The Dawning of American Drama: American Dramatic Criticism, 1746-1915 by Jürgen C. Wolter, Jürgen C. Wolter

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5.	E. A. Poe, "Walsh's Didactics," Southern Literary Messenger ( May 1936), reprinted in The Complete Works of E. A. Poe, ed. James A. Harrison ( New York: Society of English and French Literature, 1902), vol. 8: 322.

6.	Frank Moore Colby, "A Model for Dramatic Critics," Forum 39 ( April 1908): 551.

7.	Patricia Marks, American Literary and Drama Reviews: An Index to Late 19th Century Periodicals ( Boston: Hall, 1984), xi, concurs: "Such periodicals, which both guided and reflected the taste of the reading public, are an important cultural record."

8.	Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America ( Edinburgh, 1833), vol. 2: 73-74.

9.	A. de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence ( New York: Harper & Row, 1966),439.

10.	Most helpful were: Carl J. Stratman, American Theatrical Periodicals. 1798-1967: A Bibliographical Guide ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1970), Edward E. Chielens, American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ( Westport, CT: 1986), Edward E. Chielens, The Literary Journal in America to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources ( Detroit: Gale, 1975), Jayne K. Kribbs, An Annotated Bibliography of American Literary Periodicals, 1741-1850 ( Boston: Hall, 1977), and Walter J. Meserve, An Emerging Entertainment: The Drama of the American People to 1828 ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977) [with a list of newspapers and periodicals, 1714-1828, pp. 326-28]. For further sources, see my selected bibliography.

11.	Preface to J. K. Paulding and William Irving Paulding, American Comedies ( Philadelphia, 1847), quoted in The Literary World 1 ( 27 Feb. 1847): 88-89.

12.	Richard Moody, "Theatre U.S.A., 1909-1919: The Formative Decade," Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America, ed. L. W. Conolly ( Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982), 113-33.

13.	Barrett H. Clark, European Theories of the Drama, with a Supplement on the American Draw, rev. Henry Popkin ( New York: Crown, 1965), lists only a few critical essays from the nineteenth century. Alan S. Downer, American Drama and Its Critics. A Collection of Critical Essays ( Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1965), contains only one article from the nineteenth century: Herne "Art for Truth's Sake in the Drama" ( 1897), and two articles from the period before 1915: Howells's "Some New American Plays" ( 1904), and Eaton "Our Infant Industry" ( 1908). In L. L. Harris, 19th-Century Literature Criticism, 2 vols. ( Detroit: Gale, 1982), William Dunlap and William Wells Brown are the only early American dramatists represented, the focus is on the critical reception of these authors' works up to our tunes. Montrose J. Moses and John Mason Brown, eds., The American Theatre as Seen by Its Critics. 1752-1934 ( 1934; rep. New York: Cooper Square, 1967), has only very little material from the period before 1852.

14.	Clayton Hamilton, "Organizing an Audience," The Bookman 34 ( 1911): 166. In "What Is Wrong with the American Drama?" The Bookman 39 ( 1914): 317, Hamilton wrote: "With less than a dozen exceptions, the newspapers and even the magazines of this country treat the theatre as 'news' and refuse to recognize the drama as an art."

15.	Nina Baym, Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America ( Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984), 7. Only in a few

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Dawning of American Drama: American Dramatic Criticism, 1746-1915. Contributors: Jürgen C. Wolter - editor, Jürgen C. Wolter - compiler. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: 6.

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