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Theatre: Still power-crazy after all these years Sejanus: His Fall Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon
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The RSC's Gunpowder Season, focusing on politically loaded and
state-censored plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, continues to
turn up startling forgotten gems. This Roman tragedy by Ben Jonson "
depicting the rise and fall of Emperor Tiberius' ferociously
ambitious favourite " has never before been attempted in Stratford,
maybe because it was ripped to shreds when it premiered at the Globe
in 1603. Nobody is quite sure how incendiary or just plain unpopular
the original production was because Jonson's published 1605 version
was a redraft.
Nonetheless, he was summoned before the Privy ...
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Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
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