Hobhouse, Cato Street and Marino Faliero

Abstract

This article was first published in The Byron Journal in 2003. It gives a new reading of Byron’s play after finding evidence at Kew National Archives, that members of the government believed that Byron’s best friend, John Cam Hobhouse, had agreed to head a provisional government, if the Cato Street Conspiracy was successful. The article is now on university reading lists and has been cited a number of times.