Early American Plays Part 11

JAMES LAWSON, born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 9, 1799; died in Yonkers, N. Y., March 20, 1880. He was educated at Glasgow University and came to New York in 1815. He was at first employed as a clerk in the counting house of a maternal uncle, who was a merchant of New York. He began writing for the New York _Literary Gazette_ in 1826, and from 1827 to 1829 was the a.s.sistant editor of the _Morning Courier_. He edited the _Mercantile Advertiser_ from 1829 to 1833.

For a time subsequently he engaged in the business of marine insurance. He published several volumes of stories and poems.

DRAMATIC SKETCH. Julian and Elphina.

Published in _Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite_. New York, 1830, pp. 99-100.

GIORDANO. A Tragedy. New York, 1832. 8vo, pp. 102.

Played at the Park Theatre, N. Y., November 13, 1828.

LEAc.o.c.k, JOHN

THE FALL OF BRITISH TYRANNY; OR, AMERICAN LIBERTY TRIUMPHANT. The First Campaign. A Tragi-comedy of Five Acts as lately planned at the Theatrum Pandemonium at St. James. The princ.i.p.al place of action in America. Published according to Act of Parliament.

Philadelphia: Printed by Styner & Cist. 8vo, pp. viii.-66.

Same. Providence, J. Douglas McDougall. n. d. [1776]. 12mo, pp.

viii.-66.

Same. Boston: Reprinted by Gill & Powars & Willis. n. d. 8vo, pp.

viii.-71.

This is an American Chronicle Play beginning with imaginary events in England before the Revolution, showing the battles about Boston and ending with the evacuation of that city by the British.

DISAPPOINTED. Philadelphia, 1796. 12mo.

Played in Philadelphia, April 2, 1796.

THE MEDLEY; OR, HARLEQUIN HAVE AT YE ALL. A Pantomime acted at Covent Garden. 8vo, 1778.

LEE, WALTER

LAFAYETTE; OR, THE FORTRESS OF OLMUTZ. A Melodrama in Three Acts.

Philadelphia, 1824. 16mo, pp. 60.

A drama bearing this t.i.tle was written by Wm. Woodworth, q. v.

LELAND, AARON W.

AARON W. LELAND, born in Holliston, Ma.s.s., May 28, 1761, died in Chester, Vt., August 25, 1833. He was ordained a minister of the Baptist Church about 1786, and settled in Chester, Vt. He was a member of the Vermont Legislature from 1801 to 1811, a councillor for four years, Lieutenant-Governor of the State for five years, and justice of his county court for eighteen years. He refused a nomination for governor in 1828. He was a very effective orator.

THE FATAL ERROR. A Tragedy. Exhibited at Williams College, March 25, 1807. Pittsfield: Printed by Seymour & Smith, 1807. 12mo, pp.

27.

Another edition. Peterboro: Reprinted by Jonathan Bunce & Co., [Madison County], 1810. 12mo, pp. 24.

LENNOX, CHARLOTTE

This author was a native of New York, and a daughter of Gov. James Ramsey, of that province. She went to England in 1735 and became a writer of note, Dr. Johnson considering her work equal to that of f.a.n.n.y Burney and other well-known female writers. The epilogue to _The Sister_ was written by Oliver Goldsmith.

THE SISTER. A Comedy. London, 1769. 8vo, pp. 76.

LILLIBRIDGE, GARDNER R.

TANCRED; OR, THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO ROCHDALE CASTLE. A Drama, altered from a Tale of Ancient Times. Providence, 1824. 16mo, pp. 68.

LINDSLEY, A. B.

LOVE AND FRIENDs.h.i.+P; OR, YANKEE NOTIONS. A Comedy in Three Acts. New York, 1809. 18mo, pp. 58.

LOW, SAMUEL

THE POLITICIAN OUT-WITTED. A Comedy in Five Acts, written in 1788, by an American. New York: Printed by W. Ross, 1789. 8vo, pp. 71.

MACPHERSON, J.

A PENNSYLVANIA SAILOR'S LETTERS, ALIAS, THE FARMER'S FALL; WITH EXTRACTS FROM A TRAGIC COMEDY, CALLED HODGE PODGE IMPROVED; OR, THE RACE FAIRLY RUN. The author's sympathy for an Innocent Woman prevents his publis.h.i.+ng the whole of that Dramatic piece. Number 1. Philadelphia, for the author, 1771. 8vo, pp. 64.

MARKOE, PETER

PETER MARKOE, born in Santa Cruz (St. Croix), one of the West India Islands, in 1735, died in Philadelphia in 1792. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, read law in London, and settled in Philadelphia in 1783. He there became addicted to literature and contributed to the leading periodicals over the name "A Native of Algiers."

THE PATRIOT CHIEF. A Tragedy. Philadelphia: Wm. Prichard, 1783. 8vo, pp. 70.

THE RECONCILIATION; OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE. A Comic Opera, in Two Acts. Philadelphia, Prichard & Hall, 1790. 12mo, pp. 48.

MAURICE, MARK

THE Ma.n.u.sCRIPT--COMPRISING "THE FRATRICIDE" AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Boston, 1827. 12mo, pp. 70.

McHENRY, JAMES

DR. JAMES MCHENRY, born in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland, December 20, 1785, died there July 20, 1845. He was graduated in medicine at Dublin University and Glasgow, and first located in practice at Larne, whence he removed to Belfast. He came to the United States in 1817 and followed his profession in Baltimore, Md., and Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1824 he settled in Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine and carried on a mercantile business. From 1842 to the time of his death he was United States Consul at Londonderry, in Ireland. His home in Philadelphia was the resort of most of the literary people of that and other cities. He published a poem on the _Pleasures of Friends.h.i.+p_ in 1822. He was editor of the _American Monthly Magazine_ in Philadelphia in 1824, and wrote and published a number of novels.

THE USURPER. A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts. Philadelphia, 1829.

16mo, pp. 65.

Played at the old Chestnut Street Theatre.