I mean to be a terror to the world
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)
#Tamburlaine
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)
#Tamburlaine
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015
August 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I mean to be a terror to the world
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)
#Tamburlaine
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)
#Tamburlaine
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015
"Accurs'd be he that first invented war!"
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Antony Sher as Tamburlaine, 1993, @RSC, photograph by Reg Wilson
#Marlowe
#Tamburlaine
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Antony Sher as Tamburlaine, 1993, @RSC, photograph by Reg Wilson
#Marlowe
#Tamburlaine
January 21, 2026 at 7:32 AM
"Accurs'd be he that first invented war!"
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Antony Sher as Tamburlaine, 1993, @RSC, photograph by Reg Wilson
#Marlowe
#Tamburlaine
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Antony Sher as Tamburlaine, 1993, @RSC, photograph by Reg Wilson
#Marlowe
#Tamburlaine
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
(📸 William Houston in @the-rsc.bsky.social production of Sejanus, Dir by Gregg Doran, 2005, photograph by Stewart Hemley)
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
(📸 William Houston in @the-rsc.bsky.social production of Sejanus, Dir by Gregg Doran, 2005, photograph by Stewart Hemley)
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
(📸 William Houston in @the-rsc.bsky.social production of Sejanus, Dir by Gregg Doran, 2005, photograph by Stewart Hemley)
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
(📸 William Houston in @the-rsc.bsky.social production of Sejanus, Dir by Gregg Doran, 2005, photograph by Stewart Hemley)
O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
(Chorus, Prologue, Henry V)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Ken Branagh as King Henry, #RSC, 1984, Photo Joe Cocks / #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
(Chorus, Prologue, Henry V)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Ken Branagh as King Henry, #RSC, 1984, Photo Joe Cocks / #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust
March 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
(Chorus, Prologue, Henry V)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Ken Branagh as King Henry, #RSC, 1984, Photo Joe Cocks / #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
(Chorus, Prologue, Henry V)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Ken Branagh as King Henry, #RSC, 1984, Photo Joe Cocks / #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust
(Stabbing his arm)
"Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!”
#DOCTORFAUSTUS
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 production of Doctor Faustus by Charlie Flint
"Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!”
#DOCTORFAUSTUS
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 production of Doctor Faustus by Charlie Flint
September 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM
(Stabbing his arm)
"Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!”
#DOCTORFAUSTUS
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 production of Doctor Faustus by Charlie Flint
"Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!”
#DOCTORFAUSTUS
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 production of Doctor Faustus by Charlie Flint
It is Aeneas' frown that ends my days.
If he forsake me not, I never die,
For in his looks I see eternity,
And he'll make me immortal with a kiss.
(Dido, Act 4 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
(Production Photograph of Alice Brown in Dido Queen of Carthage, 2013, taken by Adam Trigg)
If he forsake me not, I never die,
For in his looks I see eternity,
And he'll make me immortal with a kiss.
(Dido, Act 4 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
(Production Photograph of Alice Brown in Dido Queen of Carthage, 2013, taken by Adam Trigg)
September 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It is Aeneas' frown that ends my days.
If he forsake me not, I never die,
For in his looks I see eternity,
And he'll make me immortal with a kiss.
(Dido, Act 4 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
(Production Photograph of Alice Brown in Dido Queen of Carthage, 2013, taken by Adam Trigg)
If he forsake me not, I never die,
For in his looks I see eternity,
And he'll make me immortal with a kiss.
(Dido, Act 4 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
(Production Photograph of Alice Brown in Dido Queen of Carthage, 2013, taken by Adam Trigg)
“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2018 production, photograph by #AdamTrigg
And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2018 production, photograph by #AdamTrigg
January 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM
“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2018 production, photograph by #AdamTrigg
And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2018 production, photograph by #AdamTrigg
We missed #ShakespeareSunday so here's #EarlyModernMonday...
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe
📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe
📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We missed #ShakespeareSunday so here's #EarlyModernMonday...
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe
📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe
📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint
"They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able."
(Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)
#EarlyModernMonday
#TroilusAndCressida
📸2018 #RSC company Dir Gregg Doran taken by Helen Maybanks
(Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)
#EarlyModernMonday
#TroilusAndCressida
📸2018 #RSC company Dir Gregg Doran taken by Helen Maybanks
August 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able."
(Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)
#EarlyModernMonday
#TroilusAndCressida
📸2018 #RSC company Dir Gregg Doran taken by Helen Maybanks
(Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)
#EarlyModernMonday
#TroilusAndCressida
📸2018 #RSC company Dir Gregg Doran taken by Helen Maybanks
I account this world a tedious theatre,
For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will.
(The Duchess, Act 4 Scene 1)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as the Duchess, RSC, 2018, Photo Helen Maybanks
For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will.
(The Duchess, Act 4 Scene 1)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as the Duchess, RSC, 2018, Photo Helen Maybanks
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 AM
I account this world a tedious theatre,
For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will.
(The Duchess, Act 4 Scene 1)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as the Duchess, RSC, 2018, Photo Helen Maybanks
For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will.
(The Duchess, Act 4 Scene 1)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as the Duchess, RSC, 2018, Photo Helen Maybanks
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
(Countess, Act 1 Scene 1, All's Well That Ends Well)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(Joanna Horton & Alex Waldman in RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well, 2013, photograph by Ellie Kurtz
(Countess, Act 1 Scene 1, All's Well That Ends Well)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(Joanna Horton & Alex Waldman in RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well, 2013, photograph by Ellie Kurtz
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
(Countess, Act 1 Scene 1, All's Well That Ends Well)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(Joanna Horton & Alex Waldman in RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well, 2013, photograph by Ellie Kurtz
(Countess, Act 1 Scene 1, All's Well That Ends Well)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(Joanna Horton & Alex Waldman in RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well, 2013, photograph by Ellie Kurtz
"'Tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out."
#TheWhiteDevil
#JohnWebster
#EarlyModernMonday
#TheWhiteDevil
#JohnWebster
#EarlyModernMonday
May 4, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"'Tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out."
#TheWhiteDevil
#JohnWebster
#EarlyModernMonday
#TheWhiteDevil
#JohnWebster
#EarlyModernMonday
"And from mine ashes let a conqueror rise,
That may revenge this treason to a queen
By plowing up his countries with the sword."
Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(2013 Alice Brown & Joseph Tweedale taken by Adam Trigg)
That may revenge this treason to a queen
By plowing up his countries with the sword."
Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(2013 Alice Brown & Joseph Tweedale taken by Adam Trigg)
July 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"And from mine ashes let a conqueror rise,
That may revenge this treason to a queen
By plowing up his countries with the sword."
Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(2013 Alice Brown & Joseph Tweedale taken by Adam Trigg)
That may revenge this treason to a queen
By plowing up his countries with the sword."
Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸(2013 Alice Brown & Joseph Tweedale taken by Adam Trigg)
“Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain."
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
#JohnFord
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Max Bennett & Fiona Button, Globe 2014, Photo Simon Kane
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain."
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
#JohnFord
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Max Bennett & Fiona Button, Globe 2014, Photo Simon Kane
February 23, 2026 at 12:15 PM
“Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain."
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
#JohnFord
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Max Bennett & Fiona Button, Globe 2014, Photo Simon Kane
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain."
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
#JohnFord
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Max Bennett & Fiona Button, Globe 2014, Photo Simon Kane
“Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
#DoctorFaustus
#Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 company, photograph by Charlie Flint
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
#DoctorFaustus
#Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 company, photograph by Charlie Flint
July 27, 2026 at 10:13 AM
“Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
#DoctorFaustus
#Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 company, photograph by Charlie Flint
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
#DoctorFaustus
#Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2022 company, photograph by Charlie Flint
First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
#Macbeth
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2020 company of Macbeth taken by Adam Trigg
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
#Macbeth
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2020 company of Macbeth taken by Adam Trigg
September 7, 2026 at 7:46 AM
First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
#Macbeth
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2020 company of Macbeth taken by Adam Trigg
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
#Macbeth
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Our 2020 company of Macbeth taken by Adam Trigg
Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed:
Our doctors say this is no time to bleed.
(King Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jeremy Irons at Richard II at the Barbican Theatre, 1987, photograph by Reg Wilson
Our doctors say this is no time to bleed.
(King Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jeremy Irons at Richard II at the Barbican Theatre, 1987, photograph by Reg Wilson
June 29, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed:
Our doctors say this is no time to bleed.
(King Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jeremy Irons at Richard II at the Barbican Theatre, 1987, photograph by Reg Wilson
Our doctors say this is no time to bleed.
