Think you know the Bard?

If Shakespeare’s plays are the only works of Renaissance drama you know,

you don’t know Renaissance drama or Shakespeare

Think you know the Bard?

If Shakespeare’s plays are the only works of Renaissance drama you know,

you don’t know Renaissance drama or Shakespeare

COMING SOON

In a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current staging of Edward II, the Guardian laments that the play is “reduced to a pretext for the [show’s] images,” and Marlowe’s “poetry is mangled, lines gabbled or else drowned out by omnipresent sonic effects.” Can’t make it to Stratford-upon-Avon to see for yourself? Want to hear the music of his “mighty line” here in Georgia (clearly and without conceptual impediments)? Then, join Resurgens this April for one of the earliest history plays composed for the early modern stage. Directed by Dr. Brent Griffin, our all-male “original practices” production mixes “wanton poets” and “pleasant wits” with political machinations—all to sound the timely proposition, “What greater bliss can hap … / Than live and be the favorite of a king?”

All performances will be at our new venue, the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.) in Decatur.

Show dates are April 25-26 at 8:00 p.m., and April 27 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets are only $20, and are available online below

or at the Box Office prior to the show.

Purchase Tickets

And now available from Georgia State University—Studies in the Literary Imagination 54.1 & 2, Death and Domesticity: Reassessing Domestic Dramas of the Renaissance. Published this past year, Resurgens’ long-awaited special issue features contributions from and surrounding our Death and Domesticity Conference, including essays by Emma K. Atwood, Ariane M. Balizet, Cheryl Birdseye, Ann Christensen, Brent Griffin, Molly Hand, Joseph L. Kelly, and Barbara Sebek. Order yours today at https://english.gsu.edu/sli/subscribe-to-sli/.

Think you know the Bard?

Think you know the Bard?

COMING SOON

RESURGENS 2024-2025: A MARLOWE FOR ALL SEASONS

Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One & Two

Doctor Faustus

The Jew of Malta

Edward II

The Massacre at Paris