Revolutionary historian; Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 20, 2005 ;     162 words ...Growing up in Barnstable on Cape Cod, Mercy Otis was not given any formal education, but she was allowed to...Samuel Adams as they traveled between Boston and Cape Cod. Mercy Otis Warren's contributions to the revolutionary cause were her...

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and...

Early American Literature;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic...theorists, Catherine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren. Recently, scholars such as...Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791) and Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) conducted a twenty-ye...

SADDAM'S DOUBLE ACT.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  April 25, 2003 ;     27 words ...A THEATRE is advertising for Saddam Hussein lookalikes for a new satirical play. Flak jackets, berets and fake moustaches will be provided for the audition on May 1 in London.

Warren, Mercy Otis

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      122 words ...Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814), sister of James Otis, wife of James Warren (1726–1808), president of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts...

Students who `insult' Iran held

The Independent - London;  September 25, 1999 ;     43 words ...THE BATTLE over free speech has returned to Iran's campuses with the arrest of two students for insulting Islam in a satirical play, student leaders said yesterday. Two classmates at Amir Kabir Technical University in Tehran, which is seen as a hot-bed of reform, were held.

Revisiting the year of the Queen's silver jubilee

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 15, 2006 ;     436 words ......September 21 to October 7. Box Office: 01392 493493. Short, satirical play RETURNING from performances in Brest earlier this year...Project 2006, A Respectable Wedding is a rarely-produced short satirical play which gleefully satirises obsessions with social facade...

PRESENT AT THE CREATION - The literary contributions of two figures - one...

The Boston Globe;  June 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ...BOOK REVIEW The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation By Nancy Rubin Stuart...In the first, "The Muse of the Revolution," we learn that Mercy Otis Warren got a terrific education thanks to an uncle who tutored...

HONORING MERCY OTIS WARREN, AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN A NEW NATION

The Boston Globe;  August 18, 1987 ;     601 words ......demonstrating that policy makers who ignore the voice of women do so at their peril. For the person to be honored Friday is Mercy Otis Warren, one of the most colorful and influential figures in the nation's first four decades. During the Revolutionary period...

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and...

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender...intellectuals of the British Atlantic: Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren. Kate Davies's excellent new study of these two authors...

`Art' to change cast on Jan. 26

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 13, 1999 ;     110 words ..."Art" is being redrawn. Yasmina Reza's satirical play, about three men whose longtime friendship begins to unravel after one of them purchases an all-white canvas for an exorbitant...

Writer has an `Exclusive'

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 21, 1988 ;     88 words ...Novelist Jeffrey Archer, who won record libel damages against a London newspaper, says he is writing a satirical play about journalists. "Exclusive" will open in London's West End next September, Archer said Sunday in London. The play covers one...

ASK THE GLOBE

The Boston Globe;  February 11, 1990 ;     162 words ...Q. Who was Mercy Otis Warren? I am told she was an advocate of women's liberation in the early 18th century. D.A., Walpole A. A playwright and historian...

Check It Out! ; Not All Fascinating Life Stories Belong To The Very...

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  August 3, 2008 ;     183 words ...1 THE MUSE OF THE REVOLUTION: THE SECRET PEN OF MERCY OTIS WARREN AND THE FOUNDING OF A NATION, by Nancy Rubin Stuart. Warren was a sister, wife and mother of patriots, the first female...

Barry, Philip

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      275 words ......father, trying to guide his son into an artistic career, reveals his own thwarted ambition. Following The Youngest (1924), a satirical play concerning the revolt of a youngest son from the bourgeois standards of his family, and In a Garden (1925), a sophisticated...

Debut for promising playwright

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  March 14, 2007 ;     149 words ......Billed as a "surreal tragicomedy, interspersed with the laugh-out- loud quality of classic British sitcom", the darkly satirical play follows the story of a fiercely intelligent young girl and her refusal to toe the establishment line against the backdrop...