Catholics and Catholicism, 9, 22, 24, 57, 122, 244, 296n54

Cato, 16, 162

Caulfield, Mr., 220, 333n554

Cezaron, M., 179–180

Chambers, Mr. and Mrs., 112

Chambersburg, Pa., 180, 212, 215, 217, 224–226

Chandler, Mary, 42, 301n100

Charnock, Mr., 215

Chatham Theatre (New York), 54, 239

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia)

about, 57, 72, 72, 133–170

Durang, Charles, 137–138, 140, 142–150, 153, 155, 157–158, 160–162, 164–170

Durang and, 84, 95, 113, 122, 133–170, 185, 196, 204, 207–208, 219, 224

Durang’s family and, 53–54, 239–240

fire at, 230, 236

Jefferson and, 75

Mr. and Mrs. Blissett and, 196

rebuilding of, 318n220

repertory of, 82, 110, 113

Cinderella, 92, 151–152, 160, 185, 188

circuses

about, 107–112

Durang and, 36, 55, 78–90, 112–125, 136

Lailson’s, 125–127

Pepin and Breschard’s, 153–154, 156

See alsoRicketts’s Circus

City Dancing Assembly (Philadelphia), 15, 173–175, 183

City Tavern (Philadelphia), 174

clown, clowning

about, 89–90, 97, 107

Durang as, 69, 82, 87, 94, 116, 119

and horsemanship, 71

and Ricketts’s Circus, 72, 116, 119

and rope dancing, 69, 87

See alsocircuses; Harlequin

Code of Terpsichore(Blasis), 192

Coffea, Mrs., 205

Coffie, Mr., 112

Cole, Edward, 220–221

Cole, George, 220–221

Cole (Kohl), Elizabeth, 221, 240

Collection of the Newest Cotillions and Country Dances, A (Griffiths), 193

“College Hornpipe”, 27, 83

Colome (Colonne), M., 180

Col. Snyder’s Tavern (Chambersburg), 212, 215

Columbia Garden (Baltimore), 205, 207, 210

Columbus, 162

commedia dell-arte, 26, 89, 91, 97

Comus, 33

Constitution, The; or, American Tars Triumphant, 159

Constitution, U.S., 47–48, 65

Constitutional Convention, 47–48, 51, 65

Continental Congress, 12, 16

Contrast, The, 60–61, 65

Cooke, George Frederick, 142, 157–159

Cooper, Michael, 244

Cooper, Samuel, 24