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Campbell, Bartley
Campbell, Bartley [ Thomas Campbell] (1843–88), American dramatist, one of the first to make playwriting his only profession, giving up journalism when his first play, the melodrama Through Fire, was produced in 1871. He was associated for some years with a theatre in Chicago where several of his own plays were produced, among them Fate (1872) and Risks (1873). His best work, My Partner (1879), was a drama in which a man is wrongly accused of killing his rival in love. Among his other works were the emotional melodramas The Gallery Slave (also 1879) and The White Slave (1882), the latter, though compared unfavourably to Boucicault's The Octoroon, becoming his greatest success. Several of his other plays, however, which he directed and financed himself, lost the money which his popular plays had earned, and he died insane, of overwork and worry.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Campbell, Bartley." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Campbell, Bartley." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-CampbellBartley.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Campbell, Bartley." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-CampbellBartley.html |
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Campbell, Bartley
Campbell, Bartley (1843–88), author of popular melodramas, moral and domestic dramas, and a blank‐verse tragedy. His best play, My Partner (1879), shows the influence of Bret Harte in the treatment of California frontier life. The White Slave (1882) contains the line, “Rags are royal raiment, when worn for virtue's sake,” planted for the melodramatic effect that Campbell liked. His plays are collected in America's Lost Plays (1941).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Campbell, Bartley." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Campbell, Bartley." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-CampbellBartley.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Campbell, Bartley." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-CampbellBartley.html |
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