The Beard of Avon
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 18, 2003
Closed Dec 21, 2003
Opened Nov 18, 2003
Closed Dec 21, 2003
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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Today everyone's a critic. But during Elizabethan times, the priveleged many were playwrights. Or at least that's one theory behind The Beard of Avon, Amy Freed's droll take on the long-standing debate over who really penned the Bard's canon. Could it be that stagestruck bumpkin named Will Shakespeare posed as front-man for the likes of Sir Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, and even the Queen, who were all too proud to admit they dabbled in the lowly sport of wordsmithing? Or were the nobles simply gifted with plot and he a mere script doctor?
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Concern about the authorship of the plays credited to William Shakespeare's has swirled for a few hundred years. The man known as Shakespeare or Shakspere -- or whatever unstandardized spelling you like -- died at Stratford in 1616. (Well, we're pretty sure it was 1616.) Since then, several playwrights -- including the man himself -- have been identified as the authors or co-authors of an impressive canon that generally runs to 36 or 37 items. (Does that include the contested Edward III? Who knows?)
In recent decades, as sweating scholars have compared the rhetorical devices, word usage, and verse meter of various folios, the debate over who penned (quilled?) the works has intensified. It[...]