Podcast appearances and mentions of Thomas Middleton

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most energetic, varied and innovative playwrights of his time. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) worked across the London stages both alone and with others from Dekker and Rowley to Shakespeare and more. Middleton's range included raucous city comedies such as A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and chilling revenge tragedies like The Changeling and The Revenger's Tragedy, some with the main adult companies and some with child actors playing the scheming adults. Middleton seemed to be everywhere on the Jacobean stage, mixing warmth and cruelty amid laughter and horror, and even Macbeth's witches may be substantially his work.WithEmma Smith Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of OxfordLucy Munro Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Kings College LondonAnd Michelle O'Callaghan Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of ReadingProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Swapan Chakravorty, Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton (Clarendon Press, 1996)Suzanne Gossett (ed.), Thomas Middleton in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2011)R.V. Holdsworth (ed.), Three Jacobean Revenge Tragedies: A Selection of Critical Essays (Macmillan, 1990), especially ‘Calvinist Psychology in Middleton's Tragedies' by John StachniewskiMark Hutchings and A. A. Bromham, Middleton and His Collaborators (Northcote House, 2007)Gordon McMullan and Kelly Stage (eds.), The Changeling: The State of Play (The Arden Shakespeare, 2022)Lucy Munro, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men (The Arden Shakespeare, 2020)David Nicol, Middleton & Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse (University of Toronto Press, 2012)Michelle O'Callaghan, Thomas Middleton: Renaissance Dramatist (Edinburgh University Press, 2009)Gary Taylor and Trish Thomas Henley (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton (Oxford University Press, 2012)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

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. 

Welcome to this playful reconstruction of the 1623 Lord Mayor's show by Anthony Munday and Thomas Middleton. Originally performed on the 29th October 1623, this was a massive civic event created by the city for it's new Lord Mayor. This reconstruction was recorded live on the 400th anniversary of the show, and features Robert Crighton, as radio Host John doing the live commentary. With Liza Graham as Hostess Joan, Iona Campbell as Anthony Munday, and speeches in the pageant, Alexandra Kataigida as Thomas Middleton and speeches in the pageant, and Professor Tracey Hill as our modern city chronologer. Featuring The Water Pageant of the Triumphs of the Golden Fleece by Anthony Munday, and the street pageants of The Triumph of Integrity by Thomas Middleton. Full coverage of the 400 year old event, fed into our studio via the latest scrying glass link up. Join your hosts John and Joan as they commentate on all the action, with guest Professor Tracey Hill in the studio, and behind the scenes chats with Thomas Middleton and Anthony Munday in the green room. Our patrons received this episode in April 2024 - approx. 7 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.

Hello! Just a quick update on some things happening in the REAL WORLD. Yes, tickets are on sale now for… our next public live show Middleton's Endgame: A Game at Chess LIVE!, running at The White Bear in Kennington on Sunday 11th August from 1pm till the evening. Tickets are on sale here! It's not just our live recording of A Game at Chess, it's a whole pop up festival of Thomas Middleton, featuring his last performed works, including his most (in)famously successful play A Game at Chess, and his Lord Mayor's Show for 1626. Following our successful Winter Revels run at the White Bear, Beyond returns for a day long event celebrating the work of Thomas Middleton at the end of his career. A Game at Chess, a play featuring chess pieces in a cold war, one side against the other, was performed nine times in a row in 1624, a scandalous event that ended his career. Beyond will be recording the play live for the podcast, as well as other works and material from the end of Middleton's career. With expert discussion, and even a whole Lord Mayor's Show, this is not to be missed. There are 32 tickets now on general sale. Yes, the same as on a chess board. So, you will all be pieces in our little game. Tickets available via Ticketsource - Book your tickets now! Outline Events for the Day: Setting up the Board… an overview of Thomas Middleton in the 1620's, and the theatrical context for… A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton – a live recording of the play with the Beyond company. The Aftermath – a look into the scandal of A Game at Chess and the responses to it. Lord Mayor's Show 1626 by Thomas Middleton – an adaptation of Middleton's last performed work. Middleton's Endgame – a panel discussion about everything that the day has covered. So, book your tickets now – or go to our website beyondshakespeare.org for more info. Sunday 11th August from 1pm till the evening, at The White Bear in Kennington. 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 edited version of our live discussion of The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton It was an online event celebrating the publication of The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 Featuring Drs Will Green, Anna L. Hegland, Sam Jermy; with host Robert Crighton. You can purchase the book online at... https://www.routledge.com/The-Theatrical-Legacy-of-Thomas-Middleton-1624-2024/Green-Hegland-Jermy/p/book/9781032556093 You can also sign up for Early Bird Tickets for our Live Recording of A Game at Chess on the 11th of August at the White Bear - tickets will go to our early sign ups and patrons first. If you can't make it to our live show, then there will be online readings of the play from the 5th August, mirroring the original performance dates of A Game at Chess 400 years ago. Sign up to read along with us! For more info on all our events this year, go to our Game at Chess webpage. The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 marks the 400th anniversary of Middleton's final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624), presenting readers with a celebration of the impact and lasting salience of Middleton's body of dramatic works from 1624 up to the present day. This live event brings the editors of this collection together to discuss Middleton, and the book they have produced. The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 marks the 400th anniversary of Middleton's final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624), presenting readers with a celebration of the impact and lasting salience of Middleton's body of dramatic works from 1624 up to the present day. The collection is divided into three sections: ‘Critical and Textual Reception', ‘Afterlives and Legacies', and ‘Practice and Performance'. This division reflects the book's holistic approach to Middleton's dramatic canon, and its emphasis on the continuing significance of Middleton's writing to the study of early modern English drama. The book offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in culture, criticism, and education today, through a variety of critical approaches. Featuring work from a range of voices (from early career, independent, and seasoned academics and practitioners), this collection will be of interest to specialists in early modern literature and drama who are interested in both theory and practice, and students or scholars researching Middleton's historical significance to the study of early theatre. Dr. Will Green is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham, and an associate tutor in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in 2021, and his work has appeared in journals including Exchanges, Theatre Notebook, and Critical Survey. Dr Anna L. Hegland is an advisor in The Aspire Center and adjunct professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She earned a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from the University of Kent in 2022. Her research examines the intertwining of rhetoric and action in early modern English theatre during moments of staged violence, combining textual and practice-based methods to think about enactment and embodiment then and now. Her work is published in the British Shakespeare Association's Teaching Shakespeare magazine, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Symbolism, and a chapter on Middleton appears in the recent edited collection Boundaries of Violence (Routledge, 2023). Dr. Sam Jermy is an independent researcher whose research explores the ways that masculinities are imagined, staged, articulated, and problematised across Thomas Middleton's body of work. They have published reviews in Shakespeare Bulletin and Urban History, and appeared as a guest on several podcasts including That Shakespeare Life and The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast. 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.

