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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)
s betwixt dinner and bedtime. But the poetic purple patches of Aldrich's verse might be another explanation for its short life on the stage. When 1860 dawned, Dion Boucicault (1822-1890) and John Brougham (1810-1880) reigned supreme in American popularity, and they were both Irish. The former had yet to do his most popular and characteristic pieces, in which he won deserved success both as an actor and playwright: to read Jessie Brown; or, the relief of Lucknow (Wallack's Theatre, 22 February, 1858) and The Colleen Bawn (Laura Keene's Theatre, 29 March, 1860), and to compare them with the later Arrah-na-pogue; or, the Wicklow Wedding (London, 22 March, 1865) and The Shaughraun (Wallack's Theatre, 14 November, 1874), is to sound the genial depths of a flexible workman, who could find it as easy to shape a drama for Laura Keene as to re-fashion Charles Burke's version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle for presentation by Jefferson (London, Adelphi, 4 September, 1865). One would