Tag Archives: John Lyly

Angles on Shakespeare in Stratford 2018

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Sylvia Morris

There’s never any shortage of Shakespeare-related events in Stratford, not just performances at the Royal Shakespeare Company or activities at the Shakespeare properties managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. At the moment, in February-March 2018, there is a flurry of … Continue reading →

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Theatre Before Shakespeare

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Sylvia Morris

A few weeks ago a new website launched, the public face of a project run by academics Andy Kesson and Lucy Munro with the aim of “rethinking the start of the public theatre in Britain”, that is “the playhouses that … Continue reading →

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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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Shakespeare’s collaborators in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

After far too long being seen in isolation, Shakespeare is increasingly seen as but one of many writers of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. Just recently there have been many studies looking at those other writers who inspired … Continue reading →

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