Monday Nov 10 @ 7.30pm PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social, President of the Marlowe Society of America, for a ramble around the inns & taverns of early modern London, exploring their role in playhouse culture. More info & book: bit.ly/4nUquBN

Born on this day in 1571, in Milan, the incomparably brilliant Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Here (more or less) by himself. Shocked at being dead.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man. (Doctor Faustus, Epilogue) #earlymodernmonday Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint

'This glamorous Life writing began early. Weeks before Marlowe’s untimely and violent death, a shady intelligencer called Richard Baines had drafted the outline of the playwright’s afterlife' Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe

'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre' by Fiona Horan fionahoran.com

The queen has an ambassador from the King of Navarre, the future Henry IV of France, visiting her; apparently Henry has a plan to reconquer part of Navarre from Spain and wants support. I don't think anything came of this. 5/

Our Shakespeare in London display is free and open until 2nd October! #EarlyModern #History #Archives buff.ly/BG59csM 🧵 6/6

We're back with another #DiscoverTLA and this time we're looking at #CivitasLondinum, one of the oldest maps in our collection currently on show as part of our #Shakespeare in London display Sheet 8 showing the southern part of the City and Southbank 📷 LPA 346649 🧵 1/6

Keep hearing some buzzing about performing Marlowe more... obviously we're doing Doctor Faustus twice in October so... you know... do the thing. If you want to. It's not like you're signing your life away. In blood. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

2/2 Tournament attended by Catherine de' Medici, Henry of Navarre, and more: Lucas de Heere cartoon after Caron design 1582.

Pleased to buy a copy of the #Faversham 2026 calendar which contrasts the same street/place/building from days gone by with the current day. Beautifully done & lovely to see similarities & differences. If you’re visiting for #Hopfest this weekend pop in the #InformationCentre to get a copy.

"England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm moving over from the X box. Meanwhile my edition of #Marlowe's Edward II @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social is available for pre-order. With ample critical, performance, & textual intro, annotations, plus 22 illus of C20-21 performance, early texts & readers. www.bloomsbury.com/us/edward-ii...

The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre began in Paris today in 1572, resulting in large numbers of refugees fleeing their homeland for a new life in London. Read here about the Huguenots and the new skills they brought to Britain www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/huguenots/

I mean to be a terror to the world (Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2) #Tamburlaine #ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernMonday 📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015

We're opening our doors again this Friday & Saturday, with a new free digital guide you can download and use. You can also use it to walk along our new Sonic Trail – a 75 min immersive audio tour that lets you explore the surrounding area while learning about the soundscapes of Elizabethan London!

🔊Latest pod drop - it's more !Spoilers! working through Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (please battle attribution in your own time) - and we've reached Act 4. And did Aeneas kinda forget he had a son? #drama #audio #Marlowe audioboom.com/posts/875334...

New on my Substack: on the road with Thomas Coryat. Coryat set off to walk from London to Venice in 1608 and then later pressed on to India. He is a delight: eccentric, vain, indefatigably curious and, above all, a great noticer of things. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/thomas-cor...

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...

Top ten things to beware in Shakespeare: 1. Ides of March 2. Jealousy 3. The rope's end 4. My sting 5. The Thane of Fife 6. Your beard 7. Brutus 8. The foul fiend 9. An ass 10. Entrance to a quarrel

We've replaced the rope-lights outlining The Rose's archaeological remains, currently preserved underwater. The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries. The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3. Looking south-north, & east-west.

Some reviews of the recent Bard in the Botanics production of Doctor Faustus in Glasgow www.kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/events/forth...

On Thursday 07 July 2005 I decided to go into work late, so I could listen to Melvyn Bragg's new episode of In Our Time about Christopher Marlowe, & thereby fatefully miss the carnage on tube & bus that morning. Today I am very much remembering those not so lucky. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

This Saturday at The Rose on Bankside

The original Globe theatre was destroyed by fire today in 1613. Read here about Elizabethan playhouses. www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/elizabethan-...

🔊It has finally landed, a chat with @lostplayhouse.bsky.social about Leicester's Men - it was recorded nearly a year ago, and has been trapped in editing hell, but finally it's out there! It's a detailed dive into the company, the plays and the theatre scene. #theatre audioboom.com/posts/874112...

