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    The Group A Farce
    The Group A Farce
    The Group A Farce
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    The Group A Farce

    By Montrose Jonas Moses and Mercy Otis Warren

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Group A Farce - Montrose Jonas Moses

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Group, by Mercy Warren

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      Title: The Group

      A Farce

      Author: Mercy Warren

      Editor: Montrose J. Moses

      Release Date: June 26, 2009 [EBook #29224]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GROUP ***

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This e-book contains the text of The Group, extracted from Representative Plays by American Dramatists: Vol 1, 1765-1819. Comments and background to all the plays, and links to the other plays are available here.

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      Mrs Mercy Warren.

      Prologue

      Dramatis Personæ

      ACT I.

      ACT II.

      Spelling as in the original has been preserved.

      THE GROUP

      By Mrs. Mercy Warren

      Mrs. Mercy Warren

      MRS. MERCY WARREN

      (1728-1814)

      Most of the literature—orations as well as broadsides—created in America under the heat of the Revolution, was of a strictly satirical character. Most of the Revolutionary ballads sung at the time were bitter with hatred against the Loyalist. When the conflict actually was in progress, the theatres that regaled the Colonists were closed, and an order from the Continental Congress declared that theatre-going was an amusement from which all patriotic people should abstain. These orders or resolutions were dated October 12, 1778, and October 16. (Seilhamer, ii, 51.) The playhouses were no sooner closed, however—much to the regret of Washington—than their doors were thrown wide open by the British troops stationed in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. A complete history of the American stage has to deal with Howe's players, Clinton's players, and Burgoyne's players.

      Of all these Red-Coat Thespians, two demand our attention—one, Major André, a gay, talented actor; the other, General Burgoyne, whose pride was as much concerned with playwriting as with generalship. The latter dipped his pen in the satirical inkpot, and wrote a farce, The Blockade of Boston. It was this play that drew forth from a woman, an American playwright, the retort stinging. This lady was Mrs. Mercy Warren[1] who, although distinguished for being a sister of James Otis, and the wife of General James Warren, was in her own name a most important and distinct

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