O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
(Chorus, Prologue, Henry V)

#EarlyModernMonday
📸Ken Branagh as King Henry, #RSC, 1984, Photo Joe Cocks / #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust

“Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain."

'Tis Pity She's a Whore
#JohnFord
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Max Bennett & Fiona Button, Globe 2014, Photo Simon Kane

“As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils.”
― John Webster, The White Devil

#EarlyModernMonday

📸Kate Stanley-Brennan & Joseph Timms, Globe 2017, Photo Marc Brenner

"Or that these tears that drizzle from mine eyes
Had power to mollify his stony heart,
That when I had him we might never part.”

#Marlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Daniel Evans as Edward, #RSC, 2025, by Helen Murray

I account this world a tedious theatre,
For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will.
(The Duchess, Act 4 Scene 1)

#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as the Duchess, RSC, 2018, Photo Helen Maybanks

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)

#EarlyModernMonday

📸William Houston & Company, #RSC, 2006, Photo Stewart Hemley

"Accurs'd be he that first invented war!"
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe)

#EarlyModernMonday
📸Antony Sher as Tamburlaine, 1993, @RSC, photograph by Reg Wilson

#Marlowe
#Tamburlaine

"Sometimes the Devil doth preach."
(Bosola, Act 1 Scene 2, Duchess of Malfi, John Webster)

#EarlyModernMonday

📸Judi Dench as the Duchess, Duchess of Malfi, 1971, #RSC, photograph by Tom Holte

“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Our 2018 production, photograph by #AdamTrigg

"I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it."

(As You Like It. Act 2 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday

Must I for that be made a common sink
For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues
To fall and run into?
Some call me witch,
And being ignorant of myself, they go
About to teach me how to be one.

#TheWitchofEdmonton
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Eileen Atkins in @thersc 2014 production by Helen Maybanks

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday

(📸 William Houston in @the-rsc.bsky.social production of Sejanus, Dir by Gregg Doran, 2005, photograph by Stewart Hemley)

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
(Countess, Act 1 Scene 1, All's Well That Ends Well)
#EarlyModernMonday

📸(Joanna Horton & Alex Waldman in RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well, 2013, photograph by Ellie Kurtz

“Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain.
(#JohnFord, #TisPityShesAWhore)
#earlymodernmonday

(Production photograph of Lucy Walker-Evans & Prince Plockey in Tis Pity She's A Whore, 2016, taken by Adam Trigg)

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)

#earlymodernmonday

Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint

It is Aeneas' frown that ends my days.
If he forsake me not, I never die,
For in his looks I see eternity,
And he'll make me immortal with a kiss.
(Dido, Act 4 Scene 4)

#EarlyModernMonday

(Production Photograph of Alice Brown in Dido Queen of Carthage, 2013, taken by Adam Trigg)

“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow."
(Chorus, Prologue, Doctor Faustus)
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Jamie O'Neill in Doctor Faustus, 2022, taken by Charlie Flint

"They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able."
(Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)

#EarlyModernMonday
#TroilusAndCressida

📸2018 #RSC company Dir Gregg Doran taken by Helen Maybanks

I mean to be a terror to the world
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)

#Tamburlaine
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015

"And from mine ashes let a conqueror rise,
That may revenge this treason to a queen
By plowing up his countries with the sword."

Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday

📸(2013 Alice Brown & Joseph Tweedale taken by Adam Trigg)

We missed #ShakespeareSunday so here's #EarlyModernMonday...

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe

📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint