#ThrowbackThursday
#GeorgePeele's Arraygnment of Paris
In the #PaintedHall at the #OldRoyalNavalCollege, Greenwich in 2003
With #theLionspart & Renaissance Footnotes
#earlymusic #earlymodern #musicianlife #tudor #tudors #elizabethandrama #earlymusicensemble #troy #classicalmythology
A screenshot of the AP website with the headline “ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital”
This tells me someone in ICE has read Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great. I have trouble believing this happened in reality, but it sure does in that play.
#ICE #ChristopherMarlowe #lies #elizabethandrama
STARTS 7th January, written almost alongside Hamlet (c.1600), sharing its ghost‑ridden obsessions but far wilder, Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge turns Renaissance tragedy into savage parody. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
Explore the wildest edges of Renaissance theatre, tracing Marston’s parody of the revenge tradition and his unflinching fascination with the macabre. 6 x Zoom meetings starts 7th January - BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
I stepped back into acting after a long absence — as Dame Kitely in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour.
📜 Blog: Returning to the Stage: Character, Caricature, and the Curious Case of Dame Kitely sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/r...
#TheatreThoughts #ElizabethanDrama #BenJonson #AmActing
Just performed as Dame Kitely in a reader’s theatre production of Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson. No rehearsal, Elizabethan language, and a cast of wildly varied experience. It reminded me why I love the stage — and why Jonson is not Shakespeare.
🎭 Blog post here: Returning to the Stage […]
