Professor Scott Newstok of Rhodes College will lead an online talk Wednesday, April 14, on Orson Welles and the works of Christopher Marlowe for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
While Welles’ fascination with Shakespeare is well-known, he had a deep appreciation for Marlowe, a contemporary of The Bard, dating back to his youth.
Wellles directed and starred in Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus with Jack Carter for the Federal Theatre Project in 1937 and named his eldest daughter Christopher Marlowe Welles. He returned to the story with Time Runs starring Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy in 1950. Welles’ last screen play, The Cradle Will Rock, includes a scene referencing his portrayal of Faustus.
“How to Think Like Marlowe: Orson Welles’s Detour from Shakespeare” is one of the free online monthly Research Conversations offered by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. There will be a 30-minute minute presentation followed by an open discussion set for noon Eastern Time..
Details on the Zoom talk can be found at shakespeare.org.uk/visit/whats-on/orson-welles-detour-from-shakespeare
Newstok is professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College in Tennessee. An award-winning educator, he is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and the editor of several other books. Before joining the Rhodes faculty in 2007, Newstok earned his doctorate from Harvard University, taught at Oberlin College, Amherst College, and Gustavus Adolphus College, and held the Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Yale University Library′s Special Collections.
All of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Research Conversations are free, but donations in order to support its work are appreciated.
The Trust is supported by the Arts Council of England.
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