A Dark Lady's Comedic Revenge in Talene Monahon's *Jane Anger*

 

FSC Resident Scholar Stephen Buhler really wishes he could see this before it closes January 8. That won't happen, but he looks forward to reading the published script and finding connections with other recent Dark Lady texts, such as Caroline Randall Williams's Lucy Negro Redux (recently staged as a ballet, Black Lucy and the Bard) and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia. It's a wonderful coincidence that Amelia Workman, the actress playing Jane Anger for this production, shares a name with Aemilia Lanyer, the central character of Malcolm's play (also a historical figure, also a trailblazing woman writer with strong proto-feminist messages to share, also suggested as inspiring the Dark Lady sonnets).

https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/jane-anger-monahon

Photo: Amelia Workman as Jane Anger, Talene Monahon as Ann Hathaway. Photo Credit: DJ Corey.