{"id":400,"date":"2013-09-16T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masplayhouse.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-09-17T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:06:29","slug":"godfrey-thomas-playwright-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masplayhouse.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/godfrey-thomas-playwright-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Godfrey Thomas Playwright of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son of Thomas Godfrey (1704\u20131749), a Philadelphia glazier and member of Benjamin Franklin\u2019s Junto Club, Godfrey produced some significant work in his short life.<br \/>\nWell known in literary circles in Philadelphia, he was a close friend of the poet Nathaniel Evans and the college provost William Smith. In 1758 he left Philadelphia for Wilmington, North Carolina, to enter business.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn 1762 he published the long poem The Court of Fancy and also published occasional pieces in local magazines. His most memorable work is a blank-verse play, The Prince of Parthia, A Tragedy, which appeared in a posthumous volume, Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, that Evans published in 1765, which also included elegies from Evans and J Green.<\/p>\n<p>The play, which echoes Shakespeare\u2019s political tragedies, was first staged in 1767. Critic Moses Coit Tyler remarked that \u201cThomas Godfrey is a true poet, and \u2018The Prince of Parthia\u2019 is a noble beginning of dramatic literature in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sourced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/thomas-godfrey\/biography\/\">Poem Hunter<\/a>. Please check visit for the full biography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of Thomas Godfrey (1704\u20131749), a Philadelphia glazier and member of Benjamin Franklin\u2019s Junto Club, Godfrey produced some significant work in his short life. 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