The Tragedy of Mariam

by Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland

Season 3, Episode 3: How Do Solve a Problem Like Mariam?

Hosted by Ethan Goodmansen, Margaret Levin, and Molly Minter

Points of Interest:

  • Let’s meet our playwright — Elizabeth Cary, the Viscountess Falkland
  • The problems of Mariam in performance practice
  • Eurocentric beauty standards, whiteness, and the language of racism and prejudice
  • Salome, Mariam, and Herod in performance
  • What can Mariam offer to scholars and practitioners today?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.