Kit Marlowe - web and blog miscellany - 1 - "In the show Marlowe is basically a rock star. He's doing drugs, he's got cocaine."
Lyra
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By: Matt White
Issue date: 9/26/07 Section: Entertainment
"Murdering Marlowe," which plays today through Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m.
in Larry Wismer Theatre.
The play is penned by Charles Marowitz and will provide plenty of
thrills with its conspiracy-laced plot and brief nudity.
The play, which harkens back to Shakespearean times, features James
Dugan as William Shakespeare and Kevin Evans as the protagonist
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe.
The play features real historical figures from the late 1500s and
tells the story of Marlowe, who was then the most famous playwright in
London. As conspiracy theorists have alleged for years, the play deals
with the possibility that Shakespeare may have had Marlowe whacked to
gain top-dog status in the glamorous world of playwrighting.
Evans even spent time studying modern rockers such as Jim Morrison for
the role, Dugan said.
"In the show Marlowe is basically a rock star. He's doing drugs, he's
got cocaine."
The play's director, Joel Rogers, thinks the subject matter is on
target for Chico State students.
"The average university student will love the play," Rogers said. "It
plays to many of the current counter cultures and should be right up
their alley."
Rogers said this play is different because of the way it destroys
traditional beliefs in portraying its characters.
"None are held up as being noble. All are shown as being
opportunistic, selfish characters that get what they deserve," Rogers
said.
"I like the fact that this play implies that Shakespeare was just a
spoiled ineffective playwright that had to potentially kill another
playwright to get noticed."
...costume designer Gail Holbrook and scenic designer David Beasley
incorporated a rock feel into every aspect of the play.
"You are going to see people spouting verse and prose while they have
studded necklaces on," Dugan said.
The music will also stay with the punk theme and feature bands such as
The Clash.
Some other productions of the play have had it take place in the
1590s, but Rogers preferred to have it set in modern-day London while
retaining the Shakespearean language.
"The tone of the play is certainly contemporary," Rogers said. "We're
somehow caught between what sounds like a period play and what looks
like a contemporary play."
Dugan found the play especially interesting because it is written
about real people and has references to other famous individuals of
the time.
"We have to portray an actual person, which is usually different from
most things people have done," Dugan said.
Performances
WISMER THEATRE, CHICO STATE: 7:30 p.m. "Murdering Marlowe." Aspiring
playwright William Shakespeare is desperate to make his mark, but
Christopher Marlowe, the superstar of Elizabethan theater, stands in
his way. $6-$15 at University Box office, 898-6333 or at door
Lyra
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Mainstage Production
Edward II
Previews start December 11, opening night is December 16 with
performances through January 13, 2008.
Red Bull Theater presents the world premiere production of Garland
Wright's intensely personal adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's
masterpiece about the dramatic and often-dangerous intersection of
sex, politics, power and love.
The centerpiece of Red Bull Theater's season, this production of
Christopher Marlowe's rarely-performed masterwork, Edward II, will
continue Red Bull Theater's exploration of the seldom-seen classics of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, building on their history with
Pericles and The Revenger's Tragedy and simultaneously striking out in
a bold new direction. Edward II is a timely examination of the
struggle for personal human rights amidst a powerful public need for
political expediency. It examines the question of whether an
individual in absolute public power truly has the right to a personal
life. In a climate of political opportunism, this play confronts the
question of individual and equal rights head on, leading to a
devastating examination of human rights and unreasoning love, amidst a
great personal and very public drama of politics, ambition, and war.
Artistic Director Jesse Berger will direct the premiere production of
an entirely new version of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, working
from a manuscript version by the late director and former artistic
director of the Guthrie Theater, Garland Wright (The Devils, K, On the
Verge, Vanities). Red Bull Theater's production of Edward the Second
will mark the first major Off Broadway production of Marlowe's
masterpiece in New York City in over 30 years.
Casting will be announced at a later date.
http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=21678
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Lyra
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Quod me nutruit me detruit: Christopher Marlowe and Tudor propaganda
Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare's intermittently
suggested to have been the Bard himself (without much credance)
certainly took Tudor propaganda to new heights...Marlowe was an
Elizabethan "roaring boy" who lived fast and died young. Kit Marlowe
is an incredibly interesting Elizabethan figure, and possibly gives us
a good picture of how a playwright of the era might have lived.
Marlowe was a government spy. In Elizethan times the way to get ahead
was through the patronage and personal preferal of the court. It was
nominally, often whimsically ruled by Elizabeth, but it was still
deeply factionalised, a reminder that England was at heart a unity of
seperate kngdoms.
Marlowe seems to have worked for Thomas Walsingham, the Secretary of
State, and also the chief of what was essentially a secret police
service - a shadowy network of informers.
The system worked upon private secretaries who reported to Walsigham,
beneath whom worked a legion of informers of raw anti-Catholic
information.
There are all sorts of complex stories involving spying and counter
spying in which Marlowe was involved. The point is that the
Elizabethan playwright was not disengaged from society, in a position
to write freely. Marlowe represents the other end of the spectrum
altogether. Not only was he, like all playwrights, subject to the
neccessity of the patronage of the government, but he was involved
actively in changing people's perceptions, in ferreting out
information for the Queen, and of denouncing dangerous radicals.
If this was the political climate of the theatre at the time,
Shakespeare too must have been deeply conscious of the political role
he was playing as propagandist and government agent.
http://rahawellcoll.blogspot.com/2007/09/quod-me-nutruit-me-detruit-christopher.html
Lyra
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So this evening I'll be reporting live from the first read of Kit
Marlowe by David Grimm. At this moment, all of the talented young
actors are poised around the various snacks and beverages, no doubt
overcome with excitement of what this first rehearsal shall bring.
http://conspiracyago-go.blogspot.com/2007/09/kit-marlowe.html
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Lyra
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Elizabeth Bear - Whiskey and Water (Aug 15).
Man, did I enjoy this one. Right, so it's the second Promethian Age
book, and is a more or less direct sequel to Blood and Iron. It's
about consequences and damage and redemption and life,
via Kit Marlowe, the Queen of the Daoine Sidhe, a somewhat lessened
Kelpie, Lucifer and Michael, Morgan le Fay, Merlin the Magician (no,
the other one, the one in the prog rock band who teaches geology), and
poor old Matthew the Magus, who hasn't been having a very good time of
it since 1997's Promethian assault on Faerie (and its associated
betrayals and revelations). Bear describes these books as a secret
history of myth and reality; I think of them as fanfic about
everything that is awesome.**
The thing that I think I liked best about this book, and about Blood
and Iron before it, is that I cannot tell what is going to happen. The
characters are complex people, and they want what they want, and they
are, in fact, crazy enough to do what it takes to get it and then face
the consequences. All of them. Also, no one is out of bounds in terms
of body count, which is sort of nervously thrilling.
Also, Lucifer. Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer:
Lucifer's beauty was not the sort to which one could grow
accustomed. It was composed of small imperfections--the long nose, the
too-lush mouth--that amounted to a breathtaking gestalt, so every
shift of expression revealed some new facet of the Devil's charm.
Too cool.
Oh, and also, she gets major points for writing, to my knowledge, the
only novel about Faerie that includes an honest-to-god Otherkin as a
character. WTF.
Okay, someone make me stop talking about this book.
http://2ce.livejournal.com/354772.html
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I've not heard of it before.
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Lyra
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Shakespeare Theatre Announces Marlowe Mini-Festival
In conjunction with its rotating repertory productions of Tamburlaine
and Edward II, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presents a multi-
disciplinary Marlowe Mini-Festival celebrating the genius and
influence of Christopher Marlowe.
The Festival includes a symposium at Sidney Harman Hall on November 10
with discussions led by a panel of scholars who will explore topics
such as Marlowe in Performance, The Playwright and the Spy, Marlowe
Translation and Poetry and Marlowe and Gender.
Additional festival events include film screenings, staged readings of
Christopher Marlowe's plays and poetry, and a series of collaborative
performances by local artists and organizations including the
Washington National Opera, National Music Center, International Spy
Museum, National Gallery of Art, Rorschach Theatre Company, Silk Road
Dance Ensemble and the Martin Luther King Jr. branch of the D.C.
Public Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING
The Marlowe Mini-Festival features programming by many local artists
and organizations. Interested patrons are encouraged to join the
Shakespeare Theatre Company email list at ShakespeareTheatre.org to
receive details about the events. Highlights of the festival include
the following:
* From October 27, 2007 to January 6, 2008, the Shakespeare Theatre
Company presents Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Edward II in
rotating repertory. Tickets are $23.50-$79.75.
* From November 2007 through January 2008, the Martin Luther King Jr.
branch of the D.C. public library will present selected items about
Christopher Marlowe and the worlds of Edward II and Tamburlaine.
* Rorschach Theatre Company presents Kit Marlowe, by David Grimm
directed by Jessie R. Gallogly from October 28 through December 2,
2007.
* On Saturday, November 10, all are welcome to Sidney Harman Hall for
a Marlowe Symposium with scholars and cultural figures. A discussion
series will explore Marlowe and his work from a variety of
perspectives, including Marlowe and Performance, The Playwright and
the Spy, Marlowe, Translation and Poetry and Marlowe and Gender. A
workshop on Marlowe's poetry with noted poet Susan Kinsolving is
included, as well as a discussion with International Spy Museum
Director Peter Earnest and author Stephen Budiansky. General public:
$15, Shakespeare Theatre Company Subscribers: $10, Students: $5.
* The Silk Road Dance Company presents a window to a world that has
long remained mysterious to the West through breathtaking
choreography, costuming and music on Wednesday, November 14, at 12:00
p.m. This free event is part of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's
Happenings at the Harman program and will take place in the Forum at
Sidney Harman Hall.
* On Wednesday, December 5, at noon, Folger President Dr. Gail Kern
Paster will discuss King Edward II and Marlowe's dramatic history of
his life as part of the Happenings at the Harman program in the Forum
at Sidney Harman Hall. This event is free.
* On Monday, December 10, at 7:30 p.m., all are welcome to the
Lansburgh Theatre for a free staged reading of Christopher Marlowe's
The Jew of Malta. Admission is free. Reservations are required.
* The National Music Center presents tenor Zachary Stains performing
selections from Tamerlano at Sidney Harman Hall on Wednesday, December
19, at noon. Contact the National Music Center at 202.383.1825 for
further details. This free event is part of the Shakespeare Theatre
Company's Happenings at the Harman program.
* At noon on January 9, 2008, the Washington National Opera performs
selections from Faust with Shakespeare Theatre Company actors reading
from Marlowe's text. This free event is part of the Shakespeare
Theatre Company's Happenings at the Harman program. -- www.shakespearetheatre.org
http://www.huliq.com/36943/shakespeare-theatre-announces-marlowe-mini-festival
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> Elizabeth Bear - Whiskey and Water (Aug 15).
>
> Man, did I enjoy this one. Right, so it's the second Promethian Age
> book, and is a more or less direct sequel to Blood and Iron. It's
> about consequences and damage and redemption and life,
>
> via KitMarlowe, the Queen of the Daoine Sidhe, a somewhat lessened
Lyra
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The stone for a man named William Muir bore the words of his dear
friend, the famous writer Robert Burns,
"If there's another world, he lives in bliss - If there is none, he
made the best of this."
Then John Henry Cardinal Newman's own message, "From the shadows and
symbols into the truth."
Other moving testimonials that caught my attention were Martial, 81
AD, "Tomorrow's too late - Live today",
Christopher Marlowe, 1584, and his, "Oh if time could cease and
midnight never come,"
and H. Austin Dobson's 1881 epitaph, "Time goes by you say? Oh no -
alas, time stays - we go!"
> http://www.huliq.com/36943/shakespeare-theatre-announces-marlowe-mini...
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life rounded
with a sleep."
Next up on the tour is The Sandman #75, from March 1996, the grand
finale of Neil Gaiman's brilliant run on the series. This issue really
deserves more attention than I'll give it here just now, due to the
day's format, but it numbers among the finest in a run that was all
top-notch.
In the early pages of Gaiman's masterful storyline, Dream of the
Endless overhears a young Will Shakespeare telling Kit Marlowe that
he'd "give anything to give men dreams that would live on long after
I'm dead." and strikes a bargain with him: in exchange, the Bard will
craft two plays during his career for Dream, commission works. The
first we'd long ago seen, a gift to Titania of The Mid-Summernight's
Dream, and in this issue, we see an aged Will write the last, The
Tempest, as he reflects on his career and his life and eventually is
brought to the Dreaming for a farewell visit with his patron.
Truly great stuff here!!
http://meanwhile12.blogspot.com/2007/10/sunday-snapshots.html
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> The stone for a man named William Muir bore the words of his dear
> friend, the famous writer Robert Burns,
> "If there's another world, he lives in bliss - If there is none, he
> made the best of this."
>
> Then John Henry Cardinal Newman's own message, "From the shadows and
> symbols into the truth."
>
> Other moving testimonials that caught my attention were Martial, 81
> AD, "Tomorrow's too late - Live today",
>
> ChristopherMarlowe, 1584, and his, "Oh if time could cease and
> midnight never come,"
>
> and H. Austin Dobson's 1881 epitaph, "Time goes by you say? Oh no -
> alas, time stays - we go!"
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> http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2007/10/08/columnists/ev_p...
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What's going on at the Tron?
NEIL COOPER October 23 2007
Tamburlaine Must Die is Miller's second outing on an adaptation of a
Louise Welsh work following his production of Tam Dean Burn's stage
version of Welsh's debut, The Cutting Room. This follow-up is an
Elizabethan pulp noir which follows playwright Christopher Marlowe's
imagined travails through the back streets of a very murky London.
"I fell in love with it", Miller says. "I love the play Tamburlaine
and the opera Tamburlaine anyway. This still has the same flavour of
the play, and because it's about Marlowe, and because his short life
was so interesting, I love that thing that he can write the most
beautiful heart-wrenching poetry, and then write a play that is so
disgusting, violent and sexist it's ridiculous. You'd think the man
was a complete psychopath, which in a way he was."
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1778547.0.0.php
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NO comment!
Haven't read the book, don't intend to,
don't intend to visit "Tron", either...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Marlowe Videos
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We've uploaded our Marlowe Rep Meet the Cast videos to our webpage.
Take a look:
Christopher Marlowe: Childhood and Education
Listen as our Literary Expert, Akiva Fox, explains that without
Marlowe there would be no Shakespeare.
Tamburlaine: A new style of play
Akiva Fox explains how Tamburlaine recreated how people understood
theatre and started the Elizabethan Era.
Two Great Rivals: Marlowe and Shakespeare
Akiva Fox explains how Marlowe and Shakespeare challenged each other
and wrote responses to each other within their plays.
Marlowe's Death
Marlowe died young, but his work carried on and inspired Shakespeare.
Who is Tamburlaine
Director Michael Kahn discusses the dueling sides of Tamburlaine.
The Story of Edward II
Director Gale Edwards explains the story of a man who did not want to
be king.
Join us as we perform these plays in rotating repertory: Edward II and
Tamburlaine.
http://shakespearetheatrecompany.blogspot.com/2007/10/marlowe-videos.html
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M. William Shiner, our Resident Production Stage Manager, is
"twittering" about rehearsals for the Marlowe repertory. Check it out
here and subscribe to the RSS Feed.
Twitter is a website where people from across the globe answer one
simple question: What are you doing? Shiner has been providing
frequent updates (aka twittering) about what goes on in the rehearsal
rooms for Tamburlaine and Edward II.
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Lyra
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Later, I found another argument in favor of "Yes, the world is made of
fail." I went to B&N to pick up a copy of The Jew of Malta by Kit
Marlowe for a thesis paper. I'm hunkered down in the Drama section,
and for the life of me, couldn't find any Marlowe--not even Doctor
Faustus. Certain that he was shelved elsewhere, I stroll up to the
desk and ask, "Could you look up Marlowe's The Jew of Malta for me?"
After having to correct the spelling of Marlowe and gently explain
that no, I didn't ask for The Jewel of Milan, if that's even a real
book, she tells me that the publisher they get their books from is no
longer printing Marlowe's works, except for print-on-demand. I have
her call all of the B7N's in the area to see if they have a copy. The
answer is a resounding "No."
That's right. The works of Christopher Marlowe, the guy that
Shakespeare hero-worshiped, are no longer in print. I'm (hoping?) sure
that she only meant out of print by their publisher, as opposed to
"every publisher in America", but still. Barnes and Noble, the leading
chain in America, no longer stocks Kit Marlowe's works.
Oh, and the Cliffnotes and Sparknotes versions of Shakespearean works
outnumbered the different copies of the original texts themselves. I'm
telling myself it's because the original texts sell very quickly while
the Cliffnotes stagnate. *headdesk*
The clerk explained to me how I can get my hands on a copy. Once the
publisher gets enough requests, they'll have a printing run, at which
time the books will be shipped. That being the case, she heartily
endorsed trying to find a used copy on the intarwebs. Or ordering it
from Britain.
http://shadowravyn.livejournal.com/222613.html
Lyra
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May NOT be out of print...
includes (first three results)
1. The Jew of Malta (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Jew of Malta (Dover Thrift Editions) by Christopher Marlowe
(Paperback - Aug 5, 2003)
In Stock
2.
Jew of Malta (New Mermaids)
Jew of Malta (New Mermaids) by Christopher Marlowe (Paperback - Sep
2007)
In Stock
3.
The Jew of Malta (Revels Student Editions)
The Jew of Malta (Revels Student Editions) by Christopher Marlowe and
David Bevington
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Lyra
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Did Christopher Marlowe write Shakespeare? I want to know what you
think.
Initial post: Jun 21, 2007 8:22 PM PDT
Astrocaito says:
I read The Playmakers by Graeme Johnstone and was amazed to read that
it was Christopher Marlowe who wrote Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare
was nothing more than a gad-about, illiterate actor.
Is this true? There was probably a fair amount of dramatic fluff cos
it was a really good read, but I want to know if the nub of it was
true?
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mylear
> On Oct 26, 9:42 pm, Lyra wrote:
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> Did Christopher Marlowe write Shakespeare? I want to know what you
> think.
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> Initial post: Jun 21, 2007 8:22 PM PDT
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> Astrocaito says:
>
> I read The Playmakers by Graeme Johnstone and was amazed to read that
> it was Christopher Marlowe who wrote Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare
> was nothing more than a gad-about, illiterate actor.
>
> Is this true? There was probably a fair amount of dramatic fluff cos
> it was a really good read, but I want to know if the nub of it was true?
>
There is no firm evidence to indicate this. However some of the early
Shakesperean plays reveal evidence of more than one hand. This has
been the subject of stylometric research and the results have been
published in respectable journals. The work of Dr Tom Merriam and
his associates, in particular, has concluded that a second major hand
in the early histories has all the hallmarks of Marlowe's style of
writing. Of course that does not prove conclusively that Marlowe was a
coauthor of these works - only that he might have been.
However there are some other clues, in particular the writings of
Robert Greene (who knew Marlowe well), which strongly suggest that
Marlowe was the original author of Edward III. Moreover while many
have attributed this play in its entirety to Shakespeare, Merriam's
computer-assisted analysis suggests that it was probably jointly
authored by Will and Kit. Which leads me - by an inevitable flow of
logic - to the conclusion that Kit wrote the original version and Will
revised it at a later date.
John H
lackpurity
> On Oct 27, 5:47 am, Lyra <mountain_qu...@RockAthens.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 26, 9:42 pm, Lyra wrote:
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> > Did Christopher Marlowe write Shakespeare? I want to know what you
> > think.
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> > Initial post: Jun 21, 2007 8:22 PM PDT
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> > Astrocaito says:
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> > I read The Playmakers by Graeme Johnstone and was amazed to read that
> > it was Christopher Marlowe who wrote Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare
> > was nothing more than a gad-about, illiterate actor.
>
> > Is this true? There was probably a fair amount of dramatic fluff cos
> > it was a really good read, but I want to know if the nub of it was true?
>
> There is no firm evidence to indicate this. However some of the early
> Shakesperean plays reveal evidence of more than one hand. This has
> been the subject of stylometric research and the results have been
> published in respectable journals. The work of Dr Tom Merriam and
> his associates, in particular, has concluded that a second major hand
> in the early histories has all the hallmarks of Marlowe's style of
> writing. Of course that does not prove conclusively that Marlowe was a
> coauthor of these works - only that he might have been.
MM:
Mylear, naturally Marlowe would have been very fresh in the mind of
William Shakespeare. Greene called Shakespeare "an upstart crow."
Naturally, he (Shakespeare) was a little tentative, in the beginning.
He would have been emulating his Master more in the beginning. After
some time, his own unique personality would have been more prominent,
and that is exactly what happened.
> However there are some other clues, in particular the writings of
> Robert Greene (who knew Marlowe well), which strongly suggest that
> Marlowe was the original author of Edward III.
MM:
Greene knew the truth about them. He knew that Shakespeare was one of
Marlowe's favorite disciples. He wrote about them almost as if they
were identical twins. That is clear in Groatsworth of Wit, so I
wouldn't advise to jump to conclusions based on that, especially
regarding the authorship of Edward III. I'd say that those "other
clues," are inconclusive, also. If a so-called "clue," is
inconclusive, then is it really a clue? Or, is it just an educated
guess?
> Moreover while many
> have attributed this play in its entirety to Shakespeare, Merriam's
> computer-assisted analysis suggests that it was probably jointly
> authored by Will and Kit.
MM:
Can a computer tell the difference between a real author and one who
is emulated to a high-degree. Have you seen that fellow who imitates
Pres. George Bush on the Tonight Show? He looks like Pres. Bush, and
he has almost all his gestures and mannerisms. Would a computer know
the difference? Even you use the word "probably," which again,
indicates that it is inconclusive.
> Which leads me - by an inevitable flow of
> logic - to the conclusion that Kit wrote the original version and Will
> revised it at a later date.
