Dramas: Michael Bonham, Norman Maurice, and Benedict Arnold

by William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms's 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 continued to persist after the Missouri Compromise and Nullification Crisis are discussed in detail. Yet, the blank verse Simms used was not poetic, Shakespearean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611176867
• ISBN13: 9781611176865
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"