Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Representative Plays by American Dramatists.

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Representative Plays by American Dramatists.

Atlantic Monthly (L.  C. Davis), 19:  750.

Appleton, 19:  146.

Scribner, 1:216, December, 1870.

Harper, 42:  614, April, 1871.

Atlantic Monthly, 52:695.

“The Original of Rip Van Winkle.” Lon.  M., 5:229.

N. M. Ludlow.  “Dramatic Life as I Found It.”  St. Louis:  G. I. Jones & Co. 1880.

Brander Matthews.  On Jefferson’s Rip. Scribner.  July, 1879.

Brander Matthews.  “These Many Years.”  New York:  Scribner. 1917.

Henry Morley.  Journal of a London Playgoer.  September 23, 1886.

Montrose J. Moses.  “Famous Actor-Families in America.”  Chapters and Bibliographies under Hackett, Jefferson, Boucicault.  New York:  Crowell. 1906. (o.p.)

H.P.  Phelps.  “Players of a Century.”  Albany, 1880.

Sol.  F. Smith.  “Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty
Years.”  New York:  Harper. 1868.

J. B. Thompson, D.D.  “The Genesis of the Rip Van Winkle Legend.” Old
Ulster
.  Kingston, N.Y. 1914.  Vol. 10:  13-26.

Eugene Tompkins and Quincy Kilby.  “History of the Boston Theatre.” 
Boston:  Houghton Mifflin. 1908.

J. Rankin Towse.  On Jefferson’s Rip. Century, January, 1884.

J. Rankin Towse.  “Sixty Years of the Theatre.”  New York:  Funk &
Wagnalls. 1916.

J.H.  Wainwright.  Rip Van Winkle.  Libretto.  Lacy Acting Edition.  Vol. 39.

Walsh (T.).  Dion Boucicault The Career of.  New York:  Dunlap Society, 1915.

F.C.  Wemyss.  “Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager.”  New
York:  Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1847.  On Hackett’s Rip.

Francis Wilson.  “Joseph Jefferson:  Reminiscences of a Fellow Player.” 
New York:  Scribner. 1906.

William Winter.  “The Life of David Belasco.” 2 vols.  New York:  Moffat,
Yard & Co. 1918.

William Winter.  The Jeffersons.  Boston:  J.R.  Osgood & Co. 1881. (See also the Macmillan Life of Jefferson, by Winter. 1894.)

William Winter.  “Other Days.”  New York:  Moffat, Yard. 1908.

William Winter.  “The Wallet of Time.” 2 vols.  New York:  Moffat, Yard. 1913. (Besides the Rip references, see also J.T.  Raymond and living’s “Wolfert’s Roost.”)

GEORGE HENRY BOKER

General references for Boker, see Allibone, Lamb’s Biographical
Dictionary, Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, National
Cyclopedia of American Biography, Warner’s Library of the World’s Best
Literature.

Lawrence Barrett, A Professional Sketch of.  By Elwyn A. Barren.  Chicago:  Knight & Leonard Co. 1889. (For a review of Barrett’s opening in “Francesca,” Philadelphia, see telegraphic report in the New York Tribune, September 15, 1882, p. 15.)

Alfred Bates.  Drama.  Vol.  XX. p. 70.

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