Watch the professional actor, staged reading of John Freed’s play about the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her circle of friends Love me, Fuseli linked in the Resources folder along with the play script.
In an essay respond to the following prompts:
1. In what specific ways does Mary Wollstonecraft in the play fit your definition of a revolutionary and promoter of feminism and gender equality?
2. How historically accurate do you feel are the relationships portrayed in the play and the way they contributed to Wollstonecraft’s prominence? Choose just one set of these people listed below to support your answering this prompt.
a. Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Fuseli, Joseph Johnson
b. William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Mary Wollstonecraft
c. William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley
d. Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Tallyrand
[NOTE: A quick way to begin accessing this type of information is to type all three names together into the same Search Google line.]