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 The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Chapter Twenty-One: How Doctor Faustus was carried through the air up to the heavens to see the whole world, and how the Sky and Planets ruled, after the which he wrote a letter to his friend of the same to Leipzig, and how he went about the world in eight days.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in August 2024 - approx. 13 months early. They have also received the next 14 chapters and exploring sessions! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act Five of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss attribution with footnotes, please only write on one side of the paper at a time). The play was recorded at The White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 12th December 2023. If you'd like more on this play, there are exploring sessions galore on the YouTube. All our rehearsals, dress run, and rough live mix are on the patreon feed from £5 tier or above. The full cast audio adaptation edit of this will follow later in the year. The recording used throughout this episode is a live mix of the performed play – it focuses on the text as writ - though it was a live show and there are some deviations made in the heat of performance. The final release will be cleaner and a more entertaining listen. Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell – Dido Kit McGuire – Aeneas Karim Kronfli - Iarbus Alex Kapila - Anna Liza Graham - Hermes Lynsey Beauchamp - Ilioneus Sarah Blake - Nurse Keith Hill - Achates Alexandra Kataigida - Cloanthus Pamela Flanagan - Ascanius Simon Nader - Sergestus Valentina Vinci – Technical Operator The host was Robert Crighton. CW: Discussion of war trauma, deaths, and issues of consent and race, discussion of racist language, multiple suicides, fire. Our patrons received this episode in June 2025 - three months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Recorded live last year, this is the post show discussion of our adaptation of the opening of A Mirror for Magistrates which covers The Fall of Richard II. The audio adaptation is available on the pod now. After the Fall - Post Show Discussion Hosted by Robert Crighton, with Dr Harriet Archer, Professor Thomas Betteridge and Dr Stephen Longstaffe With readers from the company, Liza Graham and Valentina Vinci Professor Thomas Betteridge is Dean of the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University London. He is an expert in English Reformation history and Tudor drama, a member of the Research Advisory Board for Historic Royal Palaces and a strategic reviewer for the AHRC. Dr Harriet Archer is a lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the University of St Andrews. Harriet's research focuses on Tudor attitudes toward textual transmission, cultural production and literary authority, including the Renaissance reception of classical and medieval writing and thought in drama and printed poetry. Dr Stephen Longstaffe has edited the only early modern play on the 1381 Peasant's Revolt (Jack Straw) for the Edwin Mellen Press, a collection of essays on 1 Henry IV for Bloomsbury, and co-edited a collection of essays on the Elizabethan history play for Manchester University Press. He has a long-standing interest in the English radical tradition, history plays, clowns, and cue-scripts, and since his retirement a university lecturer, has trained in both clowning and improvisation. Other materials: William Baldwin/Beware the Cat - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin The Life and Death of Jack Straw (also Richard II) - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4629941-the-life-and-death-of-jack-straw Thomas of Woodstock (also Richard II) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639UxqcqScY&list=PLflmEwgdfKoJXBzOGF38vNRDJ78LC5pnm Patreon Mirror Box Set - https://www.patreon.com/collection/483574 Our patrons received a rough cut of this episode in September 2024 - over eleven months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Speech! Speech! Occasional scenes and speeches from plays, voted for by those you support our work. This is a speech from The Arraignment of Paris by George Peele, recorded live at our Revels season on Saturday 16th December 2023. With Sarah Blake as Diana. For more on the play The Arraignment of Paris visit our playlist on the play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5rtIlvo8sQ&list=PLflmEwgdfKoIPwhoQevuUw4fqnoYhLk4X For more on George Peele and one of his other plays The Old Wives' Tale - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635651-the-old-wives-tale-by-george-peele For a playlist covering all his extant and attributed work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh7jhyKwrd4&list=PLflmEwgdfKoLEiTrRFvkIeYa0skCLKX7i Our patrons received the scene within this episode in January 2024 - 19 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Recorded live last year, this is our adaptation of the opening of A Mirror for Magistrates which covers The Fall of Richard II. We performed it live, and there were a few issues with the recording, so I've kept the edit fairly simple. The adaptation cuts the second poem on The Two Rogers, trims a few verses, and turns into acting dialogue the editorial meeting in the book.  There was also a post show discussion, which will follow on the pod soon. The Fall of Richard the Second Adapted by Robert Crighton, from the opening of A Mirror for Magistrates. Performed on Thursday 11th April 2024 at the Quay Theatre, Sudbury. A team of writers gather to write a sequel to John Lydgate's Fall of Princes, to accompany it's reprinting. They decide to conjure the ghosts of dead figures, having them the wrongs they committed in life. Introduction – Valentina Vinci George Ferrer (conjuring Robert Tresilian) – Liza Graham Henry, Lord Stafford (conjuring Sir Thomas of Woodstock) – Stephen Longstaffe William Baldwin (conjuring Lord Mowbray) – Robert Crighton Sir Thomas Chaloner (conjuring King Richard II) – Kit McGuire Other materials: William Baldwin/Beware the Cat - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin The Life and Death of Jack Straw (also Richard II) - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4629941-the-life-and-death-of-jack-straw Thomas of Woodstock (also Richard II) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639UxqcqScY&list=PLflmEwgdfKoJXBzOGF38vNRDJ78LC5pnm Patreon Mirror Box Set - https://www.patreon.com/collection/483574 Our patrons received a rough cut of this episode in August 2024 - over eleven months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Chapter Twenty: How Doctor Faustus desired to see hell, and of the manner how he was used therein   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in June 2024 - approx. 14 months early. They have also received the next 14 chapters and exploring sessions! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act Four of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss attribution with footnotes, please only write on one side of the paper at a time). The play was recorded at The White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 12th December 2023. If you'd like more on this play, there are exploring sessions galore on the YouTube. All our rehearsals, dress run, and rough live mix are on the patreon feed from £5 tier or above. The full cast audio adaptation edit of this will follow later in the year. The recording used throughout this episode is a live mix of the performed play – it's clearer than the first rough mix and focuses on the text as writ. The final release will be cleaner and a more entertaining listen. Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell – Dido Kit McGuire – Aeneas Karim Kronfli - Iarbus Alex Kapila - Anna Lynsey Beauchamp - Ilioneus Sarah Blake - Nurse Keith Hill - Achates Alexandra Kataigida - Cloanthus Emma Kemp - Cupid Simon Nader - Sergestus Valentina Vinci – Technical Operator The host was Robert Crighton. CW: Discussion of war trauma, deaths, and issues of consent and race. Our patrons received this episode in May 2025 - over three months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

