ABSTRACT

Hannah Brand, Huniades (ed. David Chandler, Kyoto University)

Hannah Brand’s Huniades (1791) is a historical play dramatizing the Turkish siege of Belgrade in 1456. At the center of the plot, Agmunda, sister of the absent King Ladislaus, becomes a pawn in the sexual-political power game played out between Turks and Christians. Engaging with the dispute over Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Brand’s play was of striking contemporary relevance, and the author was later marked down as “of the Wollstonecraft school.”