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Poor ghostly Agnes…

28 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by la Clarina in History, Theatre

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Agnese Visconti, Felice Cavallotti, ghost stories, Gonzaga, Mantova

fantasma-donna“Why don’t you write us something about a local ghost story?” I was asked back in June.

And why not indeed… Only, when I set about researching, I found that my unimaginative hometown only has one official ghost.

Agnese Visconti was one of the many daughters of the Prince of Milan. Plain, sickly and waspish, she was married off very young to handsome Francesco Gonzaga, only son and heir to the de facto Lord of Mantova. It wasn’t what you’d call a happy marriage – but then nobody expected it to be – and it produced only one daughter.

Then Agnese’s father was murdered by an ambitious nephew, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and things went truly downhill. Agnese decided she wanted revenge, and began working with her exiled brother to get back Milan… Continue reading →

Running Revisions

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Scribbling, Stories, Theatre

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Alexandre Dumas, christopher marlowe, Felice Cavallotti, Friedrich Schiller, playwriting, revisions

playwriting-101-2011I love “backstage” stories of playwrights tinkering with their plays after the first contact with the audience – mostly in response to the audience’s response, but a few times just because they… well, there’s no other way to put it: because they changed their mind. I love the stories almost as much – and in at least one instance even more than – the works they refer to… Continue reading →

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