by Jinny Webber | Mar 15, 2020 | Actors in plague time, Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity |
Adapted from The Secret Player, ©Jinny Webber, Revised edition From Chapter XVIII, Spring 1592 Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss; This world uncertain is. “In Plague Time,” Thomas Nashe Two men in black hats appeared at the entrance to The Theatre tiring...
by Jinny Webber | Mar 14, 2020 | Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity |
The article by Sarah Ruhl in the New York Times, “Broadway Is Closed. Write Poems Instead: When theaters shuttered, Shakespeare turned to poetry. ” (NYT, March 13, 2020) connects the current closure of Broadway theatres to the closures in...
by Jinny Webber | Nov 20, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
This is Ambassador Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anou, who led a Moorish delegation to Queen Elizabeth in 1600 to make an alliance against their common enemy, Spain. Although they failed to raise a fleet between them, he and his embassy remained in London...
by Jinny Webber | Nov 1, 2019 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
THE NORNS As the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth await the arrival of Macbeth and Banquo (Act I, scene 3), they chant: Posters of the sea and land, The weird sisters, hand in hand, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to...
by Jinny Webber | Oct 3, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Ibsen’s play The Doll’s House ends with Nora Helmer closing the door of her house, leaving Torvald and her children behind: the slam heard round the world. It’s unambiguous; she’s out of there. [For the German premier, however, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative...