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> John H
MM:
Your so-called inevitable flow of logic is just inconclusion on top of
inconclusion to me. Recently Roundtable posted another parallel
between Marlowe and Shakespeare. I forget the exact words, but it had
to do with a star rising in the East. It was mentioned by Marlowe in
"Jew of Malta," and by Shakespeare in "Romeo and Juliet." Do you
think Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet? I think you need to allow
some room for emulation, here, Mylear. Marlowe was Shakespeare idol.
I know it is tempting to conclude things, even if there is
insufficient evidence. I notice that you went from "not conclusive
proof," to your conclusion that "Kit wrote the alleged original Edward
III." Sorry, but it is STILL not conclusive proof.
Michael Martin
mylear
Hi Michael,
I have no reason to believe Romeo & Juliet was not written by Will
Shakespeare. In regard to Greene's comments, I was not referring to
the Groatsworth letter, but rather to comments to be found in Robert
Greene's "Francesco's Fortunes", written in 1590:
"... which insolencie made the learned Orator to growe into these
termes: why Roscius, art thou proud with Esops Crow, being pranct with
the glorie of others feathers? of thy selfe thou canst say nothing,
and if the Cobler hath taught thee to say Aue Caesar, disdain not thy
tutor because thou pratest in a Kings Chamber: what sentence or
conceipte of the inuention the people applaud for excellent, that
comes from the secrets of our knowledge. "
The "Cobler" is undoubtedly Kit Marlowe, while "Aue Caesar" refers to
a well-known line within the play Edward III.
I have already discussed Merriam's analysis of this play in some
detail within HLAS and elsewhere, and don't propose to go over it all
again.
John H.
lackpurity
MM:
I understood that, but I wanted to discuss Groatsworth, anyway.
> "... which insolencie made the learned Orator to growe into these
> termes: why Roscius, art thou proud with Esops Crow, being pranct with
> the glorie of others feathers?
MM:
Greene still has a problem accepting the Mastership of William
Shakespeare. It is true that he inherited a lot of fame from
Christopher Marlowe, but he had achieved his own spiritual glory,
also. After all, he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
> of thy selfe thou canst say nothing,
MM:
If Greene was referring to Shakespeare, he was wrong on this one.
> and if the Cobler hath taught thee to say Aue Caesar, disdain not thy
> tutor because thou pratest in a Kings Chamber: what sentence or
> conceipte of the inuention the people applaud for excellent, that
> comes from the secrets of our knowledge. "
MM:
Yes, Shakespeare had a tutor, Marlowe, but he was a Sat Guru in his
own right, also. Greene was always stuck on that point.
> The "Cobler" is undoubtedly Kit Marlowe, while "Aue Caesar" refers to
> a well-known line within the play Edward III.
MM:
Yes, but your quote says that Shakespeare was taught to say it. Don't
forget that. That indicates Stratfordianism, IMO.
> I have already discussed Merriam's analysis of this play in some
> detail within HLAS and elsewhere, and don't propose to go over it all
> again.
>
> John H.
MM:
I doubt if it would help to rip-off William Shakespeare.
Michael Martin
Tom Reedy
No you didn't.
> but I wanted to discuss Groatsworth, anyway.
No you don't. You want to discuss yourself, because that is the object
of your worship. And that is exactly what you do below.
You remind me of the guy who talks incessantly about himself, but then
after a while finally says, "Well, that's enough about me. Let's hear
something about you. What do you think about me?"
TR
> Michael Martin- Hide quoted text -
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Lyra
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WASHINGTON ACTORS GUIDE
Saturday, October 27, 2007
[DC_Theatre] Digest Number 1769
Messages In This Digest (10 Messages)
A GRAND NIGHT AT WILL'S NEW PLACE
By Tim Treanor
"We are in darkness. Suddenly, the roar of human voices, punctuated by
a drumbeat, surrounds us. Massive doors open. Tamburlaine, in the
person of Avery Brooks, emerges in an enormous chariot, drawn by three
kings he has recently retired into their humbling new profession.
"Now crouch, ye kings of greatest Asia," Brooks intones. He sounds a
tad perfunctory. Perhaps he is saving his voice. "And tremble, when ye
hear this scourge will come." He flicks a whip through the air; it is,
regrettably, soundless. He tries again. "That whips down cities and
controlleth crowns, adding their wealth and treasure to my store." The
whip slices through the air again. It is as quiet as a drug lord
before a battery of reporters. "The Caspian, north northeast; and on
the south, Sinus Arabicus; shall all be loaden with the martial
spoils." Again, the whip is all action, no talk. Brooks gives it a
bemused look. "CRACK," he says loudly..,"
http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/24/a-grand-night-at-wills-new-place/
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10.
Previews for
KIT MARLOWE
by David Grimm
Directed by Jessie R. Gallogly
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
October 25, 26, & 27, 2007
8PM
Pay-What-You-Can Tickets are available at the box office one hour
before show time.
1459 Columbia Road NW.
(There are no reservations for previews.)
Tickets are on sale now for the entire run:
October 28-December 2
Rorschach Theatre
Directions
Rorschach Theatre: The Blog
"...fiendishly entertaining and wildly sensational..." -Time Out
Hungry for adventure and a way to make his mark, Christopher Marlowe
becomes a spy for a dark wing of the British government. Set in the
seedy underworld of Elizabethan England, the story charts the meteoric
rise and fall of Kit Marlowe-playwright, poet, spy and sexual outlaw.
KIT MARLOWE is being presented as a part of the Shakespeare Theatre
Company's MARLOWE FESTIVAL.
FEATURING: William Aitken, Tony Bullock, John Brennan, Matt Dunphy,
Lee Ordeman, Adam Jonas Segaller, Nick Stevens, Josh Sticklin, Jesse
Terrill, Reece Thornbery
DESIGNED BY: Eric Grims (Set), David C. Ghatan (Lights), Emily Dere
(Costumes), Veronica Lancaster (Sound), Heather Gaither (Props),
Andrew Berry (Assistant Set Design).
STAGE MANAGMENT: Katherine A. Keogh
DRAMATURGY: Rachel Miller and Cynthia Caul (Asst. Dramaturg)
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: Casey Kaleba
PRODUCED BY:Jenny McConnell Frederick and Randy Baker
This production was made possible thanks to generous support from Mary
Abbajay & Chris Marlow and Jeffery Cunard.
Season 8 is sponsored in part by Mark & Cindy Aron, The Dobranski
Foundation and Pete Miller & Sara Cormeny.
For more information visit www.rorschachtheatre.com.
Sincerely,
Jenny McConnell Frederick & Randy Baker,
Artistic Directors
Rorschach Theatre
Theatre Location:
1459 Columbia Road NW (no mail)
Washington, DC
Rorschach Theatre Mailing Address | 1421 Columbia RD NW #303 |
Washington | DC | 20009
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>
> Did Christopher Marlowe write Shakespeare? I want to know what you
> think.
>
> Initial post: Jun 21, 2007 8:22 PM PDT
>
> Astrocaito says:
>
> I read The Playmakers by Graeme Johnstone and was amazed to read that
> it was Christopher Marlowe who wrote Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare
> was nothing more than a gad-about, illiterate actor.
>
> Is this true? There was probably a fair amount of dramatic fluff cos
> it was a really good read, but I want to know if the nub of it was
> true?
>
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> On Oct 28, 11:29 am, lackpurity <lackpur...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > MM:
> > I understood that,
> No you didn't.
> > but I wanted to discuss Groatsworth, anyway.
> No you don't. You want to discuss yourself, because that is the object
> of your worship. And that is exactly what you do below.
>
> You remind me of the guy who talks incessantly about himself, but then
> after a while finally says, "Well, that's enough about me. Let's hear
> something about you. What do you think about me?"
>
> TR
Do you remember Peter Barnes's black comedy _The Ruling Class_?
Lackpurity reminds me of the fourteenth Earl of Gurney, a madman who
thinks that he is God. When asked how he knows that he is God, the
Earl replies that he has observed that whenever he prays, he finds
that he is talking to himself.
[...]
Tom Reedy
Lackpurity is certainly a joke. It's a pity he doesn't get it, or
maybe--probably--it's a blessing. Put yourself in his shoes: would you
want to know?
TR
mylear
Lyra, thank you for the references to the Marlowe videos and the
various Marlowe events. All very interesting. Good to see Akiva Fox
articulating what I have maintained for a long time - that without
Marlowe there would be no Shakespeare. Would love to be there to see
Tamburlaine and Ed 2, but unfortunately I live in Oz.
John H
mylear
My main criticism of Akiva Fox's spiel is the credence he seems to
give to the nonsense about Marlowe's supposed predilection for
"tobacco and boies". This forms part of a long list of charges which
were deliberately contrived by Marlowe's enemies.
John H
mylear
Lyra, thank you for the reference to the Marlowe videos and events.
All very interesting. And good to see Akiva Fox articulating what I
have maintained for a long time - that without Marlowe there would be
no Shakespeare. My main criticism of Fox's spiel is the credence he
seems to give to the nonsense about Marlowe's supposed predilection
for "tobacco and boies". This forms part of a long list of charges
which were deliberately contrived by Marlowe's enemies. Would love to
lackpurity
MM:
Of course, I did understand him. I just used his own argument against
him, but I guess YOU FAILED to see that? His argument, that Marlowe
wrote part of "Edward III (original)" is incongruent with other
statements, IMO. Mylear thinks there is sufficient evidence for his
(Marlowe's) collaboration, but it is inconclusive. There are many
parallels involving Shakespeare and Marlowe, but we can't just leap to
the conclusion that Marlowe wrote the canon. I know Marlovians often
want to do it, in spite of the lack of evidence. That is why I
brought up the parallel which Roundtable had mentioned. There are
many such parallels, and they have been discussed here, previously.
It's nothing new.
> > but I wanted to discuss Groatsworth, anyway.
>
> No you don't. You want to discuss yourself, because that is the object
> of your worship. And that is exactly what you do below.
MM:
The Bible says the human form is the temple of God. Guru Nanak said,
"Hari Mandir," the "house where God resides." What is your problem
with it?
> You remind me of the guy who talks incessantly about himself, but then
> after a while finally says, "Well, that's enough about me. Let's hear
> something about you. What do you think about me?"
>
> TR
MM:
You remind me of the guys who wanted Barabbas to go free, and wanted
Christ crucified.
Michael Martin
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lackpurity
MM:
If you think you're separate from God, then it's your personal
problem. Masters know otherwise. God tells them, "There is no
difference between you and me." That is why Christ said, "When you've
seen me, you've seen the Father." It's not the same for everybody.
Others are held down by their own egos. This is why Christ said, "I
go to a place, where ye cannot come."
It is meditation which gets rid of ego and all that weight of mind,
worldly desires, etc., which hold us down. We can quote people ad
infinitum, but what is our own condition? Have you looked in the
mirror, lately, Dave Webb?
Michael Martin
Lyra
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By Nelson Pressley
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
In Grimm's portrait, blazing a new trail on the London stage isn't
enough for Kit Marlowe, as he was popularly known.
Kit badgers Thomas Walsingham (who pines for the dashing, boldly gay
Marlowe throughout this all-male play) into brokering an introduction
to his uncle, Sir Francis Walsingham.
Sir Francis, you'll recall, is the iron fist within Queen Elizabeth's
velvet glove, and here he drives the Faustian bargain that paves Kit's
path to hell. A slashed forearm, a pact in blood, and soon our hero is
writhing in the unexpectedly agonizing consequences of his own desire.
Not a bad play to kick off the Marlowe festival radiating from the
Shakespeare Theatre Company, where a repertory of "Tamburlaine" and
"Edward II" will soon inaugurate that troupe's new Sidney Harman Hall.
But Marlovian sagas want big acting...
Adam Jonas Segaller does reasonably well with the perverse wonder
here, and in the introspective speeches...
John Brennan manages a bit of shadowy command as Sir Francis, and
William Aitken is thoughtful, if not imposing, as Kit's hero, Sir
Walter Raleigh. The rest of the characters come out watery -- even
such robust historical figures as actor Edward Alleyn and plotter
Anthony Babington.
...the drama follows classical contours in speech and plot. It demands
a good deal more scale and nuance than it gets.
Maybe "Kit Marlowe" is just snakebit here; it played several years ago
in a campy, over-directed production that the playwright was moved to
shut down. At least the play looks more substantial this time -- and
for the ravenous Marlowe fan, it will serve as a decent appetizer for
the meal to come.
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Nov 5 2007 By Daniel Thomson, The Journal
Two worlds collide in Headlong's reworking of Faustus at the Gala
Theatre in Durham.
Daniel Thomson talks to one of the play's writers, Ben Power.
SELLING your soul to the devil remains as powerful and provocative a
concept now as it was to audiences when Christopher Marlowe's Doctor
Faustus was first performed in the late 1500s.
One could argue it is even more relevant today in a century where
"reality" itself has been exchanged for instant fame and fortune.
But what is it about such a pact that makes it so compelling?
"I think it explores what it means to do something which can never be
undone," Ben Power says. "It is less about the deal with the devil and
more about what committing an irreparable act actually means for the
individual."
The play pitches itself as a radical reworking of Marlowe's subversive
masterpiece, with the gothic tale of Faustus in 16th Century Europe
running parallel with a story set in modern London as two real-life
artists prepare to commit an act just as life-changing as the doctor's
devilish pact.
"About half of Marlowe's play is electric and exciting and driven by
Dr Faustus selling his soul to the devil," he says.
"The other half is very much of its time and is quite difficult to put
on for modern audiences because it's filled with period references and
humour.
"But if you take those scenes out, you're not only left with the
fantastic core of the play, but it also gives you room to add
something extra."
"We were looking for a fictional contemporary story to reawaken the
original text's danger and urgency and give it a modern twist.
The Chapman brothers are real-life conceptual artists and provocateurs
who have made a name for themselves with controversial work.
They courted further controversy in 2003 when they "rectified" a set
of priceless etchings by Goya, adding funny faces and doodles. The
piece was named Insult to Injury and the pair were subsequently
nominated for the Turner Prize.
Ben says it was the irreparable act of altering Goya's etchings which
captured his imagination.
"As soon as they applied the first drop of paint to the Goya etching
it was too late for them to go back. For better or worse it could not
be undone.
"That is the core of our play, the ramifications of committing such an
act and the impossibility of repentance.
"It is a fictional account of their lives, so we had to creatively
imagine their motives, but the core of it was based on their approach
to art and philosophy, which we researched from the many essays, books
and interviews they have done about their own work.
"Whether Jake really did have doubts about rectifying the Goya
etchings is something we may never know and it must have been strange
for him to watch his life depicted on stage.
"I'm sure we were close about how some things really were and not so
close about others.
"It was nerve-wracking for us to have him in the audience, but he was
flattered and amused by the play."
The play, simply titled Faustus, initially cuts back and forth between
the 16th Century and the present day, but as both the titular doctor
and the Chapman brothers come to realise the consequences of their
actions, their universes collide.
"It's quite exciting visually to see two guys in T-shirts interacting
with a gentleman in an Elizabethan cloak," Ben adds.
"And one of the Chapmans even ends up speaking in verse as the two
worlds seep into one another."
"It's been great to take the play back out and reconnect with
audiences."
"Faustus is a play about art and what it can do, the relationship
between the artwork, the artist and the audience, and, of course, the
nature of free will."
Ben adds: "The aim was to create a play which was as intellectual and
ambitious as possible, while still being exciting and thrilling for
the audience.
* Faustus is at the Gala Theatre, Durham, from November 6-10
Lyra
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November 9, 2007
Bad boy Marlowe on a tear
By Jayne Blanchard
November 9, 2007
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Christopher Marlowe's
"Tamburlaine," adapted and directed by Michael Kahn.
If Shakespeare were a rock idol, he'd be Paul McCartney - prolific,
diligent, a family man and an astute businessman. His contemporary,
Christopher Marlowe, would be one of those self-destructive enfants
terribles like Jim Morrison or Ian Curtis.
Akiva Fox, literary associate at the Shakespeare
Theatre..."Shakespeare had a much quieter and tidy life...and Marlowe
was the cooler kid who showed up in London at the age of 23 and took
the town by storm. Everyone wanted to be him."
The youthfulness is what captivated Mr. Grimm. "Marlowe is so over-the-
top, so ambitious, and everything is written in bright, brash colors -
he is such a young person's playwright."
Christopher Marlowe may have been all the rage back in the day, but he
has become little more than a literary footnote, while Shakespeare has
become, well, Shakespeare.
Nevertheless, two theaters in town are paying homage to Marlowe's
genius and notoriety: the Shakespeare Theatre with productions of his
seldom-seen plays "Tamburlaine" and "Edward II" and the Rorschach
Theatre with a staging of "Kit Marlowe".
Notwithstanding Marlowe's personal excesses - it is his contribution
to drama that begs rediscovery by modern audiences. "Without Marlowe,
there simply would be no Shakespeare," Mr. Fox says. "Marlowe was
Shakespeare's greatest rival and influence. They constantly referred
to each other in their plays and shamelessly stole from one another."
Marlowe was born two months before Shakespeare, in 1564. His father
was a shoemaker but made sure his son was educated, and Marlowe
received an exclusive scholarship to Cambridge University.
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Mark Fisher
CHRISTOPHER Marlowe was the Kurt Cobain of his day. Living fast and
dying young, he was gifted, promiscuous, rebellious, controversial and
a great carouser. He was a rock'n'roll star 400 years ahead of his
time and, in her 2004 novella Tamburlaine Must Die, Louise Welsh
paints a picture of the months leading up to his death at the age of
29 every bit as lurid as today's tabloid accounts of Pete Doherty's
dissolute life.
As she sees it, the London of the late Elizabethan era was fraught
with danger, not only from the plague, but also from the network of
spies (of which Marlowe was one) and the counter-plotting officials of
state. Throw in jealous rival playwrights, spurned lovers, disgruntled
actors, religious zealots and sundry enemies and you can see why
Marlowe was lucky to live as long as he did.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1786802007
Lyra
Lyra wrote:
> On Nov 12, 8:35 pm, Lyra wrote:
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BiblioHistoria attempts to find an answer to the Authorship Question.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Shakespeare and Marlow
I have found a few new Websites and Books with some very interesting
ideas about Christopher Marlow.
Shakespeare and Marlow says that Shakespeare and Marlow co-authored
the play of Hamlet, and there is a new edition of Hamlet that shows
this collaboration.
Peter Zenner (The Phoenix) in England has an intriguing new idea. That
Kit Marlowe did not exist at all, and that Kit Marlowe was somehow
mixed up with a man named Christopher Morley. However it seems
Christopher Morley was not his real name either. His real name was
William Pierce. Peter Zenner says he has written a book describing
this triage - The Shakespeare Invention - where he reveals that the
'Invention' consisted of three men -- the author, the actor and the
man whose name they purloined.
Marlow/Shakespeare School of Thought By John Baker. This is an amateur
website that brings together a large number of links about Marlow.
Some very interesting pages too. Such as the following.
Primary Documents for Marlow
What really happened in 1593
And lastly I found an article from the New York Times dated January
2005, about Christopher Marlow.
Books about Marlow
The World of Christopher Marlow. By David Riggs.
A Review of The World of Christopher Marlow
History Play: The Lives and Afterlives of Christopher Marlowe By
Rodney Bolt (2004)
Shakespeare Thy Name is Marlow, By David Rhys Williams. (1966)
Williams was a Unitarian Minister.
Posted by Historia at 8:31 AM
http://biblioshake.blogspot.com/2007/11/shakespeare-and-marlow.html
Lyra
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Christopher Marlowe and TAMBURLAINE
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was Shakespeare's contemporary and Marlowe's
first play TAMBURLAINE was a huge hit in Elizabethan England.
My company, Austin Shakespeare is now exploring the text for a staged
reading on Nov. 28, directed by Ian Manners at the Mercury Hall in
Austin. I am having great fun with actors rehearsing the text with
relish!
In Dec, I am going to see Fran Dorn in Michael Kahn's production at
the new Shakespeare Theater space in DC. Really looking forward to
feeling Fran's dynamism on Marlowe's text. Oh, Avery Brooks is in it
too... he plays Tamburlaine in his meteoric rise to conquer the world
(pictured here with crown). That illustration is an image of
Tamburlaine who was Sythian... and the scourage of the world, esp the
Middle East.
Posted by Ann C. at 3:53 AM
http://annchick.blogspot.com/2007/11/christopher-marlowe-and-tamburlaine.html
Lyra
(quote)
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Tamburlaine the Great (HTML)
We have added the first part of Kit Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great.
The text was transcribed by Risa Stephanie Bear, November, 2007, from
the adaptation to modernized spelling, Ernest Rhys, general editor, of
the text of the octavo of 1590, in Everyman's Library, The Plays of
Christopher Marlowe, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., New York: E.P.
Dutton & Co., 1910. The printer's envoi is adapted from that in the
edition of Brooke, Oxford, 1910.
This edition is dedicated to Bjorn Bear.
Posted by risa at 11:42 PM
Labels: Marlowe, New Item, Risa Bear
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>
> Wednesday, November 21, 2007
>
> Christopher Marlowe and TAMBURLAINE
>
> Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was Shakespeare's contemporary and Marlowe's
> first play TAMBURLAINE was a huge hit in Elizabethan England.
>
> My company, Austin Shakespeare is now exploring the text for a staged
> reading on Nov. 28, directed by Ian Manners at the Mercury Hall in
> Austin. I am having great fun with actors rehearsing the text with
> relish!
>
> In Dec, I am going to see Fran Dorn in Michael Kahn's production at
> the new Shakespeare Theater space in DC. Really looking forward to
> feeling Fran's dynamism on Marlowe's text. Oh, Avery Brooks is in it
> too... he plays Tamburlaine in his meteoric rise to conquer the world
> (pictured here with crown). That illustration is an image of
> Tamburlaine who was Sythian... and the scourage of the world, esp the
> Middle East.
>
> Posted by Ann C. at 3:53 AM
>
> http://annchick.blogspot.com/2007/11/christopher-marlowe-and-tamburla...
Lyra
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Rorschach Theatre's Kit Marlowe
As an actor, it is great fun when you get to play a character that is
given a grand, attention-grabbing entrance. Well, the entrance of the
eponymous character in David Grimm's Kit Marlowe wins the prize.
