The Maid’s Tragedy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
- First Published: 1619
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: The legendary past
- Setting: Rhodes
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Betrayal, Revenge, Kings, queens, or royalty, Ambition, Duels or dueling, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Rhodes
Characters Discussed
The king of Rhodes, who is to all appearances a just, if undistinguished, ruler. He is, in fact, a man who does not scruple to use those around him ruthlessly for his own ends. He brings bloody death upon himself by his dishonoring of Evadne and by his despicable treatment of Amintor, a courtier.
Evadne (eh-VAD-nee), a noblewoman, mistress to the king, who arranges her marriage to Amintor. She shows herself almost completely self-centered in the opening scenes, in which she coldly reveals her duplicity to her husband and tells him that she is simply...
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