Our patrons received this episode about a week ago. It's hard to do a round up in advance. A round up of all things Beyond, as well as beyond Beyond in the world of pre-modern drama. You can join the public end of the BIG VOTE for our next season here! If you're interested in being involved in our live sessions on A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton next August, sign up here. The video version - with the pictures - is on YouTube here. 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.

A quick reminder that we have a live streamed audio adaptation of the 1623 Lord Mayor's show on Sunday 29th October. NB: Early bird listeners to this episode would have heard a lot of random raw recordings... sorry about that, exported the file incorrectly. This is as it should be. The Lord Mayor's Show 1623 LIVE! A live audio stream of the 1623 Lord Mayor's Show, on Sunday 29th October at 2.30pm Full coverage of the 400 year old event, fed into our studio via the latest scrying glass link up. Join your hosts John and Joan as they commentate on all the action, with guest Professor Tracey Hill in the studio, and behind the scenes chats with Thomas Middleton and Anthony Munday in the green room. Including the water pageant, the Triumphs of the Golden Fleece by Anthony Munday, and the street pageants The Triumph of Integrity by Thomas Middleton Live streaming as audio on YouTube at 2.30pm on Sunday 29th October 2023 Bonus: Professor Tracey Hill will be running a walk through the surviving route of the Lord Mayor's show of 1623, looking at the show in the context of the streets. Strictly limited numbers, sign up to apply to join in. https://forms.gle/kAdVsTz8Xw8N2U51A 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.

A quick round up of the shows we have coming up - with early bird discount tickets for our Winter Revels now online - book now to avoid disappointment. Book your Early Bird Season Tickets here! The Beyond Shakespeare Winter Revels 2023 A Season of Tragedy, History, True Crime, Literature & Comedy Tuesday: Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe – a tragedy Wednesday: Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel – a history play Thursday: Arden of Faversham by the Unknown – a true crime thriller Friday: Beware the Cat by William Baldwin - a Gothic horror story of talking cats Saturday: The Old Wives' Tale by George Peele - the original shaggy dog story for a winter's night. Performing 12th to 16th December 2023 at The White Bear Theatre, Kennington 138 Kennington Park Rd, London SE11 4DJ Book your Early Bird Season Tickets here! Or there are two free events coming up...

Welcome to this chat with Ricky Dukes of Lazarus Theatre company - discussing their upcoming production of The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley at the Southwark Playhouse. Or is that the other way round? We hope to return to Lazarus for more as the show goes into rehearsals. Tickets and show info can be found on their website. Middleton/Rowley Exploring Sessions - September Sign Up - Come and Join Us! Links and twitter handles - https://www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/ @LazarusTheatre Listen to a previous chat with Ricky Dukes and Gavin Harrington-Odedra about staging Marlowe (and other playwrights) - https://audioboom.com/posts/7068343-discussing-staging-marlowe The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Our patrons received this episode first a couple of weeks early. 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/@BeyondShakespeare The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Al cumplirse cuatrocientos años del estreno de The Changeling, obra del teatro renacentista inglés insólitamente localizada en Alicante, la Universidad de Alicante celebró un congreso para conmemorar este acontecimiento (noviembre de 2022). Las investigaciones, conclusiones y textos vertidos en aquel congreso, integran hoy la publicación “400 años de The Changeling (Thomas Middleton y William Rowley, 1622), editada por el profesor de la UA John Sanderson, y publicada por el Servicio de Publicaciones de la UA.  El libro ha sido presentado esta mañana en Rueda de Prensa por Sanderson, también director académico del Máster en Arte Dramático de la UA, y traductor de la versión española de esta obra teatral (“El trueque”), acompañado por Catalina Iliescu, vicerrectora de Cultura, Deporte y Extensión Universitaria. Este volumen, ha explicado Sanderson “recopila textos escritos para la ocasión por académicos extranjeros y españoles especializados tanto en esta obra teatral y su periodo literario inglés como en el contexto alicantino/español de la época (tanto social como literario) en el que argumentalmente se sitúa y, finalmente, en su perspectiva traductológica”El congreso coincidió en el tiempo con el estreno nacional de la puesta en escena española de esta obra con el título de El trueque, a cargo de la Compañía Ferroviaria, el Teatro Principal y el Máster en Arte Dramático Aplicado de la UA, en calidad de coproductores de esta obra subvencionada por l'Institut Valencià de Cultura, el Vicerrectorado de Cultura de la UA y la concejalía de Cultura de Elche.Esta versión a cargo de Ferroviaria se representará mañana martes 18 de julio en el XI Festival de Teatro de L'Alcúdia-UA y, por este motivo, han participado también en la rueda de prensa Paco Maciá, director de la obra "El trueque"(The Changeling) y profesor del Máster; Pollux Hernúñez, actor de "El trueque" y profesor del Máster; y Paco Peraile, actor de "El trueque" y titulado del Máster.El trueque (The Changeling, Thomas Middleton y William Rowley, 1622) es la única obra teatral del renacimiento inglés que está localizada históricamente en Alicante, concretamente en la Iglesia de Santa María y el Castillo de Santa Bárbara, lugares emblemáticos de la ciudad.  La obra cuenta cómo un poderoso señor alicantino quiere casar a su hija con un noble al que ella no desea, pues está enamorada de otro caballero al que acaba de conocer. Para truncar los deseos de su padre, requiere de los servicios de un criado deforme para que solucione el problema con falsas promesas. De esta manera, lo que en un principio parece un simple juego de enamoramientos y engaños acaba convirtiéndose en una dura historia de pasiones y traiciones que convergen en un brutal desenlace.