Moments into Rorschach Theatre's current production (directed by
Jessie R. Gallogly), Adam Jonas Segaller bursts onto the stage
dripping wet. He runs around, swings down on a rope, and begins an
energetic and winning performance.
As Marlowe, Segaller makes Joseph Fiennes' Bard looks like a pansy
(It's okay Shakey, I still love you).
David Grimm takes the morsels of fact and conjecture about Marlowe's
life and forms a play that perhaps is only slightly more accurate than
Shakespeare in Love (which is to say, not at all). But, on the other
hand, Grimm could be completely right. We'll probably never know, so
we might as well enjoy the ride.
As Grimm tells it, Marlowe is in such dire need of money that he
convinces his friend Thomas Walsingham to introduce him to his uncle,
Sir Francis Walsingham. Francis Walsingham is the Queen's spymaster,
and Marlowe enters into a Faustian agreement with him. Things spin out
of Marlowe's control when Walsingham demands that he find evidence
against Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh is Marlowe's hero, and he is
accordingly resistant to destroy him. Marlowe struggles to get beyond
the power of Walsingham, resulting in his own death at the young age
of 29.
Grimm creates a Marlowe that is full of life and wonder, a man who
dreams big, and is determined to be great, whatever the cost. For the
play to work, the audience has to be drawn in by the actor playing
Marlowe, and Segaller definitely fits the bill. In fact, Segaller
carries the play, and is the reason to see this production.
The rest of the players are extremely uneven. Tony Bullock (Earl of
Essex and Hency Percy) and Reece Thornbery (Edward Alleyn, Anthony
Babington, Thomas Harriott) are unconvincing in all of their roles.
William Aitken seems to be miscast as Sir Walter Raleigh. While he
brings a sense of vulnerability to the role, there is no sense of
greatness or power to his bearing. Matt Dunphy is so stiff as Thomas
Walsingham that it seems to come from the actor and not the character.
The "bad guys" are better, and all seem to be having more fun with
their roles. John Brennan is eerie as Sir Francis Walsingham, and his
two henchman, Lee Ordeman as Robert Poley and Nick Stevens as Nicholas
Skeres, are also quite good.
Grimm has crafted an exciting play. The language is flowery which
often adds to the setting and tone, but sometimes is too much for the
actors. The play is full of delightful references for those who know
Marlowe and his work. They are worked into the script quite well, and
are never overbearing. Grimm wisely avoids overshadowing his Marlowe
with constant references to Shakespeare. There is just one, near the
end, in which Marlowe professes to having seen a beautiful play by a
man from Stratford.
Add it all up and it is an enjoyable, exciting night of theatre. Much
of the credit for the excitement must be given to Fight Choreographer
Casey Kaleba. This element unfortunately went unmentioned in all other
reviews I've read. Kaleba creates violent, believable fights in an
incredibly small space. Though familiar with Marlowe's death, that
moment still managed to elicit a gasp from me. Kudos to Kaleba and the
actors for pulling off every bloody moment successfully.
3 stars
through December 2nd
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> Tamburlaine the Great (HTML)
>
> We have added the first part of Kit Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great.
>
> The text was transcribed by Risa Stephanie Bear, November, 2007, from
> the adaptation to modernized spelling, Ernest Rhys, general editor, of
> the text of the octavo of 1590, in Everyman's Library, The Plays of
> Christopher Marlowe, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., New York: E.P.
> Dutton & Co., 1910. The printer's envoi is adapted from that in the
> edition of Brooke, Oxford, 1910.
>
> This edition is dedicated to Bjorn Bear.
>
> Posted by risa at 11:42 PM
>
> Labels: Marlowe, New Item, Risa Bear
>
> http://renascence-editions.blogspot.com/2007/11/tamburlaine-great-htm...
Lyra
(quote)
Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
Why is hard to say. It could be a dead-end in his plot. It could be
going out into his England and being generally irritated by humanity
in general (although those two points don't have to go together). Or
it could just be that today, Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
It's all really hard to say.
What is very easy to say, though, is that Marlowe is outside throwing
knives into a tree. Yes, there are more knives than he came in with.
No, he probably won't say where he got them.
However, everyone needs to practice, and so he is.
It possibly wouldn't be the best idea to sneak up on him, though.
Spy, and all.
http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/18345077.html
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> http://twohourstraffic.blogspot.com/2007/11/rorschach-theatres-kit-ma...
Lyra
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it sounds ridiculous even to myself but i want to LEARN, i want to
read all the crazy books in the original french, i want to go to
england and be bowled over that THIS IS WHERE KIT MARLOWE lived
exactly 423 years ago
http://shutupmoveon.livejournal.com/622203.html
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Lyra
(quote)
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Kit and some of my favorite plays
It's official: I have a literary/historical crush on Kit Marlowe. He's
amazing.
Also, Adam Jonas Segaller, who I saw play Kit at the Rorschach Theatre
this weekend, in their fantastic production of Kit Marlowe. which is
now one of my favorite plays.
speaking of:
Here is a list of the best plays/productions I've ever seen:
Hamlet, Will Shakespeare, Rep Stage 2005 (?) (featuring Karl Miller)
Kit Marlowe, David Grimm, Rorschach 2007 (with Adam Jonas Segaller and
Matt Dunphy)
Edward II, Kit Marlowe, Shakespeare Theatre Company 2007
Elling, Simon Bent/Ingvar AmbjØrnsen, Trafalgar Studios 1 2007 (with
the amazing John Simm)
http://typhon9.blogspot.com/2007/12/kit-and-some-of-my-favorite-plays.html
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Lyra
Lyra wrote:
(quote)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: Poet and Spy, by Park Honan. (Oxford University,
$23.) Honan’s aim in this biography of the Elizabethan dramatist
(1564-93) is, he writes, “to bring our sense of him up-to-date.” But
although Honan offers “a sumptuously detailed picture of Marlowe’s
world,” our reviewer, Michael Feingold, said he “rarely brings the
poet himself into focus.” Honan wants to rescue Marlowe from his bad-
boy reputation, but it is the very bleakness of Marlowe’s vision that
makes him seem so contemporary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/PaperRow-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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>
> (quote)
>
> Sunday, December 2, 2007
>
> Kit and some of my favorite plays
>
> It's official: I have a literary/historical crush on Kit Marlowe. He's
> amazing.
>
> Also, Adam Jonas Segaller, who I saw play Kit at the Rorschach Theatre
> this weekend, in their fantastic production of Kit Marlowe. which is
> now one of my favorite plays.
>
> speaking of:
>
> Here is a list of the best plays/productions I've ever seen:
>
> Hamlet, Will Shakespeare, Rep Stage 2005 (?) (featuring Karl Miller)
>
> Kit Marlowe, David Grimm, Rorschach 2007 (with Adam Jonas Segaller and
> Matt Dunphy)
>
> Edward II, Kit Marlowe, Shakespeare Theatre Company 2007
>
> Elling, Simon Bent/Ingvar Ambj�rnsen, Trafalgar Studios 1 2007 (with
Lyra
Lyra wrote:
(quote)
Sequel to mythology-bouillabaise fantasy free-for-all. This one has,
among everything else that goes on, Kit Marlowe squaring off against
the Devil. (A Devil. Didn't you hear, they come in six-packs?) _Blood
and Iron_ was a roller-coaster ride but this one seems more of a
meander -- less momentum and less direction.
>
> (quote)
>
> CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: Poet and Spy, by Park Honan. (Oxford University,
> $23.) Honan's aim in this biography of the Elizabethan dramatist
> (1564-93) is, he writes, "to bring our sense of him up-to-date." But
> although Honan offers "a sumptuously detailed picture of Marlowe's
> world," our reviewer, Michael Feingold, said he "rarely brings the
> poet himself into focus." Honan wants to rescue Marlowe from his bad-
> boy reputation, but it is the very bleakness of Marlowe's vision that
> makes him seem so contemporary.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/PaperRow-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>
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> > >
> > > > Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
> > >
> > > > Why is hard to say. It could be a dead-end in his plot. It could be
> > > > going out into his England and being generally irritated by humanity
> > > > in general (although those two points don't have to go together). Or
> > > > it could just be that today, Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
> > >
> > >
> > > >http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/18345077.html
Lyra
(quote)
We've added new podcasts, click the links below to hear them:
Shakespeare Theatre Company Happenings at the Harman: Folger President
Dr. Gail Kern Paster discusses history's Edward II and Christopher
Marlowe's dramatic rendering of his life.
Click here.
Shakespeare Theatre Company Windows on Shakespeare - The Taming of the
Shrew.
http://shakespearetheatrecompany.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-podcasts.html
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>
> (quote)
>
> Sequel to mythology-bouillabaise fantasy free-for-all. This one has,
> among everything else that goes on, Kit Marlowe squaring off against
> the Devil. (A Devil. Didn't you hear, they come in six-packs?) _Blood
> and Iron_ was a roller-coaster ride but this one seems more of a
> meander -- less momentum and less direction.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thre...
>
>
>
> > ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
>
> > > > >Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
>
> > > > > Why is hard to say. It could be a dead-end in his plot. It could be
> > > > > going out into his England and being generally irritated by humanity
> > > > > in general (although those two points don't have to go together). Or
> > > > > it could just be that today,Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
>
> > > > >http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/18345077.html
Lyra
(quote, excerpts)
Christopher Marlowe: Search * Local History * Famous People * History
* Millennium Timeline
The strange life of Christopher Marlowe who was killed and buried in
Deptford (neighbouring Greenwich).
Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the year of William
Shakespeare's birth.
Marlowe was educated at Cambridge and was involved in difficulties
there with the authorities with regard to the granting of his Master
of Arts degree in 1587. It seems that Marlowe refused to take holy
orders and that he was suspected of "converting" to Roman Catholicism.
However, the government authorities intervened in Marlowe's behalf,
and the degree was granted. Marlowe, at this time, undoubtedly was
active in some form of government service.
From 1587 to 1593 Marlowe wrote and produced his plays. He established
himself as a major dramatist with Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, The Jew
of Malta, Edward the Second, and Doctor Faustus.
Marlowe's death involved considerable intrigue. He was killed on May
30, 1593 in a tavern brawl in Deptford (neighbouring Greenwich) which
may well have been part of a deliberate plot to assassinate Marlowe.
Marlowe died at the age of twenty-nine, and it is interesting to note
that at this time Shakespeare was just beginning his dramatic career.
In many particulars Marlowe gave to the English popular theater the
foundation upon which Shakespeare was to build.
Christopher Marlowe & William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe was born on 6 February 1564. At 23, he went off
to London and became the dramatist for the theatre company owned by
Lords Admiral and Strange. Christopher had several outside hobbies,
like talking to his friend Sir Walter Raleigh, being an atheist, and
getting arrested for an 'unspecified' offense.
Marlowe's plays include works such as The Famous Tragedy of the Rich
Jew of Malta, Edward the Second, and the infamous Dr. Faustus. His
most ambitious work was the heroic epic Tamburlaine the Great, a play
in two parts of five acts each. This was in poem form, as all plays
were then, but it has the added distinction of being the first play
written in English blank verse. Marlowe's pioneering use of blank
verse that encouraged Shakespeare to try it. He was the first to write
a genuine tragedy in English, again paving the way for Shakespeare.
...the Council was preparing to arrest Marlowe but before this arrest
could take place, Marlowe was killed in a brawl at a tavern (pub) in
the town of Deptford.
He was staying there with three of his friends. Ingram Frizer was a
known con artist and moneylender. Nicholas Skeres was Frizer's
frequent accomplice and probably a fence. Robert Poley was an
occasional courier/spy for Her Majesty's secret service, who had
boasted of his ability to lie convincingly under any circumstances.
Frizer's master, Thomas Walsingham, was a cousin of the noted
spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham.
Both the timing of Marlowe's death and the lack of any retribution
against his murderer have led some scholars to theorize that his death
was faked and Marlowe himself took up a new identity to escape the
Privy Council. Some go so far as to state that this new identity, was,
of course, obviously, that of William Shakespeare.
* Useful links about Marlowe
* Was Marlowe the real Shakespeare?
* Marlowe quotes with haunting similar quotes in Shakespeare
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Greenwich England is where East meets West at the Greenwich Meridian
(0° Longitude); World Time is set Greenwich Mean Time and where the
World millennium celebrations will take place. The Millennium Dome
closed on 31 December 2000. But remember that the millennium didn't
officially begin until 2001.
Greenwich lies on the River Thames, a few minutes by rail or tube, or
a short river cruise from central London. If you want to visit
Greenwich and information on visiting London, England then see
Greenwich Info. There is the famous Cutty Sark to visit and the Royal
Naval College. Just down river is the Thames Barrier which is close
to London City Airport
The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is in Greenwich Park along with the
National Maritime Museum and the Queens House (which will stage an
exhibition "The Story of Time" from 1 December 1999 until 24 September
2000). For information on astronomy visit Greenwich Star
The London Marathon starts in Greenwich Park.
Greenwich has a long heritage; it was the birth place of King Henry
VIII and his daughters Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I. It has seen
many famous visitors from Peter the Great through Charles Dickens to
Bob Hope. This and a lot more in Greenwich Past.
For information on all the other places in the world called Greenwich
including Greenwich Village, New York City, USA then visit Greenwich
Town.
http://wwp.greenwich2000.com/heritage/vip/writers/marlowe.htm
>
> (quote)
>
> We've added new podcasts, click the links below to hear them:
>
> Shakespeare Theatre Company Happenings at the Harman: Folger President
> Dr. Gail Kern Paster discusses history's Edward II and Christopher
> Marlowe's dramatic rendering of his life.
> Click here.
>
> Shakespeare Theatre Company Windows on Shakespeare - The Taming of the
> Shrew.
>
> http://shakespearetheatrecompany.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-podcasts.html
>
>
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>
Lyra
(quote, excerpts)
January 15, 2008
Thirteen new plays and the Central Florida premiere of the acclaimed
comic drama Opus will make up Orlando Shakespeare Theater's fifth
annual Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, or PlayFest.
The festival is scheduled for Feb. 8-17, with readings, workshops,
master classes, a panel discussion and a talk by playwright John
Pielmeier (Agnes of God) joining the production of Opus at Lowndes
Shakespeare Center in Loch Haven Park.
Here are the plays that will be part of the festival:
*Erratica, by Reina Hardy. A professor of Shakespeare is haunted by an
entity claiming to be the ghost of Christopher Marlowe. Reading.
*Wittenberg, by David Davalos. Dr. Faustus, Martin Luther and their
student Hamlet engage in a battle of wits. Reading.
*The Castle of Otranto, by John Minigan (Breaking the Shakespeare
Code). Prince Manfred has to scramble to divorce his wife, marry his
son's fianc�e and produce a male heir before a dire prophecy is
fulfilled. Workshop production.
Further information on Play- Fest is available at orlandoshakes.org.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-playfest1208jan15,0,4732447.story
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>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> Christopher Marlowe: Search * Local History * Famous People * History
> * Millennium Timeline
>
> The strange life of Christopher Marlowe who was killed and buried in
> Deptford (neighbouring Greenwich).
>
> Christopher Marlowewas born in 1564, the year of William
> Shakespeare's birth.
>
> Marlowewas educated at Cambridge and was involved in difficulties
> there with the authorities with regard to the granting of his Master
> of Arts degree in 1587. It seems that Marlowe refused to take holy
> orders and that he was suspected of "converting" to Roman Catholicism.
> However, the government authorities intervened in Marlowe's behalf,
> and the degree was granted. Marlowe, at this time, undoubtedly was
> active in some form of government service.
>
> From 1587 to 1593Marlowewrote and produced his plays. He established
> himself as a major dramatist with Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, The Jew
> of Malta, Edward the Second, and Doctor Faustus.
>
> Marlowe's death involved considerable intrigue. He was killed on May
> 30, 1593 in a tavern brawl in Deptford (neighbouring Greenwich) which
> may well have been part of a deliberate plot to assassinate Marlowe.
>
> Marlowe died at the age of twenty-nine, and it is interesting to note
> that at this time Shakespeare was just beginning his dramatic career.
> In many particulars Marlowe gave to the English popular theater the
> foundation upon which Shakespeare was to build.
>
> Christopher Marlowe& William Shakespeare
> *Marlowe quotes with haunting similar quotes in Shakespeare
>
> ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
>
> Greenwich England is where East meets West at the Greenwich Meridian
> (0° Longitude); World Time is set Greenwich Mean Time and where the
> World millennium celebrations will take place. The Millennium Dome
> closed on 31 December 2000. But remember that the millennium didn't
> officially begin until 2001.
>
> Greenwich lies on the River Thames, a few minutes by rail or tube, or
> a short river cruise from central London. If you want to visit
> Greenwich and information on visiting London, England then see
> Greenwich Info. There is the famous Cutty Sark to visit and the Royal
> Naval College. Just down river is the Thames Barrier which is close
> to London City Airport
>
> The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is in Greenwich Park along with the
> National Maritime Museum and the Queens House (which will stage an
> exhibition "The Story of Time" from 1 December 1999 until 24 September
> 2000). For information on astronomy visit Greenwich Star
>
> The London Marathon starts in Greenwich Park.
>
> Greenwich has a long heritage; it was the birth place of King Henry
> VIII and his daughters Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I. It has seen
> many famous visitors from Peter the Great through Charles Dickens to
> Bob Hope. This and a lot more in Greenwich Past.
>
> For information on all the other places in the world called Greenwich
> including Greenwich Village, New York City, USA then visit Greenwich
> Town.
>
> http://wwp.greenwich2000.com/heritage/vip/writers/marlowe.htm
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>
> > > > > > >Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
>
> > > > > > > Why is hard to say. It could be a dead-end in his plot. It could be
> > > > > > > going out into his England and being generally irritated by humanity
> > > > > > > in general (although those two points don't have to go together). Or
> > > > > > > it could just be that today, Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
>
> > > > > > >http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/18345077.html
Lyra
(quote, excerpts)
“That’s why a resonant hall is so poignant — the notes last a half-
second longer, giving the brief illusion of immortality.”
http://orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/Opus.html
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ERRATICA
By Reina Hardy
Studio B
Sunday, 2/10 – 2:00 to 4:30pm
Wednesday, 2/13 – 7:00 to 9:30pm
Professor Samantha Stafford is trying to write a book on Shakespeare
in the midst of a host of distractions. One of her students is madly
in love with her. Her publicist wants her to do something more
commercial. And she is persistently haunted by an entity claiming to
be the ghost of Christopher Marlowe. Meanwhile, Jack Hooper, a
librarian who just might be a match for Dr. Stafford, has lost a
prized manuscript to a mysterious thief.
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WITTENBERG
By David Davalos
Studio B
Friday, 2/15 – 8:00 to 10:45pm
Sunday, 2/17 – 2:00 to 4:45
Set during late October of 1517, this sprightly and audacious battle
of wits features university colleagues Dr. Faustus (a man of
appetites), Martin Luther (a man of faith), and their student Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark (a youth struggling not only with his beliefs but
also with his tennis game). Playwright David Davalos brings us the
story behind the story of Hamlet in a highly entertaining and
accessible exploration of reason versus faith.
http://www.orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/PlayFest.html
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>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> January 15, 2008
>
> Thirteen new plays and the Central Florida premiere of the acclaimed
> comic drama Opus will make up Orlando Shakespeare Theater's fifth
> annual Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, or PlayFest.
>
> The festival is scheduled for Feb. 8-17, with readings, workshops,
> master classes, a panel discussion and a talk by playwright John
> Pielmeier (Agnes of God) joining the production of Opus at Lowndes
> Shakespeare Center in Loch Haven Park.
>
> Here are the plays that will be part of the festival:
>
> *Erratica, by Reina Hardy. A professor of Shakespeare is haunted by an
> entity claiming to be the ghost of Christopher Marlowe. Reading.
>
> *Wittenberg, by David Davalos. Dr. Faustus, Martin Luther and their
> student Hamlet engage in a battle of wits. Reading.
>
> *The Castle of Otranto, by John Minigan (Breaking the Shakespeare
> Code). Prince Manfred has to scramble to divorce his wife, marry his
> son's fianc�e and produce a male heir before a dire prophecy is
> fulfilled. Workshop production.
>
> Further information on Play- Fest is available at orlandoshakes.org.
>
> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-playfest1208jan15,0,473...
>
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Lyra
(quote)
I really want a T-shirt that reads Kit Marlowe Is My Co-Pilot.
http://kphoebe.livejournal.com/663908.html
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>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> "That's why a resonant hall is so poignant -- the notes last a half-
> second longer, giving the brief illusion of immortality."
>
> http://orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/Opus.html
>
> `````````
>
> ERRATICA
>
> By Reina Hardy
>
> Studio B
>
> Sunday, 2/10 - 2:00 to 4:30pm
>
> Wednesday, 2/13 - 7:00 to 9:30pm
>
> Professor Samantha Stafford is trying to write a book on Shakespeare
> in the midst of a host of distractions. One of her students is madly
> in love with her. Her publicist wants her to do something more
> commercial. And she is persistently haunted by an entity claiming to
> be the ghost of Christopher Marlowe. Meanwhile, Jack Hooper, a
> librarian who just might be a match for Dr. Stafford, has lost a
> prized manuscript to a mysterious thief.
>
> `````````
>
> WITTENBERG
>
> By David Davalos
>
> Studio B
>
> Friday, 2/15 - 8:00 to 10:45pm
>
> Sunday, 2/17 - 2:00 to 4:45
>
> Set during late October of 1517, this sprightly and audacious battle
> of wits features university colleagues Dr. Faustus (a man of
> appetites), Martin Luther (a man of faith), and their student Hamlet,
> Prince of Denmark (a youth struggling not only with his beliefs but
> also with his tennis game). Playwright David Davalos brings us the
> story behind the story of Hamlet in a highly entertaining and
> accessible exploration of reason versus faith.
