the downfall of the House of Lancaster. All of her curses come to pass as the noblemen are betrayed and executed by Richard of Gloucester, and each character reflects on her curse before his execution. Shakespeare had famously described Margaret: "How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex/ To triumph like an Amazonian trull/ Upon their woes whom Fortune captivates." In the 1963 production by the Royal Shakespeare Company of The Wars of the Roses, broadcast by the BBC in 1965 and 1966, Margaret was played by Peggy Ashcroft. In the second series of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, a three-part television adaptation of the Tetralogy first broadcast in 2016, Margaret was portrayed by Sophie Okonedo. Margaret's prominence in Shakespeare has led many theatre-makers to interpret the story with her at the center, drawing from the plays she is featured in. An adaptation called Margaret of Anjou by Elizabeth Schafer and Philippa Kelly was performed in 2016 in London by By Jove Theatre Company and an adaptation of the three Henry VI plays and Richard III entitled War of the Roses by Eric Ting and Philippa Kelly at California Shakespeare Theater in 2018 gave Margaret great prominence. In 2018 the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester premiered Queen Margaret, using all the lines spoken by Margaret over the four plays with additional material by playwright Jeanie O'Hare. Margaret is the title character of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 1820 opera Margherita d'Anjou. Margaret of Anjou has an important role in Bulwer-Lytton's The Last of the Barons (1843). Margaret of Anjou is the main character in Barnaby Ross's 1966 novel, The Passionate Queen – Barnaby Ross was a publisher's house name for historical novels written by various authors, among them Don Tracy, who wrote The Passionate Queen. Margaret of Anjou is the subject of Betty King's 1974 biographical novel Margaret of Anjou – a sympathetic portrayal. Margaret of Anjou is an important character in Sir Walter Scott's 1829 novel Anne of Geierstein, where she appears disguised as a beggar following her exile. Margaret of Anjou is the main character in Jean Plaidy's 1982 novel The Red Rose of Anjou. Margaret of Anjou is the important character in the early parts of Sharon Kay Penman's 1982 novel The Sunne in Splendour, up until the Battle of Tewkesbury. Margaret of Anjou is the subject of Alan Savage's 1994 novel Queen of Lions, a portrayal which