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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the early drama, 1756-1860 (search)
s Don Carlos in 1799 had been a failure. He did not neglect American themes, however, and one of his most popular plays, Andre; (1798), afterwards rewritten as The glory of Columbia (1803), represents the Revolutionary period. His career as managectically every great event from the Boston Tea Party to the Battle of Yorktown was dramatized. The treason of Arnold and Andre's capture was a favourite theme and it is to our credit that Andre usually is a heroic figure. See Matthews, Brander, Andre usually is a heroic figure. See Matthews, Brander, Int. to his reprint of Andre in Dunlap Soc. Pub., Ser. I, No. 4, 1887. Marion and Franklin were also favourites, but everyone else runs a bad second to Washington so far as the stage is concerned. One of the most interesting scenes occurs in BlancAndre in Dunlap Soc. Pub., Ser. I, No. 4, 1887. Marion and Franklin were also favourites, but everyone else runs a bad second to Washington so far as the stage is concerned. One of the most interesting scenes occurs in Blanche of Brandywine (1858) by J. G. Burnett, in which Howe deliberately puts himself in Washington's power in order, apparently, to offer him a dukedom. After refusing in terms which are refreshingly human, considering the usual vocabulary allotted to
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
, the, 181 Americans in Paris, 230 Americans roused in a cure for the Spleen, the, 218 Ames, Nathaniel, 161 Ames, Jr., 161 Among the trees, 265, 267 Analectic magazine, the, 248 Anarchiad, the, 172, 174 Anderson, J. S. M., 20 Andre, Major, 225 Andre, 219, 225 n. Androborus, 215, 215 n. Andros, Sir, Edmund, 52 Annals of Quodlibet, the, 312 Anti-Jacobin, the, 171, 176 Apology for the true Christian divinity (Barclay), I 16 Appeal from the judgments of great BritaAndre, 219, 225 n. Androborus, 215, 215 n. Andros, Sir, Edmund, 52 Annals of Quodlibet, the, 312 Anti-Jacobin, the, 171, 176 Apology for the true Christian divinity (Barclay), I 16 Appeal from the judgments of great Britain respecting the United States, an, 208 Aquinas, Thomas, 266 Arbuthnot, John, I16 Argus, 236 Aristocracy, 175 Armand, or the child of the people, 230 Arnold, Benedict, 225 Arnold, Matthew, 261, 273, 276, 358 Art of thinking, 93 Arthur Mervyn, 288, 290 Articles of Confederation, 145 Ashe, Thomas, 190, 191, 206, 213 Association, The (1775), 135, 136 Astor, John Jacob, 194, 209, 210 Astoria, 194, 209, 210 Asylum, the, 292 Atala, 212 Audubon, 189 Aurelian