←Recommendations of 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.

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.

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.

Looking for a Hard Boiled Detective story in the world of Elizabethan England? Francis RTM Boyle delivers! The characters in TREASON AT THE GLOBE are worthy of their Shakespearean influences and there are so many lovely moments in this script that would be fun for Shakespeare lovers to put up on its feet.