ABSTRACT
This chapter offers academics the chance to build a complete picture of William Godwin as a writer and political figure. Godwin spent most of 1790 working on his history play St Dunstan and completed it in December of that year, but it is unknown if he submitted to a theatre at that time. The play is written almost solely on the rectos of the folios with the Dramatis Personae on 1 verso. There are also sporadic notes very few on some of the other versos. Godwin did submit it to Covent Garden in January 1796 after revision but the play was rejected, unsurprising given the play's provocative content and the political climate of the time. Godwin drew on the play for his later novel St Leon. The play was never performed and is published here in a modern scholarly edition for the first time.
