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
A PENNSYLVANIA SAILOR'S LETTERS, ALIAS, THE FARMER'S FALL; WITH
EXTRACTS FROM A TRAGIC COMEDY, CALLED HODGE PODGE IMPROVED; OR,
THE RACE FAIRLY RUN. The author's sympathy for an Innocent Woman
prevents his publishing the whole of that Dramatic piece. Number
1. Philadelphia, for the author, 1771. 8vo, pp. 64.
MARKOE, PETER
PETER MARKOE, born in Santa Cruz (St. Croix), one of the West India
Islands, in 1735, died in Philadelphia in 1792. He was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, read law in London, and settled in
Philadelphia in 1783. He there became addicted to literature and
contributed to the leading periodicals over the name "A Native of
Algiers."
THE PATRIOT CHIEF. A Tragedy. Philadelphia: Wm. Prichard, 1783. 8vo,
pp. 70.
THE RECONCILIATION; OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE. A Comic Opera, in Two
Acts. Philadelphia, Prichard & Hall, 1790. 12mo, pp. 48.
MAURICE, MARK
THE MANUSCRIPT--COMPRISING "THE FRATRICIDE" AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Boston, 1827. 12mo, pp. 70.
McHENRY, JAMES
DR. JAMES MCHENRY, born in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland, December
20, 1785, died there July 20, 1845. He was graduated in medicine at
Dublin University and Glasgow, and first located in practice at
Larne, whence he removed to Belfast. He came to the United States in
1817 and followed his profession in Baltimore, Md., and Pittsburgh,
Pa. In 1824 he settled in Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine
and carried on a mercantile business. From 1842 to the time of his
death he was United States Consul at Londonderry, in Ireland. His
home in Philadelphia was the resort of most of the literary people of
that and other cities. He published a poem on the _Pleasures of
Friendship_ in 1822. He was editor of the _American Monthly Magazine_
in Philadelphia in 1824, and wrote and published a number of novels.
THE USURPER. A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts. Philadelphia, 1829.
16mo, pp. 65.
Played at the old Chestnut Street Theatre.
MEAD,----.
WALL STREET; OR, TEN MINUTES BEFORE THREE. A Farce. New York, 1819.
18mo, pp. 34.
Third edition.
Immortalized by Halleck in the lines:
And who would now the Athenian dramas read,
When he can get "Wall Street," by Mr. Mead.
MEGIA, F.
LAFAYETTE EN MOUNT VERNON EN 17 DE OCTUBRE, 1824. Drama in Two
Actos. Filadelfia, Stavely Y. Bringhurst, 1825. 16mo, pp. 30.
MINSHULL, JOHN
A COMIC OPERA, ENTITLED RURAL FELICITY, WITH THE HUMOUR OF PATRICK
AND THE MARRIAGE OF SHELTY. New York, 1801. Portrait. 8vo, pp.
68.
A COMEDY ENTITLED: THE SPRIGHTLY WIDOW, WITH THE FROLICS OF YOUTH;
OR, A SPEEDY WAY OF UNITING THE SEXES BY HONOURABLE MARRIAGE.
New York, 1803. Portrait of author. 8vo, pp. 64.
HE STOOPS TO CONQUER; OR, THE VIRGIN TRIUMPHANT. A Comedy in Three
Acts. New York, 1804. 8vo, pp. 34.
Pp. 31-34 contain Littleton's Sixth Letter, with note by Minshull.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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