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ALASDAIR BROWN
Nationality: British
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Beauty Of Buttermere Or A Maid Betrayed, TheBeauty Of Buttermere Or A Maid Betrayed, The
Synopsis:
Based on a true story, the play tells of Mary Robinson, a late eighteenth century teenager, who helped her parents run the Fish Inn in Buttermere, Cumberland. She was 'discovered' by a travel writer, Joseph Budworth, who eulogised her beauty in magazines aimed at the growing number of people who liked to travel the length and breadth of england searching for pre-industrial rural edens. as a result of Budworth's articles, Mary's fame grew and many celebrities, including Wordsworth and Coleridge, travelled to Buttermere to gaze at her. eventually, John Hadfield , a con-man from Cheshire posing as an aristocrat, visited Buttermere, courted Mary and married her. Coleridge was suspicious and wrote scathingly of the marriage in a national newspaper. Hadfield was arrested and hanged for imposture and fraud at Carlisle. the story became a favourite subject for nineteenth century meloDramas. This play uses the story to parody the Victorian MeloDrama and to satirise certain aspects of the english Romanticism.
Notes:
Performed by professional And Amateur groups All over the world And Arizona State University's entry for A national Drama competition in 1985
1st Produced:
Carnegie Theatre, Workington, Cumbria 1977
Organisations:
Workington Grammar School Dramatic Society
1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1979 -
Music:
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Genre:
MeloDrama
Parts:
Male: 30 Female: 10 Other: Daffodills: 25
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