Otho: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

by John Neal

Excerpt from Otho

It requires no great stretch of credulity to belie that a distempered brain  one man  a murderer.

123 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

John Neal was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s in the United States and Great Britain, championing American literary nationalism and regionalism in their earliest stages. Neal advanced the development of American art, fought for women's rights, advocated the end of slavery and racial prejudice, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement.