Skip to main content alibris logo
Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592 - Mallin, Eric S, and Sullivan, Paul V
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

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, ...

loading
Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592 2016, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469631448

Trade paperback