#renaissancedrama — Public Fediverse posts

In a subterranean gallery, Lucrezia pulls back a shroud to expose a Cardinal’s painted orgiastic scene that masks a line of Medici bank records. Niccolò, the “Prince’s Scribe,” spots the numbers hidden.

Cesare wants the truth burned; Lucrezia wants it weaponised in his brother’s handbook of statecraft.
https://www.wattpad.com/1597760571-the-prince%27s-scribe-a-novel-of-machiavelli-and

If you could rewrite one page of this Renaissance power‑play, what line would you change?

#ThePrincesScribe #HistoricalEspionage #Machiavelli #RenaissanceDrama

Just going to throw a bunch of hashtags here to lead you to the two posts about the #BeyondShakespeare project. Scroll up if this where you land #drama #theatre #theater #EarlyModernPlays #Renaissance #RenaissanceDrama #MedievalDrama #TheaterHistory #TheatreHistory #PerformanceHistory

I spent so much of the morning on mastodon, I barely had time to annotate my script. Today on Beyond Shakespeare (the collaborative project to read aloud - and consider for performance - every English play William Shakespeare *did not* write up to 1642) we are reading Midas by John Lyly, a writer we have greatly enjoyed. #EarlyModern #Drama #ReadingAloud #theatre #TheatreHistory #RenaissanceDrama #mythology #theater #TheaterHistory