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
ELIHU HUBBARD SMITH, born in Litchfield, Conn., September 4, 1771,
died in New York, September 21, 1798, a graduate of Yale and
physician of Philadelphia, where his father was also a noted doctor.
He wrote a number of poems and sonnets for the magazines. He edited
the first collection (1793) ever made of American poetry. Founder
with Drs. Edward Miller and Samuel L. Mitchell of _The Medical
Repository_. His death was caused by yellow fever contracted from a
patient, a stranger who was taken by him into his own house for
treatment.
EDWIN AND ANGELINA; OR, THE BANDITTI. An Opera in Three Acts. New
York: T. and J. Swords, 1797. 8vo, pp. 72.
Played at the John Street Theatre, New York, December 19, 1796.
When printed it was preceded by a dedication to Reuben and Abigail
Smith, the author's parents.
SMITH, JONATHAN S.
THE SIEGE OF ALGIERS; OR, THE DOWNFALL OF HADGI-ALI BASHAW. A
Tragi-Comedy. Philadelphia, 1823. 8vo, pp. 140.
SMITH, RICHARD PENN
RICHARD PENN SMITH, born in Philadelphia in 1790, died there in 1854.
He was educated as a lawyer. For five years he was editor of _The
Aurora_, and contributed to a number of other periodicals. His books,
not dramatic, were a novel, in 1831, called _The Forsaken_, in two
volumes; and _The Actress of Padua and Other Tales_. He died August
12, 1854. He wrote fifteen plays in all.
THE 8TH OF JANUARY. A Drama in Three Acts. Philadelphia, 1829. 16mo,
pp. iv.-54.
THE DEFORMED; OR, WOMAN'S TRIAL. A Play, Philadelphia, 1830. 12mo,
pp. 87.
THE DISOWNED; OR, THE PRODIGALS. A Play. Philadelphia, 1830. 12mo,
pp. 67.
SNAPDRAGON, HECTOR (PSEUDONYM)
THE RUSSIAN BANQUET. A Drama. Boston [1813]. 16mo, pp. 12.
STEARNS, CHARLES
CHARLES STEARNS, born in Massachusetts in 1753, died 1826. He was a
Unitarian clergyman, and from 1785 to his death was pastor of a
church at Lincoln, in Massachusetts. He wrote many good poems, and a
variety of religious works.
DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. Leominster, Mass., 1798. 12mo, pp. 540.
STOKES, J.
THE FOREST OF ROSENWALD; OR, THE TRAVELLERS BENIGHTED. A Melodrama
in Two Acts, as performed at the New York Theatre. New York, E.
Murden, 1821. 16mo, pp. 33.
Another edition, New York, 1832. 16mo.
Played at the Park Theatre, New York, April 26, 1820, under the
title of _The Forest of Rosenwald; or, The Bleeding Nun_.
STONE, JOHN AUGUSTUS
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