#elizabethan-theatre

#elizabethan-theatre

Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores, known in English as the Elegies, was groundbreaking, not just as the first known translation into English but also for employing the rhymed heroic couplet.

The Red Lion, London's oldest purpose-built theatre, established in 1567, lasted only a brief time before closure but revealed important historical insights during recent archaeological investigations.

Dr. Samuel Johnson argues that the barbaric violence in 'Titus Andronicus' is so extreme it cannot be tolerated by any audience, reflecting its lasting negative reception.