Loading credits…
Peele dramatizes the biblical story of David, Bathsheba and Absalom. In the surviving text, the focus falls especially on David’s relationships with his sons, particularly Absalom, rather than on David and Bathsheba alone.
After usurper Muly Mahamet seizes the Moroccan throne, his uncle Abdelmelec returns from exile with Ottoman support. Muly Mahamet enlists Portugal’s King Sebastian to regain power, leading to a proxy war and the Battle of Alcazar, where three kings die and the rightful succession is restored.
The play ranges across Edward I's return from crusade, his struggle with Llywelyn in Wales, and John Balliol's revolt in Scotland. It combines political conflict and dynastic episodes with Robin Hood-style ballad characters and comic scenes.
Three young men lost in the woods take shelter with a blacksmith and his wife, whose fairy tale comes to life as a play within the play. Peele turns romantic and fairy-tale conventions into an ironic, fantastical comic romance.
Peele dramatizes the biblical story of David, Bathsheba and Absalom. In the surviving text, the focus falls especially on David’s relationships with his sons, particularly Absalom, rather than on David and Bathsheba alone.
After usurper Muly Mahamet seizes the Moroccan throne, his uncle Abdelmelec returns from exile with Ottoman support. Muly Mahamet enlists Portugal’s King Sebastian to regain power, leading to a proxy war and the Battle of Alcazar, where three kings die and the rightful succession is restored.
The play ranges across Edward I's return from crusade, his struggle with Llywelyn in Wales, and John Balliol's revolt in Scotland. It combines political conflict and dynastic episodes with Robin Hood-style ballad characters and comic scenes.
Three young men lost in the woods take shelter with a blacksmith and his wife, whose fairy tale comes to life as a play within the play. Peele turns romantic and fairy-tale conventions into an ironic, fantastical comic romance.