Early American Plays Part 16

PIZARRO; OR, THE SPANIARDS IN PERU.[A] A Tragedy in Five Acts. New York, 1800. 8vo, pp. 62.

THE EAST INDIAN. A Comedy in Three Acts. New York, 1800. 8vo, pp.

88.

INDIGENCE, AND n.o.bLENESS OF MIND. A Comedy in Five Acts. New York, 1800. 12mo, pp. 64.

THE WIDOW AND THE RIDING HORSE. A Dramatic Trifle in One Act. New York. 1800. 8vo, pp. 26.

ABBe DE L'EPeE; OR, THE ORPHAN.[A] New York, 1801. 8vo, pp. 42.

FALSE SHAME; OR, THE AMERICAN ORPHAN IN GERMANY.[A] Newark [?], 1800. 12mo, pp. 63.

[Footnote A: All these t.i.tles are Dunlap's. In the list of Dramatic Authors in the Appendix to Dunlap's _History of the American Theatre_ (first edition, New York, 1832), Mr. Dunlap includes this name with the comprehensive line, "Several bad translations from Kotzebue."]

FRATERNAL DISCORD. A Comedy in Five Acts. New York, 1801. 8vo, pp.

74.

THE WRITING DESK; OR, YOUTH IN DANGER. A Play in Four Acts. New York, 1801. 8vo, pp. 72, last page misnumbered 27.

THE BEAUTIFUL UNKNOWN. A Dramatic History. New York, 1803. 12mo, pp.

50, [2].

SMITH, ELIHU HUBBARD

ELIHU HUBBARD SMITH, born in Litchfield, Conn., September 4, 1771, died in New York, September 21, 1798, a graduate of Yale and physician of Philadelphia, where his father was also a noted doctor.

He wrote a number of poems and sonnets for the magazines. He edited the first collection (1793) ever made of American poetry. Founder with Drs. Edward Miller and Samuel L. Mitch.e.l.l of _The Medical Repository_. His death was caused by yellow fever contracted from a patient, a stranger who was taken by him into his own house for treatment.

EDWIN AND ANGELINA; OR, THE BANDITTI. An Opera in Three Acts. New York: T. and J. Swords, 1797. 8vo, pp. 72.

Played at the John Street Theatre, New York, December 19, 1796.

When printed it was preceded by a dedication to Reuben and Abigail Smith, the author's parents.

SMITH, JONATHAN S.

THE SIEGE OF ALGIERS; OR, THE DOWNFALL OF HADGI-ALI BASHAW. A Tragi-Comedy. Philadelphia, 1823. 8vo, pp. 140.

SMITH, RICHARD PENN

RICHARD PENN SMITH, born in Philadelphia in 1790, died there in 1854.

He was educated as a lawyer. For five years he was editor of _The Aurora_, and contributed to a number of other periodicals. His books, not dramatic, were a novel, in 1831, called _The Forsaken_, in two volumes; and _The Actress of Padua and Other Tales_. He died August 12, 1854. He wrote fifteen plays in all.

THE 8TH OF JANUARY. A Drama in Three Acts. Philadelphia, 1829. 16mo, pp. iv.-54.

THE DEFORMED; OR, WOMAN'S TRIAL. A Play, Philadelphia, 1830. 12mo, pp. 87.

THE DISOWNED; OR, THE PRODIGALS. A Play. Philadelphia, 1830. 12mo, pp. 67.

SNAPDRAGON, HECTOR (PSEUDONYM)

THE RUSSIAN BANQUET. A Drama. Boston [1813]. 16mo, pp. 12.

STEARNS, CHARLES

CHARLES STEARNS, born in Ma.s.sachusetts in 1753, died 1826. He was a Unitarian clergyman, and from 1785 to his death was pastor of a church at Lincoln, in Ma.s.sachusetts. He wrote many good poems, and a variety of religious works.

DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. Leominster, Ma.s.s., 1798. 12mo, pp. 540.

STOKES, J.

THE FOREST OF ROSENWALD; OR, THE TRAVELLERS BENIGHTED. A Melodrama in Two Acts, as performed at the New York Theatre. New York, E.

Murden, 1821. 16mo, pp. 33.

Another edition, New York, 1832. 16mo.

Played at the Park Theatre, New York, April 26, 1820, under the t.i.tle of _The Forest of Rosenwald; or, The Bleeding Nun_.

STONE, JOHN AUGUSTUS

JOHN AUGUSTUS STONE, an actor, born in Concord, Ma.s.s., in 1801, died near Philadelphia, Pa., June 1, 1834. His first appearance on the stage was made in Boston, and his debut in New York occurred July 10, 1822, at the Park Theatre, as _Old Hardy_ in _The Belle's Stratagem_, and _Old Pickle_ in _The Spoiled Child_. He was for a long time identified with the Bowery and Chatham Theatres. The prize of five hundred dollars offered by Mr. Edwin Forrest for the best American play, was awarded to Mr. Stone in 1829, for his drama in verse, _Metamora_, long and successfully played by Mr. Forrest. He subsequently received from Mr. Forrest one thousand dollars for his drama, _The Ancient Briton_, which, as well as another drama from his pen, _Fauntleroy, the Banker of Rome_, were produced by Forrest. He was also author of _La Roque_, _The Regicide_, _Tancred of Sicily_, and Yankee Hill's famous play, _The Knight of the Golden Fleece_, always the most popular of that comedian's plays. He drowned himself in the Schuylkill River, near Philadelphia, in a fit of mental derangement. Mr. Forrest erected a very handsome monument to his memory.

TANCRED; OR, THE SIEGE OF ANTIOCH. A Drama in Three Acts.

Philadelphia, 1827. 16mo, pp. 45.

STRONG, HENRY K.

THE FALL OF ITURBIDE; OR, MEXICO DELIVERED. A Tragedy in Five Acts.

Pittsfield, Phineas Allen, 1823. 12mo, pp. 38.

TALBOT, CHARLES S.

SQUIRE HARTLEY. A Farce. Albany, 1827. 12mo.

CAPTAIN MORGAN. A Play. Albany [?] 1827. 12mo.

PADDY'S TRIP TO AMERICA: OR, THE HUSBAND WITH THREE WIVES. A Farce in Two Acts. New York, 1822. 16mo, pp. 48.

TAYLOR, V.