Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Marlowe on the Big Screen?


In the summer of 1592, in Supplication to the Devil, by "Piers Penniless," author Thomas Nashe wrote this about Henry VI, Part I , which Marlowe had a hand in.

How would it have joyed brave Talbot (hero of "Harry the Sixth"), the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand specators at least (at several times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.

And now, in the Spring of 2003 a modern-day "Piers Penniless" changes a few items and boldly wonders

How would it joy brave Kit Marlowe (author of "Harry the Sixth"), the terror of Elizabethan orthodoxy, to think that after he had lain four hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the big screen, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten million specators at least (at several times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.

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