Early American Plays Part 17

THINGS AS THEY WILL BE; OR, ALL BARKERS ARE NOT BITERS. A Farce in Three Acts, by Who d'ye think. New York, 1819. 18mo, pp. 17.

Same. Second edition. New York, 1819. 16mo, pp. [3]; 4-17.

THE BANKER; OR, THINGS AS THEY HAVE BEEN. A Farce in Three Acts.

Respectfully dedicated to the purchasers of _Things As They Will Be_, etc. By a Tyro. New York, 1819. 16mo, pp. [3], 4-16.

TURNBULL, JOHN D.

RUDOLPH; OR, THE ROBBERS OF CALABRIA. A Melodrama in Three Acts, as performed at the Boston Theatre. Boston, 1799. 18mo, pp. 141.

Several editions were published of this play.

WOOD DaeMON; OR, THE CLOCK HAS STRUCK. A Drama. Boston, 1808. 24mo, pp. 34.

TYLER, ROYALL

ROYALL TYLER was born in Boston on July 18, 1758, died in Brattleboro, Vt., August 16, 1826. He was graduated from Harvard in 1776 and studied law in the office of John Adams. He was aide-de-camp to General Benjamin Lincoln in the Revolution and in Shay's Rebellion in 1786. He contributed to the _Farmer's Museum_, and when Dennie became editor, Tyler was called in to a.s.sist him. He published a series of papers in the _Port-Folio_ for 1801. In 1797 he published, at Walpole, N. H., his _Algerine Captive, or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines_; 2 vols. In 1804 he contributed to the _Columbian Sentinel_. In 1800 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He also contributed to _The New England Galaxy and Polyanthus_. In 1809 he published _Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont_.

THE CONTRAST. A Comedy in Five Acts. Written by a Citizen of the United States. Performed with applause at the theatres in New York, Philadelphia and Maryland; and published (under an a.s.signment of the copyright) by Thomas Wignell. Philadelphia: From the press of Prichard & Hall, in Market Street, between Second and Front Streets. M.DCC.XC. Plate. Sm. 8vo, pp.

xxii-107.

First played at the John Street Theatre, April 16, 1787.

Reprinted by the Dunlap Society, New York, 1887.

As the great business of the polite world is the eager pursuit of amus.e.m.e.nt, and as the Public diversions of the season have been interrupted by the hostile parade in the capital; the exhibition of a new farce may not be unentertaining.

THE GROUP,

As lately acted, and to be re-acted to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters at Amboyne.

The author had thought proper to borrow the following spirited lines from a late celebrated poet, and offer to the public by way of PROLOGUE, which cannot fail of pleasing at this crisis.

_What! arm'd for virtue, and not point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash the proud Gamester from his gilded car, Bare the mean heart which lurks beneath a star,_

_Shall I not strip the gilding off a knave, Unplac'd, unpension'd, no man's heir or slave?

I will or perish in the gen'rous cause; Hear this and tremble, ye who 'scape the laws; Yes, while I live, no rich or n.o.ble, knave, Shall walk the world in credit to his grave; To virtue only, and her friends, a friend.

The world beside may murmur, or commend._

_BOSTON_: printed and sold by EDES and GILL, in _Queen-Street_. 1775.

THE GEORGIA SPEC; OR, LAND IN THE MOON. A Comedy in Three Acts.

Boston, 1797. 8vo.

This comedy was written to ridicule the speculating mania in wild Yazoo Lands, and was performed in Boston with success.

WALLACK, W. H.

PAUL JONES; OR, THE PILOT OF THE GERMAN OCEAN. A Melodrama in Three Acts, adapted to the New York Theatres. New York, 1828. 16mo, pp. 52.

WARREN, MERCY

MERCY WARREN, born in Barnstable, Ma.s.s., September 25, 1728, died in Plymouth, Ma.s.s., October 19, 1814. She was the third child of Colonel James Otis. She married James Warren, of Plymouth, who was appointed high sheriff in 1757, which place he held up to the breaking out of the Revolution, when he became general of the American forces about Boston. She was one of the foremost friends of liberty, and corresponded with most of the great men of her time. She published a _History of the American Revolution_. Her correspondence with John Adams was published by the Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society, 1878.

THE ADULATEUR. A Tragedy, as it is now acted in Upper Servia. [6 lines of poetry]. Boston: Printed and sold at the New Printing Office, near Concert Hall, 1773. 8vo, pp. 30.

THE GROUP. As lately acted and to be re-acted to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters at Amboyne. Boston: Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1775.

A political satire in two acts in verse, published the day before the Battle of Lexington.

Another edition, New York: John Anderson, n. d. [1775]. With second and third scenes of Act II. omitted. 8vo, pp. 15.

THE BLOCKHEADS; OR, THE AFFRIGHTED OFFICERS. A Farce. Boston: Printed in Queen Street, 1776.

A counter-farce to Burgoyne's _Blockade_. Published without name (attributed to Mrs. Warren) in the _Literary History of the Revolution_. New York, 1897.

THE SACK OF ROME. A Tragedy.

THE LADIES OF CASTILE. A Tragedy.

The above plays were published in a volume of _Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous_. Boston, 1790.

THE MOTLEY a.s.sEMBLY. A Farce. Published for the entertainment of the Curious. Boston: N. Loverly, 1779. 12mo, pp. 15.

Published without name (attributed to Mrs. Warren), by Paul L.

Ford, in _Beginnings of American Dramatic Literature_.

WATTERSON, GEORGE

GEORGE WATTERSON, born in New York in 1783, died in Washington, D.

C., 1854. He was a lawyer in Washington, and was the first Librarian of Congress. He published several books on law and the topography of Washington. He also published the _Letters of General Washington_.

THE CHILD OF FEELING. A Comedy. Georgetown, 1809. 18mo, pp. 113.