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De Monfort is an 1800 Gothic tragedy by the British writer Joanna Baillie. [1] [2] 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. The cast featured John Philip Kemble as De Montfort, Sarah Siddons ...
- 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. Known for her fiery personality, Joanna led the ...
The story of Joanna of Flanders, who gained the nickname of Jeanne la Flamme / Fiery Joanna for her actions at the siege of Hennebont, is just one of the many events recorded by Jean le Bel in his True Chronicles. This work has been called “one of the most remarkable pieces of literature of the fourteenth century,” and offers readers vivid ...
In De Montfort, Baillie models the development of moral sympathy for her audience by showing a successive progression of sympathetic reactions to human suffering. While the play initially indulges a sadistic pleasure in viewing suffering, it concludes with the character Jane offering her anguished brother the counsel and support that ...
John of Montfort ( Middle Breton: Yann Moñforzh, French: Jean de Montfort) (1295 – 26 September 1345, [1] Château d'Hennebont ), sometimes known as John IV of Brittany, [a] and 6th Earl of Richmond from 1341 to his death. He was the son of Arthur II, Duke of Brittany and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux. He contested the inheritance of the ...
De Monfort is part of Baillie’s Plays on the Passions, a larger dramatic project with volumes published in 1798, 1802, 1812, and 1836. In her “Introductory Discourse,” Baillie provides her theorization of the psychological workings of stage representation and the social function of the theater. She describes her project as a series of ...
