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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/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX

A fuller look than usual at the epilogue to King Darius (c.1565) in the context of the wider play. And... oh boy... is King Darius WEIRD. With the wonderful Fiona Thraille as the epilogue, and various voices in passing in our exploring session clip, including possibly Heydn McCabe, Stephen Longstaffe, Gregory Musson, Liza Graham, Alex Scott Fairley, Rob Myson, Lynsey Beauchamp. The host is Robert Crighton. If you'd like to look at more of our hysteria reading this play, go to this handy playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJ7F93JctDgYfcTuxXVBjpS Our patrons received this episode in April 2023 - approx. 8 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 & I

The Jests of George Peele - Episode 14: How George Served a Gentlewoman. Performed by Sarah Blake A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books. Music by Tom Cowell. Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast. Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to ch

Another fun fragmentary text, Judith by Cornelius Schonaeus, which is... well the more we look at it, the more we think that the translation of the original text is bobbins. It's not really designed for performance, more a literal translation job... so, it's a bit... yeah. Messy. But we had a go. Judith by Cornelius Schonaeus, possibly translated by Henry Evans. With Rob Myson as the Prologue and Simon Nader as Holofernes. Additional trumpet by Matt Byham. Hosted and produced by Robert Crighton Our patrons received this episode in December 2022 - approx. 11 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.or

Hello! A quick update on our Winter Revels 2023 and the opening of Round 1 (ding, ding) for our BIG Vote for 2024. Open to all, you get to help create the shortlist for next years new productions - https://forms.gle/YvuS657yV8rVEhq19 All of which is (in part) dependent on the success of our upcoming Winter Revels - do come if you can, or share the shows with your friends and on social media. The Beyond Shakespeare Winter Revels 2023 A Season of Tragedy, History, True Crime, Horror & Comedy Welcome to the Beyond Winter Revels, a celebration selection box of shows from our repertoire. From Marlowe’s famous tragedy of Dido, through famous historical characters in Cleopatra, via true crime in Arden of Faversham and a gothic proto-horror story in Beware the Cat, to the chaotic comedy of a story that comes to life in Old Wives’ Tale – we’ve a show for you. You can sample one play or, for a discount price, catch them all! Live play readings, recording for the Beyond Shakespeare podcast, for one week only. Perf

Welcome to our full cast audio adaptation of Iphigenia - recorded as a test live stream for our patrons in April, this is the mixed down version. Many thanks to everyone who helped get this show on the road, and to our wonderful patrons who voted for it. The Tragedy of Iphigenia by Jane, Lady Lumley, as translated from the play by Euripides The Chorus / Lady Lumley was played by Sarah Blake, Agamemnon by Aliki Chapple, Senex by Liza Graham, Menelaus by Valentina Vinci, Clytemnestra by Alexandra Kataigida, Iphigenia by Minna Pang, Achilles by Emma Kemp, and Nuncius by Melissa Shirley. The play was directed by Sarah Blake, and recorded by Robert Crighton, with special thanks to Liza Graham and Helen Good. CW: Themes of infanticide, murder, war, and misogyny throughout. Our patrons received the initial live stream of this play in April 2023 - approx 7 months ago. They then received this edit of the episode in October 2023 - approx. 1 and a bit months early. And the gap between patron early access and final

The Jests of George Peele - Episode 13: How he Served a Tapster. Performed by Sarah Blake A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books. Music by Tom Cowell. Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast. Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the

It's a brand new !Spoilers! episode for The Tragedy of Iphigenia as translated from Euripides by Jane, Lady Lumley around 1553. This episode works through the action, but there isn't the plain text audio at the end - largely because we don't plan to cut the final version. As ever, the text as recorded may contain minor errors and is a bit rough round the edges. In The Tragedy of Iphigenia by Jane, Lady Lumley, as translated from the play by Euripides The chorus was played by Sarah Blake, Agamemnon by Aliki Chapple, Senex by Liza Graham, Menelaus by Valentina Vinci, Clytemnestra by Alexandra Kataigida, Iphigenia by Minna Pang, Achilles by Emma Kemp, and Nuncius by Melissa Shirley. The play was directed by Sarah Blake, and recorded by Robert Crighton, with special thanks to Liza Graham and Helen Good. The host was Robert Crighton. Our exploring sessions on the play are also available here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLCbWNAHshgw0ZzNM6OseRP The Second Look is also available audio only on

It's another fragment, labelled as Part of a Play by someone, but it's not desperately play like... so... here it is. It's... not a particularly easy text to read, so many bonus thanks to Heydn McCabe for giving it a go. Part of a Play by the Unknown  The part was performed by Heydn McCabe, and the episode hosted and produced by Robert Crighton Our patrons received this episode in March 2023 - approx. 8 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 Bey

This is a VERY belated episode. It was recorded via the telephone back in the before times - in the later end of 2019. The recording is very messy (it's been tidied up, but there are still a lot of pops and bangs and other strange issues) but it is... rather good, we hope. It's a discussion of The Life and Death of Jack Straw, at the time we were finishing our full cast audio adaptation, and planning a live production (which the plague cancelled). It is released now, as we start to revive our plans to stage it again - and run low on the pre-plague audio. Increasingly, our work is all new. So, enjoy this chat with Dr Stephen Longstaffe, editor of the only modern critical edition that is (sort of) still available (you might need to sell a kidney) and host Robert Crighton. More Jack Straw on the podcast - discussions, !Spoilers! & our audio adaptation - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4629941-the-life-and-death-of-jack-straw And another run on the Tube-of-You - https://youtu.be/yohgz7LhDuM Our patrons rece

