Studies in Romanticism, March 22nd, 2001
IN THE SUMMER OF 1757, DAVID HUME EXULTED TO A FELLOW-SCOT, "IS IT not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our parliaments, our independent Government, even the Presence of our Chief Nobility ... that, in these Circumstances, we shou'd really be the People most distinguish'd for literature in Europe?"(1) Hume may well have had in mind the controversial success of his friend John Home's tragedy, Douglas, produced in Edinburgh in late 1756 and in London the following spring. Douglas was celebrated by its admirers as decisive proof that Edinburgh had come to rival London as a...
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