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- W89332579 abstract "Judith Sargent Murray's stage play, The Traveller Returned (1796), is set in an American coastal city (read Boston) in the last year of the Revolutionary War.1 It features a pseudonymous American, Ramble ton, whose return to his native country from England causes suspi cion; a young officer, Camden, whose unawareness of his parentage nearly leads him into an incestuous relationship with his sister, Harriot Mon tague; a theft of Rambleton's valuables by his landlords, the Vansittarts; an inquisition by the local Committee of Safety; and a happy conclusion in which Rambleton is reunited with his son, daughter, and estranged wife; the thieves are caught; and the young couples are properly matched. As one of the few plays by an American before 1800 to reach an American stage, The Traveller Returned has mostly been taken as a good effort by a talented writer and not much more (Meserve 153-55).2 A quick-paced and multidimensional play by one of the early republic's most capable authors, Traveller deserves another look. While the American writer no doubt had several models in mind (includ ing Royall Tyler's The Contrast), she appears to have constructed her play as a variation upon a primary source. In the way that Tyler's better-known comedy was modeled on a drama that the playwright had seen in New York, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal (1777), so Murray borrowed heavily from one of the more popular British comedies on Ameri can stages, Richard Cumberland's The West Indian (1771). Although not nearly as well known now as he was in his own time, Cumberland was a skillful writer of social comedies whose plays long held the boards in En gland, the United States, and Jamaica. Despite the satiric portrayal of him in Sheridan's The Critic (1779) as Sir Fretful Plagiary, Cumberland had sufficient reputation in the 1780s that John Adams, during one of his post war diplomatic missions, sought him out (along with Arthur Murphy) on behalf of American playwright Mercy Otis Warren.3 It is not surprising that Murray, an admirer of Warren's plays and correspondent with her, and a political supporter of Adams (to whom she dedicated her collection" @default.
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- W89332579 title "HOW TO WRITE AN AMERICAN PLAY Murray's Traveller Returned and Its Source" @default.
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