Amy Garnai, "Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives "
English | ISBN: 1684484448 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 8 MB
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