American Drama 1714-1915
Publisher: Chadwyck-Healey
Place of publication: Alexandria, Va
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Poetry -- United States -- Periodicals.
Genres: United States; Periodicals.
Other titles: Literature Online (LION)
Description: Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714b1s1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.
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