📣 Only 1 week to go until our new FREE display of iconic items relating to William Shakespeare opens! These include a title deed from 1613 with Shakespeare's signature, and John Keats’ 1820 copy of Shakespeare’s plays. 📅 Display opens 30th June www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...

Drop something winged

Want to join us at The Rose this Saturday? Just a few tickets left!

Latest lino reconstruction of #earlymodern woodcut – this one from the title page of Marlowe's _Doctor Faustus_ (1631). Pretty pleased with how this one came out, and got to test out the new lino dot tool!

At Deptford Strand 30 May 1593 after dinner Frysar & I could not agree on "le recknynge". Ingram "in fear of being slaine", with his dagger (value 12d) "gaue Christofer a mortall wounde ouer his right eye of which the aforesayd Christopher Morley then & there instantlie died." So saieth the Coroner.

Let’s do a bit of literary history next. This set is inspired by early modern books in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Folger Shakespeare Library collections. Shakespeare’s First Folio makes three biscuity appearances here. Honourable mentions also to Milton and to Beaumont and Fletcher.

In parts of the Black Country like Wolverhampton, the Devil was believed to haunt abandoned mines. If one wanted to summon him, one gathered a crust of bread and cheese and placed it in a hat with a crossed knife and fork. Then, one recited the Lord's Prayer backwards. #Folklore #BlackCountry #Devil

Faustus hath consulted his skryer to seeke angelick interaction (#AI), asking what are the hottest plaies on the London stage this summer?! #AIreviews #ChicagoSunne

3rd May 2019 A security officer at Corpus Christi College keeps watch at Staircase N. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'.

O what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honor, of omnipotence, Is promised to the studious Artizan Happy #InternationalWorkersDay to those who celebrate! #DrFaustus #EarlyModern

Sat 3 MAY @ 1pm & 3pm onsite DISCOVERY DAY: ARCHAEOLOGY Tickets £7/£5 : bit.ly/4cLMWbs See the archaeological site of The Rose Playhouse, learn how its remains are preserved, and discover what the future holds. You'll be able to handle objects from the period, similar to those found at the site.

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉 Happy Birthday to #WilliamShakespeare! 🎭 We're celebrating with a #BookGiveaway 📚 🔁 Repost for a chance to win a copy of Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by @freeburian.bsky.social! You’ve got until midnight, 23/04/25 Winner picked at random + revealed tomorrow! 💫

Interesting discouery by @matthewsteggle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A shorte history of The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage as it hath beene divers times publiquely acted. Newly amended & inlarged and heere published in a second impression at www.kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/works/dido/i... #ChristopherMarlowe #ThomasNashe (gent) #EarlyModern #Drama

#BornWithTeeth is on sale now

🔊Early access release, !Spoilers! for Act 3 of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Nashe - a breakdown of the action of the text, staging questions, plus the rough plain text recording of the act from our live recording at the 2023 Revels season. www.patreon.com/posts/dido-q...

A shorte history of The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage as it hath beene divers times publiquely acted. Newly amended & inlarged and heere published in a second impression at www.kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/works/dido/i... #ChristopherMarlowe #ThomasNashe (gent) #EarlyModern #Drama

Ncuti Gatwa is Christopher Marlowe. Edward Bluemel is William Shakespeare. Who will burn brightest and who will burn out? #BornWithTeeth

Ncuti Gatwa to star in #TheRSC Shakespeare vs Marlowe drama Story via @thestage.co.uk www.thestage.co.uk/news/rscs-da...

Sat 5 April @ 1pm & 3pm, onsite at The Rose A TUDOR EASTER £10 / £7 (Friends). Book: bit.ly/3DLhRHW Discover how Elizabethans celebrated the end of Lent. With a traditional mummer's play and talks on Easter customs, culture & food, you can try a sample or two or even join in with the dancing!

Performing tonight, but you can still get on-demand tickets for watching the video this week (available starting Tues). #Earlymoderndrama #earlymoderntheater #drama #theater #christophermarlowe www.redbulltheater.com/the-jew-of-m...

Wow, @kimgilchrist.bsky.social! A ‘fragment of a longer cue-script produced for amateur performance’ of *Mucedorus*! Great stuff! academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...