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Yates, Mary Ann

Yates, Mary Ann (1728–87),
English actress. She first acted at Drury Lane with Garrick in 1753 and subsequently played many Shakespearian heroines including Portia, Rosalind, Viola, Imogen, and Cleopatra, and Julia to her comedian husband's Lance in Benjamin Victor's adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1762). Famed for her dignified playing, she was painted as the Tragic Muse by Romney, and as Volumnia for Bell's Shakespeare.

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