The British Background of the American Hallams

Philip H. Highfill

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Among the pioneer artists who sought with uneven luck to bring some reflection of European culture to the crude seaports and market towns of the American eastern seaboard in the eighteenth century, none had such lasting importance as the Hallam family, the founders of the first permanent and stable theatrical company in North America.

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1927Annals of the New York stage 1960Charles Macklin 1940Strolling Players and Drama in the Provinces, 1660-1765 1933The Philadelphia Theatre in the Eighteenth Century 1920A History of the Theatre in America 1966The Theatre in Colonial America

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