Thomas Godfrey And His Controversial Prince of Parthia—The First Play Written And Performed In America

Thomas Godfrey’s Prince of Parthia has a complicated legacy. It is credited as being the first theatrical play written and performed by Americans. Yet, this is a complicated claim, as Godfrey—who died in 1763—wrote the work more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Godfrey never saw his play performed; […] The post Thomas Godfrey And His Controversial…