Editing Royall Tyler (section)

==Career as author==
In 1787, his comedy [[The Contrast (play)|''The Contrast'']] was performed in [[New York City]], the first American comedy to be performed by professional actors.  The play's first public showing was shortly after [[George Washington]]'s inauguration and Washington and several members of the [[1st United States Congress|First Congress]] attended.  The play was well-received, and Tyler became a literary celebrity.<ref name="New Yorker">{{cite news|last=Lepore|first=Jill|author-link = Jill Lepore |title=Prior Convictions|url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/04/14/080414crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all|accessdate=8 October 2012|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=14 April 2008}}</ref>

Tyler continued to write, and frequently collaborated with his friend [[Joseph Dennie]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Westbrook |first=Perry D. |title=A Literary History of New England  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLxZAAAAMAAJ&q=A+Literary+History+of+New+England |publisher=[[Lehigh University Press]] |year=1988 |pages=100 |isbn=0-934223-02-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Richards |first=Jeffrey H. |title=Early American Drama  |url=https://archive.org/details/earlyamericandra00rich |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Penguin Classics]] |year=1997 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/earlyamericandra00rich/page/1 1] |isbn=0-14-043588-3}}</ref> including co-writing a satirical column which appeared in Dennie's newspaper ''The Farmer's Weekly Museum''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tyler |first1=Royall |author-link=Royall Tyler |last2=Wilbur |first2=James Benjamin |title=The Contrast: A Comedy in Five Acts  |url=https://archive.org/details/contrastacomedy00wilbgoog |quote=Joseph Dennie Royall Tyler. |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |year=1920 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/contrastacomedy00wilbgoog/page/n167 119]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Milton |title=Joseph Dennie and His Circle: A Study in American Literature From 1792-1812 |publisher=AMS Press |year=1971 |pages=66–67 |isbn=0-404-02308-8}}</ref>  He published ''[[The Algerine Captive]]'' in 1797 and wrote several legal tracts, six plays, a musical drama, two long poems, many essays, and a semifictional travel narrative, 1809's ''The Yankey in London''.