Elizabeth Rex | 
pickElizabeth Rex, by Timothy Findley (2000 🇨🇦)
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Premise: On the night before her lover is put to death on her orders, a restless Queen Elizabeth I spends time with William Shakespeare‘s troupe and gets into a battle of wits about the performance of gender with a man who has spent his whole career in drag.
Review: This is probably my favourite play-as-literature thus far. Cont.
Mattsbookaday The premise is great, the dialogue sharp (and often funny), and the exploration of power, gender, and love utterly fascinating. The scenes among the two ‘queens‘ and Shakespeare are absolutely where this shines; the rest felt mostly inconsequential, but was far from dragging the play down. 2d
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