It's the day after the snow drifts arrived across Glossopdale, and Clare is back out walking the Longdendale Trail in its thick snow covered paths.Along her way she recalls some of the poetry written by former Longdendale stompers: Ammon Wrigley, Thomas Barlow, Thomas Middleton and Ralph Bernard Robinson.Find more of their poetry, and photos of her walk on our digital map: LongdendaleTales.co.uk This pilot was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park's Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging'), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

We had hoped to be running a live event to look at the 400th anniversary of the 1622 Lord Mayor's Show, but sadly it came to nought. Or at least, this year it did. We can however release this planning / Second Look session, where we had a go at decided what could be done with a text that is slightly trickier to put on in a public street - asking as it does what is happening with representations of race. Featuring regular city chronologer Professor Tracey Hill, Gregory Musson, Lynsey Beauchamp and Tom Helsby. The host was Robert Crighton. For more on Lord Mayor's Shows, and civic and royal pageantry generally, here are some handy links... Look at the texts and the map of the locations here - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/mdtPrimarySourceLibraryMayoral.htm Exploring 1585 plus 1590 & 1590 - https://youtu.be/PUE5kD5ltcc Lord Mayor's Shows Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIA2ktcBFPPnb6Eqss2So5k Civic and Royal Pageantry Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJ6XS5SaCLTFcieiL9FTMw_ 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 bonus episode of interviews with the youth company of last year's Lord Mayor's Show reconstruction of The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton. This is pretty much the last of our material from the show - new shows to come! Many thanks to Charlie Beer, Holly Bartlett Giles, Quinn Scott, and Sam Plumb for giving their time to this project and that interview – the interview was recorded at Chesterton Community College in November 2021. More on this LMS, and our reconstruction of the event, can be found here - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-sun-in-aries-recon/ Previous podcasts on the 1621 LMS include this intro to our reconstruction - https://audioboom.com/posts/7961092-reconstructing-middleton-s-1621-lord-mayor-s-show And this recording of the live event - https://audioboom.com/posts/8000607-triumph-1621-live-recording-of-the-sun-in-aries-recon And this !Spoilers! episode, walking you through the whole text in detail - https://audioboom.com/posts/8137014-spoilers-the-sun-in-aries-by-thomas-middleton-1621-lord-mayor-s-show Videos of the Triumph 1621 Reconstruction (low quality) can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJnnmvfHrmUBcerTSZ3uP49 Video of the initial First Look exploring session (as per second half of this episode) can be found here - https://youtu.be/nPHTWH4GBgk Videos of works by Thomas Middleton can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKAT8ej_crYtxo6nvzB0wVi Videos exploring the Lord Mayor's Show can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIA2ktcBFPPnb6Eqss2So5k 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 very special !Spoilers! episode, covering The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton - it goes through the text in the usual stop/start way, with a mix of readings from our prep for the live recon, plus the original exploring session in full. It's everything you didn't need to know under one roof. I have yet to do a final pass over the audio, so some tweaking will occur prior to final release. With Tracey Hill, Perry Mills, Daniel Yabut, Stephen Longstaffe, Liza Graham, Gregory Musson, Eric Karoulla, Rachael Nicole and Angela McShane. Additional reading thanks to Charlie Beer, Holly Bartlett Giles, Quinn Scott, and Sam Plumb of the youth company for the reconstruction. The episode is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton More on this LMS, and our reconstruction of the event, can be found here - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-sun-in-aries-recon/ Previous podcasts on the 1621 LMS include this intro to our reconstruction - https://audioboom.com/posts/7961092-reconstructing-middleton-s-1621-lord-mayor-s-show And this recording of the live event - https://audioboom.com/posts/8000607-triumph-1621-live-recording-of-the-sun-in-aries-recon Videos of the Triumph 1621 Reconstruction (low quality) can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJnnmvfHrmUBcerTSZ3uP49 Video of the initial First Look exploring session (as per second half of this episode) can be found here - https://youtu.be/nPHTWH4GBgk Videos of works by Thomas Middleton can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKAT8ej_crYtxo6nvzB0wVi Videos exploring the Lord Mayor's Show can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIA2ktcBFPPnb6Eqss2So5k 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

Emma Smith discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford: her most recent book is Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers. The plays of Thomas Middleton https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n23/michael-neill/old-dad-dead New Lanark https://www.newlanark.org/ Abel Gance's film Napoleon https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/10/napoleon-review-silent-era-epic-more-thrilling-than-ever French 75s https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/french-75-cocktail The Scrivener app https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview The jazz pianist Jan Johannson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Johansson_(jazz_musician) This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Happy Wednesday, Fairy Sleepers! Tonight's story is Robin Hood's Visit to Longdendale from the book Legends of Longdendale by Thomas Middleton. Even though Robin Hood has numerous stories and lore surrounding Robin and his band of Merry Men, this story has a bit of a twist. This story is based on local lore from the town of Longdendale near the river Tame (Not the Thames) told to the author. I do love a good twist as well as a story about Robin Hood! I hope it makes you very Fairy Sleepy!Thank you so much for all the downloads and reviews and I do hope you'll help me continue this podcast by supporting the show and subscribing at https://fairysleepy.com/or clicking the support the show link. Thank you again and keep an ear out for next week's story!Until then, have a good dream! Support the show

Hi! Did you miss us? We're back with a bang, as our friend Dr Brandi K. Adam's joins us to tackle Thomas Middleton's iconic city comedy A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE! It's got secret marriages and escaping daughters; it's got meat babies and Puritans; it's got Timoetheus AND his tutor; it's even got all the mountains in Wales! Brandi's mastery of Latin and Nintendo baddies alike comes in very handy as we navigate this wacky romp of a play. This marks the first of two bonus episodes - aka The Middleton Mid-Season - which were chosen in an audience poll tournament. Brandi K. Adams is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University and member of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her interests include book history, history of reading, early modern English drama, and premodern critical race and gender studies. Having formerly served as an undergraduate program manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she also researches the early history of artificial intelligence, early modern automata and how studying literature can have a significant and positive impact on computing.