>
> http://www.orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/PlayFest.html
>
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Lyra
(quote)
Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars - a beginners guide to the
Shakespeare authorship mystery
Introduction:
Eulogies to greatness
Barriers, Access to specific knowledge
Search for identity
The questions arise
Your choice of beliefs
Candidates for Shakespeare
Francis Bacon
Edward de Vere
Christopher Marlow
William Stanley
Roger Manners
Mary Sidney Herbert
Elizabethans and theatre
Shakespeare's early years, 'Lost Years'
Does genius need to display ego?
Summing up:
which theory
And Finally...
Candidates for Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, playwright, (b. 1564, the same year as Shakspere,
d. 1593 just as Shakespeare 'materialised'). Marlowe was 29 when he
died, except that "he didn't die" and "HE wrote Shakespeare
thereafter". As a claim for authorship, it is described as an
elaborate hoax on the part of the aristocracy. It is an extraordinary
claim, based on several presumptive assertions - that Marlowe wrote
Shakespeare BEFORE 1593, and that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare AFTER
1593, and that Shakspere was a provincial nonentity, some-time actor
and scribbler. Shakspere was not a University 'wit', not 'tutored in
further education', and someone who could not possibly have gone on
from 1593 to produce a further flow of plays successful and worthy of
genius. And that Marlowe was a paid spy, in the government's pocket
and willing pridelessly to hide away and accept this secondary,
anonymous role after years of adulation!
His rapid success and an either uncaring or egotistical understanding
that he was indeed 'the real bridge' between 'medieval and modern' in
Elizabethan terms and therefore very special, leader of the "new wave"
in theatre, could have virtually unhinged anyone - hence his dark
delusions leading into entrapment and employment by the Elizabeth /
Walsingham secret service, and all the blind often dangerous alleys
that ego fascinates us into.
Though some realistically today see his Works as "over-rated", his
"life and talent were spectacular" and he is the truly professional
candidate in this great Detective Story. His productive, high quality
imaginative work is illustrated by his Cambridge career. From there
emerged "Doctor Faustus", a secular and metaphysical vision of a
seeker after truth selling his soul to the Devil.
Questions arose why Marlowe, an atheist not believing in heaven or
hell, worked so hard to depict so convincingly man's hell "under the
controlling limitations of divine law"?
It was performed in London, while he was at Cambridge. If Marlowe
didn't believe in hell, and the play was not autobiographical, then
the dramatic picture he painted, it was said, could be only as a
result of tortured visions or a magnificent creative imagination?
(Such questions were asked later, about Shakespeare, particularly with
the Sonnets: actual experience or the abundant, fertile imagination of
the true poet?)
Remarkable poetry and dramatic power inherent in "Doctor Faustus",
despite an ill-constructed storyline, affected the actors and well as
audiences - some of each even seeing 'devils' in the place of
performance. At Dulwich, goes the story, Ned Alleyn playing Faustus
was so shaken he decided there and then to "found a College to God"...
and, true to his word, later Dulwich College came into being.
Then in 1587 came Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, "blazing poetry and
un-coherent construction" yet 200 performances in London, the people-
stunning event that truly broke with the past and opened the future:
it went on into that long run... influencing appreciative, and (word
of mouth publicity) waiting-to-be informed/transfixed audiences...
Marlowe was "this atheistic gracer of tragedies", the genius, the
mysterious - the "ultimate ghostwriter" if he had lived and "become"
Shakespeare.
But WHY write "Shakespeare"? It makes more sense that he contribute to
his rivals expanding canon? In the glow of his (Marlowe's) current
successes... by offering largesse AND thus influencing more audiences?
Many of Shakespeare's plays and Sonnets, and even outlines of Venus,
and Lucrece, might well have been completed by Shakspere from 1587-92,
but slow to be staged or known. But WHY would Marlowe have written
them, under alias? His own name, garlanded with "provocative artistry"
was grand and secure - why would Marlowe have allowed them out not
under HIS name before/by his death in 1593? Could it have been that
Shakespere's potential attracted Marlowe's jealousy? Were aristocratic
names being bandied about, promising the less difficult, "more
attractive and witty" Shakespeare favour and support?
Concluding the Marlowe career... from Faustus, the The Jew of Malta,
to the Massacre at Paris, his successes resounded before and during
Shakespeare's emergence. His last play, Edward II, was, say the modern
knowledgeable, his best - near perfect.
He impacted on audiences "ferociously", but the Works of the truly
gifted Shakespeare were equally impactful and offered even greater
dimensions in subtlety and sensitivity, and in spirituality (as
Marlowe was an avowed, active atheist?).
Whatever truth, Shakspere who followed the great literary and
playmaker Marlowe would have been grateful. His early Titus Andronicus
owes much to Marlowe (and Kyd). How sad, as it has been noted, that in
1593, "Marlowe died with half his music and cosmography in him."
Additional notable points
* Marlowe was a brilliant writer, a seasoned professional, and a
tempestuous character, rather than "a noble sensitive dilettante"
* His writing style can be analysed, on the basis of known works
published. This was done and, just maybe, similarities Shakespeare-
Marlowe can be attributed, ascribed to the aspirant Stratford man's
admiring competitiveness
* The Mendenhall system, applied to the writing of Marlowe and
Shakespeare, based on a regular word-length which all writers
theoretically display, demonstrated an astounding, almost EXACT match,
just not found with others
* In fact, when applied to Bacon-Shakespeare, the statistical test
involving examination in both cases of 200,000 words, showed that
Bacon used far longer word-lengths. Yet, of all these great names,
Bacon had in his Promus the only 'working notebook' extant to us
* As we would say, today, not exactly space-science, but
interesting, in both cases
Mirror site on www.shakespeare-authorship.org.uk
http://www.shakespeareidentity.co.uk/christopher-marlow.htm
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Lyra
(quote, excerpts)
1. What is/was your favorite subject in school and why?
In high school it was always English. I love reading, and I love
analyzing text. I also sincerely enjoy discussing characters and
motivations and metaphors and all of the things that come along with
English courses. What's more, I'm very good at it. Which makes it even
more enjoyable, I didn't have to work that hard to excel and my
teachers liked me because I was good about participating and coming up
with unique ideas.
Now that I'm in college I find it's still very much the case. I love
my English classes, specifically courses focusing on Renaissance lit
and drama, but I find that my enjoyment of them is magnified by class
I'm taking for my major, International Studies. I really love my
courses on world politics, but they do not come nearly as easy for me.
I don't get the same joy on reading political texts as I do reading my
English assignments - as wonderful and engaging as Franz Fanon is, he
doesn't hold the same fascination for me as Kit Marlowe does. But I've
found that my studies in political science enhance my reading of
literature. A recent example would be that I had two paper assignments
for my Ren Drama class, and I pulled extensively from my Revolutions,
Violence, and Terrorism course in the process of working on those
papers.
So I suppose to sum up my ramblings, I would have to say that English
is, strictly speaking, my favorite subject, but my enjoyment of it is
enhanced by my love of my Political Science courses.
http://community.livejournal.com/sortingitout/66508.html
> of mouth publicity) waiting-to-be informed/transfixed audiences...Marlowe was "this atheistic gracer of tragedies", the genius, the
> *Marlowe was a brilliant writer, a seasoned professional, and a
> tempestuous character, rather than "a noble sensitive dilettante"
>
> * His writing style can be analysed, on the basis of known works
> published. This was done and, just maybe, similarities Shakespeare-Marlowe can be attributed, ascribed to the aspirant Stratford man's
> admiring competitiveness
>
> * The Mendenhall system, applied to the writing of Marloweand
> Shakespeare, based on a regular word-length which all writers
> theoretically display, demonstrated an astounding, almost EXACT match,
> just not found with others
>
> * In fact, when applied to Bacon-Shakespeare, the statistical test
> involving examination in both cases of 200,000 words, showed that
> Bacon used far longer word-lengths. Yet, of all these great names,
> Bacon had in his Promus the only 'working notebook' extant to us
>
> * As we would say, today, not exactly space-science, but
> interesting, in both cases
>
> Mirror site onwww.shakespeare-authorship.org.uk
>
> http://www.shakespeareidentity.co.uk/christopher-marlow.htm
>
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>
>
>
> > (quote)
>
> > I really want a T-shirt that reads Kit Marlowe Is My Co-Pilot.
>
> >http://kphoebe.livejournal.com/663908.html
>
> > ```````````````````
>
> > > (quote, excerpts)
>
> > > "That's why a resonant hall is so poignant -- the notes last a half-
> > > second longer, giving the brief illusion of immortality."
>
> > >http://orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/Opus.html
>
> > > `````````
Lyra
(quote, excerpts)
Swan Tower - old-skool sale
Jan. 28th, 2008
07:33 pm - old-skool sale
So good news for all you Kit Marlowe fan-boys and fan-girls; "The
Deaths of Christopher Marlowe" will be in Issue Twelve of Paradox,
which is slated for April. I'm exceedingly glad to see it find a home
there, since it's more a historical fiction story than a speculative
one, and Paradox is explicitly a historical fiction mag with an
interest in historically-related spec fic. This was pretty much the
best matchup I could imagine for this particular story.
Comments:
From: takrann
Congrats, swan_tower and thank you for flagging a publication I didn't
know existed. Could be just the place from some stories involving the
historical and the fantastic!
From: swan_tower
Date: January 29th, 2008 04:53 pm (UTC)
Yeah, Paradox is a great example of a publication filling a nice,
solid niche you can't reliably get anywhere else.
From: takrann
Date: January 29th, 2008 07:07 pm (UTC)
I have about a dozen sketches of stories set in various periods of
history with elements of the fantastic in them. Although none of them
so far during the Elizabethan period; a period you are now mining
along with Mark (Chadbourn), although in different ways, I expect!
http://swan-tower.livejournal.com/132985.html
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> > > (quote)
>
> > > I really want a T-shirt that reads Kit Marlowe Is My Co-Pilot.
>
> > >http://kphoebe.livejournal.com/663908.html
>
> > > ```````````````````
>
> > > > (quote, excerpts)
>
> > > > "That's why a resonant hall is so poignant -- the notes last a half-
> > > > second longer, giving the brief illusion of immortality."
>
> > > >http://orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/Opus.html
>
> > > > `````````
>
> ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > > > > > > > > > > >Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > Why is hard to say. It could be a dead-end in his plot. It could be
> > > > > > > > > > > > going out into his England and being generally irritated by humanity
> > > > > > > > > > > > in general (although those two points don't have to go together). Or
> > > > > > > > > > > > it could just be that today, Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
>
> ...
>
> read more »
Lyra
(quote)
Royal palace becomes a theatre for Queen Dido
By Louise Jury, Evening Standard 01.02.08
'Glorious': the 17th century palace
(see the thread following...)
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Lyra
(quote, excerpts)
Text by Albena Shkodrova
We pass by Ocakli, the last Turkish village before the border with
Armenia. The mythical Armenian capital Ani, which at the end of the
ninth century outshined Constantinople, Cairo, and Baghdad with its
splendour, lies somewhere before us. Chronicles called it "City of
1,001 Churches" and a replica of Istanbul's Saint Sophia used to stand
in its centre.
For the time being, however, nothing on the road speaks of grandeur.
We are travelling across Turkey's most provincial backwater. Large,
desert-like areas and settlements as if from some prehistoric age
alternate along the road on which we are alone.
The only person around - leaning on a wall, smoking a cigarette, eyes
us with surprise. We slow down to make sure we are on the right path
and find out that he speaks French almost without any accent. "I live
in Paris," he leisurely waves his hand. "I work for Renault, came to
see my parents for the holidays."
This time we get over our shock more quickly than the first time, 120
miles to the south, when a woman wearing salwars and a psychedelically
bright headscarf astounded us with her Californian drawl.
We may be the only people on the road for the day. The reason is that
the tarmac ends where the country ends too. Ani, one of the least
known but most intriguing tourist destinations on the globe, is a mile
ahead.
We approach it along the Silk Road. If Marco Polo had not been a
fraudster, as an increasing number of historians claim, our car tires
are treading the ruts of his horse's hoofs.
Today, it is impossible to retrace his steps across Asia due to
political as well as geographical reasons. One of the obstacles is
nearby - the same bridge that the Venetian traveller crossed was
detroyed. Centuries ago...
Ani has been in ruins for the last seven centuries. After the First
World War, the ancient city's remains fell into a zone of considerable
political tension. Three conflicts of Kemal Atatürk's Turkey - with
the Soviet Union, Armenia, and the Kurdish separatists, led to severe
travel restrictions being imposed in the course of decades. The
Soviets enforced a 700-meter "security zone" into Turkish territory,
similar to the one still that's still in place in southern Lebanon.
Nobody was allowed here, including journalists.
Ani is one of the symbols of the contemporary Armenian nation just
like the Ararat Mountain 150 kilometers to the south. To commemorate
the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity in Armenia in 2001, the
Armenian government funded the construction of a cathedral in Yerevan.
The stones for this cathedral, St. Gregory the Illuminator, came,
symbolically, from Ani. Well, from as close as possible: the other
bank of the river which is Armenian territory.
Apart from the moustached clerk, there isn't a soul around. We enter a
corridor between the two belts of reddish stone which used to guard
the city and look for a gate onto the plateau.
We find it after 200 meters - the Lion's Gate, a tall, well-preserved
arch, with the wind blowing through it at nearly the speed of a
hurricane. It's as if all the hot air from inside the castle is trying
to escape and shave off the flat plateau covered with long-untrimmed
grass.
We manage to overcome Ani's untraditional fortification and a surreal
view opens out before our eyes: a steppe with halves of monumental
buildings scattered all over. On the left we see half a church, behind
it we can make out half a turret, and at the end of the plateau there
is half a chimney of a severed mosque.
A thousand years ago the capital of the Armenian kingdom, comprising
present-day Armenia and parts of Iran and Eastern Turkey, was a
mediaeval metropolis. Its 1,001 churches were technologically and
architecturally avant-garde at the time. Its wealth and splendour
attracted an increasing number of people, and at the end of the tenth
century its population reached 100,000 people.
Turned into a capital by Ashot III, Ani reached the height of its
glory with the Bagratids, an Armenian dynasty which declared
themselves descendants of King Solomon and King David. Its apogee was
during the reign of Gagik I (989 - 1020).
In 1045 the city, named Anahid, after the Persian counterpart of
Aphrodite, fell under Byzantine rule. Only 20 years later it was taken
over by the Seljuk Turks. For almost a century the founders of the
Ottoman Empire fought for control over Ani with the Georgians. The
beginning of the end came in 1239, when the Mongol tribes attacked.
They had little use of city life and made no effort to restore Ani
after a big earthquake in 1319 destroyed it almost to the brick.
The final blow was dealt by the last great nomad leader, Tamburlaine,
enthusiastically depicted by a number of western writers ranging from
Christopher Marlowe to Edgar Allan Poe. With him, Ani disappeared from
the face of the earth.
After the fourteenth century the ruins remained lost for mankind.
Earthquakes, wars, vandalism, attempts at cultural and ethnic
cleansing, amateur excavations and restorations, and simple neglect
added to the gradual destruction of the handful remaining ruins.
"What is Ani like?" wrote Konstantin Paustovski in 1923. "There are
things beyond description, no matter how hard you try."
Now only a few tumbledown churches, some sections of a castle and
Marco Polo's bridge remain from what used to be a magnificent city. In
some places the double city wall rises and culminates in turrets of
various shapes and heights, in others it goes down, sometimes
completely disappearing in the tall grass.
We take a broad dusty road, which meanders between the ruins.
Armenian architecture is one of civilization's greatest enigmas. It
has its own unique appearance, but more importantly - it forms the
basis of a popular European medieval phenomenon, known as Gothic
style. According to Joseph Strzygowski, who wrote in the early
twentieth century, Armenian engineers were the first to devise a way
to put a round dome over a square space. They did this in two ways:
either by transforming the square into a triangle or by building an
octagonal structure to hold the dome. Their architectural genius
resulted in stunningly beautiful buildings.
We slowly reach the first large building, the Church of the Redeemer,
and find out where the Austrian historian carried out his field
research.
The inscription on the façade says that the church was commissioned in
1035 by Prince Ablgharib Pahlavid, in order to house a piece of the
cross of Christ. Bought in Constantinople, it had to rest here until
Christ's second coming. Miraculously, the church managed to survive
until the twentieth century: though neglected, it was in one piece
until 1957 when its eastern section was destroyed by lightning. The
rest was badly shaken by an earthquake in 1989 and according to
architects, it is in danger of collapsing. Somebody has apparently
come up with the eccentric solution to block up the former church door
using some broken stones found in situ.
Now the Church of the Redeemer is reminiscent of a theatre décor: a
whole façade on one side and missing walls on the other so that the
audience could view the action on the "stage."
Fifty meters further, we come up against the canyon of the Arpaçay
River, known on its Armenian bank as the Akhurian, which divides
Turkey from Armenia. On the two opposite slopes there are ancient
settlements carved into the rocks, their origins still being disputed
by historians.
The cathedral looks intact, but there is a surprise lurking behind the
gate: we find out that the dome is gone, the open sky above us.
Strzygowski must have been a romantic art history scholar, not an
engineer.
As a former pontifical church, the cathedral has three entrances: the
north one for the patriarch, the south one for the king, and the west
one from for commoners. This was Ani's most important building,
designed by the famous Armenian architect Trdat Mendet. Its dome fell
in the earthquake in 1319, but this was only the beginning of a series
of disasters. The western façade is now also in danger of collapse.
On the walls we notice graffiti, left by Turkish and Russian visitors.
Some of the inscriptions are by Armenians who must have managed to get
here during some of the gaps in Turkey's restrictive policy.
Trdat Mendet obviously had megalomania issues. After building the
cathedral, he designed the huge Church of Saint Gregory half a mile
north. His ambition was to build it on the model of the Saint Sophia
in Istanbul. Its dome, however, collapsed shortly after it was erected
and was never restored. Still, the St. Gregory church, named after the
Armenians' patron saint, contains the largest number of frescoes
dating from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, which made the Turks
call it Resimli Kilise, the Church with Pictures.
We go on to the remarkable red Menüçer Mosque, whose arabesques, from
a distance, evoke the Alhambra.
Naturally, the Turks and the Armenians argue over it too, as the
former claim it was built by the first emir of the Shaddadid dynasty
and the latter insist it dates from Bagratid times.
It remains uncertain who is right but the ruins suggest entrancing
architecture. The combinations of red and black stone typical of Ani
are varied with white, and the six surviving domes have different
ornamentation, in a manner characteristic of the Seljuks. Though half-
ruined, the mosque was used by local Muslims until 1906.
We are climbing uphill to the remarkable castle when we suddenly
notice that the path beneath our feet is not covered with gravel. What
we have mistaken for small stones are in fact ceramic chards. I draw
my hand across them and find a couple with ornaments and several
coated with a colourful glaze. Ten steps further I stop and repeat the
experiment: we are literally walking on ceramics broken over the
centuries.
The chips may have come from anywhere: from pots in rich merchants'
homes, from the often gilded church interiors, from a tombstone or a
plaque commemorating somebody's triumph.
From this moment on I can't get rid of the feeling that I am treading
on the remains of people's souls. I stalk like a stork until I reach
the gates, thinking that a handful of Ani's paving material can tell
us more than the thickest of history books.
Like the ruins of Troy, this is a place where you have to imagine, not
just see. "À la recherche du temps perdu," politely says the Turk
leaning on the same wall when he notices us go out of the Lion's Gate.
Mehmed speaks an almost unaccented French.
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One of the most enigmatic Bulgarian treasures is hidden away in ...
Greece. A secluded sanctuary of Orthodox Christianity, the Zograf
Monastery on Mount Athos was named after St. George, who miraculously
covered an empty piece of wood with his own image overnight.
Annoyances in the Balkans
The annoying habit of Sofia authorities to mark official delegations'
arrivals with putting the whole city on hold, repeated itself once
again with Putin's latest formal visit on January 17 and 18. The
surreal, somewhat ghostly look of the town inspired Belgian journalist
Lode Desmet to reflect on what the Russian president missed to see,
while in the Bulgarian capital.
Insiders' Advice
You can't trust local maps. Nor some international travel guides. One
of them, for instance, says, that Neretva River in Bosnia and
Herzegovina flows FROM the Adriatic towards the inland of the Balkans,
never reaching the sea. OK, how about the Neretva delta and channel in
Croatia?
http://www.balkantravellers.com/read/article/331
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> (quote)
>
> Royal palace becomes a theatre for Queen Dido
>
> By Louise Jury, Evening Standard 01.02.08
>
> 'Glorious': the 17th century palace
>
> (see the thread following...)
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/bro...
Lyra
Lyra wrote:
(quote, excerpts)
6. Kit Marlowe: the man, the play, everything! I have a historical/
literary crush on playwright Christopher Marlowe. Like, big time.
Especially in Adam Jonas Segaller form, as when I saw Kit Marlowe
performed at the Rorschach Theatre (I adore that theatre, btw). I feel
like he's one of those figures I'm gonna study for the rest of my
life. :)
(I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
`````````
> political tension. Three conflicts of Kemal Atat�rk's Turkey - with
> The inscription on the fa�ade says that the church was commissioned in
> 1035 by Prince Ablgharib Pahlavid, in order to house a piece of the
> cross of Christ. Bought in Constantinople, it had to rest here until
> Christ's second coming. Miraculously, the church managed to survive
> until the twentieth century: though neglected, it was in one piece
> until 1957 when its eastern section was destroyed by lightning. The
> rest was badly shaken by an earthquake in 1989 and according to
> architects, it is in danger of collapsing. Somebody has apparently
> come up with the eccentric solution to block up the former church door
> using some broken stones found in situ.
>
> Now the Church of the Redeemer is reminiscent of a theatre d�cor: a
> whole fa�ade on one side and missing walls on the other so that the
> audience could view the action on the "stage."
>
> Fifty meters further, we come up against the canyon of the Arpa�ay
> River, known on its Armenian bank as the Akhurian, which divides
> Turkey from Armenia. On the two opposite slopes there are ancient
> settlements carved into the rocks, their origins still being disputed
> by historians.
>
> The cathedral looks intact, but there is a surprise lurking behind the
> gate: we find out that the dome is gone, the open sky above us.
