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"The Group" is a satire conjecturing what would happen if the British king abolished the Massachusetts charter of rights. Mercy Otis Warren was a U.S. Founder and an influential poet, playwright, and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. She was a prolific playwright who brilliantly skewered British colonial leaders through her plays, including the present work.
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Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style][1] 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties. She was married to James Warren, who was likewise heavily active in the independence movement. (Wikipedia)
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