Chess Pieces: Exploring A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, part 2. Welcome to a series of podcasts looking at A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, specifically asking questions as to how to produce it a. as a full cast audio adaptation and b. as a live stage show in miniature and in full. This session covers the continuing issues of exposition in the opening of the play (completing our survey of Act 1), questions of names and how to get across who anyone is. These are opening gambits towards our full cast audio adaptation for the podcast, with an endgame of a full scale production further down the road. In the room were Eric Karoulla, Alan Scott, Lynn Freitas, Helen Good, Emma Kemp. and host Robert Crighton. Our initial First Look Exploring Session can be found on our YouTube channel - feel free to browse, like, subscribe - and all that malarky. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJWOdHzBzkdJXtRR7UkydSW 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

Triumph 1621: Reconstructing: The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton. This is mostly an uncut recording of the 12pm show, our first of the day, from various outdoor recording positions that have been edited together into one track. It was not an ideal day to record on - it had rained for most of the morning and, though this performance was dry, our equipment was still largely covered in plastic. A few sections have been taken from other parts of the day for technical reasons. There will be a SPOILERS episode of the podcast coming out next year, where we explicate a bit about what's going on in the original show, as the text survives to us.  Do go to our website where there are photos and links to videos about the show - or there will be very shortly.  The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton, performed from 12pm on Friday 29th October 2021, 400 years after the original performance in 1621 COMPANY: Crier - Aliki Chapple Thomas Middleton - Alexandra Kataigida Jason - Charlie Beer Fame - Holly Bartlett Giles The Re-edified Standard - Daniel Yabut Aries - Quinn Scott Lord Mayor Edward Barkham - Gregory Musson Music by Passamezzo, led by Tamsin Lewis with Adrian Woodward - trumpet Richard de Winter - singer Robin Jeffrey - lute Icon Bearers (silent, but you might hear the reactions to them... especially Tom) Helen Good - Guildhall Stephen Longstaffe - Westminster Elizabeth Amisu - St Paul's Angela McShane - The Standard Tom Helsby - Six Knights Personified, St Lawrence Lane STAGE TEAM: Stage Manager - Valentina Vinci Assistant Stage Manager - Liza Graham Costumes - Callum Coates and the Lion's Part Additional Sound Recording - Emma Kennedy Photography - Simon Nader Whifflers: Heydn McCabe, Rob Myson, Emma Kemp, Briony Sparrow, Pollie Hall City Chronologer - Tracey Hill Research Assistant - Kerstin Grunwald-Hope Youth Director - Sam Plumb Chaperone - Beverley Purkiss-Dean  Online Costume Design - Sarah Blake Pageant Master - Robert Crighton Thanks to The Revd George Bush, Danniella Downs, Matthew Beaumont and the City of London team, Ellena Schuster-Farrell, Claire Dumontier-Marriage, Christine Moia, ALL the people who signed up and expressed interest in the show, Eleanor Rycroft, Annaliese Connolly, Lois Potter, Perry Mills, Eric Karoulla, Rachael Nicole, Angela McShane, and Joe Fawcett for additional recording equipment. Triumph 1621 could not have happened without the generous support of the Cheapside Business Alliance, SRS Public Engagement Scheme, Bath Spa University, and St Mary le Bow Church. LINKS: Our first reading of the text can be found on YouTube - https://youtu.be/nPHTWH4GBgk Other material is/or will soon appear on our website - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-sun-in-aries-recon/ 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.

Chess Pieces: Exploring A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, part 1. Welcome to a series of podcasts looking at A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, specifically asking questions as to how to produce it a. as a full cast audio adaptation and b. as a live stage show in miniature and in full. This session covers the problems of exposition in the opening of the play (Induction and the opening of Act 1), questions of names and how to get across who anyone is. This is an opening gambit towards our full cast audio adaptation for the podcast, with an endgame of a full scale production further down the road. In the room were Gregory Musson, Lynsey Beauchamp and host Robert Crighton. Our initial First Look Exploring Session can be found on our YouTube channel - feel free to browse, like, subscribe - and all that malarky. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJWOdHzBzkdJXtRR7UkydSW 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.

