The Indian Princess (about Pocahontas); or, La Belle Sauvage
- Title
- The Indian Princess (about Pocahontas); or, La Belle Sauvage
- Description
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1st US play, music by John Bray, published again in 1809
More Notes: First Acted in Philadelphia on April 6, 1808, Reproduced at Park Theatre in New York on June 14, 1809 story of Pocahontas and John Smith,
18mo, pp iv.-74. - Date
- 1808
- Identifier
- rdp0082
- Creator
- James Nelson Barker
- Type
- Operatic Melodrama, founded on an Incident in Smith’s “Virginia”
- Coverage
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- First published in 1808 by T. and G. Palmer
- Bibliographic Citation
- Wilmeth, Don B. Tentative Checklist of Indian Plays (1606-1987). Journal of American Drama and Theatre 1, no. 2 (Fall 1989): 34–54.
- Clements Library. von Chorba, Albert, jr. (Ed.). Checklist of American Drama: published in the English Colonies of North America and the United States through 1865. University of Pennsylvania library, 1951. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Wegelin, Oscar, and John Malone. Early American plays. New York: Dunlap Society, 1900.
- Clements Library. Barker, J.N. The Indian Princess, or, La Belle Sauvage in Dramatic Works Vol. 16. Philadelphia: T. and G. Palmer, 1808. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
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