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Part III - Enlightened Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2019

Edited by
David O'Shaughnessy
David O'Shaughnessy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
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Summary

Macklin’s Henry the VII (1746) has received little critical attention. This chapter reads the play as part of a tradition of Irish history plays that were influenced by Joseph Addison’s Cato (1713). Addison’s themes of personal self-sacrifice, love of country and resistance to tyranny proved inspirational for Irish dramatists in the wake of the Declaratory Act (1720) as can be seen in William Philips’s Hibernia Freed (1722) and Henry Brooke’s Gustavus Vasa (1739). History plays then might offer an alternative genealogy of eighteenth-century Irish theatre which is often focused on comedies.

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Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 , pp. 165 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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