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John Lyly’s Galatea by Edward’s Boys

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

Galatea is the first full play by Lyly that Edward’s Boys, the schoolboy troupe from King Edward VI School in Stratford, have performed, and I’d guess that it won’t be the last. Nowadays Lyly is largely remembered as one of … Continue reading →

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John Lyly onstage with Edward’s Boys

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

A new production of John Lyly’s play Galatea has just been announced. Performances of his plays are now a real rarity, but at his peak, in the 1580s, Lyly was the most fashionable dramatist in England. His plays were not aimed … Continue reading →

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In with the new: welcoming the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

On 9 January 2014 the great Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi will be the first play to be performed at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the second performance space in the Shakespeare’s Globe complex on the south bank of the … Continue reading →

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