In August 2024, we produced an all day event  Middleton's Endgame: A Game at Chess LIVE! a pop up Middleton festival at The White Bear in Kennington, featuring a live performance of A Game at Chess, discussions of the play, a look at Middleton's last public work, the 1626 Lord Mayor's show, and other selections of writing from across his life. The whole event, as ever, was recorded, and we're releasing these over the next few months. This is episode 1, beginning at the top of the show. The show started with Setting up the Board, which delivered an overview of Thomas Middleton in the 1620's, and the theatrical context for the play. With readings of some of the sources, letters, and gossip behind the political theatre of the time. The hosts were Robert Crighton and Liza Graham Also featuring the voices of Keith Hill, Simon Nader, Daniel Yabut, Gillian Horgan, Kit McGuire, Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell, Connor Robert-Brown, Valentina Vinci. YouTube playlist of readings of the play. Podcast playlist on the play. Patreon box set of this show. The Legacy of Thomas Middleton discussing episode. Our patrons received a rough mix of this episode in September 2024 - over 11 months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

One of our follow on projects from the readings of The Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus has been to try and figure out how the process of adaptation from the book to the play might have happened. Coinciding with the Marlowe Society of America's conference in 2024, we pulled together a short play looking at the writing of the opening of the play. The resulting play Faustus to Faustus - Part One: Enter a Devil by Robert Crighton, was performed at the Royal Albert Pub in Deptford on Wednesday 10th July 2024 and was recorded for the podcast for future release. And this is that release! It's not a perfect recording, as there was a lot background noise and we were pressed for time because of an imminent football match. But the audience were great and it's wonderful to archive their response. NB: The play does involve some swearing. Faustus to Faustus: A Treatise on the Procession of Text from Book to Stage, made Dialogue Wise, concerning the translated text from the German, and the play by Christopher Marlowe, compiled by Robert Crighton. With Roel Fox as Christopher Marlowe, Robert Crighton as Thomas Nashe, and Liza Graham as introduction and ballad singer. The performance was reviewed here. Part two of this ongoing series will premier on the final performance day of our Wyrd Revels, following our performance of the B-Text of Doctor Faustus by... well, you've got the idea by now. Our patrons received a rough mix of this episode in November 2024 - over eight months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

This week we're discussing... (sinister music plays) Horror, and whether we can sensibly describe some of the early modern and medieval drama as Horror? How far can we push a modern genre onto an older form. Joining me in this discussion is Dr Rebekah King, who graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in English looking at how magicians were depicted on the early modern stage. As well as being a researcher, she is an award-winning writer whose recent play ‘Moderation' followed the lives of social media moderators forced to see the worst things on the internet all day for a living. It transferred from an extended run at the Edinburgh Fringe to the Greenwich Theatre's ‘pick of the Fringe season' in October 2023. Dr King has also recently collaborated with composer George Parris on an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's ‘The Shadow' which premiered at the Royal Academy of Music in January 2024. Substack: https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com/ Bluesky: @rebekahking.bsky.social Website: https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/ Our patrons received this episode in March 2025 - over four months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act Three of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss attribution with footnotes, please only write on one side of the paper at a time). The play was recorded at The White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 12th December 2023. If you'd like more on this play, there are exploring sessions galore on the YouTube. All our rehearsals, dress run, and rough live mix are on the patreon feed from £5 tier or above. The full cast audio adaptation edit of this will follow later in the year. The recording used throughout this episode is a live mix of the performed play – it's clearer than the first rough mix and focuses on the text as writ. The final release will be cleaner and a more entertaining listen. Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell – Dido Kit McGuire – Aeneas Karim Kronfli - Iarbus Alex Kapila - Anna Lynsey Beauchamp - Ilioneus Sarah Blake - Venus Keith Hill - Achates Alexandra Kataigida - Cloanthus Emma Kemp - Cupid Liza Graham - Juno Simon Nader - Sergestus Valentina Vinci – Technical Operator The host was Robert Crighton. CW: Discussion of war trauma, deaths, and issues of consent. Our patrons received this episode in April 2025 - over two months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Chapter Nineteen: How Doctor Faustus fell into despair with himself, for having put forth a question unto his spirit, they fell at variance, whereupon the rout of Devils appeared unto him, threatening him sharply.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in May 2024 - approx. 14 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

We were invited to follow the Behind the Scenes journey of the Oxford Mystery Cycle performed at St Edmund Hall on Saturday, 26 April 2025. This is a mix of cast and audience discussion of the event as it was happening. Many thanks to the organisers for inviting us to wander around the event with microphones. Recorded by Liza Graham and Robert Crighton. Watch the plays here! https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/21/the-oxford-medieval-mystery-plays-2025-programme/ Listen to our chat with Professor Henrike Lähnemann in the run up to the Cycle - https://audioboom.com/posts/8662793-discussing-the-oxford-medieval-mystery-cycle-2025 Our patrons received most of this episode in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Hello! It's time for our next Revels season - discount early bird season tickets are now on sale for our wonderful patrons, become a £1 tier patron to get a cheap rate season pass. Or, wait a week, and free subscribers and those one our mailing list get access too. There are four/five plays in the season, all announced on this episode. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

