Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography | Page 3

Montrose J. Moses
Davis. "Among the Comedians." Atlantic Monthly, 19:750-61, June, 1867.
L. Clarke Davis. "At and After the Play." Lippincott, July, 1879.
Durang. "History of the Philadelphia Stage." Published in the Philadelphia Dispatch.
The Galaxy, February, 1868. On Hackett's Rip.
Harper's Magazine, 67:617. The Legend of Rip Van Winkle.
Laurence Hutton. "Curiosities of the American Stage." New York: Harper, 1891.
Laurence Hutton. "Plays and Players." New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1875.
Joseph Jefferson. "Autobiography." New York: Century. 1890.
Jefferson's version of "Rip." New York: Dodd, Mead. 1895.
Jefferson, Intimate Recollections of (by Eugenie Paul Jefferson). New York: Dodd, Mead. 1909.
Jefferson's Rip is detailed in the following magazines:
Ev. Sat., 10: 152, 162.
Radical (S. Johnson), 6: 133.
Nation (A. G. Sedgwick), 9: 247.
Atlantic Monthly (L. C. Davis), 19: 750.
Appleton, 19: 146.
Scribner, 1:216, December, 1870.
Harper, 42: 614, April, 1871.
Atlantic Monthly, 52:695.
"The Original of Rip Van Winkle." Lon. M., 5:229.
N. M. Ludlow. "Dramatic Life as I Found It." St. Louis: G. I. Jones & Co. 1880.
Brander Matthews. On Jefferson's Rip. Scribner. July, 1879.
Brander Matthews. "These Many Years." New York: Scribner. 1917.
Henry Morley. Journal of a London Playgoer. September 23, 1886.
Montrose J. Moses. "Famous Actor-Families in America." Chapters and Bibliographies under Hackett, Jefferson, Boucicault. New York: Crowell. 1906. (o.p.)
H.P. Phelps. "Players of a Century." Albany, 1880.
Sol. F. Smith. "Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years." New York: Harper. 1868.
J. B. Thompson, D.D. "The Genesis of the Rip Van Winkle Legend." Old Ulster. Kingston, N.Y. 1914. Vol. 10: 13-26.
Eugene Tompkins and Quincy Kilby. "History of the Boston Theatre." Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1908.
J. Rankin Towse. On Jefferson's Rip. Century, January, 1884.
J. Rankin Towse. "Sixty Years of the Theatre." New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1916.
J.H. Wainwright. Rip Van Winkle. Libretto. Lacy Acting Edition. Vol. 39.
Walsh (T.). Dion Boucicault The Career of. New York: Dunlap Society, 1915.
F.C. Wemyss. "Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager." New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1847. On Hackett's Rip.
Francis Wilson. "Joseph Jefferson: Reminiscences of a Fellow Player." New York: Scribner. 1906.
William Winter. "The Life of David Belasco." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. 1918.
William Winter. The Jeffersons. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co. 1881. (See also the Macmillan Life of Jefferson, by Winter. 1894.)
William Winter. "Other Days." New York: Moffat, Yard. 1908.
William Winter. "The Wallet of Time." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1913. (Besides the Rip references, see also J.T. Raymond and living's "Wolfert's Roost.")

GEORGE HENRY BOKER
General references for Boker, see Allibone, Lamb's Biographical Dictionary, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature.
Lawrence Barrett, A Professional Sketch of. By Elwyn A. Barren. Chicago: Knight & Leonard Co. 1889. (For a review of Barrett's opening in "Francesca," Philadelphia, see telegraphic report in the New York Tribune, September 15, 1882, p. 15.)
Alfred Bates. Drama. Vol. XX. p. 70.
Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co. 1874. p. 370.
Magazine references to Boker: Atlantic Monthly, 65: 427, March, 1890. Book Buyer, 1900, 2147. Critic, January 11, 1890; April 12, 1890; 1898, 33: 240. Harper's Monthly, 1882, 4: 633. Harper's Weekly, 1871, 15: 1173; 1890, 34: 32. Sewanee Review (J.W. Krutch), October, 1917, 25: 457-68.
Biographic du tr��s honorable Georges H. Boker. Ministre des Etats Unis Am��rique aupr��s de la Sublime Porte. L'Orient Illustr�� Journal Hebdomadaire, Constantinople, 22 Aug., 1874.
Reception tendered by the Members of the Union League of Philadelphia to George H. Boker, Minister of the United States to Turkey, Friday Evening, December 22, 1871. Philadelphia: 1872.
Cambridge History of American Literature. New York: Putnam. 1917. 1:494. Bibliography.
Century Association: Bryant Festival. 1865. 19.
J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett. "Plays of the Present." New York: Dunlap Society. 1902.
E. L. Davenport. A Biography, by E. F. Edgett. New York: Dunlap Society. 1901. (A complete bibliography of Davenport is in Moses' "Famous Actor-Families in America.")
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. "Cyclopedia of American Literature." Philadelphia: William Rutter & Co. 1877. 2 vols. 2:710.
Knickerbocker Gallery. 1855. p. 59.
Charles Godfrey Leland. A Biography. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Memoirs. 2 vols. London: Heinemann. 1893.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Reminiscences of George H. Boker. The American, 1890, March 1. 19:392-94.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Sartain's Magazine, 1851, 8:369-78.
George Parsons Lathrop. George H. Boker. Authors at Home. xxvii. Critic. n.s. vol. 9, April 14, 1888.
Morris. "Makers of Philadelphia." p. 78.
Oberholtzer. "Literary History of Philadelphia." Quinn, A. H. "The Dramas of George Henry Boker." Pub. of Modern Language Association of America. Vol. 32, no. 2, n.s., Vol. XXV, June, 1917, pp. 233-66.
T. Buchanan Read, A Memoir of. Philadelphia, 1889.
Augustus C. Rogers. "Sketches of Our Representatives Abroad."
Henry Simpson. "Lives of Eminent Philadelphians." Philadelphia: William Brotherhead. 1859. Charles S. Boker. By Joseph R. Chandler. (With portrait.) pp. 93-107.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Life and Letters of. Edited by Laura Stedman and George M. Gould. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1910. 2 vols.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. "Poets of America." Boston: Houghton. 1892.
Edmund
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