Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Scene 9 FBFB: Scene 9 Director Peter Cockett Author of Annotations Peter Cockett Video Director Holger Schott Syme Video Compiler Peter Cockett Production Company Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men Project Conversion and Remediation LEMDO Team Queen’s Men EditionsQME

The Queen’s Men Editions anthology is led by Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter Cockett, General Editor (Performance); Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text; until 2026); and Janelle Jenstad, General Editor (Text; 2026–)

 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada McMaster University Poculi Ludique Societas University of Waterloo University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies University of Victoria Friends of the ISE

Released with Queen’s Men Editions 2.0

 University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform

Intellectual copyright in this edition is held by the editor, Peter Cockett. The critical paratexts, including this Scene 9 page, are licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that they are freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be given to the editor, QME, and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except for quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of QME, the editor, and LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the critical paratexts in the classroom.

Production photographs and videos on this site may not be downloaded. They appear freely on this site with the permission of the actors and the ACTRA union. They may be used within the context of university courses, within the classroom, and for reference within research contexts, including conferences, when credit is given to the producing company and to the actors. Commercial use of videos and photographs is forbidden.

Queen’s Men Editions

Page written by Peter Cockett. First published in the QME 1.0 anthology on the ISE platform. Converted to TEI-XML and remediated by the LEMDO Team for republication in the QME 2.0 anthology on the LEMDO platform.

Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines

n/a

 Published file. Encoded links, numbered paragraph, copyedited. Updated metadata Created remediated file from emdFBFB_video_scene08 Peer review arranged by QME Editorial Board

Two new characters crash onto the stage at his point locked in competition for the hand of the Fair Maid. Although tied to the plot of the first half of the play through the character of Margaret, it felt like the beginning of a new story in performance. For the SQM company, it was hard to place these country squires in the social hierarchy as they seem wealthy but their dialogue reveals they are not court sophisticates. I was unable to find a way to distinguish them from Lacy, Warren and Ermsby, either through costume or manner. I feel there was a joke around social class lost here focus the country style of wooing as Serlsby uses descriptions of his flock as a means to seduce Margaret (). Julian DeZotti (Margaret) displays the richness of his characterization in this scene moving from polite and modest tactics of delay, through to heartbreak on reading the letter, to steadfast defense of the strength of her own love in contrast to Lacy’s, and commitment to a future life in the local convent. The strength and dignity he brings to Margaret is a signal that all-male companies did not necessarily result in conservative views of women although ultimately the SQM production did not challenge such views as rigorously as a regular modern production might do today.

 Navigation See Production Credits. Go back to scene index for the SQM production of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.