We have a new discussion with Professor Laurie Johnson about Leicester's Men, the playing company that ran throughout the early Elizabethan years of professional playing, whose make up, structure and plays have been difficult to pin down. But luckily, Professor Johnson has written a rather excellent book pinning all these as close to down as we might ever get. This was recorded a year ago - apologies to Laurie for the wait! It's currently (still) a tad bit pricey, but hopefully it will drop down to a more affordable price. https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/leicesters-men-and-their-plays-early-elizabethan-playing-company-and-its-legacy?format=HB  Laurie Johnson is Professor in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland and, since 2016, has served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association. He is the author of Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts (2018) and has written extensively in areas related to cultural history, literary studies, and Shakespeare's theatre.  You can also hear us having a chat about The Playhouse at Newington Butts - https://audioboom.com/posts/7052291-discussing-the-playhouse Follow up on possible Leicester's Men plays with a playlist on William Wager - and on Gammer Gurton's Needle. Our patrons received this episode a month in July 2024 - nearly a year in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

It'll be a bit quiet on the pod this week, as we're doing some live shows - tickets available below - but we thought we should update you on some of the online options for our patrons, which you might want to go for. We're doing a basic live stream of rehearsal runs from Tuesday this week, around 3pm each day - become a patron and grab the link. Otherwise, more on this next week when it's all over. Information about the archiving of Entertaining Henry - open access Patreon live rehearsal link and details (you will need to be a patreon from £1 or more) Entertaining Henry is a co-production with The Quay Theatre and Beyond Shakespeare... Let us take you through a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry's reign: from his youthful days to his more fractious later life, we will share the history of his reign through the plays he and his subjects enjoyed. Play along with our Tudor Bingo Card, catch the pop-up merry tales, and enjoy entertainments fit for a king! Friday 20th June at 7.30pm Show 1 - Welcome to Henry's Court! (1509 to 1520's) We welcome you to the Court of the newly-crowned King Henry! Let us introduce you to all the major players on and off stage, the rules of the court, and perform some of the earliest plays to survive from his reign – plays designed to curb Henry's boisterous ways. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-1-welcome-to-henrys-court/ Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm Show 2 - Reformation: More vs Cromwell (1520's to 1530's) As the Reformation hit England, different factions created dramas around the political rifts at court. The literary set that orbited Thomas More presented traditional debate on one side, whilst the rising star of Thomas Cromwell commissioned his players to write revelations on the other. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-2-reformation-more-vs-cromwell/ Sunday 22nd June at 7.30pm Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanigans (1530's to 1547) We close our festival with some of the sillier plays from the end of Henry's reign – featuring a sword fight with a snail, an ecclesiastical bust up in a church, and the epic conquest of the monster Tediousness! https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-3-snail-fight-and-other-tudor-shenanegans/ Season discount for each show - £14 for one show, £26 for two shows, £36 for all three Book Tickets Now for Show 1! Book Tickets Now for Show 2! Book Tickets Now for Show 3! Ticket discount is applied if you add additional shows from the season. Box Office: quaysudbury.com or call 01787 374 745 The Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury CO10 2AN The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Professor Liz Oakley-Brown returns to the pod to discuss the play Thersites (c.1537) attributed to Nicholas Udall and based on a dialogue by from Joannes Ravisius Textor - the play features a snail fight, and much more - part of our build up to our season of Henrician drama. This episode was recorded live on zoom on Tuesday 10th June at 7.15pm 2025. For more on the medieval manuscript side of things - over on BBC Sounds (where available) is Knight Fights Giant Snail. We reference Marie Axton's Three Tudor Classical Interludes which is the only modern edition of the play that we are aware of. We will be staging Thersites live on Sunday 22nd June 2025 at the Quay Theatre - tickets for the show are available here. But if that's not possible we have two exploring sessions online - a vanilla First Look, and a super charged Second Look. CW: We keep this fairly Universal, but towards the end we do discuss a death. Entertaining Henry is a co-production with The Quay Theatre and Beyond Shakespeare... Let us take you through a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry's reign: from his youthful days to his more fractious later life, we will share the history of his reign through the plays he and his subjects enjoyed. Play along with our Tudor Bingo Card, catch the pop-up merry tales, and enjoy entertainments fit for a king! Friday 20th June at 7.30pm Show 1 - Welcome to Henry's Court! (1509 to 1520's) We welcome you to the Court of the newly-crowned King Henry! Let us introduce you to all the major players on and off stage, the rules of the court, and perform some of the earliest plays to survive from his reign – plays designed to curb Henry's boisterous ways. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-1-welcome-to-henrys-court/ Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm Show 2 - Reformation: More vs Cromwell (1520's to 1530's) As the Reformation hit England, different factions created dramas around the political rifts at court. The literary set that orbited Thomas More presented traditional debate on one side, whilst the rising star of Thomas Cromwell commissioned his players to write revelations on the other. