Ill met by moonlight...

Welcome to Alarums and Excursions, your guide to all things Renaissance (both fair and foul) in London. I'll be posting as often as I can manage with reviews of everything there is to do around here that comes in Early Modern flavour. Next week I'll be reviewing Phillip Ball (author of The Devil's Doctor) lecturing on Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Science and Magic, hosted by The Last Tuesday Society and planning a trip to the Seven Stars on Chancery Lane, which has been around since 1602. I'm also tempted by Rory Kinnear in Measure for Measure at the Almeida and (if I'm feeling brave) Richard III at the Riverside Studios, where Sadie Frost is tackling my favourite female role in Shakespeare's canon, Lady Anne. It's looking like a promising few months for Renaissance stagings, as Greenwich Theatre makes a return to producing in-house shows with Volpone and The Duchess of Malfi coming up in March. I await reports from my spies south of the river. As for tonight? I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.