Author:William Dunlap

William Dunlap
(1766–1839)

William Dunlap

Works

Plays

• The Father, 1789
• Darby's Return, 1789
• The Archers, opera, 1796
• Tell Truth and Shame the Devil, 1797
• Andre: A Tragedy, 1798
• The Stranger, 1798 (no copies known to exist)
• False Shame, 1800 (aka "The American Orphan in Germany")
• Pizarro in Peru, 1800
• The Virgin of the Sun, 1800
• The Wild-Goose Chase, 1800
• Blue Beard, 1803
• The Glory of Columbia,1817
• Ribbemont, 1803
• The Voice of Nature, 1803
• Abaellino, the Great Bandit, 1803
• The Father of an Only Child, 1807, comedy
• Fountainville Abbey, 1807, tragedy
• Leicester, 1807, tragedy (aka The Fatal Deception)
• The Blind Boy, 1808, melodrama
• Fraternal Discord, 1809, drama
• The Italian Father, 1810, comedy
• Rinaldo Rinaldini,1810, tragedy
• The Wife of Two Husbands, 1811, drama
• Yankee Chronology, 1812, musical interlude of patriot songs
• The Good Neighbor, 1814
• Lovers Vows,
• Peter the Great,
• A Trip to Niagara, 1830 (external scan)

Nonfiction

• A Narrative of the Events Which Followed Bonaparte's Campaign in Russia (1814) (external scan)
• A History of the American Theatre (1832) (external scan)
• A History of the rise and progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (1834)

  [1918 ed.]: (external scans (multiple parts): "Vol. 1", "Vol. 2", "Vol. 3")

• A History of New York for Schools, in 2 vols. (1837) (external scans (multiple parts): "Vol. 1", "Vol. 2")
• History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York (1839)

Other writings

• Ella: A Norwegian Tale
• Thirty Years Ago, or, Memoirs of a Water-drinker (1836)

Orations

• Address to the Students of the National Academy of Design, April 18, 1831

Works about Dunlap

• A Bibliographical Checklist of the Plays and Miscellaneous Writings of William Dunlap, by Oscar Wegelin (1916) (external scan)
• Dunlap, A study of his life and works and of his place in contemporary culture, by Oral Sumner Coad (1917) (external scan)