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-2-reformation-more-vs-cromwell/ Sunday 22nd June at 7.30pm Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanigans (1530's to 1547) We close our festival with some of the sillier plays from the end of Henry's reign – featuring a sword fight with a snail, an ecclesiastical bust up in a church, and the epic conquest of the monster Tediousness! https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-3-snail-fight-and-other-tudor-shenanegans/ Season discount for each show - £14 for one show, £26 for two shows, £36 for all three Book Tickets Now for Show 1! Book Tickets Now for Show 2! Book Tickets Now for Show 3! Ticket discount is applied if you add additional shows from the season. Box Office: quaysudbury.com or call 01787 374 745 The Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury CO10 2AN The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act Two of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss attribution with footnotes, please only write on one side of the paper at a time). The play was recorded at The White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 12th December 2023. If you'd like more on this play, there are exploring sessions galore on the YouTube. All our rehearsals, dress run, and rough live mix are on the patreon feed from £5 tier or above. The full cast audio adaptation edit of this will follow later in the year. The recording used throughout this episode is a live mix of the performed play – it's clearer than the first rough mix and focuses on the text as writ. The final release will be cleaner and a more entertaining listen. Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell – Dido Kit McGuire – Aeneas Karim Kronfli - Iarbus Alex Kapila - Anna Pamela Flanagan - Ascanius Lynsey Beauchamp - Ilioneus Sarah Blake - Venus Keith Hill - Achates Alexandra Kataigida - Cloanthus Emma Kemp - Cupid Simon Nader - Sergestus The host was Robert Crighton. CW: Discussion of war trauma, deaths, and graphic descriptions of injury detail. Our patrons received this episode a month in April 2025 - over two months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

As part of the run up to Entertaining Henry we have this chat about Thomas More, prompted by Dr Joanne Paul's latest book on his life - it's a Venn diagram of a discussion, between the life of More, and the theatre world around him. Recorded live on zoom - there will be another live discussion in under two weeks time, details below. Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England by Dr Joanne Paul is coming to UK bookshops this week, and the US in a couple of months (I believe) - do support your local bookstore, or order from somewhere responsible like... https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/thomas-more-a-life-dr-joanne-paul/7765640?ean=9781405953603 For more on the plays of John Heywood and a little on John Rastell - here's a handy playlist. Next Discussing Live: Snail Fight! with Professor Liz Oakley-Brown – Tuesday 10th June at 7.15pm Professor Liz Oakley-Brown returns to the pod to discuss the play Thersites, that snail fight, and why the Tudors loved snails! Sign up here! A co-production with The Quay Theatre and Beyond Shakespeare... Let us take you through a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry's reign: from his youthful days to his more fractious later life, we will share the history of his reign through the plays he and his subjects enjoyed. Play along with our Tudor Bingo Card, catch the pop-up merry tales, and enjoy entertainments fit for a king! Friday 20th June at 7.30pm Show 1 - Welcome to Henry's Court! (1509 to 1520's) We welcome you to the Court of the newly-crowned King Henry! Let us introduce you to all the major players on and off stage, the rules of the court, and perform some of the earliest plays to survive from his reign – plays designed to curb Henry's boisterous ways. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-1-welcome-to-henrys-court/ Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm Show 2 - Reformation: More vs Cromwell (1520's to 1530's) As the Reformation hit England, different factions created dramas around the political rifts at court. The literary set that orbited Thomas More presented traditional debate on one side, whilst the rising star of Thomas Cromwell commissioned his players to write revelations on the other. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-2-reformation-more-vs-cromwell/ Sunday 22nd June at 7.30pm Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanigans (1530's to 1547) We close our festival with some of the sillier plays from the end of Henry's reign – featuring a sword fight with a snail, an ecclesiastical bust up in a church, and the epic conquest of the monster Tediousness! https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-3-snail-fight-and-other-tudor-shenanegans/ Season discount for each show - £14 for one show, £26 for two shows, £36 for all three Book Tickets Now for Show 1! Book Tickets Now for Show 2! Book Tickets Now for Show 3! Ticket discount is applied if you add additional shows from the season. Box Office: quaysudbury.com or call 01787 374 745 The Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury CO10 2AN The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act One of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss, with footnotes, please only write on one side of the paper at a time). The play was recorded at The White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 12th December 2023. We know we said Robert would be doing briefer Spoilers episodes, but that clearly didn't happen... If you'd like more on this play, there are exploring sessions galore on the YouTube. All our rehearsals, dress run, and rough live mix are on the patreon feed from £5 tier or above. The full cast audio adaptation edit of this will follow later in the year. The recording used throughout this episode is a live mix of the performed play – it's clearer than the first rough mix and focuses on the text as writ. The final release will be cleaner and a more entertaining listen. Kit McGuire – Aeneas Karim Kronfli - Iarbus Pamela Flanagan - Ascanius Lynsey Beauchamp - Ilioneus Sarah Blake - Venus Keith Hill - Jupiter / Achates Alexandra Kataigida - Cloanthus Liza Graham – kinda Hermes Simon Nader - Sergestus The host was Robert Crighton, who was also an accidental Ganymede. Our patrons received this episode a month in March 2025 - over two months in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Speech! Speech! Occasional scenes and speeches from plays, voted for by those you support our work. This is a speech from Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, recorded live at our Revels season on Tuesday 12th December 2023. With Pamela Flanagan as Isabella. Our patrons received the scene within this episode in January 2024 - 17 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Chapter Eighteen: A question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit, concerning Astronomy.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in April 2024 - approx. 13 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This discussion is with organiser Matthew Sergi, Associate Professor of English (Medieval Drama), University of Toronto about the York Plays 2025. Performing on Saturday 7th June 2025, (8th if there is rain) starting at 6am will be 17 performance groups who will present all the York Plays, repeating their performances on replica wagon stages. As ever with these discussions, we go on a number of tangents, but they're really good tangents. Find out more at yorkplays.ca where there is a host of useful information - and go, if you can. Seriously GO! It's going to be epic! We mention in the episode the editor of the texts for the cycle, Christina M. Fitzgerald - who we interviewed back in 2019! https://audioboom.com/posts/7297248-discussing-the-york-corpus-christi-play Our patrons received this episode a week early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondShakespeare The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Discussing: You Can't Just Throw a Woman at it: Dramaturgical Misogyny in Early Modern Drama with Dr Nora J. Williams. Nora J. Williams is the Associate Dean for Access and Participation at BIMM University. Her first book, Canonical Misogyny, is available now from Edinburgh University Press. Her interests lie in practice-as-research, staging violence and intimacy, and feminist dramaturgies. Our patrons received the scene within this episode in October 2024 - 6 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondShakespeare The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

