The Insatiate Countess
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(1610). What should we do in this Countess's dark hole...What should we unruly members make here? In a play dripping with innuendo from its very first lines, sexual obsession leads to murder as Isabella, widowed Countess of Swevia, wastes little time in remarrying, before running off with another man. And then another. And yet another. Meanwhile, two new brides coolly frustrate their husbands' wife-swapping attempts at revenge. Marston's incomplete draft was finished by Barksted (an actor) and his associate Machin. Presented by a boys company at the Whitefriars, it is unusual for its time in showing female characters driven explicitly by sexual desire.
Archive :: play:S513200144, venue:V165
Production details
Read Not Dead Season. Globe Education Centre Theatre
