The Developing Ideas of Individual Freedom and National Unity as Reflected in American Plays and the Theatre, 1772-1819Stanford University, 1965 - 926 pages |
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... popular by Pope and Dryden . In her plays she used primarily the more flexible blank verse , but she occasionally inserted a rhymed speech or ended a scene with a couplet or quatrain . Mrs. Warren's model was probably Addison's heroic ...
... popular by Pope and Dryden . In her plays she used primarily the more flexible blank verse , but she occasionally inserted a rhymed speech or ended a scene with a couplet or quatrain . Mrs. Warren's model was probably Addison's heroic ...
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... popular play about was Columbus , by Thomas Morton . Thomas Morton . America by an Englishman This play was presented in London in 1792. It was given in Charleston in 17943 and was printed in Boston the same year . It was the sensation ...
... popular play about was Columbus , by Thomas Morton . Thomas Morton . America by an Englishman This play was presented in London in 1792. It was given in Charleston in 17943 and was printed in Boston the same year . It was the sensation ...
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... popularity on the stage throughout the period of the War of 1812. In songs , spectacles , and interludes he was praised in the theatre , Nearly every major victory at sea was celebrated in the theatre by means ... popular both in England 443.
... popularity on the stage throughout the period of the War of 1812. In songs , spectacles , and interludes he was praised in the theatre , Nearly every major victory at sea was celebrated in the theatre by means ... popular both in England 443.
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