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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
a play, if they had not rebelled. When one puts down the titles of dramas which Augustin Daly (1838-1899) actually had a literary hand in, it is surprising how far afield from the American spirit he could get; with him adaptation meant change of locality only, and though one can imagine what the scenic artist might do with his flats in picturing New York during the time opera reigned on Fourteenth Street, one can but reservedly call Boucicault's The poor of New York (Wallack's Theatre, 8 December, 1857) or Daly's Under the Gaslight (The New York Theatre, 12 August, 1867) native dramas; they were domestic perversions of the same French source. The fact of the matter is that Bronson Howard, who came under the direct influence of the French drama of the time, felt, when he began to write such a comedy as Saratoga (Fifth Avenue Theatre, 21 December, 1870) that he must follow French convention; and when he reconstructed The Banker's daughter on the ground-plan of Lillian's last love his o