37-938: Richard Yates may refer to: People [ edit ] Richard Yates (actor) (1706–1796), English comic actor Richard Yates (antiquary) (1769–1834), English cleric Richard Yates (politician, born 1815) (1815–1873), 13th governor of Illinois (1861–1865), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1865–1871), U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1851–1855), member of Illinois House of Representatives (1842–1845, 1848–1849) Richard Yates Jr. (1860–1936), his son, 22nd governor of Illinois (1901–1905), U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1919–1933) Dick Yates (1921–1976), Welsh footballer Richard Yates (novelist) (1926–1992), American novelist and short-story writer Richard Yates (athlete) (born 1986), English athlete Novels [ edit ] Richard Yates (novel) , 2010 novel by Tao Lin Topics referred to by
74-606: A husband from the court. The King is cured and Helena chooses Bertram, who rejects her, owing to her poverty and low status. The King forces him to marry her, but after the ceremony Bertram immediately goes to war in Italy without so much as a goodbye kiss. He says that he will only marry her after she has carried his child and wears his family ring. Helena returns home to the countess, who is horrified at what her son has done, and claims Helena as her child in Bertram's place. In Italy, Bertram
111-601: A Miss Cargill, my mother's great-aunt, who was alcoholic. A maid asked her what should be done with the silver and the great aunt said 'Give it all to the dustman, which is what happened, and it was tipped into the landfill over which the cricket ground was built. The widow of Thomas, Sarah Yates, was left destitute, but she took to the stage as Sarah Yates and later as Sarah Ansell after her marriage to Major Francis Ansell. 47th Highlanders. She played at Drury Lane: Margaret of Anjou in 1797 and 1800 as Angela in Castle Spectre and
148-615: A booth at Bartholomew Fair , playing Pantaloon to Shuter's Harlequin . Yates was a pantomimist frequently himself seen as Harlequin. Under the management of Thomas Harris , John Rutherford, George Colman the Elder , and William Powell , King made his first appearance at Covent Garden on 31 October 1767 as Major Oakly, in Colman's The Jealous Wife , and was the original Prig and Frightened Boor in Royal Merchant , an opera based by Thomas Hull on
185-661: A handsome competence. His wife died 2 years later of dropsy ( heart attack) . In 1789 he was introduced to Miss Elizabeth Jones, an aspiring actress wishing to be employed in Yates's Birmingham theatre. Before long she had moved into the house in Stafford Row, Pimlico. She lived with him for 8 years until his death. This sets the scene for one of the greatest scandals of the age. Richard and Mary Ann Yates had raised their great-niece and nephew, since they were small children. (Thomas Yates and his sister ( name unknown) The sister eloped with
222-401: A pillow and forged the will and conspired with her accomplices to murder Thomas Yates. She did not have a happy life after the crime as she was blackmailed by the accomplices and gave them most of the fortune. In her old age she tried to trace Thomas Yates descendants and left them a chest full of jewels and silver, worth 30,000 pounds. Mrs Bowen ( thomas's sister who ran off with the coachman)
259-459: Is a play by William Shakespeare , published in the First Folio in 1623, where it is listed among the comedies . There is a debate regarding the dating of the composition of the play, with possible dates ranging from 1598 to 1608. The play is considered one of Shakespeare's " problem plays ", a play that poses complex ethical dilemmas that require more than typically simple solutions. Helena,
296-428: Is a successful warrior and also a successful seducer of local virgins. Helena follows him to Italy, befriends Diana, a virgin with whom Bertram is infatuated, and they arrange for Helena to take Diana's place in bed. Diana obtains Bertram's ring in exchange for one of Helena's. In this way Helena, without Bertram's knowledge, consummates their marriage and wears his ring. Helena fakes her own death. Bertram, thinking he
333-640: Is based on the tale of Giletta di Narbona (tale nine of day three) of Boccaccio 's The Decameron . F. E. Halliday speculated that Shakespeare may have read a French translation of the tale in William Painter 's Palace of Pleasure . There is no evidence that All's Well That Ends Well was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism . Helena's love for
370-880: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Richard Yates (actor) Richard Yates (c. 1706–1796) was an English comic actor, who worked at the Haymarket Theatre and Drury Lane among others, appearing in David Garrick 's King Lear . He also worked in theatre management, and set up the New Theatre in Birmingham in 1773. Both his first wife, Elizabeth Mary (maiden name unknown, died in 1753) and Mary Anne Graham (1728–1787 - married in 1756) were actresses. Born about 1706, he played in Henry Fielding 's Pasquin at
407-405: Is free of her, comes home. He tries to marry a local lord's daughter, but Diana shows up and breaks up the engagement. Helena appears and explains the ring swap, announcing that she has fulfilled Bertram's challenge; Bertram, impressed by all she has done to win him, swears his love to her. Thus all ends well. There is a subplot about Parolles, a disloyal associate of Bertram's: Some of the lords at
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#1732894155916444-745: Is known) who played at this time small parts such as Emilia in The Winter's Tale , and was the Duchess of York on David Garrick's first appearance on the stage, he attempted Lovegold in The Miser , in the style of Benjamin Griffin . Richard Yates is believed to have been the first Autolycus and Clown in All's well that ends well since 1660. He was on 9 November 1741 the original Mrs. Jewkes in James Dance 's stage adaptation of
