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Description: When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists from the colonial period to the present day. At present (early 2001), American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists including Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson, as well as such works as Thomas Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia, the first American play performed on an American stage, and George Aiken's stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular stage production of the nineteenth century. (Source: vendor website.)

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  From Colonial Period to Present
Language:  English