Early American Plays Part 14

Same, New York, 1827.

Another edition, New York, 1828. 18mo.

First performed in the United States at the Park Theatre, New York, May 20, 1826.

CHARLES THE SECOND; OR, THE MERRY MONARCH. A Comedy. [London, n. d.]

18mo, pp. 45.

Another edition, Philadelphia, 1829.

First performed in the United States at the Park Theatre, New York, October 25, 1824.

LOVE IN HUMBLE LIFE. A Pet.i.t Comedy. London, n. d. 18mo, pp. 31.

THE LANCERS. A Farce. London, n. d. 18mo, pp. 27.

Played at the Park Theatre, New York, 1829.

THE FALL OF ALGIERS. A Drama. London, n. d. 18mo, pp. 47.

MRS. SMITH; OR, THE WIFE AND THE WIDOW. A Farce, adapted from the French. London, n. d. 8vo, pp. 20.

Played at the New Park Theatre, New York, March 6, 1825.

PETER SMINK; OR, THE ARMISTICE. A Comic Drama, adapted from the French. London, n. d. 8vo, pp. 16.

Played at the Park Theatre, New York, October 14, 1826, as _Peter Smink; or, Which is the Miller?_ A Farce.

PEPPER, GEORGE

KATHLEEN O'NEIL; OR, A PICTURE OF FEUDAL TIMES IN IRELAND. A National Melodrama of the Fourteenth Century, in Three Acts.

Philadelphia, 1832. 16mo, pp. 84.

Scenes I. and II. of Act I. of _Kathleen O'Neil_ were first published in Vol. 1 of _The Irish s.h.i.+eld and Monthly Milesian_, a monthly journal edited by Geo. Pepper, in New York, in 1829. Vol.

I., of this periodical was, I believe, all that was issued, and the play was therefore probably never issued complete except as a separate publication.

Played at the Lafayette Theatre, New York.

(The Lafayette Theatre was burned on the night of April 10, 1829, and never rebuilt).

PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL, born in Berlin, Conn., September 15, 1795, died in Hazel Green, Wis., May 2, 1856, was an eminent geologist. He was graduated from Yale College, studied medicine and practiced in Charleston, S. C.; was appointed surgeon in the United States Army in 1824, and stationed in Boston, Ma.s.s., on detail for the recruiting station there. He left the service, and took up the study of geology at New Haven, Conn., in 1827. He aided Noah Webster in the compilation of his dictionary. He was an official geologist of Connecticut and of the State of Wisconsin.

ZAMOR. A Tragedy.

This play formed part of the Commencement exercises at Yale College in 1815. It was afterwards published in Percival's first volume of poems, _Prometheus_, etc., New Haven, 1820, 12mo, pp.

346.

PIRSSON, J. P.

THE DISCARDED DAUGHTER. New York, 18--?

POTTER, REUBEN

Ph.e.l.lES, KING OF TYRE; OR, THE DOWNFALL OF TYRANNY. A Tragedy in Five Acts, as performed at the New York Theatre. New York, 1825.

16mo, pp. 76.

Acted three times at the Park Theatre between June 13 and 28, 1825.

PRESTON, WILLIAM

DEATH OF LOUIS THE SIXTEENTH. A Tragedy in Five Acts. New York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1794.

Another edition. Philadelphia: E. Story, 1794. 16mo, pp. 70.

RITTENHOUSE, DAVID

LUCY SAMPSON; OR, THE UNHAPPY HEIRESS. A Tragedy in Five Acts.

Translated by a Citizen of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by Chas. Cist, 1789. 8vo, pp. 88.

ROGERS, DANIEL

THE KNIGHT OF THE RUM BOTTLE & CO.; OR, THE SPEECHMAKERS. A Musical Farce in Five Acts, by the Editor of _The City Hall Recorder_.

New York, 1818. 18mo, pp. 16.

Daniel Rogers was the editor of _The City Hall Recorder_ at the time this play was published.

ROGERS, ROBERT

ROBERT ROGERS was born at Dumbarton, N. H., 1727, died in London about 1798. During the French and Indian War he commanded the celebrated "Rogers Rangers," and partic.i.p.ated in the siege of Detroit against Pontiac and the French. Rogers' Slide at Lake George is named after him. He went to London about 1764, and was appointed governor of Michilimackinac in 1765. He afterwards went to Algiers and fought under the Dey. He returned to America in 1775, and professed to be in sympathy with the patriots, but Was.h.i.+ngton ordered his arrest. He then threw off the mask of friends.h.i.+p, and raised a company of Royalists called "The Queen's Rangers." He went back to England, and his subsequent history is unknown. His best known works are his _Journal of the French and Indian War_, London, 1765; and _A Concise Account of North America_, London, 1765.

PONTEACH; OR, THE SAVAGES OF AMERICA. A Tragedy. London: Printed for the author, 1766. 8vo, pp. 110.

ROWSON, SUSANNA

SUSANNA ROWSON, born in Portsmouth, England, in 1762, died in Boston, Ma.s.s., March 2, 1824. She was an only daughter of Lieutenant William Haswell, of the British Navy, who was, at the beginning of the Revolution, attached to the revenue service, and resided at Nantucket, near Boston. His property was confiscated by the Continental authorities; and himself and family removed on parole to Hingham in 1775, and in 1777 to Abington. A cartel was finally arranged by which Lieutenant Haswell was exchanged and sent back to England with his family. Miss Haswell took employment as a governess in early life, and was greatly devoted to literature. She married William Rowson, a musician in one of the bands of the household troops. About the time of her marriage she wrote and published a novel ent.i.tled _Victoria_, which she dedicated to the d.u.c.h.ess of Devons.h.i.+re, who introduced her to the Prince of Wales. She was enabled, by this acquaintance, to obtain a pension for her father. On account of the financial embarra.s.sment of her husband, they went on the stage in 1792, in Edinburgh. In 1793 they came to America, and first appeared in Annapolis, Maryland. Thence they went to the theatre in Philadelphia, and, after a season there, became members of the Federal Street Theatre in Boston. Mrs. Rowson, who had, in 1790, published in England the celebrated novel _Charlotte Temple_, had continued writing, and the extraordinary popularity of her story of the unfortunate English girl made it easy for her to follow the cultivation of letters. She retired from the stage in 1797, and established a school for young ladies, which remained, during her life-time, the most select and popular in New England. Her last appearance was in May, 1797, in her own comedy, _Americans in England_. Her _Poems_ were published in Boston in 1804, and _Lucy Temple_, a sequel to _Charlotte Temple_, appeared in 1828.