Irish author Henry Brooke published poems, opera, political polemics, novels, and plays. Among his most important works, The Fool of Quality (1765-70) and Juliet Grenville; or, The History of the Human Heart (1774), both novels of sensibility, mix that genre with exposition of political principles. Though his first and best-remembered play Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country (1739) was banned from the stage because of its applicability to English politics in its time, he continued to write several other dramas with provocative political content.