The Heart of Maryland (play)

The Heart of Maryland was a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco.

The four-act melodrama set in the American Civil War opened at the Herald Square Theatre in New York on October 22, 1895 and ran for 240 performances.

The play toured throughout the United States for several years, and was made into a silent film by the same title in 1927.

Belasco said that the play was inspired in part by the poem Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight by Rose Hartwick Thorpe.

As he recalled, "The picture of that swaying young figure hanging heroically to the clapper of an old church bell lived in my memory for a quarter of a century.