First Theater in America: When was the drama first introduced in America? An inquiry, including a consideration of the objections that have been made to the stage.

Daly, Charles P. (Charles Patrick) · 1899

This is one of an edition of two hundred and sixty copies printed from type for the Dunlap Society in the month of May, 1896. _The paper here reprinted by the Dunlap Society was read before the New York Historical Society more than thirty years ago. In looking through the files of Colonial newspapers in the possession of that institution for another purpose, my attention was called by the late Thomas F. De Voe, who devoted his leisure largely to the examination of Colonial newspapers, and especially those of Colonial New York, to an advertisement showing that there was a theater in the City of New York anterior to the arrival of the company that, as Dunlap expressed it, “planted the dra…

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