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Title: Representative Plays by American Dramatists
1765-1819

Author: Various

Editor: Montrose J. Moses

Release Date: June 26, 2009 [EBook #29221]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE

CONTRAST,

A

COMEDY;

IN FIVE ACTS:

WRITTEN BY A

CITIZEN OF THE _UNITED STATES_;

Performed with Applause at the Theatres in NEW-YORK, PHILADELPHIA,
and MARYLAND;

AND PUBLISHED (_under an Assignment of the Copy-Right_) BY

THOMAS WIGNELL.

Primus ego in patriam
Aonio----deduxi vertice Musas.

VIRGIL.

(_Imitated._)

First on our shores I try THALIA'S powers,
And bid the _laughing, useful_ Maid be ours.

PHILADELPHIA:

FROM THE PRESS OF PRICHARD & HALL, IN MARKET STREET, BETWEEN SECOND
AND FRONT STREETS.

M.DCC.XC.

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FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION

(_From the Original, owned by Dr. F. W. Atkinson_)]

Representative Plays by
American Dramatists

Edited, with an Introduction to Each Play

By MONTROSE J. MOSES

1765-1819

Illustrated with Portraits, and
Original Title-Pages

BENJAMIN BLOM, INC.

New York

First published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1918,
Copyright renewed by Mrs. Leah H. Moses, 1946
Reissued by Benjami