ABSTRACT
Hunt, Descent of Liberty (1815); Theatrical Inquisitor, VI (April 1815), 289–298. The editor-reviewer professes to be sympathetic with Hunt’s political career but is obviously repelled by Hunt’s personality. In his criticism of Hunt’s masque, he fails to take into account the genre’s artificial tradition that authorized many of Hunt’s conventions. Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841), mentioned as a bad dramatic writer (pp. 295, 297), had begun his career in 1786 with the tragedy Werter and turned out numerous tragedies, comedies, operas, and musical farces.
