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    Vortigern and Rowena, or Vortigern, an Historical Play, is a play that was touted as a newly discovered work by William Shakespeare when it first appeared...
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    the beginnings of England. One of Vortigern's most notorious literary appearances is in the play Vortigern and Rowena, which was promoted as a lost work...
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    Rowena /roʊˈiːnə/ in the Matter of Britain was the daughter of the purported Anglo-Saxon chief Hengist and wife of Vortigern, "King of the Britons". Presented...
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    the press, a few stray leaves of "Hamblette", and two previously unknown plays, Vortigern and Rowena and Henry II. From the moment of discovery Samuel...
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    marry Rowena. Horsa and the men all agreed that Hengist should allow the marriage, on the condition that Vortigern give him Kent. Vortigern and Rowena were...
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  • circa 980) sometimes Westernised as "Vortigern" MV Vortigern, a Sealink Cross Channel Ferry Vortigern and Rowena, a forged Shakespeare play actually written...
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    tragedies—Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus—are also based on historical figures, but because their sources were foreign and ancient, they are almost...
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    William Henry Ireland (category 18th-century British dramatists and playwrights)
    interest in the matter and the plot began to unravel. In 1795, Ireland became bolder and produced a whole new play—Vortigern and Rowena. After extensive negotiations...
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  • Hengest and wife of Vortigern. Rowena can also refer to: Rowena, Georgia, an unincorporated community Rowena, Kentucky, an unincorporated community Rowena, Minnesota...
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    Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe...
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