. Barker. 1808.; title: She would be a soldier; or, The Plains of Chippewa, by M.M. Noah. 1819.