The Love of the Nightingale

This article is about the play. For the opera based on the play, see The Love of the Nightingale (opera).

The Love of the Nightingale is a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, commissioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1988 at The Other Place, Stratford.[1] It is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek legend of the rape of Philomela by her brother-in-law Tereus, and the gruesome revenge undertaken by Philomela and her sister Procne. The play takes a feminist look at the ancient tale.

  1. ^ Bush, Sophie (University of Sheffield) (Autumn 2009). "The inevitable need to speak in order to be: On the loss of voice in two plays by Timberlake Wertenbaker". Forum (9). University of Edinburgh.