Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives

Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives

Garnai, Amy

Paperback

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Literary CriticismSocial MovementsTechnical Theater

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 168448443X
ISBN13: 9781684484430
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Jan 13 2023
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. In engaging with theatrical censorship, apostacy, and the response of audiences and critics to radical drama, this thoughtful study also demonstrates how theater functions in times of political repression. Despite his struggles, Holcroft also had major successes: this book examines his surprisingly robust afterlife, as his plays, especially The Road to Ruin, were repeatedly revived worldwide in the nineteenth century.

Also in

Technical Theater

View All