> Strzygowski must have been a romantic art history scholar, not an
> engineer.
>
> As a former pontifical church, the cathedral has three entrances: the
> north one for the patriarch, the south one for the king, and the west
> one from for commoners. This was Ani's most important building,
> designed by the famous Armenian architect Trdat Mendet. Its dome fell
> in the earthquake in 1319, but this was only the beginning of a series
> of disasters. The western fa�ade is now also in danger of collapse.
>
> On the walls we notice graffiti, left by Turkish and Russian visitors.
> Some of the inscriptions are by Armenians who must have managed to get
> here during some of the gaps in Turkey's restrictive policy.
>
> Trdat Mendet obviously had megalomania issues. After building the
> cathedral, he designed the huge Church of Saint Gregory half a mile
> north. His ambition was to build it on the model of the Saint Sophia
> in Istanbul. Its dome, however, collapsed shortly after it was erected
> and was never restored. Still, the St. Gregory church, named after the
> Armenians' patron saint, contains the largest number of frescoes
> dating from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, which made the Turks
> call it Resimli Kilise, the Church with Pictures.
>
>
>
> We go on to the remarkable red Men��er Mosque, whose arabesques, from
> a distance, evoke the Alhambra.
>
> Naturally, the Turks and the Armenians argue over it too, as the
> former claim it was built by the first emir of the Shaddadid dynasty
> and the latter insist it dates from Bagratid times.
>
>
>
> It remains uncertain who is right but the ruins suggest entrancing
> architecture. The combinations of red and black stone typical of Ani
> are varied with white, and the six surviving domes have different
> ornamentation, in a manner characteristic of the Seljuks. Though half-
> ruined, the mosque was used by local Muslims until 1906.
>
> We are climbing uphill to the remarkable castle when we suddenly
> notice that the path beneath our feet is not covered with gravel. What
> we have mistaken for small stones are in fact ceramic chards. I draw
> my hand across them and find a couple with ornaments and several
> coated with a colourful glaze. Ten steps further I stop and repeat the
> experiment: we are literally walking on ceramics broken over the
> centuries.
>
> The chips may have come from anywhere: from pots in rich merchants'
> homes, from the often gilded church interiors, from a tombstone or a
> plaque commemorating somebody's triumph.
>
> From this moment on I can't get rid of the feeling that I am treading
> on the remains of people's souls. I stalk like a stork until I reach
> the gates, thinking that a handful of Ani's paving material can tell
> us more than the thickest of history books.
>
> Like the ruins of Troy, this is a place where you have to imagine, not
> just see. "� la recherche du temps perdu," politely says the Turk
> leaning on the same wall when he notices us go out of the Lion's Gate.
> Mehmed speaks an almost unaccented French.
>
>
> ```````````````````
>
>
> One of the most enigmatic Bulgarian treasures is hidden away in ...
> Greece. A secluded sanctuary of Orthodox Christianity, the Zograf
> Monastery on Mount Athos was named after St. George, who miraculously
> covered an empty piece of wood with his own image overnight.
>
>
> Annoyances in the Balkans
>
>
>
> The annoying habit of Sofia authorities to mark official delegations'
> arrivals with putting the whole city on hold, repeated itself once
> again with Putin's latest formal visit on January 17 and 18. The
> surreal, somewhat ghostly look of the town inspired Belgian journalist
> Lode Desmet to reflect on what the Russian president missed to see,
> while in the Bulgarian capital.
>
> Insiders' Advice
>
> You can't trust local maps. Nor some international travel guides. One
> of them, for instance, says, that Neretva River in Bosnia and
> Herzegovina flows FROM the Adriatic towards the inland of the Balkans,
> never reaching the sea. OK, how about the Neretva delta and channel in
> Croatia?
>
>
> http://www.balkantravellers.com/read/article/331
>
>
> ```````````````````
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> >
> >
> >
> > > > > > (quote)
> >
Lyra
>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> 6. Kit Marlowe: the man, the play, everything! I have a historical/
> literary crush on playwright Christopher Marlowe. Like, big time.
> Especially in Adam Jonas Segaller form, as when I saw Kit Marlowe
> performed at the Rorschach Theatre (I adore that theatre, btw). I feel
> like he's one of those figures I'm gonna study for the rest of my
> life. :)
>
> (I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
>
> `````````
(quote, excerpts)
Christopher Marlowe and 2120
The reason why Christopher Marlowe is 'Our ever-living poet' resides
in the way that 2120 squares his name by means of a right-angled
triangle. Such a triangle whose perpendicular members measure 971 and
1885 has a hypotenuse of 2120.
Christopher Marlowe revealed in Shakespeare's Masonic Mark
The horizontal side has the value of Christopher and the vertical side
that of Marlowe - when his name is written in Greek. Therefore 2120 is
a true and square Masonic cipher for his name.
C R I S T O F E R 600 + 100 + 10 + 200 + 300 + 70 + 500 + 5 + 100
= 1885
M A R L W 40 + 1 + 100 + 30 + 800 = 971
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No Coincidence
The fact that the dedication number 2120 marks the hypotenuse of
Marlowe's 'squaring triangle' could be a coincidence if it were a lone
reference. However it is not: there are other clues hidden in the
numerological structure of the dedication which prove that the
triangle has been correctly interpreted - as is explained in chapter
nine of Shakespeare's Sonnets - Written by Kit Marlowe.
Lyra
Lyra wrote:
>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
>
> 6. Kit Marlowe: the man, the play, everything! I have a historical/
> literary crush on playwright Christopher Marlowe. Like, big time.
> Especially in Adam Jonas Segaller form, as when I saw Kit Marlowe
> performed at the Rorschach Theatre (I adore that theatre, btw). I feel
> like he's one of those figures I'm gonna study for the rest of my
> life. :)
>
> (I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
>
> `````````
(quote, excerpts)
Christopher Marlowe and 2120
Lyra
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> (I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
http://typhon9.blogspot.com/2008/02/wow-good-hustle.html
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Only listening to country music radio (.977 music network, Windows
media player)
is keeping me sane today!
As well as everything else, the computer keeps going wrong...
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>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> 6. Kit Marlowe: the man, the play, everything! I have a historical/
> literary crush on playwright Christopher Marlowe. Like, big time.
> Especially in Adam Jonas Segaller form, as when I saw Kit Marlowe
> performed at the Rorschach Theatre (I adore that theatre, btw). I feel
> like he's one of those figures I'm gonna study for the rest of my
> life. :)
>
> (I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
http://typhon9.blogspot.com/2008/02/wow-good-hustle.html
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> Only listening to country music radio (.977 music network, Windows
> media player)
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> is keeping me sane today!
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> As well as everything else, the computer keeps going wrong...
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While we were chatting, the girls reminded me of my invitation to the
annual Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dinner at Covington Hall next week
on February 27. Colonel Covington told me once, "Since one usually
eats lunch and dinner every day, he might as well make something
special of the time. I choose to remember special people and events as
often as possible."
Thanks to the Colonel, I remembered this year the February birthdays
of Sidney Lanier (Southern poet), Mendelssohn (composer), Christopher
Marlowe (English playwright), Charles Dickens (perhaps the greatest
novelist in our language), Thomas More (official of England who chose
death rather than compromise his principles), Charles Lamb (essayist),
Thomas Edison (inventor), Handel (composer), Samuel Pepys (diarist),
Caruso (tenor), Victor Hugo (French novelist), John Tenniel
(illustrator of Alice books), and Rossini (composer).
http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/articles/2008/02/23/neighbors/neighbors02.txt
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> >
> > (quote, excerpts)
> >
> > 6. Kit Marlowe: the man, the play, everything! I have a historical/
> > literary crush on playwright Christopher Marlowe. Like, big time.
> > Especially in Adam Jonas Segaller form, as when I saw Kit Marlowe
> > performed at the Rorschach Theatre (I adore that theatre, btw). I feel
> > like he's one of those figures I'm gonna study for the rest of my
> > life. :)
> >
> > (I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
>
> http://typhon9.blogspot.com/2008/02/wow-good-hustle.html
>
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> > > > (quote)
John W. Kennedy
> The reason why Christopher Marlowe is 'Our ever-living poet' resides
> in the way that 2120 squares his name by means of a right-angled
> triangle. Such a triangle whose perpendicular members measure 971 and
> 1885 has a hypotenuse of 2120.
No it doesn't; the correct value is an irrational number between 2120
and 2121.
> The horizontal side has the value of Christopher and the vertical side
> that of Marlowe - when his name is written in Greek. Therefore 2120 is
> a true and square Masonic cipher for his name.
> C R I S T O F E R 600 + 100 + 10 + 200 + 300 + 70 + 500 + 5 + 100
> = 1885
> M A R L W 40 + 1 + 100 + 30 + 800 = 971
That's Χριστοφερ Μαρλω, of course. The gematria, remarkably enough, is
actually correct (apart from being utter tosh to begin with).
--
John W. Kennedy
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and
Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes.
The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being
corrected."
-- G. K. Chesterton
Lyra
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(quote, excerpts)
Sun, Mar 09, 2008
A couple of days ago I mentioned that I seemed to be in a phase of
aversion to long narrative. It seems that if the narrative is good
enough I can still hack it...
Friday evening and yesterday I blew through the first two novels in
Elizabeth Bear's Promethean Age series, Blood and Iron and Whiskey and
Water. They are excellent stories and the prose is lovely.
These are stories containing modern wizards, old secret societies,
swans, werewolves, one and every dragon, a variety of the Devil, and
Faerie (and its inhabitants) out of the old tales and legends from
before Tolkien gave elves souls and Disney, Inc. whitewashed and
neutered most of what was left.
These stories, like some of their Fae, have sharp pointy teeth: I was
reminded a little of Njal's Saga or Poul Anderson in some of his
grimmer modes.
They are very 21st century narratives in their post-Copenhagen view of
the complexity of truth, and also in the way that the characters are
aware of the narrative structures in which they are immersed and try
to work with or against the patterns.
It is important that one of the most magically powerful of the human
characters teaches Geology 102 at a University and travels to Faerie
and back at will, and another teaches English Literature at a College,
and uses stone lions at the NYPL as oracles. It is not a world of
simplistic either/or reality.
What the stories are about is choices, free will and the lack of it,
consequences, the meaning of sacrifice, fate, hope, duty, betrayal,
payments, the nature of damnation, families, and the possibility of
redemption. There is also a lot of talk about love and loyalty, but
rather in the mode of "I do not think that word means what you think
it means."
One nice thing about coming late to this series is that I have only a
few months to wait for the next installment: Ink and Steel Part 1 of
The Stratford Man, which should be available at the beginning of July
(just in time for my birthday), to be followed by Part Two, Hell and
Earth, a month later.
Elizabethan poets and playwrights (especially Will Shakespeare and Kit
Marlowe) and Faerie (and possibly an occasional devil). Something to
look forward to.
http://www.data-raptors.com/global-cgi-bin/cgiwrap/emgrasso/blosxom.cgi/2008/03/09#promethean
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>
> > Only listening to country music radio (.977 music network, Windows
> > media player)
>
> > is keeping me sane today!
>
> > As well as everything else, the computer keeps going wrong...
>
> `````````
>
> Still is! - but the music's still nice...
>
> ```````````````````
>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> While we were chatting, the girls reminded me of my invitation to the
> annual Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dinner at Covington Hall next week
> on February 27. Colonel Covington told me once, "Since one usually
> eats lunch and dinner every day, he might as well make something
> special of the time. I choose to remember special people and events as
> often as possible."
>
> Thanks to the Colonel, I remembered this year the February birthdays
> of Sidney Lanier (Southern poet), Mendelssohn (composer), Christopher Marlowe (English playwright), Charles Dickens (perhaps the greatest
> novelist in our language), Thomas More (official of England who chose
> death rather than compromise his principles), Charles Lamb (essayist),
> Thomas Edison (inventor), Handel (composer), Samuel Pepys (diarist),
> Caruso (tenor), Victor Hugo (French novelist), John Tenniel
> (illustrator of Alice books), and Rossini (composer).
>
> http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/articles/2008/02/23/neighbors/neighb...
>
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>
>
>
> > > (quote, excerpts)
>
> > > 6. Kit Marlowe: the man, the play, everything! I have a historical/
> > > literary crush on playwright Christopher Marlowe. Like, big time.
> > > Especially in Adam Jonas Segaller form, as when I saw Kit Marlowe
> > > performed at the Rorschach Theatre (I adore that theatre, btw). I feel
> > > like he's one of those figures I'm gonna study for the rest of my
> > > life. :)
>
> > > (I've lost the blog address, will add it on when found)
>
> >http://typhon9.blogspot.com/2008/02/wow-good-hustle.html
>
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> > > > > (quote)
>
> > > > > I really want a T-shirt that reads Kit Marlowe Is My Co-Pilot.
>
> > > > >http://kphoebe.livejournal.com/663908.html
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> > > > > > (quote, excerpts)
>
> > > > > > "That's why a resonant hall is so poignant -- the notes last a half-
> > > > > > second longer, giving the brief illusion of immortality."
>
> > > > > >http://orlandoshakes.org/CURRENT_SEASON/Opus.html
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > >Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why is hard to say. It could be a dead-end in his plot. It could be
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > going out into his England and being generally irritated by humanity
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > in general (although those two points don't have to go together). Or
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > it could just be that today,Marlowe is not in the best of moods.
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In the Wings: Broadway next year
Thursday, March 20, 2008
By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
* The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has named the
following six finalists in its annual $40,000 Steinberg /ATCA New Play
Awards, supported by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust,
limited to plays that premiered outside New York City. The top honoree
will receive $25,000 -- the largest national playwriting award. Two
others will receive $7,500 each. The winners will be announced March
29 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre in
Louisville, Ky.
"The English Channel," by Robert Brustein, noted critic and founder of
the American Repertory Theatre, debuted in September at Suffolk
University and the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard. This droll
comedy centers on creativity, inspiration and plagiarism, involving
the young Shakespeare, ghost of Marlowe and Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08080/866482-42.stm
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Lyra
(quote)
ACTOR'S RETURN ENGAGEMENT
10:00 - 20 March 2008
Thespians at the City of Bath College welcomed back a former student
for a performance of an Elizabethan murder mystery.Charles Nowlan, a
former City of Bath College and ex-Prior Park College student, took on
the lead role in Charles Marowitz's Murdering Marlowe.
The play recreates the rivalry between William Shakespeare and
Christopher Marlowe.
Hereford College of Arts is touring the country with the production,
which is written in Shakespearean blank verse and Elizabethan prose.
Charles completed his National Diploma in Performing Arts at City of
Bath College in July 2007. He is now studying for his foundation
degree in performing arts at Hereford.
Charles said: "Seeing my old tutors and the familiar surroundings
brings back many good memories."
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> In the Wings: Broadway next year
>
> Thursday, March 20, 2008
>
> By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
>
> * The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has named the
> following six finalists in its annual $40,000 Steinberg /ATCA New Play
> Awards, supported by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust,
> limited to plays that premiered outside New York City. The top honoree
> will receive $25,000 -- the largest national playwriting award. Two
> others will receive $7,500 each. The winners will be announced March
> 29 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre in
> Louisville, Ky.
>
> "The English Channel," by Robert Brustein, noted critic and founder of
> the American Repertory Theatre, debuted in September at Suffolk
> University and the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard. This droll
> comedy centers on creativity, inspiration and plagiarism, involving
> the young Shakespeare, ghost of Marlowe and Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
>
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08080/866482-42.stm
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>
> > > > ```````````````````
>
> > > > Only listening to country music radio (.977 music network, Windows
> > > > media player)
>
> > > > is keeping me sane today!
>
> > > > As well as everything else, the computer keeps going wrong...
>
> > > `````````
>
> > > Still is! - but the music's still nice...
>
> > > ```````````````````
>
> > > > > (quote, excerpts)
>
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Conspiracy, Controversy, Questions and Conundrums
Elizabethan playwright Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe left to the world a
legacy of seven plays, numerous poems, a romantic reputation and a
controversial date: 30 May, 1593. Official documents from the time say
that on this day Christopher Marlowe was killed in a brawl in a house
in Deptford. But where his official life ends is where most of the
theories begin. There are a lot of them, and they twist in and out of
each other in a thorny tangle of suppositions and suggestions. The
main areas of contention are as follows:
*
Marlowe was murdered in May 1593 (as the official documents
report), but not in a quarrel over a bar-room bill. There are a number
of theories competing for recognition as the real reason for his
death, most agree that it was some kind of set-up, the question is -
what kind?
*
Marlowe wasn't murdered, but had faked his own death in order to
escape the charges hanging over him. You can take your pick from a
proliferation of sub-theories offering alternative ways he could have
done this. The 'Marlowe didn't die' theory leads inevitably on to the
next theory - because if he didn't die in 1593, what did he do in the
years that followed?
*
Marlowe became Shakespeare. This is a big favourite in
conspiracy circles. Despite being officially dead for the entire span
of Shakespeare's career, Marlowe is among the top three contenders for
the Bard's crown.
*
This would be enough for most, but Marlowe was always a man for
extremes. Some people believe that Marlowe also 'became' Miguel
Cervantes (the author of Don Quixote), and also found time to be all
47 translators of the King James Bible, as well as penning a couple of
dozen other contemporary plays and poems. All of this, of course,
after his death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2577206
>
> (quote)
>
> ACTOR'S RETURN ENGAGEMENT
>
> 10:00 - 20 March 2008
>
> Thespians at the City of Bath College welcomed back a former student
> for a performance of an Elizabethan murder mystery.Charles Nowlan, a
> former City of Bath College and ex-Prior Park College student, took on
> the lead role in Charles Marowitz's Murdering Marlowe.
>
> The play recreates the rivalry between William Shakespeare and
> Christopher Marlowe.
>
> Hereford College of Arts is touring the country with the production,
> which is written in Shakespearean blank verse and Elizabethan prose.
>
> Charles completed his National Diploma in Performing Arts at City of
> Bath College in July 2007. He is now studying for his foundation
> degree in performing arts at Hereford.
>
> Charles said: "Seeing my old tutors and the familiar surroundings
> brings back many good memories."
>
> http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163309&command=dis...
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Celebrated biographer to lecture at Hendrix
"No stone is left unturned," raves the New York Times in review of
Park Honan's latest work, Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. "Honan
offers an almost hour-by-hour account of Marlowe's final day, an
intriguing theory about the killer's motives and an inquiry into the
fatal wound worthy of CSI."
Park Honan, a Renaissance scholar and well-known author, will continue
this year's Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and
Language series with a lecture in early April.
His address, "Getting Back to Christopher Marlowe the Dramatist,"
continues to explore this year's theme, "Possible Worlds, Other
Worlds."
The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 3, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
in Reves Recital Hall, Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, on the Hendrix
College campus. A book signing and reception will follow.
The event is open to the public and free of admission.
This event is sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in
Literature and Language, which are designed to enhance and enrich the
study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College.
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/040208/sty_0402080043.shtml
Lyra
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Classic is back
By Staff reporter
THE Third Party Theatre Company comes to Northwich on May 3 for a one-
off night of classic British theatre.
The Tragical History of Dr Faustus will be performed at the Harlequin
Theatre, Queen Street, Northwich at 7.45pm.
It is one of Britain's most famous plays and lays the foundation for a
host of other works that followed it, most notably Shakespeare's
Hamlet and Macbeth.
The story revolves around Dr Faustus who sells his soul to the devil
in exchange for magic powers and the use of the demon Mephistopholis.
Third Party put their own personality into the play though this is all
in the words of Christopher Marlowe (although not necessarily in the
right order)'.
A cut script is used to make the play move faster than the original
work, yet keep it full of surprises. Claire Smith of the Cheshire Arts
Service said the play is well made, directed, performed and creatively
produced.
She said: "It is an extremely entertaining piece of work that pushes
boundaries in the treatment of classical material without alienating."
Actor managers Nicholas Collett and Anthony Gleave are quick to point
out that they do not ignore or step aside from Marlowe's language or
structure. Their version moves through the full arc of the story which
contains some of the most popular dramatic verse ever written
accompanied by some splendid comedy and interwoven with what they
describe as cheap tricks and strong magic, smoke, mirrors and live
music.
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>
> (quote)
>
>
> Celebrated biographer to lecture at Hendrix
>
>
> "No stone is left unturned," raves the New York Times in review of
> Park Honan's latest work, Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. "Honan
> offers an almost hour-by-hour account of Marlowe's final day, an
> intriguing theory about the killer's motives and an inquiry into the
> fatal wound worthy of CSI."
>
> Park Honan, a Renaissance scholar and well-known author, will continue
> this year's Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and
> Language series with a lecture in early April.
>
> His address, "Getting Back to Christopher Marlowe the Dramatist,"
> continues to explore this year's theme, "Possible Worlds, Other
> Worlds."
>
> The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 3, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
> in Reves Recital Hall, Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, on the Hendrix
> College campus. A book signing and reception will follow.
>
> The event is open to the public and free of admission.
>
> This event is sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in
> Literature and Language, which are designed to enhance and enrich the
> study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College.
>
> http://www.thecabin.net/stories/040208/sty_0402080043.shtml
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lackpurity
I'm glad they are still doing his plays. He was fantastic. He was
not just entertaining us, but trying to teach us spiritual truths.
Michael Martin
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May 6, 1899, Wednesday
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I notice an article in your magazine of March 25 from Charles F.
Phillips, in which he questions the identity of the two persons
mentioned above. Having heretofore supposed that "Kit" was merely the
short for Christopher, and never having heard the question mooted
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Strange stuff - in which we learn that Marlowe was born in 1595
(surely not?) -
and that Ben Jonson killed
"Mr. Marlowe, the poet,
on Bunhill,
coming from the Green Curtain playhouse."
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> > Phillips, in which he questions the identity of the two persons
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The Tragicall History of Dr Faustus
Wednesday, April 30, 8pm, Rondo Theatre.
Third Party, the unique Hastings-based touring company specialising in
Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, bring The Tragicall History of Doctor
Faustus - A Damned Fine Play - all in the words of Christopher Marlowe
(although not necessarily in the right order) to the Rondo Theatre on
Wednesday April 30.
