Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Browse Log In Embed Arden of Faversham live-tweets from The Shakespeare Institute's Before Shakespeare marathon by Adam B a year ago 9 Views file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…20images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 1 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 SI Marathon 2017 @SI_Marathon NEXT: Arden of Faversham #b4shax 6:00 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See SI Marathon 2017's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Place names in surviving titles thus far: London, Aragon, Alcazar, Persia, Carthage, England, Malta. Now: FAVERSHAM. #b4shax 6:01 PM - Jun 27, 2017 4 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Joseph Stephenson @JoeDramaTurg #b4shax As Martin talks about authorship of #Arden, I'll just mention here that @DarrenF_Jones and others attribute the play to Kyd. 6:03 PM - Jun 27, 2017 3 See Joseph Stephenson's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes As @andykesson is a Faversham boy, he is very excited to see his important home city at last get the attention it deserves. #b4shax 6:03 PM - Jun 27, 2017 3 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 2 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Adam B @adambcqx In NES Authorship Companion, Elliot & Greatly-Hirsch posit three possible conclusions about WS' involvement in Arden ....#b4shax 6:05 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Adam B's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Is this our first non-allegorical play about ordinary people in England which has no monarch in it? #b4shax 6:05 PM - Jun 27, 2017 1 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets JMK @shadowy_types @fiddlersjig just like in Dryden's King Arthur! #b4shax A YEAR AGO Adam B @adambcqx ... 1) play entirely Shakespeare but with evidence of corruption 2) collaborative effort, but mostly WS #b4shax .... 6:06 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Adam B's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 3 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Alexander Thom @andthomorrow We kick off #Arden of Faversham with some lovely (hopefully unpoisoned) chocolates from @RobConkie! Thanks, Rob! #b4shax 6:06 PM - Jun 27, 2017 · Stratford-Upon-Avon, England 2 See Alexander Thom's other Tweets Adam B @adambcqx 3) both collaboration & textual contamination, but WS lead playwright. Therefore: impossible to conclude WS had no hand in Arden. #b4shax 6:07 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Adam B's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes The play begins with props. Cheer up, Arden, 'Here are the deeds' and 'letters patents'. #b4shax 6:10 PM - Jun 27, 2017 2 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes So what brings people to see this play? This historical person was notorious. Cf. the very different case of Mother Bombie? #b4shax twitter.com/B4Shakes/statu… 6:11 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 4 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Class status introduced early into this play: Mosby is 'a botcher, and no better at the 1st, by base brokage getting some stock'. #b4shax 6:11 PM - Jun 27, 2017 3 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes 'Lie with me at London all this term'. This play's switching between Faversham & London worth watching for. #b4shax 6:12 PM - Jun 27, 2017 1 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes 'Ovid-like' = ? Like people in Ovid's poems? Like Ovid's own sexual antics? #b4shax 6:13 PM - Jun 27, 2017 1 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 5 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Darren Freebury-Jones @DarrenF_Jones Replying to @JoeDramaTurg #b4shax Martin knows I reject 1) that the play is co-authored and 2) that Shakespeare wrote any of it (though he could have acted in it) 6:13 PM - Jun 27, 2017 2 See Darren Freebury-Jones's other Tweets Gill Othen @gill_othen Replying to @B4Shakes They keep changing into odd animals? #b4Shax 6:15 PM - Jun 27, 2017 1 See Gill Othen's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 6 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Whilst Michael fetch our horses from the field, Franklin and I will down unto the quay, For I have certain goods there to unload. #b4shax 6:15 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Local knowledge? #b4shax 6:15 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes And he usurps it, having nought but this: That I am tied to him by marriage. Love is a god, and marriage is but words. #b4shax 6:16 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 7 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Alexander Thom @andthomorrow Interesting legal props... #b4shax twitter.com/b4shakes/statu… 6:16 PM - Jun 27, 2017 · Stratford-Upon-Avon, England See Alexander Thom's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes 'And these my narrow-prying neighbours blab' Cf. street scenes of Fidele & Jew of Malta. But have we seen this claustrophobia? #b4shax 6:17 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Adam B @adambcqx E & G-H: possibility of collaboration w/ author(s) unknown who are absent/under-represented in extant plays (& so in their metrics) #b4shax 6:17 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Adam B's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Worth keeping an eye on those props and their implications for land ownership throughout the play. #b4shax twitter.com/andthomorrow/s… 6:18 PM - Jun 27, 2017 2 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 8 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Alexander Thom @andthomorrow "She shall eat the heart he sent with salt". An image we last heard in #TTR3 #b4shax 6:18 PM - Jun 27, 2017 · Stratford-Upon-Avon, England 2 See Alexander Thom's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Remember when I locked thee in my closet, What were thy words and mine? Implications for offstage, backstory relationship? #b4shax 6:19 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes What hast thou to countenance my love Being descended of a noble house & matched already with a gentleman Whose servant thou may be? #b4shax twitter.com/B4Shakes/statu… 6:20 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 9 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Adam B @adambcqx To try thy constancy have I been strange. - another trial. #b4shax 6:20 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Adam B's other Tweets clare smout @Clare_Smout we've moved from a husband killing his wife to remarry (James IV) to a wife killing her husband for the same reason 1/2 #b4shax 6:20 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See clare smout's other Tweets Gill Othen @gill_othen This makes Webster's murders look routine and mundane. #b4shax 6:21 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Gill Othen's other Tweets Mori N. @kikiki_333 Just realised that the recent film Lady Macbeth by Alice Birch should actually be titled Lady Arden of Faversham... #b4shax 6:21 PM - Jun 27, 2017 2 See Mori N.'s other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 10 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Adam B @adambcqx murder by painting #b4shax 6:21 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Adam B's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes Why sir, I'll do it for you at any time Provided [...] I may have Susan Mosby Everyone in this play is after someone else. #b4shax 6:22 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes The Abbey lands whereof you are now possessed Were offered me on some occasion By Greene FAO @andthomorrow #b4shax twitter.com/B4Shakes/statu… 6:24 PM - Jun 27, 2017 1 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets file:///Users/Callan/Dropbox/SI%20Playreading%20Marathon%20Sto…0images,%20tweets)%20·%20si_marathon%20·%20Storify.webarchive Page 11 of 53 Arden of Faversham (with images, tweets) · si_marathon · Storify 20/06/2018, 0942 Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes As for the lands, Mosby, they are mine By letters patent from his majesty #b4shax twitter.com/B4Shakes/statu… 6:25 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Before Shakespeare @B4Shakes 'Measure me what I am, not what I was'. 'Why, what art thou now but a velvet drudge, A cheating steward, and base-minded peasant? #b4shax twitter.com/B4Shakes/statu… 6:25 PM - Jun 27, 2017 See Before Shakespeare's other Tweets Gill Othen @gill_othen Replying to @B4Shakes @andthomorrow Sword as a symbol of gentle status.