PROGRAMME DETAILS FOR THE 188TH SEASON 2011/2012

TUESDAY 13 MARCH 2012
PETER JOLLY

Director of Drama at Dulwich College

Peter Jolly is a member of Shakespeare's Globe Council.

Edward Alleyn and Shakespeare: Comparing 'The Evidences'

The talk is about parallel documents that Shakespeare and Alleyn share, and introduces documents from the College's archive explaining how they can shed light on issues relating to Shakespeare authorship and the practical world of Elizabethan theatre. The great actor, Edward Alleyn, is the best documented figure in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, however without the evidences that were stored in the time-capsule of Dulwich Colleges Treasury Chest what would we know of this figure? Alleyn's life ran in parallel to Shakespeare's and, without the documents in Dulwich Colleges archive, documentary evidence for Alleyn's life, like Shakespeare's, would live on only in posthumous portraits, poetical dedications and occasional institutional and legal references.

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