Best 1837
"Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States" is an 1837 abolitionist pamphlet written by Angelina Grimké. Directed at Northern women, the document argued that slavery was a moral evil and urged women to actively participate in the anti-slavery movement despite societal norms restricting their...
"Roberto Devereux" is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Premiering at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1837, the work is loosely based on the historical relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Rob...
Five-act comedy by Eugène Scribe, premiered in 1837, satirizing the networks of mutual favor and social climbing that defined Parisian literary and political life.
