The play was an adaptation by Alexander Pope
(not the poet, but a later namesake) from AP
's rendering of Kotzebue
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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AP
's original version was rejected for the stage as insufficiently theatrical.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane West
JW
provided two prefaces, one to the poems and one to the plays. The latter calls contemporary German playwrights (Schiller
, Goethe
, Kotzebue
) contemptible in composition.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 27 (1799): 131
Her...
Textual Features
Helen Maria Williams
This poem incorporates the result of serious historical reading, including Anne Plumptre
's translation of Kotzebue
's Die Spanier in Peru and William Robertson's History of America, 1777.