‘Delight and explosion of fresh air’ “Do not take my anger away from me!” screams Emilia Bassano Lanier as she accuses the audience and the world of stripping her of her voice. The eponymously named Emilia at The Globe burns with justified anger, wit, and a tongue dipped in venom. We are introduced to the overlooked, undervalued Emilia Bassano Lanier, ...
‘Give me A Midsummer Night’s Dream any day’ William Shakespeare’s little known and last project (in collaboration with John Fletcher) has been rather forgotten by the theatre-going public, debated by academics but left on the shelf to gather dust. Excluded from most Shakespeare festivals and uncredited for a long time, this play does not give us the classic grander, that ...