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De Monfort is an 1800 Gothic tragedy by the British writer Joanna Baillie. It was originally published in the author's Plays on the Passions in 1798. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, then under the management of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, on 29 April 1800.
- 29 April 1800
- Joanna Baillie
- English
Aug 23, 2012 · Joanna Baillie concludes her first volume of "Plays on the Passions" with "De Montfort", the clearest and most focused distillation of her aims and principles. With her first tragedy, she hewed closely to the expansive example of Shakespeare and the Jacobean playwrights (especially John Fletcher, whose comedy "The Mad Lover" may have been the ...
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Joanna of Flanders ( c. 1295 – September 1374) was Duchess of Brittany by her marriage to John of Montfort. Much of her life was taken up in defense of the rights of her husband and, later, son to the dukedom, which was challenged by the House of Blois during the War of the Breton Succession.
English dramatist and poet who was famous for her Plays on the Passions, which, along with several other of her plays, were produced in leading theaters in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S. Born September 11, 1762, in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on February 23, 1851, at Hampstead Heath; daughter of Reverend Dr. Baillie (a descen...
John of Montfort was captured and imprisoned in the Louvre in Paris. Despite the change of camp of Hervé VII de Leon (due to criticisms from John regarding his handling of the siege of Nantes), Joanna, the wife of John of Montfort, continued the armed struggle supported by his allies.
This essay focuses on exploring Baillie’s contribution to the discourse of sentiment, her theory of the same name, through analyzing her “Introductory Discourse” and De Montfort. Baillie defines “sympathetic curiosity” as the idea that moral feeling derives from a passion for spectatorship; she argues further that an individual’s ...
Joanna Baillie's De Montfort. DE MONFORT. November 3, 2014, 7:30 pm. Playwrights Horizons, Peter Jay Sharp Theater • 416 West 42nd Street. Directed by Sari Ketter.
