This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history- Royall TylersThe Contrast(1789); William Dunlap'sAndre(1798); James Nelson Barker'sThe Indian Princess(1808); Robert Montgomery Bird'sThe Gladiator(1831); William Henry Smith'sThe Drunkard(1844); Anna Cora Mowatt'sFashion(1845); George Aiken'sUncle Tom’s Cabin(1852); and Dion Boucicault'sThe Octoroon(1859).

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