"Weeping Mothers Shall Applaud": Sarah Yates as Margaret of Anjou on the London Stage, 1797

[...]Margaret's character was sentimentalized in British dramas in order to enhance audiences' sympathies for the real life Queen of France.11 Instances of Margaret's transformation in late eighteenth-century dramas from brutal warrior to sentimental mother are observable in plays inc...

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Published in:Comparative drama 2015-12, Vol.49 (4), p.419-444
Main Author: Burdett, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
Actors
Analysis
Artistic Representation (Imitation)
Audiences
Careers
Casting
Character
Drama
Dramatists
English theater
Females
Literary characters
Margaret of Anjou (1429-82)
Parents & parenting
Performance studies
Romance drama
Studies
Theater
Women
Yates, Sarah
Yates, Sarah (British actor)
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Summary:[...]Margaret's character was sentimentalized in British dramas in order to enhance audiences' sympathies for the real life Queen of France.11 Instances of Margaret's transformation in late eighteenth-century dramas from brutal warrior to sentimental mother are observable in plays including George Colman's The Battle of Hexham (1789); Edward Jerningham's "Margaret of Anjou: An Historical Interlude" (1777), revised for Covent Garden in 1793; and Richard Valpy's The Roses: Or King Henry VI (1795).
ISSN:0010-4078
1936-1637
1936-1637
DOI:10.1353/cdr.2015.0038