Royall Tyler (1757-1826), American playwright and novelist as well as a jurist, wrote the first successful American play.Royall Tyler was born into a prosperous and enterprising Boston family. His int...
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Royall Tyler came closer than anyone in his generation to answering the post-Revolutionary call for a native American literature. In The Contrast (produced on 16 April 1787 and published in 1790), the...
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Royall Tyler
Royall Tyler