Aladdin

200 N. C. Goodwin in Little Jack Sheppard 201 De Wolf Hopper as Juliet, and Marshall P. Wilder as Romeo 203 Henry E. Dixey as the Country Girl in Adonis 205 Munrico Dengremont 211 Josef Hofman 215 Otto Hegner 219 Elsie Leslie 223 Charles Stratton (“Tom Thumb”) 227 Lavinia Warren 231 John Howard Payne 233 Blind Tom 235 Master Burke as Hamlet 237 May Haines and Isa Bowman as the two Princes in King Richard III. 239 Edmund Kean 259 William Augustus Conway 263 James William Wallack 267 William C. Macready 271 Charles Kemble 275 Charles Kean 279 Edwin Forrest 283 Edward L. Davenport 287 James Stark 291 Edwin Booth 295 Lawrence Barrett 299 James E. Murdoch 303 Charles Fechter 307 Henry E. Johnstone 311 John Vandenhoff 315 George Jones 319 Augustus A. Addams 323 William Pelby 327

 

 

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ACT I.
THE NATIVE AMERICAN DRAMA.

 

 

SCENE I.

THE INDIAN DRAMA.

The American play is yet to be written. Such is the unanimous verdict of the guild of dramatic critics of America, the gentlemen whom Mr. Phœbus, in Lothair, would describe as having failed to write the American play themselves. Unanimity of any kind among critics is remarkable, but in this instance the critics are probably right. In all of its forms, except the dramatic form, we have a literature which is American, distinctive, and a credit to us. The histories of Motley and of Parkman are standard works throughout the literary world.