This work has three aims; to see why Restoration tragedy took the form known as heroic, what this term heroic implies and to see what lessons Restoration tragedies have for modern tragedy writers.
An account of the mutinies of the Spithead and the Nore in 1797.
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This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Byron, Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Smith Surtees, Thackeray and Maria Louise (de la) Ramee better ...