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Stages of Power

Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, United States
Published: 30th Sep 2016
Dimensions: w 203mm h 254mm d 5mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN-10: 146963144X
ISBN-13: 9781469631448
Barcode No: 9781469631448
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Synopsis
It is October 1592. Christopher Marlowe, the most accomplished playwright in London, has written The Massacre at Paris for his company, the Lord Admiral's Men. Bubonic plague has hit outlying parishes, forcing theaters to close and postponing the season. Ordinarily, the Rose Theatre would debut Marlowe's work, but its subject-the St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre-is unpleasant and mightinflame hostilities against Catholics and their sympathizers, such as merchants on whom trade depends. A new company, the Lord Strange's Men, boasts a young writer, William Shakespeare, who is said to have several barnburners in the queue. A competition is called to decide which company will reopen the theaters. Who will most effectively represent the nation's ideals and energies, its humor and grandeur? One troupe will gain supremacy, primarily for literary but also for cultural, religious, and political reasons.

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