I read Baillie’s ‘Orra’ as a companion piece to ‘The Dream’, both plays exploring the passion of fear. It wasn’t super explicit in religious jurisdiction unlike its partner play so don’t know how much it will come into my argument, but enthused with tension nonetheless. It follows Orra, who denies the arranged marriage to her ward’s son and is consequently punished with an exile to a gloomy castle until she agrees to the marriage. This is also to a man called Glottenbal which is the most unfortunate of names I see why she wouldn’t want to marry the guy. It’s the classic 18th century circumstance where multitudes of men all want to marry the same woman but then ghosts may or may not come in and it gets a little confusing in the end, I was reading it quickly which may explain how I so easily got lost but I don’t think its the clearest of plots anyway. It’s an interesting play, may or may not be helpful for my essay, but a nice example of a work from the 18th century defying patriarchal structures.