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Abridged, written by and starring Cathal J. Ferris, presented by Sixpenny Productions. Mister Shakespeare, written by Michael Barry, starring Ciaron Davies, directed and produced by Stephen Church.
No full textMassacre à Paris, directed by Jean-François Auguste's, performed at Comédie de Reims, Reims, and Oratoire du Louvre, Paris, 16–21 May 2022
Full text linkThis review considers a new translation of Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris into French, which premiered onstage, rather than in print, in two separate performances directed by Jean-François Auguste in Reims and in Paris during The Marlowe Festival in May 2022
Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation, ed. by Gemma Kate Allred, Benjamin Broadribb and Erin Sullivan (London: Bloomsbury/Arden, 2022). 296 pp. ISBN 9781350247826
Full text linkBradley J. Irish, Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2023). Debapriya Sarkar, Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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“Scorning both god and his ministers”: At the Origins of Marlowe’s Atheism
Full text linkIn this article, I will focus on the documents denouncing Marlowe’s subversive views on religion. In so doing, I will show how – far from being the mere result of a brilliant (if impudent) outcast, or the allegations of dubious government informers – those documents reported views, which were rooted in the theses debated in religious and political texts which circulated widely in late-16th-century Europe, as well as in the early philosophical opposition to Christianity. At the same time, I will highlight how some of those same ‘subversive’ views can be also found between the lines of Marlowe’s plays. By focusing on The Massacre at Paris, in particular, I will thus argue that, if Marlowe may be deemed subversive, it is because in his dramas he carried out the attempt – this one truly impudent – to reveal to many one of the fundamental arcana imperii: that is, that religions had nothing to do with truth, and their only function was to keep peoples together
"Puzel" or "Pussel" and the Virgin Mary: 1 Henry VI and Anti-Catholic Polemic
Full text linkThe collaborative nature of 1 Henry VI has long been accepted, like the identity of Christopher Marlowe as one of the play’s authors. This article does not engage with the question of authorship as such, but interrogates Marlowe’s possible involvement in the Joan Pucelle scenes. It investigates what the depiction of Joan La Pucelle as a witch and a whore owes to contemporary anti-Catholic polemic, and argues that the emphasis in the play on the figure of the Virgin Mary is distinctive and significant. It proposes to contextualize the treatment of Joan Pucelle by confronting it to Doctor Faustus and The Massacre at Paris, two plays that were performed the same year as 1 Henry VI at the Rose Theatre
A Massacre at Paris in French Translation: from Page to Stage
Full text linkIn 2020, when we began working on plans for a special Marlowe Festival and conference to be held in Rheims and Paris that would bring together Marlowe specialists and historians of the French wars of religion on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, it very quickly became obvious that we wished not just to discuss Marlowe’s last play, but also to stage it. What text, though, would serve for our French staging of Massacre at Paris? What was the history of the text in translation and what were the antecedents to our own project? These questions have led us to inquire into the different French translations of the play and gain insight both into Marlowe’s French reception as well as into the octavo edition of the English text that has come down to us
‘Tis not true reason I despise, but yours’: The Influence of the Civil War ‘Satire against’ Verse Form (1640s) on the Restoration ‘Pamphlet War’ of 1679-81
Full text linkIndividuals writing on the cusp of civil war show a readiness to take advantage of the print medium to circulate a suite of 'Satire against...' verses, intended for political instruction of 'the people', and incitement to action. Rochester's reinvigoration of this form in the 1670's, with his 'Satire against reason and mankind', articulates resistance to religious hegemony, and signals his primacy as a key satiric commentator of the era. The subsequent release of this poem as a broadside in 1679 marks the start of years of 'pamphlet war' in which the battle for literary and political authority rages
Christopher Marlowe in Slovenia
Full text linkThe article provides a summary of the reception of Christopher Marlowe in the Slovenian literary system. It addresses Marlowe’s appreciation in literary history and criticism, the translation of his texts into Slovenian and the productions of Marlowe’s plays in Slovenian theatres. Is approaches the issues through the prism of Marlowe’s perceived dissidence to see how the Slovenian constructions of the author compare to his reputation in the English literary system