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Informationen zum Autor AMY GARNAI teaches at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the author of Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald , and her essays have been published in Women's Writing , SEL , Eighteenth-Century Studies , The Wordsworth Circle , and The Review of English Studies . Klappentext Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama reintroduces Holcroft as a central figure in the 1790s and beyond. His life is examined alongside his plays, memoir, diary, and personal correspondence, along with the critical and popular response to his radical drama, showing how theater functions in times of political repression. Holcroft’s robust afterlife is also discussed, especially his play The Road to Ruin, revived worldwide throughout the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality. This volume authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Thomas Holcroft and the Treason Trials Chapter Two: The Road to Ruin and its Afterlives Chapter Three: Radicalism, Authorship and Sincerity in Holcroft's Later Plays Chapter Four: Holcroft's Diary and Other Life Writing Chapter Five: Holcroft's Melodrama Chapter Six: Final Years and Other Afterlives Bibliography
