Theatre Thursday: Shakespeare, Marlowe and "Dueling Divas"

A portrait of a young man, generally thought to be the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Picture acquired through Wikimedia Commons. Image public domain.

For this Theatre Thursday, I bring you links to articles from around the web concerning Elizabethan Theatre and Elizabethan figures in theatre:

Shakespeare For The "Elizabethan Impaired" Offered At The English Rose

Dueling Divas in Donizetti's 'Maria Stuarda' 

The Baptism of Marlowe (Feb 26th)

 

Theatre Thursday: Tudor History, Italian Style!

"Anne Boleyn receiving proof of Henry VIII's passion for Jane Seymour", a 19th century engraving from the novel Windsor Castle. Image courtesy of Inor19 on Flickr.

In past Theatre Thursday features I have included several article links concerning productions of the tragic Italian opera, 'Anna Bolena'. As someone who once performed in Carmina Burana as a child, I really would love to see this operatic production, if it ever comes to my part of the country.

Anna Bolena is the last of Gaetano Donizetti's "Tudor trilogy". His other Tudor themed operas are (unsurprisingly) also tragedies, 'Roberto Devereux' and 'Maria Stuarda'.

Anna Bolena, Giovanna Seymour, and Enrico VIII take the stage in, 'Anna Bolena' !