James Thomson (1700-1748) (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Although James Thomson’s reputation is as a poet, he also wrote plays that were generally successful in their day. He wrote five plays and coauthored a sixth. The Tragedy of Sophonisba, a tragedy about the Carthaginian queen Sophonisba, was performed and published in 1730. Thomson’s second tragedy, Agamemnon, appeared in 1738. His next two plays followed rapidly: Edward and Eleonora (1739) was prohibited by the censorship, and Alfred (1740) was coauthored with David Mallet. The play about King Alfred contains Thomson’s...
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