TURNBULL, JOHN D.
Rudolph; or, The Robbers of Calabria. A Melodrama in Three Acts, as performed at the Boston Theatre. Boston, 1799. 18mo, pp. 141.
Several editions were published of this play.
Wood Dæmon; or, The Clock Has Struck. A Drama. Boston, 1808. 24mo, pp. 34.
TYLER, ROYALL
Royall Tyler was born in Boston on July 18, 1758, died in Brattleboro, Vt., August 16, 1826. He was graduated from Harvard in 1776 and studied law in the office of John Adams. He was aide-de-camp to General Benjamin Lincoln in the Revolution and in Shay's Rebellion in 1786. He contributed to the Farmer's Museum, and when Dennie became editor, Tyler was called in to assist him. He published a series of papers in the Port-Folio for 1801. In 1797 he published, at Walpole, N. H., his Algerine Captive, or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines; 2 vols. In 1804 he contributed to the Columbian Sentinel. In 1800 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He also contributed to The New England Galaxy and Polyanthus. In 1809 he published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont.
The Contrast. A Comedy in Five Acts. Written by a Citizen of the United States. Performed with applause at the theatres in New York, Philadelphia and Maryland; and published (under an assignment of the copyright) by Thomas Wignell. Philadelphia: From the press of Prichard & Hall, in Market Street, between Second and Front Streets. M.DCC.XC. Plate. Sm. 8vo, pp. xxii-107.
First played at the John Street Theatre, April 16, 1787.
Reprinted by the Dunlap Society, New York, 1887.
As the great business of the polite world is the eager pursuit
of amusement, and as the Public diversions of the season
have been interrupted by the hostile parade in the capital; the
exhibition of a new farce may not be unentertaining.