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The Early Drama
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Clapp, J. B., and Edgett, E. F. Plays of the Present. The Dunlap Society, 1902. Ser. 2. Extra vol.

Clarence, Reginald. The Stage Cyclopedia. London, 1909.

Haskell, Daniel C. A List of American Dramas in the New York Public Library. 1916.

Roden, R. F. Later American Plays, 1831-1900. Being a compilation of the titles of plays by American authors published and performed in America since 1831. The Dunlap Society, 1900. Ser. 2, Vol. 12.

Stockbridge, J. C. A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry [in the Brown University Library]. Providence, 1886.

Wegelin, O. Early American Plays, 1714-1830. A compilation of the titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems written by authors born in or residing in North America previous to 1830. Second edition revised. 1905. (The first edition appeared in the publications of the Dunlap Society, 1900. Ser. 2., vol. 10.)

Collections

Quinn, A. H. Representative American Plays. 1917. (Contains the following plays before 1860: Prince of Parthia, Contrast, André, Superstition, Charles the Second, Triumph at Plattsburg, Pocahontas, Broker of Bogota, Tortesa the Usurer, Fashion, Francesca da Rimini, Leonora or the World's Own.)

Original Sources

Dunlap's Diary. Manuscript Memoirs of Wm. Dunlap or Daily Occurrences. Vol. 14, from 27 July, 1797, to 13 Dec., 1797; vol. 15, from 14 Dec., 1797, to 1 June, 1798; vol. 24, from 15 Oct., 1819, to 27 Apr., 1820; vol. 30, from 26 June, 1833, to Dec. 31, 1834. In the Library of the New York Historical Society.

Wood's Diary. A Manuscript Diary or Daily Account Book of W. B. Wood. Manager of the Philadelphia Theatres, in 9 volumes extending from 1810 to 1835. In the Library of the University of Pennsylvania.

Histories of the Drama and Stage

Bernard, John. Retrospections of the Stage. 2 vols. London, 1830. Rep. with additions as "Retrospections of America, 1797-1811." Ed. Mrs. W. B. Bernard. 1887.

Blake, Charles. An Historical Account of the Providence Stage; being a paper read before the Rhode Island Historical Society, October 25th, 1860. (With additions.) Providence, R. I., 1868.

Brown, T. A. A History of the New York Stage. From the First Performance in 1732 to 1901. 3 vols. 1903.

Clapp, J. B., and Edgett, E. F. Players of the Present. Dunlap Society. 3 vols. 1899-1901. Ser. 2, vols. 9, 11, 13.

Clapp, W. W. A Record of the Boston Stage. Boston and Cambridge, 1853.

Crawford, M. C. The Romance of the American Theatre. Boston, 1913.

Daly, C. P. First Theater in America. The Dunlap Society, 1896. Ser. 2, vol. 1.

Dunlap, William. History of the American Theatre. 1832. 2 vols. London, 1833.

Dunlap Society, N. Y. Publications, First Series, 15 vols. 1887-91. Second Series, 15 vols., 1896-1901. Extra vol., 1902.

Durang, Charles. The Philadelphia Stage. From the year 1749 to the year 1855. Partly compiled from the papers of his father, the late John Durang; with