It's an interesting double bill episode this week, as we contemplate two pieces of evidence for one or two plays on Richard III. The first element comes from the licencing of a play, the other a reported line from a play. Are they the same play? Impossible to tell, but it helps make this episode a little more substantial. You can find the source for our text here. There is also an exposition on the Rowley play at the Lost Plays Database. With Aliki Chapple as the Messenger. Our patrons received this episode in February 2025 - 2 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Welcome to this other side of our new strand, a return to a promised thing for our patrons - occasional scenes and speeches from plays, voted for by those you support our work. This is a speech from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe, recorded live at our Revels season on Tuesday 12th December 2023. With Lynsey Beauchamp as the Guise. Our patrons received the scene within this episode in January 2024 - 12 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. This month, we begin part 2 of the narrative... Performed by Robert Crighton Chapter Seventeen: Here followeth the second part of Doctor Faustus his life, and practises until his end.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in March 2024 - approx. 13 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Surprise! We're having a party, and you're invited! Entertaining Henry will be a pop up festival of drama from the reign of Henry the Eighth - a three day pop up festival, performing six complete plays, and a number of over excerpts from the period. More info on our website here! A co-production with The Quay Theatre and Beyond Shakespeare... Let us take you through a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry's reign: from his youthful days to his more fractious later life, we will share the history of his reign through the plays he and his subjects enjoyed. Play along with our Tudor Bingo Card, catch the pop-up merry tales, and enjoy entertainments fit for a king! Friday 20th June at 7.30pm Show 1 - Welcome to Henry's Court! (1509 to 1520's) We welcome you to the Court of the newly-crowned King Henry! Let us introduce you to all the major players on and off stage, the rules of the court, and perform some of the earliest plays to survive from his reign – plays designed to curb Henry's boisterous ways. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-1-welcome-to-henrys-court/ Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm Show 2 - Reformation: More vs Cromwell (1520's to 1530's) As the Reformation hit England, different factions created dramas around the political rifts at court. The literary set that orbited Thomas More presented traditional debate on one side, whilst the rising star of Thomas Cromwell commissioned his players to write revelations on the other. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-2-reformation-more-vs-cromwell/ Sunday 22nd June at 7.30pm Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanigans (1530's to 1547) We close our festival with some of the sillier plays from the end of Henry's reign – featuring a sword fight with a snail, an ecclesiastical bust up in a church, and the epic conquest of the monster Tediousness! https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-3-snail-fight-and-other-tudor-shenanegans/ Season discount for each show - £14 for one show, £26 for two shows, £36 for all three Book Tickets Now for Show 1! Book Tickets Now for Show 2! Book Tickets Now for Show 3! Ticket discount is applied if you add additional shows from the season. Box Office: quaysudbury.com or call 01787 374 745 The Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury CO10 2AN The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

This week we have a discussion of the play Dick of Devonshire by... well, you shall hear. This is a chat with Kate Ellis, who has produced a Revels edition of the play, the first critical edition of this manuscript text. It is available to purchase now from Manchester University Press, though it's still a tad pricey. CW: We do discuss the sexual violence within the play, from about half way through the episode. Kate Ellis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Our exploring sessions on the play are not yet available to the general public - but they are on the way! Our patrons received this episode in January 2025 - approx. 4 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

It's time for a rather chunky section of a damaged play. We have the end of this play, known as Good Order, or Old Christmas. Printed by William Rastell in 1533, it covers the conclusion of a play about how an excess of good cheer over Christmas can be a bad thing. Hint, hint. Yes, you. PUT THE MINCED PIE DOWN! In Old Christmas or Good Order by the Unknown Old Christmas - Aliki Chapple Good Order - Heydn McCabe Riot - Simon Nader Gluttony - Valentina Vinci Prayer - Fiona Thraille The host was Robert Crighton Exploring Session on the pod. Another Exploring Session on YouTube. Fragments playlist on the pod. Our patrons received this episode in January 2025 - a few weeks early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's here at last, recorded live at The White Bear Theatre during our Winter Revels 2023 on Wednesday 13th December 2023, it's The Tragedy of Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel.  Content warnings are below the cast list. Pamela Flanagan - Cleopatra Simon Nader - Caesar  Lynsey Beauchamp - Proculeius Keith Hill - Arius Alexandra Kataigida - Philostratus Valentina Vinci - Dolabella Kit McGuire - Seleucus Karim Kronfli - Rodon Alex Kapila - Messenger Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell - Titius With Emma Kemp and Roel Fox as the Chorus The music was composed and arranged by Roel Fox The play was produced by Robert Crighton Additional sound effects from zapsplat.com CW: References and discussion of murder, child murder, suicide, war, conflict; early modern issues around race, male aggression, and misogyny. A playlist for explorations of all Samuel Daniel's work is here. Our patrons received this episode a month in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Performed by Robert Crighton Chapter Sixteen: Another question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit Mephostophiles of his own estate.