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Early American Drama (Penguin Classics)

  • ISBN 10: 0140435883
  • ISBN 13: 9780140435887
  • Release: August 1, 1997
  • Format: Paperback (560 pages)
  • List Price: $16.00
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    List Price: $16.00

    Tags: Literature & Fiction, Drama, United States,

    Book Description:
    This unique volume includes The Gladiator and seven other early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tyler's The Contrast (1787), a Sheridian satire about fashion-conscious New Yorkers; William Dunlap's Andre (1798); James Nelson Barker's telling of the Pocahontas story, the Indian Princess (1808); William Henry Smith's The Drunkard (1844); Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845), the most successful nineteenth-century play by a female American playwright; George L. Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin; and The Octoroon (1859), Dion Boucicault's tragedy concerning a young woman doomed by her racial heritage.

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