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Overall: Many of Brooke's works reflect the sentimentality characteristic of the mid-18th c. A patriot Whig with staunch anti-Catholic protestant tendencies, Brooke received government censure for his politically controversial works; his play Gustavus Vasa: the Deliverer of his Country, and his satirical opera Jack the Giant-Queller, were banned for their subversive content. He was very active in Ireland's political life, publishing a number of zealous pamphlets. The novel The Fool of Quality is his best-known work. The DNB characterizes Brooke as "a representative of the tightly-knit Anglo-Irish class of the mid-eighteenth century and a man of letters trying his hand at various literary genres." | |||
Property / Biographical notes: Overall: Many of Brooke's works reflect the sentimentality characteristic of the mid-18th c. A patriot Whig with staunch anti-Catholic protestant tendencies, Brooke received government censure for his politically controversial works; his play Gustavus Vasa: the Deliverer of his Country, and his satirical opera Jack the Giant-Queller, were banned for their subversive content. He was very active in Ireland's political life, publishing a number of zealous pamphlets. The novel The Fool of Quality is his best-known work. The DNB characterizes Brooke as "a representative of the tightly-knit Anglo-Irish class of the mid-eighteenth century and a man of letters trying his hand at various literary genres." / rank | |||
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* 1703, + 1783-10-10, Irish writer
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English | Henry Brooke |
* 1703, + 1783-10-10, Irish writer |
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10 October 1783Gregorian
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Education: Trinity College, Dublin, matriculated 1720
Career: sent to read law at the Temple 1724; chamber counsel in Dublin for 7 years; barrack-master in co. Kildare; writer and playwright
Patrons: Garrick
Periodicals etc.: translated the ?Man of Law's Tale? in Ogle's reworking of the Canterbury Tales
Overall: Many of Brooke's works reflect the sentimentality characteristic of the mid-18th c. A patriot Whig with staunch anti-Catholic protestant tendencies, Brooke received government censure for his politically controversial works; his play Gustavus Vasa: the Deliverer of his Country, and his satirical opera Jack the Giant-Queller, were banned for their subversive content. He was very active in Ireland's political life, publishing a number of zealous pamphlets. The novel The Fool of Quality is his best-known work. The DNB characterizes Brooke as "a representative of the tightly-knit Anglo-Irish class of the mid-eighteenth century and a man of letters trying his hand at various literary genres."
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