# Anne Blake

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{{Short description|1852 play}}
{{for|the Irish theatre practitioner and musician|Ann Blake}}
{{Infobox play
| name              =Anne Blake 
| image             =File:Anne Blake.jpg
| image_size        =
| caption           = 
| writer            = [John Westland Marston](/source/John_Westland_Marston)
| setting           = [North Wales](/source/North_Wales), present day
| date of premiere  =28 October 1852
| original language = English
| place             = [Princess's Theatre](/source/Princess's_Theatre%2C_London), [London](/source/London)
| series            = 
| subject           = 
| genre             = Melodrama 
}}
'''''Anne Blake''''' is an 1852 [melodrama](/source/melodrama) by the British writer [John Westland Marston](/source/John_Westland_Marston).<ref>Booth p.17</ref><ref>Tuker p.371</ref> It premiered at the [Princess's Theatre](/source/Princess's_Theatre%2C_London) in [London](/source/London) on 28 October 1852. The original cast included [Charles Kean](/source/Charles_Kean) as Thorold, [Walter Lacy](/source/Walter_Lacy) as Llaniston, [Ellen Kean](/source/Ellen_Kean) as Anne Blake. The same year it appeared at the [Broadway Theatre](/source/Old_Broadway_Theatre) in [New York](/source/New_York_City).

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Booth, Michael R. ''Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre''. Manchester University Press, 1980.
* Taylor, George. ''Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre''. Manchester University Press, 1993.
* Tucker, Herbert F (ed.) ''A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture''. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

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Category:1852 plays
Category:West End plays
Category:British tragedy plays
Category:Plays set in Wales
Category:Plays by John Westland Marston

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