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Line 19: \| web = }} '''''The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage''''', is a musical play with a libretto by [[James Nelson Barker]] and music by [[John Bray (composer)\|John Bray]], based on the [[Pocahontas]] story as originally recorded in [[John Smith (explorer)\|John Smith]]'s ''[[The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles\|The Generall Historie of Virginia]]'' (~~1624~~1621). The piece is structured in the style of a [[Ballad-opera]], with songs and choruses, and also has music underlying dialogue, like a [[melodrama]]. Pocahontas persuades her father, King [[Powhatan]], to free Smith and becomes attracted to [[John Rolfe]], breaking off her arranged marriage with a neighboring tribal prince, an action that leads to war. Her tribe wins the war, but her father loses trust in the white settlers; Pocahontas warns the settlers who reconcile with Powhatan. Several comic romances end happily, and Smith predicts a great future for the new country. The play deals with relations between [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas\|Native Americans]] and the first European settlers in America. Scholars have debated whether the piece is progressive in its depiction of the natives and have commented that the work reflects an emerging American dramatic and musical sensibility. It served to popularize and romanticize the Pocahontas story as an important American myth.

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