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Nathans Index More information Index abolition (see also Democratic-Republican Haymarket Theatre founders with party): 93, 94, 95 political affiliations) Adams, Abigail: 152 New York: 179 (Table 3: names of Park Adams, John: 11, 42, 105, 109, 151, 165 Theatre founders with political, social, Adams, Samuel: 39, 48, 50, 56, 57, 59 and financial affiliations) adaptations (or alterations) of plays: 10–11, Philadelphia: 77, 101, 176 (Table 3: names of 85–87 Chestnut Street Theatre founders with “Affair of the Ferrymen” (New York): political, social, and financial affiliations) 158–159 anti-theatrical activity: 6, 12, 34, 47, 50 African-Americans (Philadelphia) (see also pre-Revolutionary (see Presbyterians; abolition): 94–95, 98 Puritan; Quaker) Alien and Sedition Acts: 121, 150, 153, 157, 158 during Revolution: 36, 37, 38–39, 40, 48 All in a Bustle (Milns): 148 post-war Boston: 56 (see also Hancock, John; Allen, Richard: 94 Adams, Samuel; Puritan) “America, Commerce, Freedom” (song): 81 post-war New York (see also State American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 56 Constitutionalists): 43, 126 American Company (see Hallam-Douglass post-war Philadelphia: (see also Quaker): 55 Company; Old American Company) Argus (Boston): 60 American Revolution artisans (see also mechanics): 9, 11, 29, 91, 93 American theatrical entertainments: 37 Astor, John Jacob: 169 British theatrical entertainments: 38–39, 43 Asylum (Land) Company: 84, 154 Amory, John: 59 Aurora (also known as the General Advertiser): Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company: 8, 74, 99, 101–102 (attacks on Theatre and 107, 174 (Table 2: names of Haymarket Federalists), 102–103, 152 Theatre founders with political and social Austin, Benjamin: 59 affiliations) Avowals of a Republican (White): 166 Anderson, Alexander and John (diaries): 136, 145 Bache, Benjamin Franklin: 74, 81, 99, 152 Andre´ (Dunlap): 159–160 (controversy), 161 Bache, Sarah: 68 (letter about the Chestnut Anglican: 15, 16, 17, 32, 40 Street Theatre) Anti-Constitutionalist (see also Federalist): 49 Bank of New York (The): 35, 127, 128, 129 Anti-Federalist (see also (theater member affiliation), 130–133 Democratic-Republican): 54 (founding and history), 130 (resistance to Boston: 173 (Table 1: names of Federal Street Bank), 132 (“scriptomania”), 133, 135, 140, Theatre founders with political 141, 142 (connection to land speculation), affiliations), 174 (Table 2: names of 143 (financial difficulties), 150, 161, 179 239 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82508-5 - Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson: Into the Hands of the People Heather S . Nathans Index More information 240 INDEX Bank of New York (cont.) British Board of Trade: 22–23 (Table 3: names of Park Theatre founders Browne, Robert: 131 with political, social, and financial Bulfinch, Charles: 67, 68, 114, 120 affiliations) Bunker-Hill, or, The Death of General Warren Bank of North America: 3, 7, 51, 54, 55, 69, 84, (Burk): 95, 108, 114, 115, 164 130, 131, 154, 176 (Table 3: names of Burk, John Daly: 9, 95, 106 (Polar Star), 114, Chestnut Street Theatre founders with 115, 116 political, social, and financial affiliations) Busybody, The (Centlivre): 86, 87 debate over Bank: 51, 52, 53, 84 supporters of Bank: 52, 53 “C¸a Ira”: 79, 80, 81, 151 Bank of Pennsylvania: 154, 176 (Table 3: names Carey, Mathew: 53, 87 of Chestnut Street Theatre founders with Carmelite, The (Cumberland): 87 political, social, and financial affiliations) Castle of Andalusia, The (O’Keeffe): 76 Bank of the United States: 78, 84, 131, 154 Catherine and Petruchio (Garrick): 103 banking practices (see also Bank of New York Cato (Addison): 37 (The); Bank of North America; Chapel Street Theatre (New York): 25, 32, 33 Massachusetts Bank; Union Bank): 52, Chapter of Accidents, The (Lee): 74 62, 78 Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia): 10–11, banks and stock companies (see also Bank of 69, 70, 85, 92, 142, 150, 151, 167 New York (The); Bank of North description: 68, 72–73 America; Massachusetts Bank; Union financial difficulties: 163 Bank): 2–7, 52 founders: 47, 62, 64, 71, 84, 89, 91, 101, 170, Baptists: 15 176 (Table 3: names of founders with Barbarossa (Brown): 87 political, social, and financial affiliations) Barrell, Joseph: 114 incidents in playhouse: 81, 84–85 (class Bayard, William: 128, 142 (land speculation), conflict over seating), 103, 152 (“Hail 169 Columbia”), 153 (“Hail Columbia”) Beau Metamorphasized, The (Murdock): City Hall (New York): 139 92, 93 Clarkson, Matthew: 30, 31 Belle’s Stratagem, The (Cowley): 87, 112 Clergyman’s Daughter, The (White): 165 Bingham, Anne