January 10, 2011
Our first video blog from Newcastle comes courtesy of Richard Katz, as we go behind the scenes of Romeo and Juliet.Patrick Romer shows us how he gets into character like a proper Shakespearean actor, the Ensemble 'celebrate' Richard Katz's birthday, and Dharmesh has an existential crisis.
by The Ensemble
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January 7, 2011
Are perhaps the parts or the foul papers of the Spanish play they were doing at court three weeks ago lying around on a shelf somewhere. And is that what happens? Shakespeare and Fletcher's play goes up in smoke? Well, it would seem not.
But we hear no more of Cardenio for forty years.
by Greg Doran
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January 7, 2011
Masques, as a character in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy says, are 'tied to rules of flattery'. And perhaps at a wedding, royal or not, we all understand the etiquette required. But it does seem odd, if Cardenio was indeed written for this particular nuptial, that scenes in which a wedding is presented where the bride is forced against her will to marry...
by Greg Doran
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January 7, 2011
On reading this description I find myself becoming intrigued. Perhaps this will have some bearing on how the actor playing Cardenio would have been expected to depict his madness?
by Greg Doran
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January 5, 2011
We have no idea if the June 8th performance represents the last performance of Cardenio, but it is possible that three weeks later the script was lost forever.
by Greg Doran
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January 5, 2011
Shakespeare and Fletcher were ready with a new play on a Spanish subject. They had taken their subject from the global blockbuster which had just emerged from Spain, Don Quixote. Cardenio could well have been the highlight of the season. But suddenly the entire festivity was placed in jeopardy, when that November, the Prince of Wales suddenly died.
by Greg Doran
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January 5, 2011
In these blogs, I am chasing the story of the political rows which were simmering at Court leading up to Christmas 1612, when Cardenio was first performed. I want to find out why Shakespeare and Fletcher had chosen to write a play with a Spanish subject.
by Greg Doran
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