Series: The Enlightenment World

This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture.

William Godwin and the Theatre explores the contributions of William Godwin, a significant figure of the Romantic period, to the world of drama. Godwin penned four plays at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, works that have awaited a comprehensive discussion for some time. This book sets out with two main objectives: firstly, to deliver the first in-depth...