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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
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.) 2 0 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)
rk society drama was either English or else crudely rustic, like Asa Trenchard in Taylor's Our American Cousin (Laura Keene's Theatre, 18 October, 1858). Over into this period of transition came the Yankee, the backwoodsman, the humorous lawyer of flush times. As Howard said, writing of the American drama, the native dramatists were concerned with American character, hence Solon Shingle, Colonel Sellers, Judge Bardwell Slote, and Mose the fire-boy. Without them, we should not have had Joshua Whitcomb, Davy Crockett, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Perhaps one of the most typically American pieces produced in this period of the seventies was Frank Murdock's Davy Crockett (NewYork, Niblo's Garden, 9 March, 1874), reminiscent in its colour of the elder Hackett's Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, and a romantic forerunner of Moody's The great divide. Mrs. Bateman's Self finds continuation in Howard's Saratoga and Mrs. Logan's Surf, while these point the way to Langdon Mitchell's The New York idea, writ