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'Arden of Faversham': Killing time (and a man) in an entertaining way by Celia Wren

Murder. Adultery. Real-estate shenanigans. The escapades of two floundering hit men. The unknown Elizabethan playwright " or team of playwrights " responsible for "Arden of Faversham" certainly knew how to pack in the plot. Probably first produced in the early 1590s, the play is a dramatic retelling of a real-life homicide that shocked England in 1551. But the script delivers its central bit of carnage only after gle…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AM on April 8, 2015

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