Though the play is set in Servia (a place chosen not for its history or geography but its sound), the names are Roman, matching the title-page quotation from Addison
's Cato. All the characters...
Publishing
Mercy Otis Warren
MOW
anonymously published in the Massachusetts Spy the first instalment of her patriotic, or pro-independence, one-act play The Adulateur, an attack on Governor Thomas Hutchinson
.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press.
83, 254
Timeline
June 1772: Boston radicals agitated for the dismissal...
National or international item
June 1772
Boston radicals agitated for the dismissal of Thomas Hutchinson
, Governor of Massachusetts, after confidential letters by him were leaked.
Texts
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1970.