WorkJohn Howard Payne

Brutus; or, The Fall of Tarquin: A Tragedy in Five Acts

Brutus; or, The Fall of Tarquin: A Tragedy in Five Acts (first performed 1818; published London: R. White, 1819) Inferred

John Howard Payne (1791–1852) · first performed 1818; published London: R. White, 1819

InferredIn Payne's tragedy, Lucius Junius Brutus deliberately feigns madness/idiocy to survive under the tyrannical Tarquinius Superbus, then assumes his true heroic character to lead the expulsion of the Tarquins.

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Documented 1818

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood1record

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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On John Vandenhoff's Acting

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“The affected idiocy of Brutus, the real insanity of Virginius he acted with considerable talent”

Fuller, Margaret. "On John Vandenhoff's Acting." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 123.

Inferred In Payne's tragedy, Lucius Junius Brutus deliberately feigns madness/idiocy to survive under the tyrannical Tarquinius Superbus, then assumes his true heroic character to lead the expulsion of the Tarquins.