Masques of Difference: A Conversation with Kristen McDermott part 2
Episode 220: This is the second part of my conversation with Kristen McDermott about the court masque. In this part we discuss two masques a...
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20 of 260 episodesThe Origins and Development of Masques: A Conversation with Kristen McDermott part 1
Episode 219: In this episode I take a look at the court masques of the Jacobean period. To do this I’m very lucky to have the guidance of Kr...
King Lear Part 2: ‘Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise’
Episode 218: Last time I looked at the first part of ‘King Lear’ from the opening scene where Lear makes his disastrous decision to split hi...
King Lear Part 1: ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth it is to Have a Thankless Child!’
Episode 217: ‘King Lear’, the play that is now often regarded as Shakespeare’s finest and deepest work is most often compared to the other t...
Reading Shakespeare’s Mind: A Conversation with Steve Sohmer
Episode 216: For today’s guest episode I had the pleasure of talking to Steve Sohmer, author of a book titled ‘Reading Shakespeare’s Mind’....
Timon of Athens: ‘Nothing Emboldens Sin So Much as Mercy’
Episode 215: Last time Ben Jonson regained his stride in the public theatre with his comedy ‘Volpone’, an at moments sparkling satire of gre...
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...
Volpone: ‘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...