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Benedict Arnold: The Traitor. A Drama, In An EssayDrama | 1863 Throughout Simms’s career, one of his paramount concerns was
the connection between art and history, and the role of the literary artist in conveying
history. While readers see Simms
exploring these connections in his Revolutionary Romances, other scattered
works of fiction, and the essays in Views
and Reviews, one of the writer’s most intriguing presentations of the ability
of art to interpret history is in the genre-mixing Benedict Arnold: The Traitor. A Drama, in an Essay. Critic Miriam J. Shillingsburg regards Benedict Arnold as worthy of
commendation for its “thoughtful ... |
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Michael Bonham; or, The Fall of Bexar. A Tale of TexasDrama | John R. Thompson | 1852 “I
have also a very Texan drama unpublished in my desk,” Simms wrote to state
legislator, Armistead Burt, in January 1845, “which will make a rumpus, be
sure, if ever it reaches light upon the stage.”[1] That drama, Michael Bonham, was originally published pseudonymously (by “A
Southron”) in the Southern Literary
Messenger from February to June 1852.
Richmond publisher, John R. Thompson, released it as a small pamphlet
after its serial run in July 1852.[2] The drama is based on James Butler Bonham, a
South Carolina native and lieutenant in the Texas Calvary, who died ... |
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Norman Maurice; or, The Man of the People. An American Drama in Five Acts.Drama | John R. Thompson | 1851 Throughout his long career,
Simms was regularly concerned with theatre, though drama would always be the
genre with which he had the least commercial and critical success. Norman
Maurice; or,The Man of the the People is perhaps Simms’s best dramatic
work, though its failings are typical of his theatrical frustrations. Norman
Maurice was a lofty experiment, mixing contemporary politics with common
language presented in the format of the Elizabethan tragedy. Written in strict blank verse, Norman Maurice is a play in which the
Constitutional and slavery questions that ... |