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in Februay 2024 - approx. 13 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Welcome to archived live stream exploring session for Beware the Cat by William Baldwin. It was live streamed on Robert Crighton's private YouTube channel, but not officially added to the podcast, during the opening of the 2020 plague and, beyond a few minor tweaks, remains as streamed. It's a First Look, so it's rough as such things are, and obviously we've come a long way since then. This final part covers the close of the text. Following our live reading in 2023, an adaptation of the book is rehearsing now, planning to tour later this year. If you'd like to be kept up to speed with developments, join the Beware the Cat mailing list. If you're interested in the show coming to your area, get in touch here. The audio recording of our live adaptation from the Revels season is available now - but it isn't on the pod for the moment. It can be listened to by signing up for free to our Patreon - it won't be released on the podcast as per usual so as not to give away too easily a future production. Part One can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Part Two can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Other useful material - General Beware the Cat material - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin Various Cat elements in Gammer Gurton's Needle - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4628938-gammer-gurton-s-needle For the earlier example of the Dame and her 'magically' transformed daughter, Dame Sirith - https://audioboom.com/posts/8079017-dame-sirith-full-cast-audio-adaptation For an example of anti-Catholic propaganda of the period - https://audioboom.com/posts/8242513-john-bon-and-master-parson-by-luke-shepherd-full-cast-audio-adaptation Discussing: Beware the Cat with Dr Rachel Stenner - https://audioboom.com/posts/7252019-discussing-beware-the-cat Discussing: A Mirror for Magistrates - also by William Baldwin - https://audioboom.com/posts/8456073-discussing-a-mirror-for-magistrates-with-prof-scott-c-lucas The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

We have a special walk and talk discussing episode, recorded around St Edmund Hall in Oxford, with Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Fellow of St Edmund Hall and Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, as our guide to The Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle. Join host Robert Crighton, with Liza Graham, as we were given a walking tour around the route of the event, coming up on Saturday 26th April 2025. We were also briefly joined by Antonia Anstatt, who is part of the team. We hope to be there at the event itself in April, and to be able to share some of the responses to the shows. For more about the event, and for a host of videos of previous performances, go to their website. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/mystery-cycle Our patrons received most of this episode in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Surprise pod drop! Yes, we're embedded in a production of Lady Rachel Fane's Household Masque, performing this Saturday (8th March 2025) at Boston Manor House. We're helping archive the rehearsal process and the performance, and hope to do a more detailed BTS episode further down the line. This is a quick pop up episode, recorded during the first day of rehearsals on Wednesday 5th March 2025, featuring Alison Findley, Tamsin Lewis of Passamezzo, and some of the cast. Tickets for the show available here! Find out more about Passamezzo here! To celebrate International Women' Day, Boston Manor House, a Jacobean house built in 1623 by Lady Mary Reade will be home to a staging of Rachel Fane's ‘May Masque' directed by Alison Findlay and Tamsin Lewis of Passamezzo. The performance at 7.30 is preceded by refreshments, music and craft making starting at 6.30 pm.  As far as we know, this is the first performance of the entertainment that Rachel Fane (1613-1680) wrote for her family in 1627, featuring them as performers and named members of the audience at the family home Apethorpe Hall. Fane's teenage, hand-bound manuscript is held at the Kent Archive Office (Maidstone). Experts Marion O'Connor and Erin Julian will imitate those family members who watched and mentored Fane's original production. Boston Manor House is an ideal place to stage an entertainment designed to show learning because its owner, Lady Mary Reade took care to display her own learning in the plasterwork of the drawing room.   The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Welcome to archived live stream exploring session for Beware the Cat by William Baldwin. It was live streamed on Robert Crighton's private YouTube channel, but not officially added to the podcast, during the opening of the 2020 plague and, beyond a few minor tweaks, remains as streamed. It's a First Look, so it's rough as such things are, and obviously we've come a long way since then. This fourth part takes us into the Third Oration of Master Streamer, when the cats speak! Following our live reading in 2023, an adaptation of the book is rehearsing now, planning to tour later this year. If you'd like to be kept up to speed with developments, join the Beware the Cat mailing list. If you're interested in the show coming to your area, get in touch here. The audio recording of our live adaptation from the Revels season is available now - but it isn't on the pod for the moment. It can be listened to by signing up for free to our Patreon - it won't be released on the podcast as per usual so as not to give away too easily a future production. Part One can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Part Two can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Other useful material - General Beware the Cat material - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin Various Cat elements in Gammer Gurton's Needle - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4628938-gammer-gurton-s-needle For the earlier example of the Dame and her 'magically' transformed daughter, Dame Sirith - https://audioboom.com/posts/8079017-dame-sirith-full-cast-audio-adaptation For an example of anti-Catholic propaganda of the period - https://audioboom.com/posts/8242513-john-bon-and-master-parson-by-luke-shepherd-full-cast-audio-adaptation Discussing: Beware the Cat with Dr Rachel Stenner - https://audioboom.com/posts/7252019-discussing-beware-the-cat Discussing: A Mirror for Magistrates - also by William Baldwin - https://audioboom.com/posts/8456073-discussing-a-mirror-for-magistrates-with-prof-scott-c-lucas The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This week we have a chat with Allison and Mark Pajor of AMP Theatre Company, who recently produced a version of Mucedorus. Coming soon, a production of Galatea by John Lyly! Find out more about them and their work at https://www.amptheatrecompany.org/ Our patrons received this episode a month in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Performed by Robert Crighton Chapter Fifteen: How Doctor Faustus desired again of his Spirit, to know the secrets and pains of hell: and whether those damned devils and their company might ever come into the favour and love of God again.