A special discussing episode with Professor Tracey Hill, covering our upcoming reconstruction of Thomas Middleton's 1621 Lord Mayor's Show - The Sun in Aries. We discuss civic pageantry in general, the 1621 show specifically, and throw a little light onto what's to come. With on site rehearsal recordings of the cast and crew as we tested acoustics and generally walked through the show - including Liza Graham, Aliki Chapple and Alexandra Kataigida. Possibly some others, but they're really quiet. The host was Robert Crighton. If you'd like to come to the event, it's free! It's in the churchyard of St Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside, London. You don't need tickets, but you can help us by letting us know you're coming via eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triumph-1621-reconstructing-the-lord-mayors-show-tickets-191694251667 There's all sort of other helpful info on our resources page - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-resources-and-guides/ 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 today's episode, we explore Shakespeare's Twelfth Night through the lens of Gender and Queer Theory. We take a look at how Early Modern concepts of gender and queerness may have influenced the writing of Twelfth Night and how modern productions use the play to explore themes related to gender and queer identity.  In the second half of the episode, we are joined by our first ever guest of the pod, Dr. Sawyer Kemp to continue our discussion on Gender and Queer Theory.  Dr. Sawyer Kemp (they/them) is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Transgender Studies with the Gender & Women's Studies department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sawyer's current book project investigates the rhetoric and industry of “accessibility” in contemporary Shakespeare performance. Exploring access as a tool for feminist and queer critique, this project analyzes theatres' impact on and outreach to communities of trans and gender non-conforming people, sexual assault survivors, and people with disabilities. Sawyer's work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and the edited collection Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare. Their most recent article, “Two Othellos: Transitioning Anti-Blackness” is forthcoming in Shakespeare Bulletin.   Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com   Works referenced: Ake, Jami. “Glimpsing a ‘Lesbian' Poetics in ‘Twelfth Night.'” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 43, no. 2, 2003, pp. 375–394. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4625073. Accessed 20 June 2021. Aughterson, Kate, and Ailsa Grant Ferguson. Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama. The Arden Shakespeare, 2020, pp. 97-121. Accessed 19 June 2021. Barker, Roberta. “The ‘Play-Boy,' the Female Performer, and the Art of Portraying a Lady.” Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 1, 2015, pp. 83–97. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26355090. Accessed 19 June 2021. Charles, Casey. “Gender Trouble in ‘Twelfth Night.'” Theatre Journal, vol. 49, no. 2, 1997, pp. 121–141. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3208678. Accessed 19 June 2021. Coontz, Stephanie, et al. “Marriage vs Friendship.” Call Your Girlfriend, 2 Aug. 2009, www.callyourgirlfriend.com/episodes/2019/08/02/marriage-vs-friendship.  Dekkar, Thomas, and Thomas Middleton. “The Roaring Girl. OR Moll Cutpurse.” Folger Shakespeare Library, 21 July 2017. https://emed.folger.edu/sites/default/files/folger_encodings/pdf/EMED-Roaring-reg-3.pdf “Introduction.” Twelfth Night, edited by Keir Elam, The Arden Shakespeare, 2008, pp. 57-68, 111-119. Third. McManus, Clare. “When Is a Woman Not a Woman? Or, Jacobean Fantasies of Female Performance (1606–1611).” Modern Philology, vol. 105, no. 3, 2008, pp. 437–474. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/591257. Accessed 18 June 2021. “Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 2019 Special Issue: Early Modern Trans Studies Guest Editors: Simone Chess, Colby Gordon, and Will Fisher.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Project MUSE, 24 Sept. 2020, muse.jhu.edu/issue/42946.  

In this episode, we talk about Fanny Kemble's book "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839" which was published after her death in 1863.Brian opened the show with some new research resources discoveries he's made for Alabama and Mississippi records on FamilySearch. And he also shared a tip for identifying enslavers in communities where slaveholders were largely absent (as in absentee enslavers) such as the Gullah corridor from South Carolina to Florida. You won't want to miss these tips!Originally published in 1863 – and out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century- Frances Anne Kemble's Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the “peculiar institution” and of life in the antebellum South.Brian spoke about how this book was - and is - invaluable to his Weeping Time slave sale research (1859). And it is important for the work he and others are doing researching the enslaved people held by Capt. John Bull, Col. Thomas Middleton, and Maj. Pierce Butler in SC.Donya and Brian read from examples of the book that illustrate how social issues for Black Americans remain largely unchanged since Fanny Kemble's accounts were written in 1838-9.And they talk about the dangers of those who would like to see books like this in the U.S. removed from public access, or destroyed, to better enable a white-washing of the lived Black experience throughout American history.Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family's vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia and formerly, South Carolina. After their marriage, she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. She never sent the letters. It wasn't until the Civil War began and Fanny, divorced from Pierce Butler, was living in England where her letters were published in book format.This is a no-holes-barred kind of book. Fanny did not mince her words or sugar-coat the world she witnessed first-hand.This book provides the modern reader with the historical and biographical background to move freely and with ease in Fanny Kemble's world.Free download url: https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden00kembuoft? Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/genealogy-adventures. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Timon of Athens (aka "How to Make Friends and Alienate People") may not be his most engaging yarn -- being co-authored by Thomas Middleton strikes your humble podcasters as one potential reason why -- but that doesn't mean that it can't be relatable and interesting, or that it won't resonate with modern life. On the contrary! A story about an uber-wealthy man who literally gives away the entirety of his fortune to the freeloading Athenians he believes are his friends but who abandon him the moment the going gets tough...feels strikingly modern in this day of growing wealth inequity and the reality of late-stage capitalism. What a cheery way to start... Well, join us today for a conversation about misanthropy, greed, and wealth and how it resonates from the Ancient Greeks all the way through to the 21st century via Shakespeare and Middleton's Timon of Athens. Notes: - "

Ahi ahi ahi ahi! This week's discussion takes us back to Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Cheek by Jowl's last live onstage production before the lockdown of 2020, The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton. In this episode, Declan and Nick speak about theatre as a problem-solving business, and what Middleton's play teaches us about being right and our need to seek justice.More information about Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Cheek by Jowl's 2018-21 production of The Revenger's Tragedy here.The additional music in this episode was composed by Gianluca Misiti for The Revenger's Tragedy.Join our mailing list to keep up-to-date with Cheek by Jowl's news, events and opportunities.

In Elizabethan England on the corner of Friday Street and Bread Street was a fine dining and drinking establishment called the Mermaid Tavern. The building itself burned down in the Great Fire of London in 1666, but the legend of this storied tavern lives on through the records of people like Ben Jonson and 17th century travel writer Thomas Coryat, who wrote about the Mermaid Tavern in the early 1600s, when Shakespeare was in his late 40s to early 50s, describing it as the meeting place of Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen, a drinking club that met on the first Friday of the month and is thought to have included famous members, most with very close ties to Shakespeare. Men like Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, and Francis Beaumont, were thought to have been members and there are a few scholars who think that William Shakespeare might have been among the members of this club as well. Our guest this week, Michelle O’Callaghan, is a historical researcher into the history of English taverns, and the author of the article Patrons of the Mermaid Tavern. She joins us today to share the story of the Mermaid Tavern, what we can know about the Fraternity of Gentlemen who met there, and what her research concludes about whether Shakespeare might have attended.   Michelle O’Callaghan is a Professor of Early Modern Literature and currently Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. She has published extensively on early modern literature and culture, from the Inns of Court and tavern societies to women’s engagement in literary cultures. Her major books are The ‘shepheards nation’: Jacobean Spenserians and early Stuart political culture, 1612-1625 (Oxford, 2000), The English Wits: Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2007), Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist (Edinburgh, 2009), and, most recently, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation, which was published by Cambridge University Press in December, 2020.

