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Bibliography: Shenandoah by Howard, Bronson

Title
Shenandoah
Author
Howard, Bronson
Date
1897
Genre
drama
Note Source
My Antonia Book III, Chap. 3; Journal 4/17/1895
Note Relating to Cather

In My Antonia, Jim Burden and Lina Lingard see Shenandoah in Lincoln.

In an 1895 Journal, Cather writes: "While the play is unavoidably as full of patriotism as a small boy on the Fourth of July, Mr. Howard kept it remarkably free from those mawkish and motheaten phrases and those maudlin and sentimental lines which usually find their way into military dramas. The fact that the much-enduring American flag is not once trotted out upon the stage is worth mentioning, as it is an instance of the self-respecting tone of the whole drama."