Originally developed in 2006 with support from the Arts Council and
the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, this highly entertaining
version of the Marlowe play featuring Faustus, Lucifer and
Mephistopholis is fast moving and full of surprises.
Actor/managers Nicholas Collett and Anthony Gleave are quick to point
out, however, that they do not ignore or step aside from either
Marlowe's language or structure, nor do they seek to debunk the play.
Their version moves through the full arc of the story, which contains
some of the most popular dramatic verse ever written, accompanied by
some splendid comedy and shot through with popular forms: live music,
dance, ventriloquism and a touch of magic.
Nicholas Collett trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where
he won the Newton Blick Comedy Prize. For the RSC he has performed
Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Gaoler in The Winter's Tale, as
well as national touring, repertory, radio and television.
John Wright is a multi-award winning theatre director. For Third Party
John has directed Hamlet, The Changeling, Richard III - To Hell on a
Handcart and Dr Faustus. He has worked with the company since 1998.
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/display.var.2218865.0.0.php
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THEATER REVIEW A Rewriting of Shakespeare
MIT Shakespeare Ensemble Stages a Production of ‘Vampire Hunter’
By Daniela Cako
STAFF WRITER
April 18, 2008
William Shakespeare: Vampire Hunter
MIT Shakespeare Ensemble
Directed by Sabrina Neuman ’09
Sunday April 6th, at 7:00 p.m.
Room 34-301
Within 24 hours of beginning development, a group of less than twenty
MIT Shakespeare Ensemble members had written a script, formed a cast,
rehearsed it, made costumes, built a set, and completed everything
else that a play needs. It all went down in 34-101, a lecture hall
usually used for classes rather than plays. A very odd place to stage
a play.
However, the lights and the setting made the audience forget where
they were and engaged them in the quest of William Shakespeare, played
by Christopher Stephenson ’09. The narrator, Matthew Peairs ’09, eased
the audience into Shakespeare’s time, making them believe that they
knew what had happened during that period. But he soon shocked us by
throwing the audience into the story and legend of Shakespeare, not as
a playwright and actor, but as a Vampire Hunter.
The plot starts out with a cliché: Shakespeare is found working hard
to come up with script ideas and his wife is turned into a Vampire by
Kit Marlowe, the evil Vampire Queen played by Bianca Farrell ’11. As
she tries to bite her husband, he kills her. The typical story begins
to unfold: Shakespeare does what every loving and devout husband would
do, he tries to find and kill Kit Marlowe. Of course he could not do
this by himself; by the next act he has stumbled, by coincidence, into
a bar where he finds Thomas Kyd, a werewolf and an enemy of Kit
Marlowe.
Soon his personal revenge coincides with the plans of Gloriana, Queen
Elizabeth I of England, played by Laila Wahedi ’11.
Kellas Cameron ’10 plays the part of Kyd the Werewolf, whom the
audience finds out was in love with the Vampire Queen and in the
crucial moment where he has her at his mercy, he decides not to kill
her. Love for the werewolf was more important than justice and the
personal interests of England.
Despite the werewolf costume and make up being completely believable,
Cameron never once makes the audience lose track of the werewolf’s
human side, except perhaps when he howled in pain. The story continues
with other characters being introduced, such as Mary, the Queen of
Scots played by a man — Arnaldo Pereira-Diaz ’09 — who is worried
about the secret of Scotland, a secret that the audience is left
wondering about. And of course there are the devout servants of the
Queen of Scots: Mary Seaton and Nat played by Grace Kane ’11 and
Brianna Conrad ’11, who try to find the evil Vampire Queen and kill
her as well, before Shakespeare does it.
The acting was superbly done, considering that everyone had less than
24 hours to memorize their lines. Only in one part of the story did
one of the characters forget their part, reminding us of the more
human side of our fellow classmates. The audience could follow the
feelings of all the characters, from the playful Ivana, to the angry
Scots, to the singularly melancholic Werewolf, to the vengeful
Shakespeare.
The ending was predictably cliché. Shakespeare saves Ivana the
Concubine and Gloriana the Queen, by slaying Marlowe the Evil Vampire
Queen, whose last words — with a shriek — are “I’m slain” (making the
audience burst into laughter). However, Marlowe had turned Ivana into
a vampire, and just as Ivana is about to bite Shakespeare, Nat
(Conrad) kills her. The audience’s surprise is unbelievable and soon
the play freezes and the narrator, Peairs, comes back and clarifies
the situation.
Conrad, a MIT Shakespeare Ensemble member had traveled back in time to
save Shakespeare — and history — by slaying Ivana; he had done so by
playing the most lowly and unassuming part, and just at the critical
moment he saves the day, giving the audience its atypical happy
ending. Considering the time constraints, the play was well done, the
cast was engaging, the plot was twisting and complicated enough to
keep our attention, and the setting made us forget the present and
immersed us in a different time, the time of William Shakespeare: The
Vampire Hunter.
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King of Shadows
I don't read a lot of young adult fiction any more, but I occasionally
pick some up while traveling by way of "fast read before sleep"
material. I borrowed a YA novel by Susan Cooper (of The Dark Is
Rising fame) this past weekend, and despite its being officially
recommended for the 10-to-14-year-old age group, I found it a very
good read. As with W. W. Katz's excellent Come Like Shadows, which is
set at the Stratford (Ont.) Festival during a production of the
Scottish play, a modern production of Shakespeare is interwoven with a
time travel story.
King of Shadows (first published in 1999, currently available in a
2005 paperback) tells the story of young actor Nat Field, who has been
selected as part of an all-boy company of actors who travel to London
to present two of Shakespeare's plays at the modern replica of the
Globe. The troupe is the brainchild of a mysterious benefactor who
wants the female roles played as in Shakespeare's time, by boys. Nat,
escaping from the recent trauma of his father's suicide into the world
of theater, has been selected by director Arby to play Puck in the
Dream. Cooper presents a delightfully realistic portrait of young but
professional actors in rehearsal, interesting in and of itself to
theater buffs like me even before the time travel.
Nat becomes ill and wakes to find himself in the past, a boy loaned to
the Lord Chamberlain's Men to play Puck in a production of the Dream
starring Shakespeare himself as Oberon and Richard Burbage as Bottom.
The details of life in London and in the theater four hundred years
ago add authentic color without bogging down the story with every
little difference.
The similar-but-different rehearsal process and Nat's new life as an
apprentice in a 16th-century acting company continue to the climactic
performance of the Dream with Queen Elizabeth herself in the
audience. Little throwaway references (a cameo by Will Kempe, a
reference to Kit Marlowe) would probably be lost on the book's
intended audience but were a delight to me, as were the little details
of the costuming that transformed the boy actors into their female
roles. Queen Elizabeth's acerbic commentary on the production was a
delight and called to mind Shakespeare in Love.
The story turns unexpectedly moving partway through as the fatherless
Nat works with Shakespeare himself, who has recently lost his own son,
forming a strong bond both inside and outside their roles as Oberon
and Puck. The jolt when Nat returns to his own time, losing his new
father figure, is harsh and painful. Cooper winds the tale up
beautifully, though, as Nat struggles to readjust to modern life (and
a different production of the Dream) and to understand why he was sent
back in time. I guessed the big reveal at the end fairly early on,
but Cooper's ending was still very satisfying - sufficient for
completeness yet vague enough to leave wiggle room for the
imagination.
I would recommend this for adults who enjoy YA F&SF, especially fans
of Shakespeare or Elizabethan theater who will pick up the all the
references. I'm not a particular judge of what's good for kids of
various ages, but I certainly would have enjoyed it in my preteen
years as well, if you're a parent or buying a gift for a young
friend. Some reviews suggest that teachers are using it in the
classroom to introduce Shakespeare, and I can see that working well -
I was inspired after reading it to go do a little research on some of
the minor characters myself. Keep in mind that there's the parental
suicide in the background, not explained in detail (though the pool of
blood on the floor image is disturbing) but adding some tough moments
to the story.
Get your own copy (ignore the dreadful cover art):
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Sarah Monette was born in Oak Ridge TN, one of the "secret cities" of
the Manhattan Project. She studied Classics, English, and French at
Case Western Reserve University, and earned her master's and PhD in
English Literature both at the University of Wisconsin. Her specialty
is Renaissance drama, and her dissertation was about revenge
tragedies.
Excerpts from the interview:
“One of the really neat things about fantasy, science fiction, and
horror as a conglomerate genre is that the world is as much a part of
the story as the characters and the plot. (It's more evocative to call
it 'world' than 'setting.') I create like a magpie, with bright shiny
things, or little pretty pieces of trivia. The catacombs of the city
in Mélusine came from when I was 15 and spent three weeks in Vienna.
When they were excavating their subway stations they found a medieval
chapel, so they put a window in the subway station -- if you're going
by, you can just look and there's this little medieval chapel. Stuff
like that.
“When you're world-building, the popular culture -- what kind of
music people listen to, what they read, what kind of card games they
play -- isn't necessarily connected to the plot. You should be willing
to let some of those details be throwaways, but you have to expand the
energy learning it. The real world is big, it's messy; things don't
fit together.”
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“I find reality very boring. I have never had an idea for a story
that did not somehow involve the supernatural, the science-fictional,
or the fantastic in some way. But psychological realism is what I'm
here for. That's what I do: if a story is going to provide anything
more valuable than a couple hours' entertainment, it has to be
psychologically true.
“The received wisdom is that readers have to identify with the
protagonist, which means people write these cardboard cutouts readers
can project themselves onto. But that's not how it works! Elizabeth
Bear and I were talking about this. There's a character she identifies
with strongly, and it's not because he's a cardboard cutout; it's
because he has very particular characteristics that she recognizes,
and her identification with him is strong because he's strange, not
because he's normal. He's interesting because he's not bland. Who is
going to want to identify with someone who has no interesting
characteristics at all? Sherlock Holmes is essentially an assemblage
of quirks (the cocaine, the violin), but that's why he's an enduring
character, not because we can identify with him.”
*
“Elizabeth Bear and I met online. She was working on books about
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and she said something in
her blog about wanting someone who knew the period, to not exactly
fact-check but to look at what she'd done. We talked back and forth
about that, and then about other things, and we were e-mailing daily.
We started collaborating on a book that hasn't found a publisher yet,
a YA mystery called The Cobbler's Boy, about Christopher Marlowe when
he was a boy (he was a cobbler's son) which we started writing because
I made some silly joke about Kit Marlowe, Boy Detective. She said, 'We
could write that,' and then we did!”
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“I started working on the world of the Mélusine series in 1993,
which is one of the reasons I'm going to be very grateful to finish
the fourth book! After that I don't have a contract and I don't know
exactly what I'm going to do."
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Kit Marlowe. An Opera Based Upon the Play of the Same Name by W.
L. Courtney. The Libretto and Music by H. Bedford. [The Words Only. ],
by William Leonard COURTNEY, 1898, 24 pagesKit Marlowe. An Opera
Based Upon the Play of the Same Name by W. L. Courtney. The Libretto
and Music by H. Bedford. [The Words Only. ]
Kit Marlowe. An Opera Based Upon the Play of the Same Name by W.
L. Courtney. The Libretto and Music by H. Bedford. [The Words Only. ]
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KIT MARLOWE AN OPERA Based upon the play of the same name by The
libretto and music by HERBERT BEDFORD. 1896.
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Marlowe, by Josephine Preston Peabody, 1901, 172 pagesMarlowe
Marlowe
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Faustus/Kit Marlowe's tragedy.
Alison. Is he a poet?
Gabriel. About the scholar who did sell
Alison. Oh, father, Oh, father, let us
go!
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Even during his lifetime Kit Marlowe was called a blasphemer and
an atheist, and people knew of his odder scrapes. Who else would use a
stick baculus or dummy weapon) rather than a ...
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Constructing Christopher Marlowe, by Downie Parnell, 2006, 252
pagesConstructing Christopher Marlowe
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Courtney himself went on to write Kit Marlowe's Death,
privately performed in London in 1890 and 1892. Like Home's play, it
is heavily indebted to the pre-Hotson ...
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Will Shakespeare, by Clemence Dane, 1921, 148 pagesWill
Shakespeare
Will Shakespeare
by Clemence Dane · 1921 · 148 pages · 100% viewable
Honour, Kit? MARLOWE. Honour, Will! SHAKESPEARE. Faith and
conscience and an only son? MARLOWE. It's my own life. What are
children to- me? SHAKESPEARE.
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pagesVivian the Beauty. A Novel
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Leamington that Kit Marlowe, not one brief twelve-month ago,
received the blow that should have been his death wound. And Kit
Marlowe is heart-whole, already nay, if a certain ...
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pagesTales of the Mermaid Tavern
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by Alfred Noyes · 1913 · 230 pages · 100% viewable
Marlowe dead Ben caught him by the shoulders. "Nash! Awake! What
do you mean? Marlowe? Kit Marlowe? Dead? I supped with him why not
three nights ago!
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pagesCamb Companion Christopher Marlowe
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... oddest of reincarnations in the twentieth century: the stage
name originally proposed by Columbia Pictures for the actress
eventually known as Kim Novak was' Kit Marlowe.
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... snatches from it in the Merry Wives of Windsor; and all
lovers of the Complete Angler remember how Maudlin sang to Piscator
and his pupil the "smooth song made by Kit Marlowe," her ...
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... Tears over Jerusalem hi 1594, he prefixed to it an Epistle
in which he renews his attack on Gabriel Harvey, and " vindicates,"
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> the Manhattan Project. She studied Classics, English, and French at
> Case Western Reserve University, and earned her master's and PhD in
> English Literature both at the University of Wisconsin. Her specialty
> is Renaissance drama, and her dissertation was about revenge
> tragedies.
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> horror as a conglomerate genre is that the world is as much a part of
> the story as the characters and the plot. (It's more evocative to call
> it 'world' than 'setting.') I create like a magpie, with bright shiny
> things, or little pretty pieces of trivia. The catacombs of the city
> in M�lusine came from when I was 15 and spent three weeks in Vienna.
> �I started working on the world of the M�lusine series in 1993,
> which is one of the reasons I'm going to be very grateful to finish
> the fourth book! After that I don't have a contract and I don't know
> exactly what I'm going to do."
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, by Christopher Marlowe,
1850, 476 pagesThe Works of Christopher Marlowe
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... Tears over Jerusalem in 1594, he prefixed to it an Epistle
in which he renews his attack on Gabriel Harvey, and " vindicates,"
among others, "poor deceased Kit Marlowe :" this I ...
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Feb. TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVEKN. BY ALFRED NOTES. VIII. KIT
MARLOWE. PART I. A BRAZIER smouldered in the door to keep The Plague
away. The Mermaid reeked with smoke Of ...
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Christopher Marlowe, by Christopher Marlowe, 1887, 518
pagesChristopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
by Christopher Marlowe · 1887 · 518 pages · 100% viewable
... jealous rival, wrote an elegy " on Marlowe's untimely
death " which has not survived; an anonymous writer in 1600 speaks
lovingly of "kynde Kit Marloe Edward Blunt, Marlowe ...
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Marlowe & His Poetry, by John Henry Ingram, 1914, 310
pagesMarlowe & His Poetry
Marlowe & His Poetry
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... June." No literary man of his time received such testimony
of affection from his contemporaries as did Marlowe; and after his
death the best of them referred to " kind Kit Marlowe ...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, with Notes and Some Account of
His Life and Writings by... A. Dyce, by Christopher Marlowe, 1850,
450 pagesThe Works of Christopher Marlowe, with Notes and Some
Account of His Life and Writings by... A. Dyce
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... Tears over Jerusalem in 1594, he prefixed to it an Epistle
in which he renews his attack on Gabriel Harvey, and " vindicates,"
among others poor deceased Kit Marlowe this I ...
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pagesThe Marlowe Canon
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Isaac Walton, who has introduced it in his Complete Angler,
written about 1640, expressly says it was Marlowe's; "that smooth
song (he calls it) which was made by Kit Marlowe ...
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Beast! we know you. Your merry health, Master Kit Marlowe!
I'll bring a loud pair of palms to cheer your soul the next time you
strut in red paint with a wooden weapon at ...
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Shakespeare's End, by Conal O'Riordan, 1912, 184
pagesShakespeare's End
Shakespeare's End
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While he enjoyed the play. Such plays, good lack! J Babble of
Greene and such; there was no play Till Kit Marlowe and I sat down to
write em, And Kit Marlowe's are bombast. Gently ...
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Go hence now." "Take that, Kit Marlowe!" suddenly cried a
shrill, angry voice that I had not heard as yet; and the speaker, a
slender, petulant-looking youth, followed his speech ...
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Poore deceased Kit Marlowe Nashe wrote in the epistle to the
reader in his' Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (2nd edit. 1594), and
Kynde Kit Marlowe appears in verses by J
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... Doister and in Gammer Gurtoris Needle, acted, respectively,
in the middle of the century and in the middle of the sixties, by Eton
schoolboys and Cambridge students. Kit Marlowe is ...
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... Doistcr and in Ganuner Gurtoris Needle, acted, respectively,
in the middle of the century and in the middle of the sixties, by Eton
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incomparably more significant of the godlessness of his
truducers than of the atheism and immoralities of "kind Kit Marlowe."
I shall not make him a saint, nor am I concerned for ...
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pagesThe Age of Shakespeare, 1576-1631
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Kit Marlowe was a leading spirit among a group of writers for
the stage whose lives, we have little reason to doubt, were far from
exemplary; the accumulation of evidence has left ...
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... agony. Let me pay, lads, let me pay! Let the Mermaid pass
the sentence: I arn pleading guilty now, A dead leaf on the laurel-
bough, And the storm whirls me away. Kit Marlowe ...
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To start even with the picture of an evening at the Globe with
Kit Marlowe (alas, poor Kit Christopher Marlowe, slain by a serving-
man in a drunken brawl, aged twenty- nine ") and ...
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Kit Marlowe D.C Libertv Hall," at King's Hall. February 6th.
Wyndham D.C Lady Hunt- worth's Experiment," at the Court Theatre.
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On the other hand he assigned to Kit Marlowe, the first poet who
mastered blank verse, which is nearest the cadence of everyday
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Surely a club with the standing of the Kit Marlowe must realise
how foolish it is not to have a producer who is not playing in the
show. Crystal Palace Athenaeum in " Jane.
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Out of all the essays I wrote when I was doing my English Literature
degree was the one I wrote on Christopher Marlowe. I just love pretty
much everything he wrote. The Reader Online posts an excerpt from Dr.
Faustus.
A great jacket can be a winner for a book. Similarly, a bad one can
spell disaster. The Caustic Cover Critic knows this, and has written
my new favourite blog.
In a similar vein, I just can’t get enough of PhotoShopDisasters.
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Featured Poem: from Dr. Faustus
We’re stretching the definition of ‘poem’ a little bit this week to
enjoy this famous speech from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragicall
History of Dr Faustus. Near the end of the play Faustus seems to be
reneging on his deal with Lucifer. Mephistopheles, trying to keep
Faustus’ soul for his Lord thinks out loud: “I cannot touch his
soul; / But what I may afflict his body with / I will attempt, which
is but little worth.” Faustus chooses Helen of Troy, “Whose sweet
embracings may extinguish clean / Those thoughts that do dissuade me
from my vow, / And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer”. Then she appears
and he is lost:
Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium–
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.–
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Then don't forget there are fantastic walks all around North East
Lincolnshire available for you to really make the most of the fresh
air this summer.
From Waltham Windmill to the war cenotaph, there are many landmarks on
this stroll... not to mention a 13th Century church to feast your eyes
on.
Intriguingly, one of its rectors was implicated in the murder of
Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of William
Shakespeare!
And the good news is you can walk off an estimated 170-180 calories on
this route - perfect if you've had one barbecue too many.
Until next week, happy walking!
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Canterbury, Kent
HOW IT RATES This ancient city in eastern Kent has played a
significant part in the religious, royal and literary history of
England. St Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory the Great, established his
seat in Canterbury in AD597. The slaying of St Thomas à Becket took
place at the cathedral; the event inspired T.S.Eliot's Murder in the
Cathedral. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the earliest books in
the English language, and the city was also the birthplace of the
Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. It is now a vibrant
university city with a relaxed atmosphere and beautiful medieval
architectural setting.
ARCHITECTURAL GEMS The city is strong on churches: Canterbury
Cathedral is one of the world's finest examples of Gothic architecture
and St Martin's Church is considered to be the oldest church in
Britain. After the martyrdom of Becket under King Henry II in 1173 the
church on this site became one of Europe's most important pilgrimage
destinations. The medieval city walls and one gate remain, which is
remarkable as the place was heavily bombed during the Second World
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Marlowe' Free Play Reading & Playwright Talk Back
Saturday, May 17, 2008; Posted: 10:28 AM - by Beau Higgins
Free Play Reading
Monday, May 19th at 7:30 PM
MARLOWE
by Donald T. Beldock
Christopher Marlowe, an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the
Elizabethan era, was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William
Shakespeare.
Given the murky inconsistencies concerning the account of Marlowe's
death, an ongoing conspiracy theory has arisen centered on the notion
that Marlowe may have faked his death and then continued to write
under the assumed name of William Shakespeare.
This play by Donald T. Beldock, explores many of the fascinating
issues of the period and the people who came in contact with the
enigmatic central character.
The play was chosen First Prize Winner of the 2006 W. Keith Hedrick
National playwrighting contest.
There will be a discussion with the playwright immediately following
the reading.
Admission is free, no reservations required.
GableStage is located in the eastern section of the Biltmore Hotel,
1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables. Valet parking is available. Free
parking is available in the Biltmore parking area west of the hotel.
http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=28062
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Marlowe: Reading of Donald' T. Beldock's play about Christopher
Marlowe, an English dramatist, poet and translator, who some believe
faked has death and continued to write under the assumed name of
William Shakespeare; 7:30 p.m., GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral
Gables. free admission.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/536413.html
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> http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article...
On May 11, 8:12 pm, Lyra wrote:
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Then don't forget there are fantastic walks all around North East
Lincolnshire available for you to really make the most of the fresh
air this summer.
