SOURCE: "Horace Walpole as Dramatist," The South Atlantic Quarterly, XXVIII, No. 2, April, 1929, pp. 174-89.
In this essay, Holzknecht reevaluates Walpole's importance to the historical development of drama by examining the romantic elements of The Castle of Otranto alongside the unacted drama The Mysterious Mother.
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