Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Scene 3 FBFB: Scene 3 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 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

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The third scene returns us to the frolic world of the English countryside (to borrow Greene’s favorite term) and introduces us to the brightest flower the national garden: Margaret, the Fair Maid of Fressingfield. Working with the dance instructor Emily Winerock the company created a dance to open the scene intended to generate some of the fun and excitement of a country fair. Margaret has already been praised for her beauty in the opening scene and here we discover that her command of language is also remarkable as she scatters classical allusions through her speech. Margaret was the last of the female roles developed by Julian DeZotti and worked to redefine the other two. DeZotti gives Margaret a generous, fun-loving quality from the outset of this scene and reveals her to be a woman with her own desires and convictions. The scene establishes that Margaret is a cut above the other country folk and the supporting actors in the scene made their country folk as ridiculous as possible to emphasize the difference between the disguised Lacy and the real farmers at the fair.

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