A World Turned "Topsy Turvy": Robert Munford, "The Patriots", and the Crisis of the Revolution in Virginia

A World Turned "Topsy Turvy": Robert Munford, "The Patriots", and the Crisis of the Revolution in Virginia

Robert Munford's The Patriots was written in 1777, in the midst of the Revolutionary War in Virginia, and thus presents a remarkably vivid portrait of a society and political culture under stress. The play only very thinly disguises--and often heightens--the author's uncertainties, anxieti...

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Veröffentlicht in:The William and Mary quarterly 2004-04, Vol.61 (2), p.235-270
1. Verfasser: McDonnell, Michael A.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
American Revolution
Committees
Conservatism
Drama
Literary criticism
Men
Munford, Robert
Patriotism
Political candidates
Political revolutions
Protagonists
Resistance movements
Theater
War
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Zusammenfassung:Robert Munford's The Patriots was written in 1777, in the midst of the Revolutionary War in Virginia, and thus presents a remarkably vivid portrait of a society and political culture under stress. The play only very thinly disguises--and often heightens--the author's uncertainties, anxieties and worries about the direction that the Revolution appeared to be taking.
ISSN:0043-5597
1933-7698
DOI:10.2307/3491786