481-528: Is not meant to be contemptible, merely a callow youth learning valuable lessons about values. Contemporary audiences would readily have recognised Bertram's enforced marriage as a metaphor for the new requirement (1606), directed at followers of the Catholic religion, to swear an Oath of Allegiance to Protestant King James , suggests academic Andrew Hadfield of the University of Sussex . Many directors have taken
518-508: The BBC Television Shakespeare production she was played by Celia Johnson , dressed and posed as Rembrandt 's portrait of Margaretha de Geer. It has recently been argued that Thomas Middleton either collaborated with Shakespeare on the play, or revised it at a later time. The proposed revisions are not universally accepted, however. No records of the early performances of All's Well That Ends Well have been found. In 1741,
555-975: The Beggar's Bush on 14 December. At this house he played Cloten, Florimond in Edgar and Emmeline by John Hawkesworth , Sir Gilbert Wrangle in The Refusal , Brass, and Lucio. He was the original Sir Benjamin Dove in Richard Cumberland 's Brothers , 2 December 1769; and Stanley in An Hour before Marriage , 25 January 1772. On 11 January 1773 he appeared at Edinburgh in Othello , and played also Captain Brazen, Touchstone, and Shylock. On 5 May 1775 he reappeared at Drury Lane as Scrub, but does not seem to have acted again that season. From 1780 to 1782 he
592-509: The ribald tale , depends on gender role conventions, both as expressed (Bertram) and challenged (Helena). With evolving conventions of gender roles, Victorian objections centred on the character of Helena, who was variously deemed predatory, immodest and both "really despicable" and a "doormat" by Ellen Terry , who also—and rather contradictorily—accused her of "hunt[ing] men down in the most undignified way". Terry's friend George Bernard Shaw greatly admired Helena's character, comparing her with
629-581: The Haymarket when it was first performed. In 1737–9, at Covent Garden, he was seen in a number of parts. On 4 September 1739 he appeared at Drury Lane as Jeremy in Love for Love , and played other comic roles. At Goodman's Fields he appeared on 18 October 1740 as Antonio in Venice Preserved , playing further parts during the season. For his benefit and that of Mrs. Elizabeth Yates, his first wife (about whom little
666-700: The Queen in Hamlet in 1802. She also toured in Dublin and Sheffield. She quit the theatre and had 2 sons with Francis and followed him to Portugal to the Peninsula wars, with her 4 children. Her daughter Mary Ann Yates, by Thomas Yates married Capt William Cargill in Oporto in 1812 and had 18 children with him and followed him to Dunedin New Zealand where they founded a colony. Richard Yates
703-514: The Yates's coachman, a Mr Bowen and was disinherited, But Thomas was always considered the heir and expected to inherit the substantial fortune of Richard, including the Pimlico House and a house in Mortlake, carriages, silver and jewellery. Richard died in his bed, aged 86 April 1796 . Thomas was called to the house by Miss Jones who produced a document showing that everything (except a small annuity)
740-588: The company, and Yates became closely associated with her. They seem to have been married in the autumn of 1756. In his later years he was reputedly engaged mainly on her account. He was, 30 April 1754, the original Grumbler. Yates had previously, 18 March, been the first Grumio in Garrick's Catharine and Petruchio . He was the first Wingate in Arthur Murphy 's The Apprentice , 2 January 1756. He had at some time, probably around 1760, set up with Edward Shuter and others
777-451: The court attempt to get Bertram to know that his friend Parolles is a boasting coward , as Lafew and the Countess have also said. They convince Parolles to cross into enemy territory to fetch a drum that he left behind. While on his way, they pose as enemy soldiers, kidnap him, blindfold him, and, with Bertram observing, get him to betray his friends, and besmirch Bertram's character. The play
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#1732894155916814-517: The final scene in which Bertram suddenly switches from hatred to love in just one line. This is considered a particular problem for actors trained to admire psychological realism. However, some alternative readings emphasise the "if" in his equivocal promise: "If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly." Here, there has been no change of heart at all. Productions like London's National Theatre in 2009 have Bertram make his promise seemingly normally, but then end
851-421: The king. Many critics consider that the truncated ending is a drawback, with Bertram's conversion so sudden. Speculative explanations have been given for this. There is (as always) possibly missing text. Some suggest that Bertram's conversion is meant to be sudden and magical in keeping with the 'clever wench performing tasks to win an unwilling higher born husband' theme of the play. Some consider that Bertram
888-472: The kitchen and shot him dead. Sellers, Jones and Footner were tried at the Old Bailey for murder (Old Bailey Proceedings 14 Sept 1796) oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name+17960914 Mr Sellers was found guilty of manslaughter and gaoled for 6 months and fined 1 shilling. The others were acquitted. Many years later, Miss Jones (then Mrs Yarwood) confessed on her death bed that she had smothered Richard Yates with
