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Horace Walpole

HORACE WALPOLE

  (1717 - 1797)
Nationality:    English
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 - 2 March 1797) was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. Along with the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of the first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, a cousin to Admiral Lord Nelson's grandmother, and was equally known as Horace Walpole. As he was childless, his barony descended to his cousin of the same surname, who was created the new Earl of Orford. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole

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below is a list of Horace Walpole's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Mysterious Mother, The         Renaissance

Mysterious Mother, The

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Written in 1768 and given its subject matter of incest and Walpole's taste for the macabre, this blank-verse drama has had to wait until now to be performed. A countess with a secret, a daughter who thinks she is an orphan, a son who has been banished and the villainous father-confessor are revealed in more psychological detail than the conventions of the time would ever have allowed.

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Renaissance

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Written by Andrew Lloyd Baughman; Steven Gottleib; Howard Walpur

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DC Arts Center, Washington D C    20 Apr 2007

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