Willing: 17, 64, 78, 93, 100 Clinton, DeWitt: 128, 169 Bingham, William: 17, 64, 78, 93, 100 Clinton, George: 124–125, 130, 131 (opposition Bishop, Abraham: 60 to Bank of New York), 142–143 (Clinton Black River Tract (land speculation): 142, 179 versus Federalists) (Table 3: names of Park Theatre founders Cobbett, William (“Peter Porcupine”): with political, social, and financial 152, 165 affiliations) Codman, John, Jr.: 59 Blake, Joseph: 62 Colden, Henrietta Maria: 131 Board Alley Theatre: 63 (description), 65–66 College of Philadelphia: 41, 51, 55 (season), 66 (riot in), 73 Colonial period Boston Tontine Association (also Tontine or attitudes towards theater: 6, 13–14 Tontiner): 2–3, 7, 58–59, 60 (petition for Massachusetts: 13, 19, 22–24, 25, 26 repeal of anti-theatrical legislation), New York: 13, 26, 30, 31, 34 60–61 (connection to theater), 83, 107, Pennsylvania: 13, 14–16, 18, 19 109, 114 (connection to theater), 131, 150, entertainments 155, 173 (Table 1: names of founders of Massachusetts: 21, 22, 24 Federal Street Theatre with political and New York: 28, 29, 30, 31 financial affiliations) Pennsylvania: 15, 16–18 Box Lobby Challenge, The (Cumberland): 87 Committee of Correspondence (New York): 44 Breck, Samuel: 2, 55 Committee of Resistance (Pennsylvania): 40 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82508-5 - Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson: Into the Hands of the People Heather S . Nathans Index More information INDEX 241 Committee of Safety (New York): 44 elite (post-Revolutionary): 48, 50, 62, 65, 77, 91, (persecution of loyalists) 170, 171 Continental Congress: 6, 35, 36, 37, 38 Boston (see also Boston Tontine ban on theatrical entertainments: 6, 36, 37, Association): 57, 58, 67, 72, 84, 121, 149, 155, 38, 44 164, 166 Contrast, The (Tyler): 8, 45, 85, 95, 98, 127, 171 New York: 70, 91, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 149, Cosby, William: 29–30, 32 164 Coxe, Tench: 94 Philadelphia: 50–51, 52, 54, 55, 64, 67, 70, 84, Cruger family: 31, 124, 169 94, 100–101, 104, 121, 149, 154, 155, 166 John Cruger, Jr.: 32 Essex junto, or, Quixotic guardian, The Nicholas Cruger: 128 (Nichols): 165 Cruger’s Wharf: 31 Cushing, William: 80 Fair Penitent, The (Rowe): 74 Federal Constitution (ratification debates) Dancing Assembly (Philadelphia): 16–17, 41, New York: 127, 129–130 51, 140, 176 (Table 3: names of Chestnut Philadelphia: 51, 53–54 Street Theatre founders with political, “Federal Overture” (Carr): 81 social, and financial affiliations) Federal Street Theatre (Boston): 10, 70, 88, Davis, Caleb: 59, 62 106, 115, 150, 157, 167 (ordinance regulating Dawes, Thomas: 59 theater) DeLancey family: 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 43, 124 description: 67–68, 71–72, 107–108 James DeLancey: 29–30, 32, 44 financial difficulties: 119–120, 121, 161 “DeLanceyites”: 32 fire: 120, 156–157 “DeLancey’s Cowboys”: 44 founders (see also Boston Tontine “democracy of glee”: 7–8, 9, 11, 150, 151, 160, Association): 47, 71, 73, 82, 89, 91, 107, 108, 163, 171 109, 114, 170, 173 (Table 1: names of Democratic-Republican founders with political and financial party: 94, 95 (anti-slavery), 97, 98 (anti- affiliations) slavery), 100, 101, 104, 110 (Boston), 114 incidents in playhouse: 79–81, 84–85 (Boston), 133 (New York), 136 (New rivalry with Haymarket Theatre: 106, 107, York), 138, 158 (conflict in New York 108, 110, 113–114 theater), 159 (connection to New York Federalist (connection to theatrical Tammany Society) entertainments) Society: 3, 79 conflict in playhouse: 77–78, 151, 152, 167 Douglas (Home): 116 national party: 3, 49, 50, 77, 84, 150, 153 Douglass, David: 15, 16, 17, 24, 31, 32, 33, 34 Boston: 155, 173 (Table 1: names of Federal Dramatic Association (Philadelphia): 2, 47, Street Theatre founders with political 54–55, 63–64, 68, 154 affiliations), 174 (Table 2: names of Duer, William: 7, 124, 131–132 (bank stock Haymarket Theatre founders with scandal) political affiliations) Dunlap, William: 1 (“Father of American New York: 133, 158, 179 (Table 4: names of Drama”): 10, 11, 17, 46, 73, 128, 129, 139, Park Theatre founders with political, 146 (dispute with Park Theatre social, and financial affiliations) proprietors), 147 (vision for American Philadelphia: 51, 52, 104, 176 (Table 3: names theater), 147 (career), 150, 159–160 (Andre´ of Chestnut Street Theatre founders with controversy), 165 political, social, and financial affiliations) Dwight, Thomas: 112, 113, 114, 120, 156, 161 Fellowes, Nathaniel: 62 Finlay, William: 48, 50, 52, 53 Edwin and Angelina, or The Banditti (Smith): Fish, Nathaniel: 128 160 Fitzsimmons, Thomas: 52, 64 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82508-5 - Early American