Shakespeare's Three Marys
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Transcript of Shakespeare's Three Marys
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SHAKESPEARE’S THREE MARYS
By the Dark Lady Players
September 2009
www.darkladyplayers.com
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About this production
• This unique production interspersed scenes of the Virgin Mary characters (Juliet, Ophelia and Desdemona) with their parallel characters in the York mystery plays
• The objective was to show how the Shakespearean heroines are parodies of the Virgin Mary
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1. Romeo &Juliet: the Annunciation/Nurse’s Scene
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Romeo & Juliet; Lady Capulet and Nurse Angelica say it is time for
Juliet to get Mary-ed
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Romeo & Juliet; Nurse has referred to Susan(nah), meaning a Lillythe symbol of the annunciation
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2. Hamlet; In the York Mystery plays, Mary is sewing in her closet
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Joseph addresses Mary(from the York Mystery plays)
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Hamlet, an allegory for the sun god Helios, has made Ophelia pregnant
through his light
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Pregnant Virgin Mary watches Ophelia, no longer pregnant, holding
her abortive flowers
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Ophelia distributes her abortive flowers
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Ophelia offers Mary a piece of Rose-mary, to wear with a
difference
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Mary and her Lilly ascend to Heaven; In parallel Ophelia is
abut to fall off the tree
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Virgin Mary with the Lilly
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3. Othello; Desdemona with Othello in the background
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Death of Desdemona like a Christ figure
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Photos © John Watts