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Early American dramatists : from the beginnings to 1900

Surveys the development of American drama up until 1900. Concentrates on twenty dramatists and analyzes about 40 plays
Print Book, English, ©1981
Ungar, New York, ©1981
Criticism, interpretation, etc
200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9780804429405, 0804429405
7196317
GENESIS
The Colonial period
America's first tragedy
Dramatists of the Revolution
AMERICA'S FIRST COMEDY
Royall Tyler
The Contrast
WILLIAM DUNLAP
"Father of the American drama"
Andrie
A Trip to Niagara
DUNLAP'S CONTEMPORARIES
John Daly Burk
Mordecai Manuel Noah
James Nelson Barker
ENTER THE ACTOR-DRAMATIST
John Howard Payne
Anna Cora
Mowatt Ritchie
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
Robert Montgomery Bird
George Henry Boker
DION BOUCICAULT : MASTER OF MELODRAMA
The Octroon
THE MOVE TOWARD REALISM
Augustin Daly
Bronson Howard
REALISM ACHIEVED
David Belasco
James A. Herne