Early American Plays Part 7

Y., 1814. 16mo, pp. 74, [1].

Although Dunlap states that his translation of the above was not published, (_History of the American Theatre_, vol. ii, p. 95,) I have seen a copy of the play and his name is on the t.i.tle page.

THE WRECK OF HONOR; OR, ADVENTURES IN PARIS. A Tragedy. Translated from the French. New York, 1828. 16mo, pp. 87.

A TRIP TO NIAGARA; OR, TRAVELLERS IN AMERICA. A Farce in Three Acts.

New York, 1830. 18mo, pp. 54.

Dunlap's last published play.

Played at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, October 28, 1829.

EATON, N. W.

ALBERTO AND MATILDA. A Drama. Boston, 1809. 18mo, pp. 17.

ELLIOT, SAMUEL

FAYETTE IN PRISON; OR, MISFORTUNES OF THE GREAT. A Modern Tragedy, by a Gentleman of Boston. Worcester: Printed for the Author, 1800. 8vo, pp 40.

Reprinted with this change in t.i.tle, "by a Gentleman of Ma.s.sachusetts," Worcester, Is. Thomas, 1802. 8vo, pp. 40.

ELLISON, JAMES

THE AMERICAN CAPTIVE; OR, SIEGE OF TRIPOLI. A Drama in Five Acts.

Written by Mr. James Ellison. Boston, 1812. 16mo, pp. [5]; 6-7, [2]; 10-54.

EUSTAPHIEVE, ALEXIS

ALEXIS, THE CZAREWITZ. A Tragedy in 5 Acts.

This play was published in a volume of poems ent.i.tled, Reflections, Notes, and Original Anecdotes, ill.u.s.trating 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, Ma.s.s., 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, Ma.s.s., 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 _Pere la Chaise_ and _Westminster Abbey_. He returned to the United States in 1826.

MINA. A Dramatic Sketch. Baltimore, Joseph Robinson, 1825. 12mo, pp.

120.

FAUGeRES, MARGARETTA BLEECKER

MARGARETTA BLEECKER FAUGeRES, born in Tunkhannock, near Albany, New York, in 1771, died there January 9, 1801, was a daughter of the poetess Ann Eliza Bleecker. In 1791 she married Peter Faugeres, a physician of New York, who dissipated her fortune and died in 1798.

She supported herself by teaching until her death in 1801. Her poems are appended to her mother's _Posthumous Works_, edited by her, New York, 1793.

BELISARIUS. A Tragedy. New York, 1795. Frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 53.

Offered to the management of the John Street Theatre and declined.

FINN, HENRY JAMES

HENRY JAMES FINN, born in Cape Breton in 1785, died on the steamer _Lexington_ off Eaton's Neck, Long Island Sound, January 13, 1840, was the son of an officer in the English Navy, who retired from that service, and settled with his family in New York when Finn was a mere child. His early education was received at the Academy at Hackensack, and he was for a time a student at Princeton. While a copying clerk in the office of Mr. Thomas Phoenix, in New York City, he found means to become a supernumerary in the Park Theatre, and, having a taste for drawing, took much interest in scene painting. On the death of his father he was taken to England by his mother, and there was subjected to such privation that he gladly took a place in a company of country players. He was finally engaged at the Haymarket, London, where he first appeared, May 15, 1811, as Lopez in _The Honeymoon_, and for two seasons was an important member of the company. In 1818 he went to Savannah, where he played successfully for a year, and in 1820 became a.s.sociated with J. K. Tefft as editor and publisher of _The Georgian_, a daily newspaper. In 1821 he went again to England, and, besides playing with success, made material reputation and profit as a miniature painter. He returned to America, and made a brilliant success as _Richard III._ at the Federal Street Theatre, Boston, October 28, 1822. From that time to his tragic death on the loss of the _Lexington_ by fire, he was a very popular actor of tragedy and light comedy.

MONTGOMERY; OR, THE FALLS OF MONTMORENCY. A Drama in Three Acts, as acted at the Boston Theatre. Boston, 1825. 12mo, pp. 11, 56.

This play was acted with much success.

FORREST, COLONEL THOMAS

(See BARTON, ANDREW)

DISENCHANTMENT (DISAPPOINTMENT); OR, THE FORCE OF CREDULITY. A New American Comic Opera of Three Acts, by Andrew Barton, Esquire.

New York, 1767.

"Perhaps an a.s.sumed name for Colonel Thomas Forrest, of Germantown," a MS. note on an old copy in the Library of Philadelphia. This opera was rehea.r.s.ed by the Douglas Company in Philadelphia, but was withdrawn, supposedly on account of personal allusions of a rather pointed character. The _Disenchantment_ was really printed in Philadelphia by Thomas G.o.ddard, although bearing a New York imprint.

FOWLER, MANLY B.

THE PROPHECY; OR, LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A Drama. New York, 1821.

18mo, pp. 34.