Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald

Author's Notes on "Belle Moral"

This is a brief article written by Ann-Marie MacDonald about "Belle Moral." In it, she discusses this plays origins in "Belle Moral" as well as her thoughts on re-writing her original play. She also discusses how she changed "Belle Moral" to be primarily about reconciling the extremes between rationalism and romanticism. She concludes by talking about the idea that "all stories are happy, because as long as there are stories, there is hope." This is due to someone being able to share the story and states that "Bearing witness can be just that: the carrying of a heavy load that eventually must be shared."

There are four images on the first page of these notes. Clockwise from the top left they are:
- Sketch of an Idea for Crazy Jane, watercolour, 1855, by Richard Dadd (Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, Bekenham)
- A patient in a straitjacket, in Les Maladies de L'Esprit, 1818 (Mary Evans Picture Library)
- Human foetus in the womb by Leonardo Da Vinci (Bibliotheque Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library)
- "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters," from Los Caprichos, 1799, by Francisco Goya Y Lucientes (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library)

There are four drawings all by George Stubbs, from "A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and Common Fowl" (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

Ann-Marie MacDonald

2005

Arab's Mouth/Belle Moral

From Ann-Marie MacDonald's personal archive.