Treason at the Globe

Full Length: The evening after the Earl of Essex's revolt against Queen Elizabeth I fails, a member of Elizabeth's secret police, code named Horatio, investigates any surviving conspirators. He learns that the day before the plot, Essex's men have Shakespeare's Richard II played at the Globe Theatre. A theatre hating puritan, Horatio snaps up the opportunity to persecute the players. Upon meeting Shakespeare and...

Full Length: The evening after the Earl of Essex's revolt against Queen Elizabeth I fails, a member of Elizabeth's secret police, code named Horatio, investigates any surviving conspirators. He learns that the day before the plot, Essex's men have Shakespeare's Richard II played at the Globe Theatre. A theatre hating puritan, Horatio snaps up the opportunity to persecute the players. Upon meeting Shakespeare and his company, Horatio challenges his bigotries and uncovers a deeper plot...

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Treason at the Globe

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  • DC Cathro: Treason at the Globe

    To start, I love this play. “Treason at the Globe” has so much going for it… Mystery, action, love, death, Shakespeare, humor, rich characters, beautiful language… It’s a sprawling epic full of brilliantly written dialogue that will pull you in and take you along for an incredibly entertaining ride, whether you’re a Shakespeare fan or not. Huge and lush and mysterious and funny and dangerous… To finish, I really love this play.

    To start, I love this play. “Treason at the Globe” has so much going for it… Mystery, action, love, death, Shakespeare, humor, rich characters, beautiful language… It’s a sprawling epic full of brilliantly written dialogue that will pull you in and take you along for an incredibly entertaining ride, whether you’re a Shakespeare fan or not. Huge and lush and mysterious and funny and dangerous… To finish, I really love this play.

  • Jillian Blevins: Treason at the Globe

    If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I wish Shakespeare In Love were a little more like Game of Thrones,” then you must read TATG. This masterful political thriller combines edge-of-your-seat twists & turns with a richly drawn, well-researched historical setting. Boyle cuts through our tendency to romanticize Elizabethan England with razor-sharp dialogue revealing the ruthless political climate roiling underneath. Like Horatio, we’re immersed in the intrigue from the first lines to the last.

    If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I wish Shakespeare In Love were a little more like Game of Thrones,” then you must read TATG. This masterful political thriller combines edge-of-your-seat twists & turns with a richly drawn, well-researched historical setting. Boyle cuts through our tendency to romanticize Elizabethan England with razor-sharp dialogue revealing the ruthless political climate roiling underneath. Like Horatio, we’re immersed in the intrigue from the first lines to the last.

  • Nora Louise Syran: Treason at the Globe

    Shakespeare struggles to finish his telling of Hamlet while being caught up in a "sea of troubles": the business of theatre, intrigue, politics, treason... It's all at once perfectly Elizabethan and a modern mystery, full of suspense, scenes which trip along, humor and plenty of allusions. If you're "tired from life, plague, intrigue, and want a spot of fancy" --this is your play. I was so happy to see the development of the "good Horatio" and loved the metatheatrical ending.

    Shakespeare struggles to finish his telling of Hamlet while being caught up in a "sea of troubles": the business of theatre, intrigue, politics, treason... It's all at once perfectly Elizabethan and a modern mystery, full of suspense, scenes which trip along, humor and plenty of allusions. If you're "tired from life, plague, intrigue, and want a spot of fancy" --this is your play. I was so happy to see the development of the "good Horatio" and loved the metatheatrical ending.

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Character Information

Treason at the Globe has nineteen roles, which are doubled down among 5 actors. The doubling chart is included in the script.
  • Horatio