(King Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
#WilliamShakespeare
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jeremy Irons at Richard II at the Barbican Theatre, 1987, photograph by Reg Wilson
"Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust,
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
(Ferdinand, Act 5 Scene 5)
#JohnWebster
#TheDuchessOfMalfi
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as The Duchess in 2018 RSC production, photograph by Helen Maybanks
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
(Ferdinand, Act 5 Scene 5)
#JohnWebster
#TheDuchessOfMalfi
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as The Duchess in 2018 RSC production, photograph by Helen Maybanks
June 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
"Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust,
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
(Ferdinand, Act 5 Scene 5)
#JohnWebster
#TheDuchessOfMalfi
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as The Duchess in 2018 RSC production, photograph by Helen Maybanks
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
(Ferdinand, Act 5 Scene 5)
#JohnWebster
#TheDuchessOfMalfi
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Joan Iyiola as The Duchess in 2018 RSC production, photograph by Helen Maybanks
"Accurs'd be he that first invented war!"
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine the Great)
Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jude Owusu as Tamburlaine & 2018 RSC company, photograph by Ellie Kurttz
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine the Great)
Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jude Owusu as Tamburlaine & 2018 RSC company, photograph by Ellie Kurttz
May 11, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"Accurs'd be he that first invented war!"
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine the Great)
Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jude Owusu as Tamburlaine & 2018 RSC company, photograph by Ellie Kurttz
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine the Great)
Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Jude Owusu as Tamburlaine & 2018 RSC company, photograph by Ellie Kurttz
“As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils.”
― John Webster, The White Devil
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Kate Stanley-Brennan & Joseph Timms, Globe 2017, Photo Marc Brenner
So in this world there are degrees of devils.”
― John Webster, The White Devil
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Kate Stanley-Brennan & Joseph Timms, Globe 2017, Photo Marc Brenner
February 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
“As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils.”
― John Webster, The White Devil
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Kate Stanley-Brennan & Joseph Timms, Globe 2017, Photo Marc Brenner
So in this world there are degrees of devils.”
― John Webster, The White Devil
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Kate Stanley-Brennan & Joseph Timms, Globe 2017, Photo Marc Brenner
"Or that these tears that drizzle from mine eyes
Had power to mollify his stony heart,
That when I had him we might never part.”
#Marlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Daniel Evans as Edward, #RSC, 2025, by Helen Murray
Had power to mollify his stony heart,
That when I had him we might never part.”
#Marlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Daniel Evans as Edward, #RSC, 2025, by Helen Murray
February 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
"Or that these tears that drizzle from mine eyes
Had power to mollify his stony heart,
That when I had him we might never part.”
#Marlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Daniel Evans as Edward, #RSC, 2025, by Helen Murray
Had power to mollify his stony heart,
That when I had him we might never part.”
#Marlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Daniel Evans as Edward, #RSC, 2025, by Helen Murray
“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸William Houston & Company, #RSC, 2006, Photo Stewart Hemley
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸William Houston & Company, #RSC, 2006, Photo Stewart Hemley
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 AM
“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸William Houston & Company, #RSC, 2006, Photo Stewart Hemley
(Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸William Houston & Company, #RSC, 2006, Photo Stewart Hemley
"Sometimes the Devil doth preach."
(Bosola, Act 1 Scene 2, Duchess of Malfi, John Webster)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Judi Dench as the Duchess, Duchess of Malfi, 1971, #RSC, photograph by Tom Holte
(Bosola, Act 1 Scene 2, Duchess of Malfi, John Webster)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Judi Dench as the Duchess, Duchess of Malfi, 1971, #RSC, photograph by Tom Holte
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 AM
"Sometimes the Devil doth preach."
(Bosola, Act 1 Scene 2, Duchess of Malfi, John Webster)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Judi Dench as the Duchess, Duchess of Malfi, 1971, #RSC, photograph by Tom Holte
(Bosola, Act 1 Scene 2, Duchess of Malfi, John Webster)
#EarlyModernMonday
📸Judi Dench as the Duchess, Duchess of Malfi, 1971, #RSC, photograph by Tom Holte
"I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it."
(As You Like It. Act 2 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
And willingly could waste my time in it."
(As You Like It. Act 2 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it."
(As You Like It. Act 2 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday
And willingly could waste my time in it."
(As You Like It. Act 2 Scene 4)
#EarlyModernMonday