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in January 2024 - approx. 13 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Welcome to archived live stream exploring session for Beware the Cat by William Baldwin. It was live streamed on Robert Crighton's private YouTube channel, but not officially added to the podcast, during the opening of the 2020 plague and, beyond a few minor tweaks, remains as streamed. It's a First Look, so it's rough as such things are, and obviously we've come a long way since then. This third part covers the Second Oration of Master Streamer.  Following our live reading in 2023, an adaptation of the book is rehearsing now, planning to tour later this year. If you'd like to be kept up to speed with developments, join the Beware the Cat mailing list. If you're interested in the show coming to your area, get in touch here. The audio recording of our live adaptation from the Revels season is available now - but it isn't on the pod for the moment. It can be listened to by signing up for free to our Patreon - it won't be released on the podcast as per usual so as not to give away too easily a future production. Part One can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Part Two can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Other useful material - General Beware the Cat material - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin Various Cat elements in Gammer Gurton's Needle - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4628938-gammer-gurton-s-needle For the earlier example of the Dame and her 'magically' transformed daughter, Dame Sirith - https://audioboom.com/posts/8079017-dame-sirith-full-cast-audio-adaptation For an example of anti-Catholic propaganda of the period - https://audioboom.com/posts/8242513-john-bon-and-master-parson-by-luke-shepherd-full-cast-audio-adaptation Discussing: Beware the Cat with Dr Rachel Stenner - https://audioboom.com/posts/7252019-discussing-beware-the-cat Discussing: A Mirror for Magistrates - also by William Baldwin - https://audioboom.com/posts/8456073-discussing-a-mirror-for-magistrates-with-prof-scott-c-lucas The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This is the second of our !Spoilers! episodes on Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel. A walk through of the action of the play, mixed with an initial edit of our recording of the play made at the White Bear during our Revels season on Wednesday 13th December 2023. Featuring the voices of... Pamela Flanagan - Cleopatra Lynsey Beauchamp - Proculeius Karim Kronfli - Rodon Alex Kapila - Messenger Kit McGuire - Seleucus Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell - Titius Emma Kemp - Chorus One Valentina Vinci - Dolabella Roel Fox - Chorus Two, who also produced the music for the production (though not heard in this episode) Robert Crighton – Host, and Producer A playlist for explorations of all Samuel Daniel's work is here. Our patrons received this episode a month in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Welcome to archived live stream exploring session for Beware the Cat by William Baldwin. It was live streamed on Robert Crighton's private YouTube channel, but not officially added to the podcast, during the opening of the 2020 plague and, beyond a few minor tweaks, remains as streamed. It's a First Look, so it's rough as such things are, and obviously we've come a long way since then. This second part begins midway through the First Oration of Master Streamer. Following our live reading in 2023, an adaptation of the book is rehearsing now, planning to tour later this year. If you'd like to be kept up to speed with developments, join the Beware the Cat mailing list. If you're interested in the show coming to your area, get in touch here. The audio recording of our live adaptation from the Revels season is available now - but it isn't on the pod for the moment. It can be listened to by signing up for free to our Patreon - it won't be released on the podcast as per usual so as not to give away too easily a future production. Part One can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Part Two can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Other useful material - General Beware the Cat material - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin Various Cat elements in Gammer Gurton's Needle - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4628938-gammer-gurton-s-needle For the earlier example of the Dame and her 'magically' transformed daughter, Dame Sirith - https://audioboom.com/posts/8079017-dame-sirith-full-cast-audio-adaptation For an example of anti-Catholic propaganda of the period - https://audioboom.com/posts/8242513-john-bon-and-master-parson-by-luke-shepherd-full-cast-audio-adaptation Discussing: Beware the Cat with Dr Rachel Stenner - https://audioboom.com/posts/7252019-discussing-beware-the-cat Discussing: A Mirror for Magistrates - also by William Baldwin - https://audioboom.com/posts/8456073-discussing-a-mirror-for-magistrates-with-prof-scott-c-lucas The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This is a special discussing episode, recorded live as a zoom event last year. Travelling Players in Early Modern England: Civic Spaces and Provincial Performance was an online event on the upcoming exhibition at the Guildhall of Stratford-upon-Avon Featuring Dr William David Green and host Robert Crighton In celebration of an upcoming exhibition at the Guildhall of Stratford-upon-Avon, we discussing all things about touring theatre in early modern England (1560s through to 1622) and the use of civic buildings like guildhalls as regional theatre venues by the professional playing companies. The reasons for, and the practicalities of, taking plays on tour outside London, as well as success stories and horror stories from companies on tour. All this, and more, to whet your appetite for the exhibition, which will open at Stratford-upon-Avon's Guildhall in January 2025. Go to their website for more information - https://www.shakespearesschoolroom.org/theatre-at-the-guildhall Will Green - is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nottingham and Resident Historian at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in 2021, and his work has appeared in journals including Theatre Notebook, Critical Survey, and The Explicator. Recently, he served as the lead editor on the essay collection The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 (alongside Anna Hegland and Sam Jermy), and he is currently completing his first solo-authored book on Middleton's drama during the 1620s, which will be published by Routledge in 2025. Our patrons received this episode in December 2024 - approx. 1 month early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Performed by Robert Crighton Chapter Fourteen: Another disputation betwixt Doctor Faustus and his Spirit, of the power of the Devil, and his envy to mankind.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in December 2023 - approx. 