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‘I Am Going to America’: James Sheridan Knowles's Virginius and the Politics of ‘Liberty’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Gerald. D. Parker
Gerald. D. Parker
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Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, London.
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My dear Mackenzie, the fact is—my plays are too liberal for the aristocratic illiberals of Ireland.… My plays breathe the noble sentiments of the influential classes of Ireland.… But I am going to a place where the feelings and the reality of liberty exist in their most glowing form—and not the form alone, but the embodied spirit. I am going to America.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1992 , pp. 15 - 25
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1992

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