Shakespeare Globe

Read Not Dead

Globe Education began its series of stage readings of plays in 1994. Since then audiences have been able to see and hear over 150 plays written between 1567 and 1642 by Shakespeare's contemporaries. These 'performances with scripts' are staged by professional actors and directors.

Time: 3pm
Venue: Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe
Tickets: £8 (£5 FoSG/concs/students)

The Chances

by John Fletcher (1617)
Sunday 19 September

John Fletcher succeeded Shakespeare as in-house playwright for the King’s Men and he in turn was succeeded by Philip Massinger. Gordon McMullan, Professor of English at King’s College London and editor of the Arden Henry VIII, has chosen a play that celebrates Fletcher as collaborator and as dramatist in his own right.

Spaniard Don John, wandering Bologna’s streets in the dusk with his friend Don Frederick, is abruptly handed a bundle by a waiting-woman. He opens it, expecting money or jewels ... and finds he is quite literally holding the baby. This Jacobean tour-de-force unrolls a glorious plot of revenge, farce, beautiful women, magic – and that mystery baby.

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