In this episode, Dr Kit Heyam (Northumbria University) shares wonderful tidbits from trans and non-binary histories, talks about their book on queer king Edward II and is generally delightful and clever. Kit also talks about how they approach queering history, the intersections of literary studies and historical research and their favourite contemporary queer reads, such as "The Lauras" by Sara Taylor, "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" by Jenn Shapland or "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin.Other texts we talk about: "Edward II" by Christopher Marlowe"The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697: A Literary Transformation of History" by Kit Heyam(https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463729338/the-reputation-of-edward-ii-1305-1697)"The Roaring Girl" by Thomas Middleton and Thomas DekkerMarjorie Rubright' article "Transgender Capacity in Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton's The Roaring Girl (1611)', Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 19.4 (2019), 45-74"Trumpet" by Jackie Kay"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides"Girl, Woman, Other" by Bernardine Evaristo"Little Fish" by Casey PlettWhy not follow Kit (@krheyam) and Lena (@Lena_Mattheis) on Twitter and read more about Kit's work as a scholar and activist here: https://kitheyam.com/.Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:1. How do the study of literature and of history intersect in Kit's work?2. Why is it difficult to label historical figures as trans, lesbian or gay? What does Kit do instead?3. What does Kit say about authorship and contemporary queer literature?4. The central aim of Kit's work is to show that transness and queerness are not ‘new'. Why do you think this is important?

We pivot away from Shakespeare this week to explore a Jacobean tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. What does Diet Fanta have to do with a bed trick? WTF even is a bed trick?? How many boo ghosts will there be??? Listen to find out! Content Note: Be aware that this play (and this episode) contains depiction and discussions of sexual harassment and assault and harmful stereotypes of mental illness and intellectual disability. If you love this episode, follow us on social media @NAShaxPodcast and subscribe to get notified about new episodes!

It's our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE EXTRAVAGANZAAAAAAA!!! To celebrate, we brought in new and returning friends of the pod, Charlie Bell, Courtney Parker, Molly Seremet, Patrick Harris, and Sawyer Kemp to read Thomas Middleton's Yorkshire Tragedy in its entirety, purely for your listening pleasure. This week, you get your Summary, Taste of Text, and Tips and Tidbits all rolled into one ridiculous bout of reader's theatre, with a healthy dose of murder on top. We wouldn't want to celebrate the Big 100 any other way.

Moll Cutpurse The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 72 A look at the life, legend, and literary figure of Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse, 17th century English gender outlaw. In this episode we talk about: A brief biography and its sources Moll's criminal and theatrical careers Moll's gender performance and its reception The ambiguous evidence regarding Moll's sexuality This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse Books mentioned The edited edition of Mary Frith's attributed diary is published as: Todd, Janet & Elizabeth Spearing ed.  1994.  Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton.  William Pickering, London.  ISBN  1-85196-087-2 Ellen Galford's novel Moll Cutpurse depicts her as enjoying a long-term same-sex relationship. I reviewed the novel here . The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The link is to a version of the text at archive.org, but the OCR version has not been cleaned up and is difficult to read. A full-cast audio production of The Roaring Girl is available from librivox.org. Based on a brief sample, the performance appears to be highly professional and easy to follow. title by author title by author I found two complete (although not necessarily unabridged) productions of The Roaring Girl on YouTube. Both are amateur productions and of highly variable quality.The Roaring Girl - Noah McBrayer Jones' MFA Candidacy Presentation Fall 2007 at American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse The Roaring Girl - performed by by the Students of West Suffolk College (sound volume is variable) A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

The Tudor dynasty was NOT your average dynasty. For one thing, the so-called “dynasty” lasted just three generations and 118 years. It started with a power grab. It saw a staggering number of executions. It thrust England into years of religious chaos. The wars in France fought over this period were expensive and ultimately disastrous. There were periods of crop failure, economic collapse, poverty, and hunger. The safety net of religious support was eliminated as the monasteries were dissolved and the funds recovered went to the crown.AND, it included two crowned Queens (first time in history!) and one uncrowned but proclaimed Queen (also one of a kind). It included a stunning naval victory over the famed Spanish Armada. It saw the establishment of the first permanent playhouse and the works of great English playwrights and poets, including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, Sir Philip Sydney, and (of course), William Shakespeare. It also saw the first book published by a Queen.Dickens might have called it the best of times and the worst of times.It was also a time of scandal. That’s what we’ll be looking for the next couple of episodes. Considering this dynasty includes a first king who might have been legally barred from taking the throne, a king who managed to get married more times than any other monarch in English history, two queens executed by the command of their royal husband, a contested succession, two extreme shifts in the politics of religious observances, and only one “normal” transfer of power from father to adult son—there are plenty of controversies to explore.

Women, beware those women! A solid title and admonition, no? We take you step by step through Thomas Middleton's gruesome tragedy, Women Beware Women, with a summary, a Taste of Text, and more than you ever wanted to know about the significance of chess in the play. We also play a round of F*k, Marry, Kill (just in case you were looking for some dating wisdom) and reveal some quite exciting ShakesBubble Gossip news. How many ways can people die all at once on stage? You'll have to listen to find out!

Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's best-selling young adult novel Noughts + Crosses for BBC1, creating an alternative world where Europe has been colonised by Africa, the ruling class are black and the white population are slaves. As Korean film Parasite dominates the box office, have theatre, film and TV audiences become more accepting of subtitles? Declan Donnellan, artistic director of theatre company Cheek by Jowl, who is directing Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy on stage in Italian with English surtitles, discusses with Film and TV critic Hannah McGill. The Broadway production of Pretty Woman The Musical, based on the 1990s classic rom-com, has transferred to London, featuring new songs co-written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book based on the original film script. Liz Carr, actor and fan of the film, reviews. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser Main Image: Sephy Hadley (Masali Baduza) and Callum McGregor (Jack Rowan) in Noughts + Crosses. Credit: BBC / Mammoth Screen / Ilze Kitshoff

Happy New Year, if it is New Year yet, it probably is somewhere... anyway. Here's a little (fairly rambly) catch up from host Robert Crighton about the podcast at the end of the year, into the next, and projecting into the future. There's also a little bit on A Game at Chess, which is our five year plan. And an appeal to get involved - by joining us in Exploring A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. Support the podcast by going to https://patreon.com/beyondshakespeare and pledge something – or by leaving a review on itunes or whichever podcasting service you use. Or follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or check out our website at www.beyondshakespeare.org (http://beyondshakespeare.org/) - you can even email us if you feel so inclined - admin@beyondshakespeare.org

While the title alone should be enough to pique your interest, we devote this entire episode to the “finer” points of Middleton's A Chaste Maid In Cheapside because we want you to love it as much as we do. We introduce a new 101 feature, “A Taste of Text,” in which we read the shortest scene in the play to give you a sense of its linguistic flavor; we re-introduce the contemporary, Thomas Middleton; we give you a fast and furious summary of this goofy city comedy as well as a LOT of dramaturgical background for all the allusions it contains; we play a round of Line Roulette; and Jess talks about a Haley Bachrach article on the play Six. Gird your loins and summon your Gossips because it's an action-packed episode!

MISES EN SCENE, mercredi et vendredi à 9h30 et 20h. La chronique théâtre de Sonia Jucquin. Cette semaine, Sonia nous parle de la pièce "La Trilogie de la Vengeance" de Lope Vega, John Ford, Thomas Middleton et William Shakespeare, adaptée et mise en scène de Simon Stone avec Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Eric Caravaca, Servane Ducorps, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eye Haidara, Pauline Lorillard, Nathalie Richard et Alison Valence au Théâtre de l'Odéon - Les Ateliers Berthier jusqu'au 21 avril.

This week we have super-special-witchy guest, Courtney Parker on to talk us through Thomas Middleton's The Witch! The Rhetorical Device of the Week is hyperbaton (aka Yoda-speak); we bring back our Meet the Contemporary feature and tell you all about our buddy T-Mids; Courtney breaks down why this play is so awesome and yet so under-performed; Jess invents a new game; we gossip about a new program at this year's SAA conference; and Tambourlaine advances to the next round in the #DickBracket (of course he did, that DICK). Which Witch is the titular Witch? You'll have to listen to find out!

State legislatures recently began noticing that, because of the high-risk cases insurance companies must cover, individual premiums were escalating. As a result, they began to look into ways to create a pool to limit those losses and reduce premium costs. This led to the creation of reinsurance programs, which appear to be having the intended effect of reducing premiums and protecting insurance companies from financial disaster. We’ll discuss how two politically different states have addressed the issue and find out how it’s playing out in other states. Our guests are: Colleen Becker, policy specialist in the NCSL Health Program Maryland Senator Thomas Middleton (D), who sponsored legislation in his state to establish a reinsurance program Alaska Senator Cathy Giessel (R), who discusses actions her legislature took to become the first state to establish a reinsurance program Blue Cross Blue Shield financially supported this episode of “Our American States.” Additional Resources Transcription of Episode 54

Moll Cutpurse The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 26d A look at the life, legend, and literary figure of Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse, 17th century English gender outlaw. In this episode we talk about A brief biography and its sources Moll’s criminal and theatrical careers Moll’s gender performance and its reception The ambiguous evidence regarding Moll’s sexuality Links Blog entries that mention Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse are tagged here. The edited edition of Mary Frith's attributed diary is published as: Todd, Janet & Elizabeth Spearing ed.  1994.  Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton.  William Pickering, London.  ISBN  1-85196-087-2 Ellen Galford's novel Moll Cutpurse depicts her as enjoying a long-term same-sex relationship. I reviewed the novel here. The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker There is a version of the text of The Roaring Girl at archive.org, but the OCR version has not been cleaned up and is difficult to read. A full-cast audio production of The Roaring Girl is available from librivox.org here. Based on a brief sample, the performance appears to be highly professional and easy to follow. I found two complete (although not necessarily unabridged) productions of The Roaring Girl on YouTube. Both are amateur productions and of highly variable quality. The Roaring Girl - Noah McBrayer Jones' MFA Candidacy Presentation Fall 2007 at American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse The Roaring Girl - performed by by the Students of West Suffolk College (sound volume is variable) More info The Lesbian Historic Motif Project lives at: http://alpennia.com/lhmp You can follow the blog on my website (http://alpennia.com/blog) or subscribe to the RSS feed (http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/) If you have questions or comments about the LHMP or these podcasts, send them to: contact@alpennia.com A transcript of this podcast is available here. If you enjoy this podcast and others at The Lesbian Talk Show, please consider supporting the show through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLesbianTalkShow

All good things must come to an end. And so must That Is The Question. Temporarily anyway. Whether you've listened from the beginning or are only becoming aware this is even a thing, the good news is, you can listen to this episode over and over again until we decide what to do for Season Two! Thanks to all our guests, audiences, and ourselves! As well as our main man...Thomas Middleton. (And Shakespeare, whatever) Listen in, enjoy, and stay tuned for more news from Shakespeare's favorite podcast!

Douglas joins us today to discuss marketing in the 16th century. With new plays performed as often as every afternoon, and a large portion of his target audience being illiterate, how did Shakespeare fill seats and manage to sell enough tickets to stay in business?  Douglas Bruster is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His research centers on Shakespeare, drama, and literary history. His discoveries have been featured in such venues as The New York Times and National Public Radio. Douglas has written extensively on Shakespeare, publishing six books on Shakespeare and early modern drama including Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare and the Power of Performance. He is editor of Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling, the morality plays Everyman and Mankind, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In addition to the University of Texas, he has taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Paris.  In this episode, I’ll be asking Douglas about : The flags above The Globe and their meaning Getting the word out about plays when your population can't read How did Shakespeare tell people what plays would be performed? ...and more.

