Thank you to lilliburlero for letting me have a crack at The Players and the Rebels!

( The Mirror up to Nature )

Just a quick post about a book on Shakespeare's London that I was told about last night, which might be of interest to readers of the Players books. The Guardian short review:

Part of the Arden Shakespeare series, this fascinating study argues that although Shakespeare rarely wrote about London - none of his plays is set in the city of his own ( Read more... )

On Radio 4 yesterday, an interesting half-hour on the boys who originally played Shakespeare's female roles, 'Who Was Rosalind?'. From the website:

In As You Like It, Shakespeare created one of his greatest and most complicated female roles. At a time when women were not allowed to act on stage, the role would have been taken by a young boy. But ( Read more... )