3-028-730 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene from "La Belle Sauvage," at the St. James's Theatre, 1870. London stage production. "The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage" (1808), is a melodrama by James Nelson Barker about the Pocahontas story. Though originally written as a play, Barker decided to turn it into an operatic melodrama, collaborating with John Bray, who wrote the music. It is the first play that survives in its entirety with Native American characters. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.