Anything For A Quiet Life (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue A performance of the prologue to Anything for a Quiet Life by Thomas Middleton & John Webster - recorded to frustrate everyone who wants to hear a full production, and as a sitting accusation to the world for not supplying one.   Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, produced by Robert Crighton.  Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk

No Wit / Help Like A Woman's (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue  A performance of the prologue to No Wit / Help Like A Womans, or The Almanac by Thomas Middleton - recorded to frustrate everyone who wants to hear a full production, and as a sitting accusation to the world for not supplying one.  Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, produced by Robert Crighton Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk

In our second summer "mini-sode," Jess talks us through Thomas Middleton's wacky play, The Witch. 

The Roaring Girl (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue A performance of the prologue to The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker - recorded to frustrate everyone who wants to hear a full production, and as a sitting accusation to the world for not supplying one.   Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, presented by Robert Crighton  Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk

The Bloody Banquet (Prologue) - What's Past Is Prologue A performance of the prologue to The Bloody Banquet by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker, followed by a mix of the prologue with stage directions from the Inductio.  Prologue performed by Sarah Golding, presented by Robert Crighton Additional sound effects from the wonderful people at http://www.freesfx.co.uk

You probably had no idea that 6 months before Thomas Middleton walked into College Station CrossFit he weighed 215 pounds. From December of 2016 to June of 2017 Thomas lost 30 pounds and then has gone on to lose another 15 pounds for a total of 45 pounds in about 18 months. Thomas is currently 170 pounds and one of the fittest members at our gym. His story is proof of how quickly you can turn your fitness around. Enjoy!

Drama is perhaps one of the most recognisable products of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. This week, we look at two of the more famous plays from this period which use the supernatural in their narratives; Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and Thomas Middleton's The Witch. Although I'm sure I'm missing someone out, someone important from this period who wrote a lot of plays still loved today. No matter, I'm sure I'll remember by next week!   This episode primarily drew from the following texts: ‘First edition of Middleton's The Witch', British Library, accessed December 2017, at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-middletons-the-witchHolmes, R., Witchcraft in British History (1974H. W. Herrington, ‘Witchcraft and Magic in Elizabethan Drama', The Journal of American Folklore, 32, 126, (1919)Purkiss, D., The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations (1996)  Please see the website for a full bibliography! Music by Kevin MacCleod and Karstenholymol, used under the Creative Commons License. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jacobean era dramas are rarely seen on major New York stages, but the enterprising Red Bull Theater company, under the artistic directorship of Jesse Berger, has made a specialty of them. Its latest foray into the period — the time during the reign of James VI of Scotland from 1567–1625 — is a production of "The Changeling," a play from 1622 written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Rowley. Jacobean dramas are generally noted for their sensational stories of lust and violence and revenge. New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwook lets us know if "The Changeling" satisfies on these fronts and what it has to offer a contemporary audience. "The Changeling" can be seen at the Lucille Lortel Theatre through Jan. 24.

This lecture discusses comedy, fertility, and all those illegitimate children in this play about sex, economics and meat.

Nathan Gilmour moderates a conversation with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about chess. Long regarded as the mark of an educated person, skill in chess requires, as the Humanists discover, both a strong grasp of mathematical possibilities and a keen awareness of contingency as the character of human reality. Among the texts, artists, and other realities engaged are the Ruy Lopez chess manual, T.S. Eliot, the Hardy Boys, Thomas Middleton, Garry Kasparov, the etymology of "checkmate," and The Wire.

Nathan Gilmour moderates a conversation with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about chess. Long regarded as the mark of an educated person, skill in chess requires, as the Humanists discover, both a strong grasp of mathematical possibilities and a keen awareness of contingency as the character of human reality. Among the texts, artists, and other realities engaged are the Ruy Lopez chess manual, T.S. Eliot, the Hardy Boys, Thomas Middleton, Garry Kasparov, the etymology of "checkmate," and The Wire.

American Shakespeare Center Academic Resources Manager Cass Morris and Academic Relations Manager/ASC Family Coordinator Ben Ratkowski deliver a pre-show lecture on Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters. Recorded 1 March 2012 before a live audience at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA.Dr Ralph Presents: A Mad World, My MastersFile Size: 43.6 MB; Run Time: 38:04View the handouts provided at this lecture

Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear.

A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity.

This week we sit down with actor, singer, model, dancer, and poet Anneka Kumli to discuss finding her personal intersection between political activism and art. Along the way, topics include:The horrors of the MTA on the weekend, and the not-so-secret Hate Poetry that all New Yorkers write while stuck in a subway tunnel at 2am.The Tragedy of Miriam by Elizabeth Cary, the first extant original play written by a woman in English.The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, about the real-life cross-dressing thief who may have even defied the law to appear onstage as herself in the play.The ability of good politicians and good art to make people feel heard.Whiplash, and the question of whether achieving greatness is worth the personal cost.The brilliance of Brad Pitt’s accent, Eric Bana’s hair, and (let’s be real) everything in Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 film Troy.Anneka’s time working for the Governor of Colorado as a Legislative Aide, on his re-election campaign, and then as his events director on his inaugural committee.The democratic importance of the plays performed at the Festival of Dionysus in Athens and attending theater as a “civic duty.”The importance of the arts in a time where many people seem to have forgotten what it is to listen to one another.Anneka’s original poem, “2019.”Music is by Kara Arena, Master of Music for Rude Grooms. Follow us @thiswoodeno on Twitter and Instagram, visit us on the web at thiswoodeno.com, like us on Facebook, or support us on Patreon (patreon.com/rudegrooms) to join the conversation during livestream broadcasts of every episode.This week’s shoutouts & further reading include:Kristen Johnston (Actor & Teacher) – follow her @thekjohnstonMargot Jones – http://sweettornado.org/who-was-margo-jones/Zelda Fichandler – https://howlround.com/commons/zelda-fichandlerNina Vance – https://www.alleytheatre.org/about-us/history/nina-vanceThis Wooden O is a production of Rude Grooms. Learn more at rudegrooms.com or follow us @rudegrooms on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Subscribe in your favorite Podcast app and share your thoughts on social media, on our website thiswodeno.com, or at thiswoodeno@rudegrooms.com.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/this-wooden-o/donations