Early American Plays, 1714-1830: A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems Written by Authors Born in or Residing in North America Previous to 1830Wegelin, Oscar
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Early American Plays, 1714-1830: A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems Written by Authors Born in or Residing in North America Previous to 1830
Wegelin, Oscar
American drama -- Bibliography
ALEXIS, THE CZAREWITZ. A Tragedy in 5 Acts.
This play was published in a volume of poems entitled,
Reflections, Notes, and Original Anecdotes, illustrating the
Character of Peter the Great. Boston, 1814. 12mo, [pp. 141-224.]
EVANS, NATHANIEL
NATHANIEL EVANS, born in Philadelphia, Penn., June 8, 1742, died in
Gloucester County, N. J., October 29, 1767, was graduated from the
College of Philadelphia, and ordained in England by the Bishop of
London. As a member of the British Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, he settled in Gloucester County, N. J., and
became noted for his eloquence as a preacher. He wrote some very
graceful verses, which were collected and published after his death
as _Poems on Several Occasions_ [1772].
AN EXERCISE, CONTAINING A DIALOGUE AND ODE ON PEACE. Performed at
the Public Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May
17th, 1763. Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Stewart, 1763. 8vo,
pp. 8.
The Ode was written by Dr. Paul Jackson, of Chester, Pennsylvania.
Also published in Evans's _Poems_. Phila., 1772.
EVERETT, DAVID
DAVID EVERETT, born in Princeton, Mass., March 29, 1770, died in
Marietta, Ohio, December 21, 1813, was graduated from Dartmouth in
1795. Before entering college he taught school at New Ipswich,
studied law in Boston, and wrote for _Russell's Gazette and Farmer's
Museum_, in which his prose papers, _Common Sense in Deshabille_,
became quite popular. They were published in a volume in 1799. He
also contributed to a literary paper called _The Nightingale_ in
1796. In 1809 he edited the _Boston Patriot_, and in 1812 _The
Pilot_, a paper in the interest of De Witt Clinton for the
Presidency. He left Boston in 1813 for Marietta, Ohio, with the
purpose of establishing a newspaper there, but death interrupted his
plans.
DARANZEL; OR, THE PERSIAN PATRIOT. An original Drama in Five Acts;
as performed at the Theatre in Boston; by David Everett,
corrected and improved by a literary friend. Boston, John
Russell, 1800. 8vo, pp. 68.
FAIRFIELD, SUMNER LINCOLN
S. L. FAIRFIELD, born in Warwick, Mass., June 25, 1803, died in New
Orleans, La., March 6, 1844, entered Brown University, Providence, R.
I., at the age of thirteen. He studied so unremittingly, that after a
few months he was attacked with a severe sickness. On recovering he
was forced to leave college and seek a living as a tutor in the
Southern States. In 1825 he sailed for London and wrote his poem,
_The Cities of the Plain_, which appeared in the _Oriental Herald_.
He was received by Lafayette, in France, where he published _Pére la
Chaise_ and _Westminster Abbey_. He returned to the United States in
1826.
MINA. A Dramatic Sketch. Baltimore, Joseph Robinson, 1825. 12mo, pp.
120.
FAUGÉRES, MARGARETTA BLEECKER
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