Primers to the Past: Colonial Fredericksburg and Theatrical Entertainment

Project Coordinator: Tom Clark, Stafford High School

Introduction

The Acting Companies

The Performance Spaces

The Audience and Plays

Theatre in Fredericksburg

Bibliography

1. Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. Free Press Paperbacks. 1996.

2. Burling, William and Johnson, Odai. The Colonial American Stage 1665-1774: A Documentary Calendar. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2001.

3. Felder, Paula S. Fielding Lewis and the Washington Family: A Chronicle of 18th Century Fredericksburg. American History Company. 1998.

4. Ford, Paul Leicester. Washington and the Theatre. The Dunlop Society. 1899.

5. Hornblow, Arthur. A History of the Theatre in America Vol. 1. J.B. Lippincott Company. 1919.

6. Rankin, Hugh. The Theatre in Colonial America. The University of North Carolina Press. 1965.

7. Playbill. Colonial Williamsburg. 2001.

8. Diaries. George Washington.

9. Diaries. Jonathan Clark.

10. Virginia Historical Magazine