The Case of the Nocturnal Amanuenses: New Evidence in the Wat Tyler Affair.
In early 1817 the "Ultra-royalist" Poet Laureate of England, Robert Southey, opened a newspaper and saw an advertisement for a radical play he had written in his "Ultra-jacobin" youth back in late 1794 (the phrases are William Hazlitt's). "By whose roguery it has got to the press I do not know," Sou...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 118; no. 2; pp. 277 - 304 |
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