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  • 388: After the Fall - Mirror for Magistrates Post Show Discussion (LIVE)

    388: After the Fall - Mirror for Magistrates Post Show Discussion (LIVE)
    2025/08/29
    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.
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    51 分
  • 389: Diana from The Arraignment of Paris by George Peele (Speech! Speech!)

    389: Diana from The Arraignment of Paris by George Peele (Speech! Speech!)
    2025/08/22
    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.
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    4 分
  • 386: A Mirror for Magistrates: The Fall of Richard II (LIVE adaptation)

    386: A Mirror for Magistrates: The Fall of Richard II (LIVE adaptation)
    2025/08/15
    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.

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    55 分
  • 391: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 20)

    391: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 20)
    2025/08/12
    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.
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    11 分
  • 387: !Spoilers! Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe (Act 4)

    387: !Spoilers! Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe (Act 4)
    2025/08/08
    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.
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  • 390: Setting Up the Board - Introducing A Game at Chess (Middleton's Endgame 1)

    390: Setting Up the Board - Introducing A Game at Chess (Middleton's Endgame 1)
    2025/08/01
    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.
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    38 分
  • 385: Faustus to Faustus by Robert Crighton - Part 1: Enter a Devil

    385: Faustus to Faustus by Robert Crighton - Part 1: Enter a Devil
    2025/07/25
    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.
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    48 分
  • 384: Discussing: Early Modern Horror? with Dr Rebekah King

    384: Discussing: Early Modern Horror? with Dr Rebekah King
    2025/07/18
    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
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    56 分