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Androboros
Androboros (1714), a “biographical farce” by Robert Hunter. Established as the first American play to be printed, it has left no records of any performance. Hunter published the work in 1714 as an oblique attack on his adversary, the colonial administrator Francis Nicholson. He depicted Nicholson as Androboros (Man Eater), a militaristic hothead determined to war against the Mulomachians (the French). Androboros persuades an all‐too‐docile senate to pass a resolution praising his bravery. When asked to explain its action, the senate suggests it praised Androboros before the battle, since there might be no reason to afterward. The play also attacked the officials of Trinity Church, who opposed Hunter after his refusal to grant land to the parish. The title page claimed the book was printed in Moronopolis (City of Morons). Robert HUNTER (d. 1734) was governor of New York and New Jersey from 1710 to 1719 and later served as governor in Jamaica from 1729 until his death. He was an author of some contemporary repute, his works having been singled out for praise by Jonathan Swift.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Androboros." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Androboros." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Androboros.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Androboros." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Androboros.html |
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Androboros
Androboros, the first American play to be printed (1714), was written by Robert Hunter, governor of New York (1710–19), and has been reprinted from its rare first edition in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library (March 1964). A political satire, it was never produced, and the publication bears the fictitious imprint, Moronopolis (“fools' town”). It is an attack on the colonial administrator and military leader Francis Nicholson, who is given the name Androboros (“man eater”). The plot deals with Androboros's proposed attack on the Mulomachians (the French), and the senate's resolution that he has behaved courageously in the attack, which he has not yet made. When the keeper (the author, Hunter) asks why they pass the resolution before the expedition, he is told that it is because there will be less reason after the encounter.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Androboros." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Androboros." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Androboros.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Androboros." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Androboros.html |
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