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example of 18th-century American literature

  • John Smith: Virginia
    In American literature: Drama and the novel

    …presented professionally was Royall Tyler’s Contrast (1787). This drama was full of echoes of Goldsmith and Sheridan, but it contained a Yankee character (the predecessor of many such in years to follow) who brought something native to the stage.

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significance in American drama

  • In Royall Tyler

    …(especially The School for Scandal), The Contrast contains a Yankee character, the predecessor of many such in years to follow, that brought something native to the stage. His other plays, some no longer extant, did not equal The Contrast.

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  • Egyptian Book of the Dead: Anubis
    In Western theatre: The beginnings of American theatre

    …on stage until Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), the first American comedy. Tyler’s play introduced a favourite theme of early American drama: the triumph of native honesty and worth over foreign sham and affectation.

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