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Shakespeare's Three Marys

Sep. 21, 2009
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Shakespeare's Three Marys

  1. SHAKESPEARE’S THREE MARYS By the Dark Lady Players September 2009 www.darkladyplayers.com
  2. 1. Romeo &Juliet: the Annunciation/Nurse’s Scene
  3. Romeo & Juliet; Lady Capulet and Nurse Angelica say it is time for Juliet to get Mary-ed
  4. Romeo & Juliet; Nurse has referred to Susan(nah), meaning a Lilly the symbol of the annunciation
  5. 2. Hamlet ; In the York Mystery plays, Mary is sewing in her closet
  6. Joseph addresses Mary (from the York Mystery plays)
  7. Hamlet, an allegory for the sun god Helios, has made Ophelia pregnant through his light
  8. Pregnant Virgin Mary watches Ophelia, no longer pregnant, holding her abortive flowers
  9. Ophelia distributes her abortive flowers
  10. Ophelia offers Mary a piece of Rose-mary, to wear with a difference
  11. Mary and her Lilly ascend to Heaven; In parallel Ophelia is abut to fall off the tree
  12. Virgin Mary with the Lilly
  13. 3. Othello; Desdemona with Othello in the background
  14. Death of Desdemona like a Christ figure
  15. Photos © John Watts
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