"The Barons", Quebec, 1805: Thomas Cary?

[awagner]

Bonjour, Andre:

Patrick O'Neill posts the text of  Thomas Cary's prologue for the opening of
the Patagonian Theatre in 1805 in his "Prologues and Epilogues as Performed
on Canadian Stages in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" found on the
Atlantic Canada Theatre Site www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre

He lists the date of publication in the Quebec Mercury as 5 January 1805.
The prologue can be found in the table of contents under "Quebec, 9 October
1804", the date when the prologue was first performed.

Patrick may also be able to help with your most interesting discovery of the
play text The Barons in the April/May Quebec Mercury as well as with the
Maria Pinckney. Best wishes, Anton Wagner.

----- Original Message -----
From: "BOURASSA ANDRE G" <bourassa.andre_g at UQAM.CA>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:02 PM
Subject: "The Barons", Quebec, 1805: Thomas Cary?


> Bonjour!
> I am correcting proofs of an article on theatre in Quebec. While rying to
> find the exact title et date of Thomas Cary's prologue for the opening of
> the Patagonian Theatre, in 1805 (I am still looking for it), I  come
> adross a play in 5 acts, _The Barons_. It was published in Thomas
> Cary's journal, _Quebec Mercury_, from 13 april to 15 may 1805, every time
> in the last or two last pages of the essues.
> But who wrote the play? The weekly edition strats this way:
> "Potry / As the following dramatic piece has never been published, and, as
> it is very short, we, at the request of the author, submit it to the
> public eye in such parts as may not occupy too much of our paper. /
> _The Barons / or / Feudal Times_. / A Drama."
> It seems evident that the author lived in Quebec. Could it be Cary
> himself? I didn't find a clue un the _Oxford Guide_, De _D.B.C._ or
> Web sites. So, I hope that some of you do actually know.
> I thank you in advance,
> André G. Bourassa
> <bourassa.andre_g at uqam.ca>.