The Beloved Disciple
by Tom Jacobson

Name: The Beloved Disciple
Brand: Tom Jacobson
SKU: 9780881455731
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Highlights

Male

105 mins

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the simplicity and artistry of the play. The use of quotations and part doubling is highlighted as particularly clever and engaging. Many feel it deserves greater attention and recognition.

Clever use of quotationsEngaging part doublingSimple yet effective stagingDeserves to be better known

Synopsis

Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author, was murdered at the age of 29.

This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.“Playwright Tom Jacobson is a linguistic gadfly.

Often, you are tickled by him.

Occasionally you are bedeviled by him.

Once or twice, you just want to swat him.

Linguistic pyrotechnics explode in Jacobson’s period verse drama THE BELOVED DISCIPLE.

Little is known of Marlowe’s life.

It is certain that he was an atheistic iconoclast whose heretical views placed him in constant danger of arrest.

The motive for his murder in 1593 remains murky.

In this clever attempt to solve the mystery, Jacobson’s precocious use of language is rivaled only by the sheer effrontery of his subject matter.”

—F Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times