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ed_moore 's review for:
De Monfort
by Joanna Baillie
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"The stream of his o’erflowing pride Hath foam’d and fretted Such streams have oft, by swelling floods surcharg’d, Borne down, with sudden and impetuous force”
‘De Montfort’ is a play about the quarrels of two noblemen, Rezenvelt and De Montfort, and the disastrous effects of unreconciled grudges. I enjoyed the segments in the abbey towards the end of the play but generally wasn’t super engaged as I didn’t care for either side of the quarrel, there being no solid reasoning for the fight and for the audience to care who came out on top between the two men. The play format also meant that a lot of the setting that would have situated this within the gothic and made it more atmospheric felt lost, though it was somewhat created by the mix of feeling between Byronic brooding and the setup of Shakespearian Tragedy.