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Inflaming American Sentiments
The American revolutionary cause was promoted by imaginative dramas written by Marcy Otis Warren, the most prominent American woman writer and playwright of the revolutionary era. The Adulateur initially was published as a series of satirical sketches in the spring of 1772 in the Massachusetts Spy, a Boston newspaper. The paper was later expanded and published in this pamphlet form.
Central to Warren's political satire is the struggle between the villain Rapatio (Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson) and Brutus (Mercy's brother and radical pamphleteer James Otis) set in the aftermath of the Boston Massacre.
Mercy Otis Warren, The Adulatuer. A Tragedy... Boston, 1773 |