Much Ado About Numbers: A Conversation With Rob Eastaway
Episode 214: For today’s guest episode I was pleased to get the chance to talk to Rob Eastaway, author of a book all about Shakespeare and h...
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A podcast tracing the development of theatre from ancient Greece to the present day through the places and people who made theatre happen. More than just dates and lists of plays we'll learn...
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20 of 254 episodesVolpone: ‘What a Rare Punishment is Avarice to Itself’
Episode 213: In the spring of 1606, a new Ben Jonson play premiered, not on this occasion at the Blackfriars theatre performed by one of the...
Collecting Thomas Kyd: A Conversation with Darren Freebury-Jones
Episode 212: For today’s guest episode it is a warm welcome back to the podcast for Darren Freebury Jones. On this occasion Darren is here t...
All’s Well That Ends Well: ‘The Web of Our Life is of a Mingled Yarn’
Episode 211: Through the last few episodes on Shakespeare’s plays, we seem to have seen a playwright in a serious mood, even when he was wri...
What’s in a Name? A Conversation with Susan Amussen
Episode 210: In her new book ‘What’s in a name? How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare’ Susan Ammunsen sets out to show how that in...
Eastward Ho: ‘He That Rises with Ease, Alas, Falls as Easily’
Episode 209: After the failure of ‘Sejanus His Fall’ Jonson’s next play was a collaboration with John Marston and George Chapman, a new play...
Consent and Other Big Questions in ‘Measure for Measure’: A Conversation with Roberta Barker
Episode 207: It was just about this time last year I talked to Roberta Barker about her work on the boy actors of the Elizabethan period and...
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Measure For Measure: ‘Some Rise by Sin, and Some by Virtue Fall’
Episode 207 Whereas the larger-than-life characters in ‘Othello’ left us with no moral ambiguities, but plenty of questions about the nature...
Othello part 2: ‘Farewell the Tranquil Mind, Farewell Content’
Episode 206 Last time I discussed the dating and sources for Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Othello’, the early performance history, and some points...
Othello part 1: ‘O, Beware, my Lord, of Jealousy’
Episode 205: Last time Ben Jonson’s retelling of a slice of Roman Imperial history failed to impress at the Globe theatre. As an actor in th...
Beyond Shakespeare: A Conversation with Robert Crighton
Episode 204: For today’s guest episode we welcome Robert Crighton to the podcast. Robert is the guiding light behind ‘Beyond Shakespeare’ a...
Sejanus His Fall: ‘Ambition Makes More Trusty Slaves Than Need’
Episode 203: We now stay in the world of the Elizabethan interpretation of classical history and myth with Ben Jonson’s next play ‘Sejanus H...
Why did Shakespeare write ‘Troilus and Cressida’?: A Conversation with Rachel Aanstad
Episode 202: For today’s guest episode it is a very warm welcome back to Racheal Aanstad. You will remember that Racheal and I have discusse...
Troilus and Cressida: ‘Men prize the thing ungained more than it is’
Episode 201 ‘Troilus and Cressida’, is a challenging piece by pretty much everybody’s estimation. Although it is no surprise that Shakespear...
Shakespeare and Brecht: A Conversation with Stephen Unwin
Episode 200 For today’s guest episode it is a welcome return to the podcast for Stephen Unwin. I spoke to Stephen earlier in this Shakespear...
Twelfth Night: ‘Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun: it shines everywhere’
Episode 199: The line I have used for the title of today’s episode is spoken by Feste the fool, a central character in ‘Twelfth Night’. Fool...
The Poetaster: ‘Good Ignorance, I’m Glad Thou Art Gone’
Episode 198: As Ben Jonson was writing ‘The Poetaster’ in 1601 the Elizabethan age was drawing to a close. Elizabeth would live until March...
Illustrated Tudors: A Conversation with Simon Sandys Winsch
Episode 197: For today’s guest episode I had the pleasure of talking to Simon Sandys Winsch, author of the Illustrated Tudor Dictionary. Giv...
Cynthia’s Revels: ‘O That Joy So Soon Should Waste’
Episode 196: The origins of the play written for the court and the Children of the Chaple playing company Why this type of play is a fit for...
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