Episodios

  • 372: Discussing: York Plays 2025 with Matthew Sergi

    372: Discussing: York Plays 2025 with Matthew Sergi
    May 9 2025
    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

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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.
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    1 h y 18 m
  • 371: Discussing: You Can't Just Throw a Woman at It

    371: Discussing: You Can't Just Throw a Woman at It
    May 2 2025
    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 this episode in October 2024 - 6 months early!
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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

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    1 h y 21 m
  • 362: Richard III or, The English Prophet by Samuel Rowley (Fragment)

    362: Richard III or, The English Prophet by Samuel Rowley (Fragment)
    Apr 25 2025
    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.

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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.
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    6 m
  • 357: The Guise from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe (Speech! Speech!)

    357: The Guise from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe (Speech! Speech!)
    Apr 18 2025
    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!
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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.
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    7 m
  • 364: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 17)

    364: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 17)
    Apr 15 2025
    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.

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    Our patrons received this episode in March 2024 - approx. 13 months early.
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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.
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    3 m
  • 370: Entertaining Henry (Season Announcement)

    370: Entertaining Henry (Season Announcement)
    Apr 8 2025
    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

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    15 m
  • 369: Discussing: Dick of Devonshire with Kate Ellis

    369: Discussing: Dick of Devonshire with Kate Ellis
    Apr 4 2025
    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.
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    46 m
  • 356: Good Order or, Old Christmas by the Unknown (Fragment)

    356: Good Order or, Old Christmas by the Unknown (Fragment)
    Mar 28 2025
    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.
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    30 m
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