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Royall Tyler (June 18, 1757 – August 26, 1826) was an American jurist, teacher and playwright. He was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard University in 1776, and then served in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolution. He was admitted to the bar in 1780, became a lawyer, and fathered eleven children. In 1801, he was appointed a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. He wrote a play, The Contrast, which was produced in 1787 in New York City, shortly after George Washington's inauguration. It is considered the first American comedy. Washington attended the production, which was well-received, and Tyler became a literary celebrity. (From Wikipedia) More about Royall Tyler:
| | Books by Royall Tyler: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines (Hartford, CT: P. B. Gleason and Co., 1816)- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The Contrast (Gutenberg text)
Additional books by Royall Tyler in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The Algerine captive; or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: six years a prisoner among the Algerines. [Three lines from Shakespeare] : Vol. I[-II]. : Published according to act of Congress. (Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire, : by David Carlisle, Jun. and sold at his bookstore., 1797), also by David Humphreys (HTML at Evans TCP)- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: Brattleboro, Vermont, souvenir 1912. (Vermont Print. Co., 1912), also by Margaret MacLaren Eager (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The chestnut tree; or, A sketch of Brattleborough <East Village> at the close of the twentieth century, being an address to a horse chestnut presented to the author by the Rev. A. L. Baury. (The Driftwind press, 1931) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The Contrast, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The contrast; a comedy (The Dunlap society, 1887), also by Thomas Jefferson McKee (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The contrast : a comedy in five acts (AMS Press, 1970), also by James B. Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The contrast; a comedy in five acts (Houghton Mifflin, 1920), also by James Benjamin Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: 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 copy-right) by Thomas Wignell. ; [Two lines in Latin from Virgil with two line English translation] (Philadelphia: : From the press of Prichard & Hall, in Market-Street, between Second and Front Streets., M.DCC.XC. [1790]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: Convivial song, sung at Windsor, on the evening of the Fourth of July. Composed for the occasion--by R. Tyler. Tune--"Here's to our noble selves, boys." ([Windsor, Vt. : Printed by Alden Spooner, 1799]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: Four plays by Royall Tyler (Princeton university press, 1941), also by George Floyd Newbrough (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: An oration, pronounced at Bennington, Vermont, on the 22d February, 1800. In commemoration of the death of General George Washington. / By Royall Tyler, Esq. (Walpole, Newhampshire, : Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by David Carlisle., 1800) (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The origin of evil. An elegy. : [Twelve lines of quotations] ([United States : s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCXCIII. [1793]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Vermont [1800-1803] : with cases of practice and rules of the court : commencing with the nineteenth century ... (I. Riley, 1809), also by Vermont. Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of ... Vermont. [1789-1827] (New York, 1809), also by Vermont. Supreme Court, Asa Aikens, William Brayton, and Daniel Chipman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: Tyler's reports. (I. Riley, 1809), also by Vermont. Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826: The Yankey in London, being the first part of a series of letters written by an American youth, during nine months' residence in the city of London ... (Isaac Riley, 1809) (page images at HathiTrust)
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