13 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Welcome to archived live stream exploring session for Beware the Cat by William Baldwin. It was live streamed on Robert Crighton's private YouTube channel, but not officially added to the podcast, during the opening of the 2020 plague and, beyond a few minor tweaks, remains as streamed. It's a First Look, so it's rough as such things are, and obviously we've come a long way since then. This first exploring session covers the opening of the book... Following our live reading in 2023, an adaptation of the book is rehearsing now, planning to tour later this year. If you'd like to be kept up to speed with developments, join the Beware the Cat mailing list. If you're interested in the show coming to your area, get in touch here. The audio recording of our live adaptation from the Revels season is available now - but it isn't on the pod for the moment. It can be listened to by signing up for free to our Patreon - it won't be released on the podcast as per usual so as not to give away too easily a future production. Part One can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Part Two can be heard here! Just sign up and listen! Other useful material - General Beware the Cat material - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635670-beware-the-cat-by-william-baldwin Various Cat elements in Gammer Gurton's Needle - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4628938-gammer-gurton-s-needle For the earlier example of the Dame and her 'magically' transformed daughter, Dame Sirith - https://audioboom.com/posts/8079017-dame-sirith-full-cast-audio-adaptation For an example of anti-Catholic propaganda of the period - https://audioboom.com/posts/8242513-john-bon-and-master-parson-by-luke-shepherd-full-cast-audio-adaptation Discussing: Beware the Cat with Dr Rachel Stenner - https://audioboom.com/posts/7252019-discussing-beware-the-cat Discussing: A Mirror for Magistrates - also by William Baldwin - https://audioboom.com/posts/8456073-discussing-a-mirror-for-magistrates-with-prof-scott-c-lucas The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This is the first of our !Spoilers! episodes on Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel. A walk through of the action of the play, mixed with an initial edit of our recording of the play made at the White Bear during our Revels season on Wednesday 13th December 2023. Featuring the voices of... Pamela Flanagan - Cleopatra Lynsey Beauchamp - Proculeius Keith Hill - Arius Kit McGuire - Seleucus Alexandra Kataigida - Philostratus Emma Kemp - Chorus One Valentina Vinci - Dolabella Simon Nader - Caesar Roel Fox - Chorus Two, who also produced the music for the production (though not heard in this episode) Robert Crighton – Host, and Producer A playlist for explorations of all Samuel Daniel's work is here. Our patrons received the scene within this episode a month in advance. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Welcome to this new strand, a return to a promised thing for our patrons - occasional scenes and speeches from plays, voted for by those you support our work. This is a scene from Hymen's Triumph by Samuel Daniel, recorded live at our Revels season on Wednesday 13th December 2023. It's a two hander of love – with the love lorn Thirsis, prompted by Palaemon to speak of his troubles. With Keith Hill as Thirsis, and Valentina Vinci as Palaemon. NB: We are aware that there are two different pronunciations of Palaemon in this recording. One of us wasn't paying attention. First Look Exploring Sessions for the play are here. A playlist for explorations of all Samuel Daniel's work is here. Our patrons received the scene within this episode in January 2024 - 12 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

It's my little round up of 2024, all that we've achieved, and what we plan for next year - including the winning play, and the general winners, from our BIG Vote. Recorded at our exploring sessions Christmas Party - I am a tad breathless, doing it all at pace. Helpful links - All the released exploring sessions this year (doesn't include all the episodes we recorded this year and mentioned in the episode - you need to join our patreon for those) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoI1Lpy-lSvXB-S9gSEw2Zsx Our patreon feed - https://www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare AMP Theatre - https://www.amptheatrecompany.org/ Our patrons received this episode the other week - I mean, we can hardly release this one very early... The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story. Performed by Robert Crighton Chapter Thirteen: Another question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his spirit concerning his Lord Lucifer, with the sorrow that Faustus fell afterwards into.   Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here. Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in December 2023 - approx. 12 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's our post show discussion following our Revels production of The Old Wives' Tale by George Peele, featuring Dr Annaliese Connolly chatting with Robert Crighton. The full cast audio dropped last week, with more Revels action to follow soon. Also featuring Sarah Blake as Venus in The Arraignment of Paris by George Peele - recorded earlier in the same event. The Old Wives' Tale was directed by Liza Graham, and chosen by our patrons. Our patrons received this episode in April 2024 - 8 months early! The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Recorded Live at the White Bear Theatre, we present our full cast audio adaptation of George Peele's The Old Wives' Tale. Recorded on Saturday 16th December 2023. A !Spoilers! episode, breaking down the text is already on the feed, and a post show discussion about Peele will follow soon. Meanwhile, out there in the woods, there is a bear... The Company... Lynsey Beauchamp – Madge Kit McGuire - Antic / Booby / Corebus Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell - Fantastic / Delia Emma Kemp - Frolic / Jack Keith Hill - Clunch / Erestus / Wiggen Alexandra Kataigida - Sacrapant / Sexton Valentina Vinci - Huanebango Roel Fox - Eumenides / Harvest Men Pamela Flanagan - Brother 1 / Zantippa Blioux Kirkby - Brother 2 / Celanta Sarah Blake - Lampriscus / Friar / Churchwarden / Hostess Other parts played by members of the company Technical presentation by Robert Crighton, additional sfx from zapsplat.com Music by Roel Fox Directed by Liza Graham Our patrons received this episode in November 2024 - not very early but it is Christmas. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

It's very merry episode of Fragments - The Lincoln Crying Christmas Ceremony 1564 It's December 1564, the place Lincoln – and as today where there's a little ceremony to switch on the Christmas lights, or open a Christmas Fair, lo the Common Council of Lincoln had a similar event to mark the beginning of Christmas The Crying Christmas text is mostly extant, with just a few edges lost in places - we've left the gaps in place, reimagining the event in the present day with a knackered PA that cuts the speakers off. So, sit back and enjoy the speeches of the three senators performed by Alex Scott Fairley, Emma Kemp, and Liza Graham. Hosted and produced by Robert Crighton, with additional sound effects from www.zapsplat.com Our patrons received this episode in November 2024 - well not very early but it is Christmas. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.