Times, the; or, Life in New York

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Times, the; or, Life in New York (1829), a comedy by “a gentleman of this city.” [Park Theatre, in repertory.] This apparently lost play was written as a vehicle for J. H. Hackett, giving him the popular character of Industrious Doolittle. According to the Mirror, the comedy consisted of “a dozen or so of scenes thrown cleverly though loosely together, exhibiting the manners and habits of the worthy inhabitants of this city. . . . There is a pretended English baronet . . . a Frenchman, two Broadway dandies (a black and a white), a plain merchant and his fashionable wife, a talking speculating Yankee, and a brace of young ladies and young gentlemen.” George Odell viewed it as an important precursor to plays such as A Glance at New York and the later Harrigan and Hart shows, while Arthur Quinn saw it as foreshadowing Fashion. It was, most certainly, in the tradition of Tom and Jerry, which had been offered at the same theatre six years earlier.

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