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Vortigern and Rowena, or Vortigern, an Historical Play, is a play that was touted as a newly discovered work by William Shakespeare when it first appeared in 1796. It was eventually revealed to be a Shakespeare hoax , the product of prominent forger William Henry Ireland and part of his wider series of forgeries . [ 1 ]
Rowena / r oʊ ˈ iː n ə / in the Matter of Britain was the daughter of the purported Anglo-Saxon chief Hengist and wife of Vortigern, "King of the Britons". Presented as a beautiful femme fatale , she won her people the Kingdom of Kent through her treacherous seduction of Vortigern.
Getting drunk at a celebratory feast, the foolish Vortigern fell deeply in love with Hengist’s daughter, Rowena. He promised Hengist anything he wanted, if only he could marry her. Ceint was the Saxon’s price.
Mar 15, 2018 · Although it may be said that Rowena was given to Vortigern, it became apparent that it was really Vortigern who was possessed by her. This, and his marriage to a pagan princess and the giving away of Kent, fuelled animosity in his own nobles, for he already had a wife, three sons named Vortimer, Catigern, and Pascentius, and a daughter.
Rowena was the second wife of Vortigern after Sevira (daughter of Magnus Maximus), of whose fate nothing is reported. However, Vortigern's most famous wife has always been the daughter of hengist. Who was she? Do we know her name for real?
Rowena appears as the main character in Thelwall’s The Fairy of the Lake. A heathen sorceress, she falls in love with Arthur (here presented as the contemporary of Vortigern and Ambrosius) and embarks on an elaborate scheme to seduce him by magic, calling upon her supernatural allies such as Queen Hela of the Infernal Regions and the demon ...
One of Vortigern's most notorious literary appearances is in the play Vortigern and Rowena, which was promoted as a lost work of William Shakespeare when it first emerged in 1796.
