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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 11:35:57 GMT
I thought I'd give Jan a reason to tell us about The Massacre at Paris by Kit Marlowe.
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Post by nobunaga on Jun 16, 2017 21:57:21 GMT
Tamburlaine the Great parts one and two uncut by Kit M The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again by Kyd
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Post by joem on Jun 16, 2017 21:59:14 GMT
I can't say what is the best play I've never seen because I won't know how good it is until I see it. Once I see it it will not be a play I've never seen. So......
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Post by bordeaux on Jun 17, 2017 9:54:13 GMT
I can't say what is the best play I've never seen because I won't know how good it is until I see it. Once I see it it will not be a play I've never seen. So...... True, but plays have a certain reputation, so you often have a good idea of what is potentially great that you haven't seen. It raises many interesting questions, though. I have been going to plays for 30 years, the first 15 in London and then in the west with a few trips to the capital per year. I did feel after 15 years in London that I had seen pretty much everything. The most highly-reputed play I've never seen is The Critic by Sheridan and if I try to rack my brains I can think of Aeschylus' The Persians, Goethe's Egmont, Buchner's Danton's Death, Lorca's Yerma (to be remedied later this year) but not much else. Which suggests that there are far fewer great plays than great novels...I read a lot but there are dozens of highly-reputed works of fiction I've not read. It's true that many novels take a lot longer to read than plays do to watch - you could probably see the whole of Shakespeare's History plays in the time it would take to read Bleak House, for example. But given how often one sees the same plays again and again, I suspect the theatre canon is much smaller than the fiction canon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 12:27:50 GMT
Artistic directors and their literary teams read many many plays, to decide which to stage. They don't say: Oh I've never seen this one performed so I'll dismiss it.
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