925-524: The low-born ward of a French-Spanish countess, is in love with the countess's son Bertram, who is indifferent to her. Bertram goes to Paris to replace his late father as attendant to the ailing King of France. Helena, the daughter of a recently deceased physician , follows Bertram, ostensibly to offer the King her services as a healer. The King is skeptical, and she guarantees the cure with her life: if he dies, she will be put to death, but if he lives, she may choose
962-769: The novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded , and on 30 November the original Dick in Garrick's Lying Valet , subsequently taking Sharp in the same piece. On 18 September 1742 he reappeared at Drury Lane, where he remained until 1767. He was the original Motley in The Astrologer by James Ralph on 3 April 1744; Sir Robert Belmont in Edward Moore 's The Foundling , 13 February 1748; Melchior in Moore's Gil Blas , 2 February 1751; and Puff in Samuel Foote 's Taste , 11 January 1752. In 1753–4 Mrs. Graham, subsequently Mary Ann Yates , joined
999-569: The play hand-in-hand with Helena, staring out at the audience with a look of "aghast bewilderment" suggesting he only relented to save face in front of the King. A 2018 interpretation from director Caroline Byrne at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse , London, effects Bertram's reconciliation with Helena by having him make good his vow (Act 2 Scene 2) of only taking her as his wife when she bears his child; as well as Bertram's ring, Helena brings their infant child to their final confrontation before
1036-412: The run, gave the play an "unlucky" reputation, similar to that attached to Macbeth , and this may have curtailed the number of subsequent revivals. Henry Woodward (1714–1777) popularised the part of Parolles in the era of David Garrick . Sporadic performances followed in the ensuing decades, with an operatic version at Covent Garden in 1832. The play, with plot elements drawn from romance and
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1110-409: The seemingly unlovable Bertram is difficult to explain on the page, but in performance, it can be made acceptable by casting an extremely attractive actor and emphasising the possibility of a homosexual relationship between Bertram and the "clothes horse" fop, Parolles: "A filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl." (Act III Sc5.) This latter interpretation also assists at the point in
1147-586: The view that when Shakespeare wrote a comedy, he did intend there to be a happy ending , and accordingly that is the way the concluding scene should be staged. Elijah Moshinsky in his BBC Television Shakespeare version in 1981 had his Bertram ( Ian Charleson ) give Helena a tender kiss and speak wonderingly. Despite his outrageous actions, Bertram can come across as beguiling; the 1967 RSC performance with Ian Richardson as Bertram by various accounts ( The New Cambridge Shakespeare , 2003 etc.) managed to make Bertram sympathetic, even charming. Ian Charleson's Bertram
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1184-553: The work was played at Goodman's Fields , with a later transfer to Drury Lane . Rehearsals at Drury Lane started in October 1741 but William Milward (1702–1742), playing the king, was taken ill, and the opening was delayed until the following 22 January. Peg Woffington , playing Helena, fainted on the first night and her part was read. Milward was taken ill again on 2 February and died on 6 February. This, together with unsubstantiated tales of more illnesses befalling other actresses during
1221-409: Was able to identify the jewels. After this incident the laws were changed to require that all wills be signed and witnessed in order to be valid. What became of the silver and jewels? A family member still has one of Richard's emerald shoe buckles as a ring. Three barrels of solid silver found its way to Dunedin in New Zealand, with Thomases great-grandchildren, there is sat and blackened in a cellar of
1258-526: Was buried with his second wife Mary Ann in the chancel of the church of St Mary Magdalene, Richmond , near her family, . He was considered unequalled in Shakespearean clowns. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : " Yates, Richard (1706?-1796) ". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. All%27s well that ends well All's Well That Ends Well
1295-570: Was cold and egotistical but still attractive. One character that has been admired is that of the old Countess of Roussillon, which Shaw thought "the most beautiful old woman's part ever written". Modern productions are often promoted as vehicles for great mature actresses; examples in recent decades have starred Judi Dench and Peggy Ashcroft , who delivered a performance of "entranc[ing]...worldly wisdom and compassion" in Trevor Nunn 's sympathetic, " Chekhovian " staging at Stratford in 1982. In
1332-459: Was left to her. Thomas and Miss Jones lived in the house together for 4 months while Thomas tried to negotiate some sort of compromise settlement, but in late August, things took a sinister turn. Miss Jones brought two young men into the house, Mr Sellers and Mr Footner, and she locked all the doors while Thomas was in the garden. When he found himself locked out, he tried to climb through the kitchen window, assisted by his maid. Mr Sellars appeared in
1369-725: Was resting. On 6 December 1782 he made, as Sir Wilful Witwoud in The Way of the World , a first appearance at Covent Garden in ten years, and was on 28 January 1783 the first Sir Edmund Travers in Cumberland's Mysterious Husband . Yates from then no longer worked in London; he was engaged with his wife in Edinburgh 1784–5, and probably acted with her in York during her return journey on 21 April 1785. He retired with
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