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The story of Jane Shore's wooing by Edward IV, her influence in court, and her tragic death in the arms of Matthew Shore is the main plot in a play by Thomas Heywood, Edward IV (printed 1600). The play shows her struggling with the morality of accepting the king's offers, using her influence to grant pardons to those wrongfully punished, and ...
Jane Shore is a 1915 British silent historical film directed by Bert Haldane and F. Martin Thornton and starring Blanche Forsythe, Roy Travers and Robert Purdie. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1714 play The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe and is based on the life of Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV.
She has edited Ploughshares, [12] and her poems have been published in numerous magazines, including Poetry, The New Republic, and The Yale Review. She was Radcliffe Institute, fellow in poetry, 1971–73, and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English at Harvard University, 1973—, and Jenny McKean Moore Writer at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
A short film by Edwin J. Collins called Jane Shore starred Sybil Thorndike as Jane (1922). Jean Plaidy's romantic novel, The Goldsmith's Wife (1950), is about Jane Shore. She is played by Anne Carroll in Jane Howell's 1983 TV movie version of Richard III. Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett (2008) is about Jane Shore and features her sister as well.
The original cast included Anne Oldfield as Jane Shore, Robert Wilks as Dumont, Colley Cibber as the Duke of Gloucester, Barton Booth as Lord Hastings, Benjamin Husband as Catesby, John Bowman as Sir Richard Radcliff, John Mills as Bellmour and Mary Porter as Alicia. The play was a major success, and was performed eighteen times by mid-March. [2]
Jane Shore (c. 1445 – c. 1527) was the mistress of Edward IV of England.. Jane Shore may also refer to: . Jane Shore (poet), American poet and professor of English Jane Shore, a 1714 play by Nicholas Rowe based on the life of Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV
The central character in the play is Jane Shore, the king's mistress.The historical events of the reign of Edward IV form a background, involving "the bastard Faulconbridge," the "Tanner of Tamworth," and other figures of the era.
In 2013 she starred as Jane Shore in the period drama The White Queen, and in 2014 she appeared as Stacey in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered and as Simone Al-Harazi in the thriller series 24: Live Another Day. Her character in 24 had been planned to appear in two episodes, but that was expanded to seven.