From Waltham Windmill to the war cenotaph, there are many landmarks on
this stroll... not to mention a 13th Century church to feast your eyes
on.
Intriguingly, one of its rectors was implicated in the murder of
Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of William
Shakespeare!
And the good news is you can walk off an estimated 170-180 calories on
this route - perfect if you've had one barbecue too many.
Until next week, happy walking!
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=151901&command=...
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Kit Marlowe may be one of the Parrs,
so I'm sending in a note about the family
so I don't lose it...
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On the death of his grandson the 2nd Earl without male heirs on the
13th March 1540 both the titles of the Viscount Bourchier and the Earl
of Essex became extinct, since both were limited to the heir male.
However the 2nd Earl of Essex did leave an only daughter named Anne,
who was regarded as being the Baroness Bourchier in her own right.
Anne was married in 1527 at the age of ten to the thirteen year-old
William Parr, whose mother went into debt in order to buy her son's
marriage to such a potentially valuable heiress. This investment
didn't quite pay off as in 1541 Anne abandoned her husband in favour
of "one Hunt or Huntley". William duly obtained a legal separation in
1542, and then an Act of Parliament on the 15th April 1543 that
declared her children to be bastards and incapable of inheriting and
later obtained a further Act annulling the marriage in 1552. Although
William Parr did have designs on the title of Earl of Essex held by
his father-in-law (which he was granted in 1543), he never assumed or
claimed his wife's barony. Anne subsequently died in some obscurity on
the 28th January 1571, when whatever issue she had produced was
rendered incapable of inheriting her title thanks to the Act of 1543.
The Devereuxs
Anne's closest legitimate blood relative was Cecily Bourchier, the
only sister of the 2nd Earl and 6th Baron, who had married one John
Devereux, and it was their son Walter who was created the Viscount
Hereford on the 2nd February 1550. It was another Walter Devereux,
grandson of the 1st Viscount, who therefore succeeded his cousin as
the Baron Bourchier in 1571, and was soon afterwards created the Earl
of Essex on the 4th May 1572. Once more the barony was subsumed
beneath this superior title, although there was a brief hiatus when
the 2nd Earl was attainted on the 25th February 1601, his son the 3rd
Earl and 10th Baron was restored on the 18th April 1604 only to then
die without issue on the 14th September 1646.
The title Earl of Essex then became extinct
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by Brooklyn Eagle (ed...@brooklyneagle.net), published online
05-19-2008
PARK SLOPE — The Gallery Players and Manhattan’s Engine37 Theater
Company will co-produce two new full-length plays to perform in
repertory from June 6 to 21.
The world premiere of “The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots” by Nat
Cassidy and the New York premiere of “Hope’s Arbor” by Rich Espey will
play June 6-15 at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn as part of the
theater’s 11th Annual Black Box New Play Festival, and June 17-21 at
Manhattan Theatre Source at Washington Square Park.
“We put out a call for new scripts thinking to find and produce that
one special play,” says Freeman. “But ...we found two that we really
loved... Two companies, two plays; it’s a nice symmetry.”
“The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots” by Nat Cassidy is a fiery,
impassioned, hallucinatory, comedic and ultimately poignant
exploration of the art of writing, what it is that calls an author to
a particular subject, and the dangers that lie in the obsessions of a
creative mind.
As Shakespeare-era dramatist Christopher Marlowe lies bleeding to
death from a fatal knife-wound to the face, his life flashes before
his eyes (or, rather, eye). His host for this journey is his own
personal Mephistopheles, a character about whom he never got the
chance to write: the infamous Roman emperor, Caligula.
“Hope’s Arbor” by Rich Espey is a fast-paced comedy that tells the
story of Hope Horrishall’s attempted escape from the rigors of
prestigious Thwaite Academy, the oldest continuously operating girls’
boarding school southwest of the Connecticut River. Rejecting the life
that has been meticulously planned out for her by her parents and
school, Hope’s journey through on-line and real-life relationships
leads her to a surprising discovery about what, and whom, she really
wants. The companies will also offer a staged reading of Jacob M.
Appel’s “The Resurrection of Dismas and Gestas” from June 19-21 at the
Gallery Players, directed by Angela Astle. The play is a comedic
exploration of the fear of dying and the joy of finding meaning in
both life and art.
“Hope’s Arbor” opens Friday, June 6 at The Gallery Players, and
transfers to Manhattan Theatre Source on Wednesday, June 18. “The
Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots” opens Saturday, June 7 at 8 p.m. at
The Gallery Players and transfers to Manhattan Theatre Source on
Tuesday, June 17. Both shows close Saturday June 21.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=12&id=20656
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Kit Marlowe web and blog miscellany - some new pages...
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"Kit brings Will into Faerie where they must confront there an unknown
force seemingly more powerful than queens on either side of the veil;
an essence that stalks them even as Kit knows they must go..."
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Ink and Steel-Elizabeth Bear
Ink and Steel
Elizabeth Bear
Roc, Jul 2008, $14.00
ISBN 9780451462091
Prometheus Club author and subtle supporter of Queen Elizabeth through
his plays containing magic that emboldened her rule Christopher “Kit”
Marlowe is reported murdered. Everyone who knows him is stunned and
assumes the enemy Sorcerers assassinated the playwright who has caused
them numerous problems in their effort to dethrone the monarch and
destroy England.
Kit’s close friend young playwright Will Shakespeare is assigned the
responsibility of the new author who spins magical spells with his
literature. However, Morgan le Fey saved Kit from murderers
resurrecting him in the land of Faeire. Meanwhile the talent and value
of Shakespeare has made him a target of the various factions who want
to control the Queen. However, Kit brings Will into Faerie where they
must confront there an unknown force seemingly more powerful than
queens on either side of the veil; an essence that stalks them even as
Kit knows they must go home to ferret out the Prometheus traitor who
set him up to die.
Set before the events of BLOOD AND IRON and WHISKEY AND WATER, INK AND
STEEL is and exciting Elizabethan Era fantasy with the second part
book to be published in August; which is the only issue this reviewer
takes issue with as we must bear a one month’s wait for the finish. As
with the previous books in the saga, the story line contains
intriguing references to the real Marlowe and Shakespeare, which in
turn makes the magic of their words seem even more genuine. Fantasy
fans will appreciate Elizabeth Bear’s terrific historical saga as
Promethean Age is at its best in the treacherous land of faerie and at
the even more dangerous seditious Queen Elizabeth’s court of intrigue.
Harriet Klausner
http://genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com/2008/05/ink-and-steel-elizabe...
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Kit Marlowe web and blog miscellany - some new pages...
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It's not possible to access the archive at the moment,
so I've started a new thread
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"He drew acclaim for his trilogy of Elizabethan novels. The final
one ... examined the murder of playwright Christopher Marlowe."
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George Palmer Garrett Jr. cast a wide net throughout the literary
world.
His talent with the written word encompassed poetry, essays, short
stories and novels. He even co-wrote the screenplay for the 1965
horror flick "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster."
"His topics and styles have ranged from the most somber to the most
comic. He has excelled for our time in every major genre of American
literature. Gifted and generous teacher, lively and kind companion,
scholar of depth and vast range, George Garrett has left marks of his
goodness wherever he has gone. It is hard to imagine another quite his
equal," said John T. Casteen III, president of the University of
Virginia.
He drew acclaim for his trilogy of Elizabethan novels. The first,
"Death of the Fox," was published in 1971, revealing the character and
times of Sir Walter Raleigh. The second novel, "The Succession," was
published in 1983, exploring the ascension of James I to the throne
after Elizabeth I. The final one, published in 1990, "Entered from the
Sun," examined the murder of playwright Christopher Marlowe.
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-05-...
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Obituaries
George Garrett; Critically Acclaimed Novelist and Poet
George Garrett, left, with writer Herbert Gold, was a University of
Virginia professor.
In a multifaceted career, he was regarded by his admirers as a classic
man of letters. He wrote poetry and short stories that were
deceptively colloquial, deeply moralistic and concerned with one's
place in a corrupting world.
He was poet laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004 and the recipient
in 1989 of the Ingersoll Foundation's T.S. Eliot Award for Creative
Writing, which recognized him as "one of the most inventive and
artistic writers of his generation."
He wrote his Elizabethan trilogy -- "Death of the Fox," "The
Succession" and "Entered From the Sun" -- over three decades, and he
chose radically different forms of storytelling in what Richard
Dillard, a Garrett expert who teaches at Hollins College, called "his
quest never to write the same book twice."
"Death of the Fox" (1971) provided Dr. Garrett with his only
bestseller. Originally part of his Princeton University doctoral
thesis, he spent 13 years writing the book about poet and adventurer
Walter Raleigh. Its sweep and authority were widely praised, as were
its vivid recreation of the period and its personalities. It was a
product not only of his empathy and literary gifts but also of
painstaking research.
Critic J.R. Frakes writing in the Chicago Tribune said "Death of the
Fox" "illuminates the entire swarmy world of royalty and commoners,
jewels and gutter-garbage, politic church and sharkfight state."
"The Succession" (1983) focused on the ascension of James VI of
Scotland to the throne of England after the death of Elizabeth I and
was told through a variety of characters, including two runaway
Catholic priests. Renaissance scholar Maureen Quilligan wrote in the
New York Times that the book was "a subtle, complex meditation on the
poetry of time."
"Entered From the Sun" (1990) used the device of two detectives, an
actor and a spy, looking to solve the stabbing death of playwright
Christopher Marlowe in 1593. Raleigh appears at the end, drawing the
trilogy to a close.
He returned to Princeton to complete his master's degree in English in
1956 and received his doctorate decades later, after the university
accepted parts of his Elizabethan trilogy as his thesis.
His final novel was "Double Vision" (2004), ostensibly about an
attempt to write a biography of the late author Peter Taylor, his
colleague and neighbor. But the book became a meditation on the nature
of memory, which Dr. Garrett viewed as fictional because it is subject
to constant adjustment.
Dr. Garrett was quoted in the reference book Contemporary Authors as
saying that he constantly felt like a novice in his craft.
"Because one is always beginning, always challenged to learn newly,"
he said. "And what one learns is how you should have done the last
book, the last story, the last poem. With that knowledge one commences
the next and new ones with innocence rather than experience, with hope
and faith and no security."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR200...
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1.
"Kit brings Will into Faerie where they must confront there an unknown
force seemingly more powerful than queens on either side of the veil;
an essence that stalks them even as Kit knows they must go..."
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Ink and Steel-Elizabeth Bear
Ink and Steel
Elizabeth Bear
Roc, Jul 2008, $14.00
ISBN 9780451462091
Prometheus Club author and subtle supporter of Queen Elizabeth through
his plays containing magic that emboldened her rule Christopher
=93Kit=94
Marlowe is reported murdered. Everyone who knows him is stunned and
assumes the enemy Sorcerers assassinated the playwright who has caused
them numerous problems in their effort to dethrone the monarch and
destroy England.
Kit=92s close friend young playwright Will Shakespeare is assigned the
responsibility of the new author who spins magical spells with his
literature. However, Morgan le Fey saved Kit from murderers
resurrecting him in the land of Faeire. Meanwhile the talent and value
of Shakespeare has made him a target of the various factions who want
to control the Queen. However, Kit brings Will into Faerie where they
must confront there an unknown force seemingly more powerful than
queens on either side of the veil; an essence that stalks them even as
Kit knows they must go home to ferret out the Prometheus traitor who
set him up to die.
Set before the events of BLOOD AND IRON and WHISKEY AND WATER, INK AND
STEEL is and exciting Elizabethan Era fantasy with the second part
book to be published in August; which is the only issue this reviewer
takes issue with as we must bear a one month=92s wait for the finish.
As
with the previous books in the saga, the story line contains
intriguing references to the real Marlowe and Shakespeare, which in
turn makes the magic of their words seem even more genuine. Fantasy
fans will appreciate Elizabeth Bear=92s terrific historical saga as
Promethean Age is at its best in the treacherous land of faerie and at
the even more dangerous seditious Queen Elizabeth=92s court of
intrigue.
Harriet Klausner
http://genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com/2008/05/ink-and-steel-elizabe...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Astounded.
Kit Marlowe/Adam Jonas Segaller:
I found myself quoted on the internet tonight. It was a strange
experience. I was searching Adam Jonas Segaller (who, if you remember,
played Kit in the Rorschach production), and came across a mention of
myself, via this very blog. How curious it felt to be quoted about my
interest in Kit. I mean, there was no comment on it or anything, but
there it was, even so. And the quote wasn't even an exceptionally good
one. I don't think I've ever really gone into detail about how
interesting I find the short, unhappy life of Kit Marlowe.
His plays
aren't half bad, you know, and he invented Blank Verse... you'd think
the man would get some credit among English teachers and those of a
theatrical standing. Now, I'm not saying he's better than Shakespeare,
but a little recognition might be nice. Lets be honest, Shakespeare
stole lines from him. I wrote a small paper in English about things
from Hamlet that Shakespeare borrowed from his dead contemporary.
http://typhon9.blogspot.com/2008/05/astounded.html
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The season will begin with Robert Brustein's The English Channel
(September 13-October 5), directed by Daniela Varon. This New York
premiere charts the murky relationship between great writers and their
proclivity to "borrow" ideas and material, as it traces Shakespeare's
relationship with The Earl of Southampton, the Dark Lady of the
Sonnets, and Christopher Marlowe during the turbulent months before
Marlowe's death.
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/14157
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Department of Theatre Arts
and Dance students will conclude their semester-long study of
Elizabethan dramatic poet Christopher Marlowe next month by performing
contemporary compilation, The Marlowe Project, in the poet's
birthplace, Canterbury, England.
The UALR students have been invited to stage the production during the
annual conference of the Marlowe Society of America meeting in England
next month.
Central Arkansas theatre-goers can preview the production at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 27, at Haislip Theatre in UALR's Center for Performing
Arts.
Students participating in the project have been crafting the
production over the course of the semester.
They devised an original performance piece based on Marlowe's
Tamburlaine I, The Jew of Malta, Dr. Faustus, and Edward II. The
project four plays in 45 minutes is a unique modern theatrical
exploration of Marlowe's plays, themes, and images. For more
information, contact the Department of Theatre and Dance.
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/060308/sty_0603080028.shtml
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Marlowe has arrived
He's here. My new baby has arrived. I thought he was going to be named
Sasha in a semi-obscure hockey reference (since Sasha is a diminutive
for Alexander in Russian and we have two Russians named Alexander on
the Capitals). But he kept looking at me and telling me that his name
wasn't Sasha.
I tried Velvet (because his ears are like velvet) and any number of
other names before realizing that his name was Marlowe. He was named
after Christopher "Kit" Marlowe and after Humphrey Bogart's portrayal
of Philip Marlowe.
I'm thinking today that his name should be Shadow because he seems to
be my shadow wherever I go. But, no, Marlowe it is. And he is just
beyond adorable.
BTW, for those incredibly discerning readers who are also Caps fans,
yes, that is a Caps towel he's laying on. He obviously has good taste
in hockey teams.
http://feltedpuck.blogspot.com/2008/06/marlowe-has-arrived.html
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Monday, June 23, 2008
He's a terror
He is a terror. He had his first day alone and he was a terror when I
got home. All that pent-up puppy energy!!
And I even let him play with yarn. Now that's love!
http://feltedpuck.blogspot.com/2008/06/hes-terror.html
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Reading in the dark - Summer blockbuster for Marlowe fans
July 6th, 2008
09:33 am
Summer blockbuster for Marlowe fans
Marlow. Kit Marlowe. I feel so conflicty. I mean, part of me feels
these books come out with the regularity of Bond movies (and oh,
wouldn't you love to see a series of films featuring Kit Marlowe as
action man
.........and you know how strongly I feel about unending series of
anything.
On the other hand...it's *Kit*, the bad boy of Elizabethans. I mean,
I've bought just about every other book about him through the years,
why stop now?
Current Location: aerye
Current Music: www.wumb.org
Tags: 2008 books, kit fan girls unite
(Braille me)
Comments
From: cheshyre
Date: July 6th, 2008 02:28 pm (UTC)
You rang?
(Link)
There was gayatheistspy to try to provide such a series.
And in the annoying "what might have been," John Maybury has written a
script for a Marlowe biopic that he wants to film as an anime. "I'd
always said I wanted to make some Elizabethan Blade Runner; since
Marlowe was a spy. And also I think that costume dramas have gotten
sort of hoary, whereas the archness and the extremeness--especially of
certain animators--I adore some of that stuff. Apply it to that
period, and then the sort of darkness of that story and the violence
and even the sexuality would be much more permissible because it's
animation."
That comes from a 2005 interview; I don't know if the project is still
on his radar, but *sigh*
(Reply) (Thread)
From: kestrell
Date: July 6th, 2008 03:01 pm (UTC)
Re: You rang?
(Link)
Ah, I knew I could not have been the only one to whom this idea
occured. But I've been wanting to ask you: have you read Melissa Scott
and Lisa Barnett's _The Armour of Light_ and if so, what did you think
of it?
From: cheshyre
Date: July 6th, 2008 04:21 pm (UTC)
Re: You rang?
(Link)
Yes I have, and I love it. That was one of the works which first
sparked my interest in Marlowe and remains one of my favorites. One of
the things I appreciate about it is that as I've learned more
Elizabethan history, I notice new... nuances that I'd missed before.
It doesn't club the reader over the head with its own cleverness, like
Eric Flint's 1632.
Though it needs a bit of updating, have you seen my list of modern
fiction with Marlowe as a character? [I've got it in a table midway
thru the page, if you'd like a more screenreader-friendly version]
From: kestrell
Date: July 6th, 2008 09:34 pm (UTC)
Re: You rang?
(Link)
I have checked out your Marlowe list a number of times, but did not
have the link bookmarked in order to check back. Ironically, I gave up
on Armour of Light because I thought it went too slowly. Maybe I
should give it another chance sometime. What is the right congation
for media related to Marlowe? Marlowiana sounds wrong...
From: alexx_kay
Date: July 6th, 2008 11:23 pm (UTC)
Re: You rang?
(Link)
Typically the w gets converted to a v in such formations:
"Marloviana". Not sure if you like it any better, but there it is.
From: cheshyre
Date: July 7th, 2008 12:50 am (UTC)
Re: You rang?
(Link)
I believe the word is Marlovian (parallel to Shakespearean).
Unfortunately, "Marlovian" has also been co-opted by the authorship
conspiracy theorists, meaning I often have to qualify the term when I
use it.
I've started just calling myself a Marlowe fan (also trying to erase
some of the highbrow/lobrow divisions)
I may be able to lend you books or other materials, if you're
interested.
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/436092.html
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:34 pm
King's Bard
Joined: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:30 pm
I love Bear! In particular, the Promethean Age novels, a blend of
urban fantasy with faerie (a very harsh faerie). Beautifully written.
Blood and Iron and Whiskey and Water are the first two set in modern
day. Then Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth are set in the days of
Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe.
_________________
My Blog: Adventures in Reading
http://www.fantasybookspot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=45302#45302
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The literary character it chiefly resembles is not in fact Orwell's
Big Brother, but Christopher Marlowe's Mephistopheles, that charmingly
urbane devil who persuaded credulous Dr Faustus to swap his soul for
all knowledge and a seductive spin around the world "of profit and
delight".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/13/do1304.xml
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Terry Deary's favourite history books
* guardian.co.uk,
* Tuesday August 26 2003
1. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
Historical detective work at its best. Not only does Nicholl recreate
the Elizabethan underworld in all its chilling seediness, he
investigates the murder with the pace and technique of a mystery
novelist. In the end he doesn't quite convince me, but his book should
be compulsory reading for all writers of popular history.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/aug/26/top10s.history
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Oh, for a poet laureate
OUR VIEW
Posted 4 days ago
Don't tell me what the poets are doing/those Himalayas of the mind
Don't tell me what the poets are doin/in the long grasses over-time.
-Poets, The Tragically Hip
KINGSTON MAY BE SOON LOOKING FOR A POET LAUreate, subject to the
discretion of city council. Poet laureate would be a peachy job,
especially if you're already prone to sporting a shock of unruly hair,
corduroy pants and socks with sandals, and carry an unlit pipe (to
poke the air with dramatic effect).
A dress code doesn't appear to be part of the job description, which
only requires that the poet laureate would have to write a single
annual poem for the New Year's Day levy at City Hall and read his or
her works at a minimum of three public events. Only published authors
with at least one book of poetry to their credit need apply. The
position comes with the princely annual stipend of $2,000.
As any Kingston editorial writer knows, composing one poem for the
mayor's levy would be a snap. The issues that crop up in this
delightfully fractious city are almost limitless. Any poet worth his
or her salt could bang off a couple of epigrams e'en before the sun
rises o'er Wolfe Island.
Consider the opportunities we've already missed in our state of
poetlessness.
A poet laureate would have been a great addition to the K-Rock
Centre's opening ceremonies. Not just to commemorate the new arena's
dedication, but to acknowledge Mayor Harvey Rosen's triumph over
adversity with a heroic rendering along the lines of what Kipling
wrote:
If you can fill the unforgiving facility With sixty minutes' worth of
decent hockey, Yours is the LVEC and everything that's in it, And
-which is more -you'll be a Mayor, my son!
The words fly off the page!
A pastoral, full of all its rural rustic charms, is precisely the type
of poetry that could bring the Wolfe Island windmill project to life.
We offer the following, with apologies to Christopher Marlowe:
Come live on Wolfe Island and be my Love, And we will all the
pleasures prove That windmills and wires, in the field, Do all the
power we need yield. There will we sit upon the tractor tires And see
the turbines feed their wires, By mighty St. Lawrence, there is a song
As melodious power whirrs along.
Usually, pastorals involve shepherds guarding sheep. But never let it
be suggested, by poets or editorialists, that the residents of Wolfe
Island got fleeced by the power project.
Narratives, haiku, sonnets, dirges and doggerel - the poetic styles
are limitless beneath the quill of a talented laureate. And at a mere
two grand per annum, worth every penny.