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 May

The Jests of George Peele - Episode 12: How George served his Hostess. Performed by Sarah Blake A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books. Music by Tom Cowell. Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast. Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choo

Yes, it's finally here - the final cut of the full cast audio adaptation of The Tragedy of Antony by Robert Garnier, translated by Mary Sidney Herbert. It has been a long road to get here, using recordings from before the plague and without recourse to retakes. I hope you like it. CW: Themes and depiction of suicide, sounds of war, a culture of misogyny, violent death, general lamentation. The Tragedy of Antony by Robert Garnier, translated by Mary Sidney Herbert The Cast (in order of appearance) Antony - Heydn McCabe Philostratus - Mark Scanlon Cleopatra - Pamela Flanagan Eras - Sarah Golding Diomede - Geir Madland Charmion - Leigh McDonald Lucilius - Rob Myson Caesar - Simon Nader Agrippa - Hugh Weller-Poley Euphron - Richard Fawcett Child – Gillian Horgan General Chorus - Pamela Flanagan, Gillian Horgan, Seb Ransom, and Robert Crighton Roman Chorus - Geir Madland Additional sound effects from zapsplat.com The Tragedy of Antony was produced by Robert Crighton Our patrons received this episode in August

NB: This episode has been produced with some speed, so it's not as tidy a recording as per usual. Welcome to this pop up episode, chatting with Katie Blackwell and Anna Tolputt of Creation Theatre - who're producing Jonson's Alchemist this October - Tickets on sale now! We chat with Katie about Creation itself, and with show director Anna about the production. In Oxford now (at time of posting) till the 21st October and in London 27th-29th October - book now! https://creationtheatre.co.uk/show/the-alchemist/ Follow Creation on the socials @creationtheatre 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

Live show this Sunday! A quick reminder that we have a live streamed audio adaptation of Occupation and Idleness on Sunday 22nd October at 2.30pm We’re recording a bunch of new stuff across the day, and then in the afternoon we’re live streaming a full run of Occupation and Idleness by the Unknown, plus a bonus mini sketch, Preist the Barber. Occupation and Idleness is the first surviving true interlude play – it’s from the middle of the fifteenth century and is mostly forgotten about – but it does everything your average Tudor interlude will do, it just does it in the medieval period. It’s a three hander about education – with a cheeky school boy who just doesn’t want to do any work, being encouraged – shall we say – to study by Occupation, a hard working farmer, and Doctrine, the figure representing religion in the play. It’s a lively, nay, a tad violent a play, with an ending that isn’t surprising as to what happens – but perhaps surprising how it happens. It was, as ever, a different age. Or is it?  I

Welcome to another fragment - known as Detraction, or An Interlude of Detraction, or Light Judgement, Verity and Justice – by the more literal of title givers. We have no idea what the title actually is. It was printed around 1550, and could date between 1533 and the break with Rome and 1553, when Edward VI popped his clogs. So 1550ish. Detraction was played by Simon Nader, Light Judgement by Rob Myson and Verity by Heydn McCabe Detraction was hosted and produced by Robert Crighton Our patrons received this episode in February 2023 - approx. 8 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

More !Spoilers! from The Tragedy of Antony as translated by Mary Sidney from the play by Robert Garnier. This fifth and final !Spoilers! episode works through Act 5, followed by a plain text recording of the Act. The full cast audio adaptation will drop IN TWO WEEKS!. With Pamela Flanagan as Cleopatra, Sarah Golding as Eras, Leigh McDonald as Charmion, Richard Fawcett as Euphron and Gillian Horgan as the child. If you're interested in more plays by women writers from the period, why not dip into The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631219-the-tragedy-of-mariam-by-elizabeth-cary There is of course a full Tragedy of Antony playlist with all our work on the podcast to date - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4630912-the-tragedy-of-antony Our patrons received this episode in June 2023 - approx. 3 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 -

This is a discussion on boys companies, who popped in and out of the public consciousness in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Dr Harry R. McCarthy has written about boys companies in the period, as well as their recreation today, so was an excellent guest to chat about the trends of the boys company world. Dr Harry R. McCarthy is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Exeter, and has published Boy Actors in Early Modern England and Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward's Boys with Cambridge University Press. His research centres on early modern theatre, the body in performance, and premodern childhood. He is particularly interested in boy actors on the early modern stage (the topic of his first two books) and is currently developing a project on the intersecting concepts of whiteness and childhood in the early modern period and its literature. Our patrons received this episode in April 2023 - approx. 6 months early. The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become

The Jests of George Peele - Episode 11: A Jest of George, riding to Oxford. Performed by Sarah Blake A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books. Music by Tom Cowell. Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast. Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to

More !Spoilers! from The Tragedy of Antony as translated by Mary Sidney from the play by Robert Garnier. This fourth !Spoilers! episode, works through Act 4, followed by a plain text recording of the Act. The full cast audio adaptation will drop later in the year. With Simon Nader as Caesar, and Hugh Weller-Poley as Agrippa, Rob Myson as Dircetus/Lucilius and Geir Madland as the chorus. If you're interested in more plays by women writers from the period, why not dip into The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631219-the-tragedy-of-mariam-by-elizabeth-cary There is of course a full Tragedy of Antony playlist with all our work on the podcast to date - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4630912-the-tragedy-of-antony Our patrons received this episode in June 2023 - approx. 3 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