Creating the United States

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The American revolutionary cause was promoted by imaginative dramas written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), the most prominent American woman writer and playwright of the revolutionary era. The Adulateur was a three-act play depicting the struggle as a conflict between the villain Repatio (Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson) and Brutus (Mercy’s brother and radical pamphleteer James Otis).
The American revolutionary cause was promoted by imaginative dramas written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), the most prominent American woman writer and playwright of the revolutionary era. <em>The Adulateur</em> was a three-act play depicting the struggle as a conflict between the villain Repatio (Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson) and Brutus (Mercy’s brother and radical pamphleteer James Otis).