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1122463
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Your news for July 25th, 2008
Trading in money and love
by Ken Newton
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Money, Paul McCartney wrote, can't buy you love.
Christopher Marlowe, an English writer of older vintage, had a more
expansive view: "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining
position."
Studies emerge every so often about the happiness quotient of
America's wealthy. Apparently, the nation measures itself against the
mental well-being of the affluent.
It gives the poor folks a reason to smirk.
http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2008/jul/15/trading-money-and-love/
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Christopher Marlowe
* Latest
* Biography
* guardian.co.uk,
* Friday June 13 2008
1564-1593
"Them that love not tobacco and boys are fools."
Birthplace
Canterbury, England
Education
The son of a shoemaker, he won a scholarship to Corpus Christi,
Cambridge (history, philosophy, theology). His MA was delayed by long
absences, possibly spying abroad, and suspicion over his religion.
Other jobs
He was expected to take holy orders after university, but plunged into
London's dramatic circle instead - and also, some scholars insist,
secret service work abroad for Walsingham, Elizabeth I's secretary of
state. He may also have fought in the Low Countries.
Did you know?
A phrase in As You Like It, "it strikes a man more dead than a great
reckoning in a little room", is thought to refer to Marlowe's murder.
Critical verdict
Heretic, homosexual, secret agent... the debatable details of his
debatable life have always sparked curiosity. Shakespeare's early
histories are strongly influenced by Marlowe; dead at 29 while
Shakespeare, born the same year, worked for two decades longer, his
genius is one of the great 'what ifs' of literature. Or perhaps, as
some insist, he was Shakespeare, and his murder at Eleanor Bull's
tavern in Deptford merely a politic disappearance (see AD Wraight's
The Story the Sonnets Tell for a convincingly argued piece of
propaganda). But it was dramatic blank verse that was his real bequest
to Elizabethan drama (Ben Jonson called it "Marlowe's mighty line"),
while his pre-Byronic villain-heroes, with an individualist thirst for
knowledge ("the only sin is ignorance") and will to power, conjured a
new and enduring mood in literature.
Recommended works
Tamburlaine, Edward II
Influences
He was classically learned and translated Ovid and Lucan; his London
circle included Kyd, Greene and Nashe.
Now read on
Ralegh produced a poetic reply to Come Live With Me and Be My Love;
Donne later took up the phrase. A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony
Burgess conjures Elizabethan language as well as subject matter.
Adaptations
Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991) brings home Marlowe's daring
modernity.
Recommended biography
Charles Nicholl's The Reckoning is a vibrant and convincing recreation
of Marlowe's life and death ("character assassination", says the
Marlowe Society).
Criticism
Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe (ed Emily Carroll Bartels)
covers the numerous critical standpoints.
Useful links and work online
Work online
· Full text of Marlowe's complete works
· Dido: Queen of Carthage in 15 versions
· Faustus: A and B texts
Background
· The Marlowe Society
· TS Eliot on the blank verse of Christopher Marlowe (from The Sacred
Wood)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/13/christopher.marlowe
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All Saints Church, Waltham
Looking south-southeast across High Street from Church View. The 13th
century church dedicated to All Saints underwent major restoration and
remodelling in Victorian times.
Richard Baynes, a rector at Waltham All Saints was implicated in the
murder of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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By Richard Marshall.
Jeremy Reed, The Grid, Peter Owen, 2008
Reed ‘s dazzling, exotic writing is an odd tangent, being like his own
assessment of Smart’s Jubilate Agno, ‘ the secret union between the
eccentric and the neglected…’ such that most others are fit only to
preach of the iron-age. And so he is the greatest of our poets, being
truly ultra-modern real and equipped with the polished deviance of
Joris Karl Huysmans’ A Rebours or the strange deep space/time of
Michael Bracewell’s Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty.
His hyper-city is London, his city is like the city of Brian Michael
Bendid, Michael Avon Oeming and Pat Garrahy’s Powers. Who Killed Retro
Girl? a crunched, hectic, ripped-up sketch of acceleration slowed down
to new level altitudinous attitude: read in conjunction with Prynne’s
Biting The Air … ‘ get a vaccine on/shipment perish thread your face
why yours/if told more, stable on a tilted capital field/suspected
more often./ Give out a version amplified with strings to obligate a
boundary check, felt/damp echo ethic manipulate its life exemption,’
you face up a city with great un-dead secrets and a fat source co-
opting a cool skein of doomy puerile malcontent in broken, fragmented,
ultimately volatile sentences, legal and the other. It is no
coincidence to stream the reading with other poets nor to quote Prynne
quoting Ockam’s Summa Logicae, I:24 ‘Every property is the property of
something, but is not the property of just anything.’ And London is
also Tokyo, obviously.
So which properties have we here? Necromantic books of heaven, holy
terrorists with smart bombs, rat gangs with knives, soccer sheik
billionaires, and Big Brother, a Faustian world of subtle syllogisms
moonlighting to the compendium of placed memory whilst killers roam
networks of lanes that are all Hog Lane retros.
Hog Lane, aka Petticoat Lane, the place where knife victim Marlowe was
a knife thug before, later, he too was skewered to young death at
twenty-nine through an eye, is thus a place of double agency, double
face, double dealing, one thing being one thing and then the other and
sometimes both. Marlowe is thus both murderer and murderee, and the
complexity of historical Marlowe’s brilliant writing, notorious
thuggery, double agency, and the double face of the gay cruiser is the
template of the double cross of Reed’s narrative.
Marlowe’s portrait in Corpus Christi Cambridge is inscribed in the top
left hand corner with the Latin motto ‘Quod me nutrit me destruit’ –
‘that which nourishes me also destroys me’ and even if it is not
Marlowe in the picture after all but some ‘amorous gent of Milan’…the
provenance of such things being a source of disputation, and such
disputation is the very crux of this narrative, the motto still rests
on Marlowe as both apt and prophetic. In Hog Lane, where the city
began and ended, maybe that’s where the deal was done, where Faustus
winked a deal with Mephistopheles, Marlowe with Shakespeare, or vice
versa, and all hell was let loose.
Reed writes with the radioactive nutrients from these elsewheres and
pollinates them into some deadly-fallout x-rayed zap-writing that is
more essential, more plausible, more ennobling than the often too
rigidly processed, too unbiologically tampered dystopias of others.
Reed’s novel is like Milo Manera and Federico Fellini’s Trip To
Tullum, where an unrestrained imagination melds itself to a science
fiction intent that reaches perversely into a long deranged back-
history and flights of redemption. At the heart of the narrative is
the great death in a little room in Deptford, the contamination of
literature written by an alien curator who is acquiring his own
version of the best of it. As Iain Sinclair says of such gatherers,
‘survival is the only justification,’ hence the necessity to emphasise
that Reed is, in all, the poet surviving our futures.
The ‘contamination’ of writing is Shakespeare himself, as evidently as
anything in plain sight can be, someone who becomes an unnoticed
(until too late, and now, latterly with Reed, of late) Armada, a
metaphor of deadly oncoming consumption, a weird magical being
constructed from the unshrined windows of St Helen’s Church
Bishopsgate (which were once caught up in an IRA bombing campaign in
the 1990’s) and is now the emblem of whatever writing and literature
is made to mean by its national and transnational enforcers. Reed’s
novel is the surveillance helicopter that throughout the book hovers
over London as it tears itself apart in a dreamscape of violence and
corruption that parallels the Bubonic Plague of Marlowe’s original.
The landscape is strangely distant as if observed through the wrong
end of a telescope or an unfulfilled strange longing but there’s a
sense of history in this, and its not technique but what Mark E. Smith
in Renegade writes about in his chapter Death Of The Landlords when
commenting on working on I Am Curious, Oranj, adapted from the Swedish
film I Am Curious, Yellow: ‘ … we all share some kind of common
knowledge that’s within ourselves; that comes out in all sorts of
things. Some people call it a gene pool. It’s as if you already knew
subconsciously about historical incidents…’
The presence of Shakespeare is overlaid by the presence of the
substituted other, Christopher Marlowe, murdered at Eleanor Bull’s
closed house at Deptford Creek on the evening of Wednesday 30th May
1593. The puzzle of who killed Marlowe, and why, has been a labyrinth
from as far back as Lord Burghley saying it was so, who pertinently
added that the matter was ‘easier to enter into it than to go out.’
When Charles Nichol wrote his book The Reckoning about the killing in
1992 he asked of his investigation: ‘Is this a true story?’ and
avoided answering himself straight on by commenting; ‘I have not
invented anything.’
Reed’s novel is far more ambitious than such hesitancy and therefore
tries nothing so confidently, imagining instead with cautery and the
tones and confusion of saline, counter-stairs, the music of stars,
feral gang war and a continual dream of burning futures that all feels
like the seventies and eighties (touched up with reassembling sixties
mostly…) that what he’s telling is a tale of Lowellian ‘unrealism…
[that] eats from the abundance of reality.’ As Reed himself puts it
when discussing poetry but which seems to me apt here, ‘ The subject…
is the true unreal’, by which one means that area of the consciousness
in which inner and outer worlds find a congruity, and are heightened
by their interdependence.’
As always, Reed fuses his musical pantheon with his own corrupting,
beautiful prose-images: On the fade-out of a song a character
comments, ‘ It’s as breezy as Morrisey in the eighties, when he had
something to sing about. Pure pop.’ His central character Nick muses,
‘ … because he was so much younger..[he] felt liberated by having so
little music history. He’d compensated by listening to a retro palette
and by doing his own thing. He put it down to being gay that he beamed
in on torch music, with its emphasis on personal tragedy in the
singer’s life and its own overblown coloratura. Garland and Bassey
were in his genes as archetypes, but so, too, were Bolan and Morrisey,
Bjork and Radiohead, Tricky and Moby. Pop, he had discovered, was a
sound collage in which every strain of music was assembled and
reassembled to reflect the studio integration of its various sources.’
(Read the book just for the pop references and his reflections on each
and already there’s more here than most music critics working that
field offer.) Reed has already written deeply and perceptively about a
few of his musical archetypes elsewhere (e.g. Lou Reed, Marc Almond,
Scott Walker), but here he sprinkles the narrative with asides that
adapt the atmosphere of the novel to a multi-level cognition of the
driving theme of inner corruption. What Reed creates is his version of
music – the book assembles and reassembles exactly that ‘studio
integration of its various sources’ that he discusses and he imagines
that, were Shakespeare and Marlowe to be writing today, they would
have to be pop stars rather than playwrites and poets were they to
ever register influence. The appreciation of what genius is is
therefore connected to a specified context and the novel suggests that
the bright and commercial power of Marlowe and Shakespeare should be
directly compared to that of the contemporary music scene.
This gives the novel a curious edge where the spectacular, daring and
camp speculation at its heart is able to reach out to another,
different atmosphere that is as dark, convoluted and mashed up as
anything written by Iain Sinclair. The Ballardian conceits – deranged
pilots flying closer to their targets in civilian London, a kind of
post 9/11 nightmare re-imagined as nightclub-fazed plasma-screen mosh-
backdrop, knife wielding gangs emerging like fashion-crazed glam-
dolls, rubber killers from disturbias’ social vectors, thorax
manipulators, gay boys cruising for serial killer thrills, all these
as signs of something else, not deeper, but laid out next to the
scholarly ferroconcrete blocks of literati detection, bullshit and
genius that perhaps move more in circles that in a line, that fit in
between the speed next door as cork damns to bottled mayhem. Reed has
a speculation running through the novel that performs the detonating
siglum to resolve the very act of writing itself. It is the nature of
the Faustian pact, the selling out, the corruption of everything,
certainly that of innocence, though of a specialised, intelligent
innocence -if innocence can ever be like that – that this novel
registers.
Marlowe’s version of Dr Faustus is fittingly double-ended and
indecisively concluded. It’s weirdly completed aura is aptly turned by
Reed to illuminate both a Shakespeare and the industry that proclaims
him now as the greatest ever writer, a heritage freak, who becomes
also the alien messenger of our own hyper-city psycho-culture. Side by
side, the novel also locates a mythic emblem to carry the symbolic
weight of the deal with the devil that compromises us. Faustus, and
everything that Faustus means is imagined as the strange, ruined uber-
pop star Michael Jackson, who haunts the novel as a ghost-like figure
supervening on all our fantasies and denials. As in a trance-like
hallucinatory state, we are given glimpses of this mutating, extra-
terrestrial pop icon, the Faustus figure himself. It is a brilliant
conceit, fixing the terrain with all the devious complexity of our
riddled, riddling network of popular culture. Into Michael Jackson has
been poured all our modern fevers: fame, glamour, pigmentation, greed,
beauty, riches, perversion, madness, death and horror. Jackson is a
projection of all our collective fantasies, all our guilt. And for the
reader it is his friendship with Elizabeth Taylor that also holds a
further fascination as one recalls the necromantic auto-erotic fantasy
of Ballard’s central character in Crash whose perversity is a fixation
with the famous film star involving a fatal car crash and sex. Michael
Jackson is the dark star that riddles us all, the Dr Faustus for our
times.
So Reed is ambitious. This is not something that is unusual in itself
– so many writers have big ideas, big hopes, big visions but so few of
them are true enough to pull them through to the end. But Reed is. He
attends to the specifics of the dreamscape and knows where the
essentials begin and end. He is the artist who bleeds into the work
from a brain that is cut into the execution of words, creating a
document of ‘…its own apocalypse, its core infected by the power mad
tsars and their entourage of druggy, discredited celebrities who
hijacked its privileges.’ His imagination is that of the Japanese
Englishman, the book if it were a film would be best shot by the
Takashi Miike of MPO-Psycho tales Drifting Petals, Memories of Sin,
How to Create a World, Life is a Constant Double Helix, How to Create
a World, Coronation of a Cursed King, Ascension of Spirits and Bonds
of Mankind, each being surreal, violent, beautiful and touching films
capturing a pure and perfectly futuristic imaginative zest without
losing the dirt and grit of the urban junkyard backdrop that makes
them necessary.
And side by side with this is our own familiar London, the London that
has seen (as I write) eighteen teenagers stabbed to death since
January, a city where people cannot sleep because everything rises up
in the night to remind them that when time is finished, when
everything is bought then there is the horror of nothing. Dylan’s
‘When you ain’t got nothing you got nothing to lose’ is a refrain that
glides like a child’s voice through our nighttimes, and there’s a
sense in which knives are sharpening in these hideous voids. I work in
North London and one of the recent murders was of a young boy who had
just finished his GCSE examinations in one of the schools I work with.
He wrote a narrative where he imagined himself being stabbed to death.
Knife crime is no mere literary conceit nor just a rememberance of
Elizabethan times past, but who knows what to make of the dead boy’s
own imagination, his attempt to ask a literary forgiveness of the
killers even before he was literally struck down.
Suddenly Kit Marlowe is transmuted into the pantheon of these dead
youths, these roaring boys, and new ways of processing the horrors are
blasted into the imagination through the prism of Marlowe’s Faustus.
The frantic, hysterical screams from the press boys and gals, the
necro-politics of the new Mayor whose own deputy has had to resign
accused of corruption including – damningly – cruelty to children, the
panic is something that crosses the Thames, both to the North and to
the South and it all connects with the thuggery of Skeres, Poley,
Thomas Walsingham and plots against the monarch, and with Faustus and
his notorious pact with the devil, forcing us to ask, perhaps in a
scared whisper, ‘What price all this?’
Reed gives us the intricate map of these connections, strikes us with
this alternative grid of London souls and asks - what are these pacts
we’ve made? It’s Jack Nicholson’s Joker – ‘Did you ever dance with the
devil in a clear dark night?’ and there’s a horrible pitch feeling
spreading all over; someone, somewhere, has made the wrong deal.
Certain, you can’t walk the streets of London without the thought of
young blood splashing across your neural pathways, and blades in the
babby hands of les cocus du vieil art moderne, London’s free
newspapers circulating ever-spiralling, ever cranked-up stories of
ruthless murder next to the thousand upon thousand drained out pics of
Amy Winehouse and the Beckhams. Reed’s English is the bilingual
edition of this nasty, relentless, monotonous junk, the pearl that
comes out of shite.
Throughout his book the mythic Michael Jackson glides in a black limo
and as the book begins to reach its impressively fantastical climax
Reed offers one of the many juxtaposed images that resonate with the
damned currency of the present: one image; ‘… a psychic diagram, its
molecular building blocks patterned into imagery. In his vision he
could see Michael Jackson, arms open wide, dancing on the roof of a
Canary Wharf skyscraper as a Boeing, piloted by a naked psychopath,
narrowed in on a collision course with the thirty-second floor…’ set
next to a second one of ‘Fortnum’s lapsang.’ The crushingly weird
combo of an apocalypse tea-time is the kind of perfectly rendered
snapshot that captures our super-modern, hyper-city, urban culture, a
kind of global etiquette of genocidal tendencies that our Faustian
pact has engendered and that Michael Jackson symbolises.
In The American Weekly of 24th February 1935 Salvador Dali was
described as a super-realist rather than a surrealist. His approach to
responding to the crimes of New York was to draw a man’s decomposing
head, seemingly lying on his back, with ants crawling out of his nose
and hidden mouth. The comment from the pedestrian journalist covering
this and other drawings suggested that what Dali was trying to do was
‘…lead art away from old conventional lines.’ Reed’s novel is
similarly ‘super-realist’ and by working his way through speculations
regarding Shakespeare and Marlowe he unrelentingly forces himself upon
a very fixed source of conventional line and daringly suggests a new
trajectory. It’s hard to think against the normal, against the given.
The teenage knife deaths of London are beginning to circle all the
inner heads of Londoners in sad and sleep-interrupting dreams. Roads
and trees and shops and bars and bus-stops and schools and houses and
shoes and shirts and skirts and signs and stations and parks and tv
programmes and films and airports and beaches are become strangely
mythic. They pick up and transmute to the poetic ‘mental refuge’, as
Reed calls it in a brilliant essay In A Dark Time: Robert Lowell and
Theodore Roethke, of Roethke’s own poem The Far Field: ‘Not too far
away from the ever-changing flower-dump,/Among the tin cans, tires,
rusted pipes, broken machinery,-/ One learned of the eternal…’
What we have now is the ordinary rubbish of damned, revolving life
revealing eternity, and it terrifies us. We read the novel as we have
to now, in a time where ‘Man … can be turned inside out… one lack’s
the protection of one’s skin, the walls of one’s skull leave one’s
mind visible as the bubble in a spirit-level.’ (In A Dark Time…) Young
men, disattuned to their environment, or too attuned to the rhythm of
the sold-out violent nerve wires, get murdered under the over-reaching
arc of the banal and the clichéd mind, and for as long as such an arc
looms over them their deaths shan’t be understood. There has never
been a more intense need to record what is what than now. London is
the world. We are at war and we drink lapsang. We walk along a road
and a child is hacked to pieces.
Reed has forced us to encounter the odd inside flame of the darkness
of London, a psychotic preoccupation with money and power, sex and
violence, that taps into the hollow of the mind rather than its juice,
like a screen across sensibilities of something, anything. He writes
about a combined awareness, the drained out fag-end of beauty and its
ulterior interior which brings relief from corruption.
It’s the dream of redemption, Shakespeare asking for Marlowe to love
him again whilst knowing that the knife that took away his life first
time around was a deal in collusion with bought-off talent (mere
talent). This book redeems Shakespeare. So it’s not his fault.
Condemns him. But it’s still not his fault (perhaps…) because ‘They
were one body, the first and the last poets, and he intended to keep
it that way.’
But the Faustian pact is ours. Michael Jackson is driven silently in
slow motion , as if underwater, through London’s blooded streets and a
million pictures of him insist that he is our secret privacy, as stars
always do so insist. Reed’s novel is the fast poetry of the damned
winding out like a drowning, ‘the hurtling velocity of flesh breaking
itself against water.’ (The Black Screen)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Marshall (centre) is former editor of 3:AM and his essay on
Stewart Home appeared in its fifth anniversary anthology The Edgier
Waters (2006). He lives in London.
First published in 3:AM Magazine: Friday, July 25th, 2008.
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* Shakespeare was also considered a major player in English
literature (no surprise), but things might have turned out differently
if Kit Marlowe hadn't been killed in a tavern brawl for being a spy.
(A: Who said writers were boring? and B: Actually I knew most of that
from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series.)
* Kit Marlowe wrote Dr. Faustus who's last words were "Burn all
the books!" (Aak! How scandlous!)
I have more. I'm full of random Brit Lit trivia right now which is
actually right where I'm supposed to be according to the Princeton
Review. I quote: "The GRE Literature in English Subject Test is like a
horrible cocktail party full of insufferable poseurs intent on name-
dropping while grilling you on trivial gibberish." (I'd do full MLA/
APA citation, but I don't really care, google it.) However, that
doesn't sounds like a horrible cocktail party as much as a fun
challenge so I guess it's good that I have to take this exam.
Though it is slightly ironic that I learned all this by listening and
not reading...
http://thedimlyseen.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-im-learning.html
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· Marlowe’s Ghost, by Daryl Pinksen
Pinksen suggests that Christopher Marlowe, a playwright and charged
heretic, may have actually been the genius behind William
Shakespeare’s plays.
http://www.pr.com/press-release/99265
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Doctor Faustus.
Independent Shakespeare Company briefly ventures away from the Bard
to stage his contemporary Christopher Marlowe’s play about the German
scholar (J. Paul Boehmer) who strikes a deal with Lucifer’s minion
Mephistopheles (Bernadette Sullivan).
In a decision perhaps dictated by the alfresco setting, the free
admission, and contemporary sensibilities, director Antony Sandoval
keeps tongue inside cheek most of the time, using masks on some of the
supporting characters as added caricature.
It’s good to see this famous but seldom performed play, but it feels
predictable [1] and lightweight [2] when compared to the Shakespearean
masterpieces that followed it. Barnsdall Park, east Hollywood.
independentshakespeare.com. Closes August 24.
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/currently_playing_august_7_2008/7329/
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My own comments -
1. "predictable",
since by now you KNOW the story so WELL
2. "lightweight",
since this is how he chooses to stage it.