Shakespeare’s Apocrypha in Atlanta

Dr. Brent Griffin, director of the Resurgens Theatre Company, has been staging plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras that are rarely performed. His venue is the hundred-year-old Pythagoras Masonic Temple building in Decatur, Georgia. This year, the troupe’s focus is on Shakespeare’s Apocrypha.

On February 19-22, Resurgens put on the late-1580s stage hit, The Spanish Tragedy. Though widely attributed to Thomas Kyd, some Oxfordians (Richard Whalen, Charles Berney, Robert Prechter) have credited Oxford with the play. Upcoming titles include Sir Thomas More, Mucedorus, Cardenio and Arden of Faversham (OxfordsVoices.com discusses the authorship of all four plays in detail, crediting More and Mucedorus entirely to Oxford, the latter play composed when he was 15 years old.) An encore of Marlowe’s Faustus will cap the season. Learn more at https://resurgenstheatre.org.

–Bob Prechter

Poster image courtesy of Resurgens Theatre Company