30 Apr 1999Size: 210mm x 148mm
The Devil's Charter
Paperback
£12.99£10.39
In the Globe Quarto series co-published with Shakespeare's Globe to mark the rediscovery of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
The Devil's Charter is a Jacobean tragedy about Pope Alexander VI, one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, whose surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism.
In the sensational history of the Borgias, Barnabe Barnes found a theme tailor-made for the dark and lurid imaginings of the Jacobean stage. And then he spiced it up a little.
The Devil's Charter was first performed by Shakespeare's company, the King's Men, in 1607. It was revived 390 years later in a semi-staged reading by Globe Education.
This edition of The Devil's Charter was prepared by Nick de Somogyi.
'Our subject is of blood and tragedy. Murther, foul incest and hypocrisy'.
30 Apr 1999Size: 210mm x 148mm