最高の European History ポッドキャスト (2025)

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Henry IV Part 2: ‘We Have Heard the Chimes at Midnight’ 35:29

4d ago35:29

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Episode 168: Although Shakespeare's completion of the events of Henry IV’s reign is very much a continuation of the story from part one it is a play with a very different vibe. The vigour of the battle scenes and the exuberance of prince Hal and Falstaff’s relationship are replaced in part two with a more sombre and elegiac tone. The effects of old…

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The Origins of Medieval Theatre: A Conversation with Kyle Thomas 51:20

11d ago51:20

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Episode 167 A conversation with Kyle Thomas where we discussed the long transition period between Roman theatre and medieval theatre. As you may remember from my episodes on the medieval theatre this is a very opaque period where details are few and far between. In my episodes in season three of the podcast I mostly followed the view that medieval …

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Henry IV Part 1: ‘Nothing Can Seem Foul to Those Who Win’ 34:26

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Episode 166: As with 'Richard II' 'Henry IV part 1' handles some complex English history as it examines the relationships between the King, his son and the powerful Percy family. After the deposition of Richard II Henry ruled for fourteen years until his death. Having ended 'Richard II' with Henry’s accession to the throne and Richard’s death in pr…

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Shakespeare’s Tutor: A Conversation with Darren Freebury-Jones 28:48

26d ago28:48

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Episode 165 In today’s guest episode it is a very welcome return to the podcast for Darren Freebury-Jones. Darren appeared previously to discuss his book ‘Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers’ and I asked him back on this occasion because his earlier book ‘Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd’ is now published in a paperback edition by Manch…

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The Merchant of Venice: ‘The Quality of Mercy is not Strained’ 34:30

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Episode 164 Fate, as in Romeo and Juliet, plays a large part in ‘The Merchant of Venice’, as do deep seated grudges, but these are more societal than familial. We are still in Italy, but no longer in close knit Verona, but mercantile and outward looking Venice. As Shakespeare wrote this play London was becoming orientated around increasing global t…

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A Statue in Verona: The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet 32:04

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Episode 163 My background reading while preparing the episode on Romeo and Juliet took me to many stories about and thoughts on the afterlife of the play and its continuing influence on western culture, what follows is just a few stories and thoughts that illustrate that continuing influence. Verona and Juliet’s Statue Juliet’s tomb Cibber’s Juliet…

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Romeo and Juliet:‘These violent delights have violent ends.’ 36:42

2M ago36:42

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Episode 162 In today’s episode I look at Shakespeare’s early tragedy and one of his enduringly popular plays ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The dating of the play The early printings of the play in quarto editions The origins of the story and Shakespeare’s direct sources The opening chorus Violence and the hand of fate underlying the action The opening brawl …

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Poor Naked Wretches: A Conversation with Stephen Unwin 40:58

2M ago40:58

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Episode 161 In today’s guest episode I will be discussing Shakespeare’s characterisations of the lower classes and looking at the role they play with Stephen Unwin, who’s book ‘Poor Naked Wretches’ explores the variety of working people in Shakespeare's plays as well as a vast range of cultural sources from which they were drawn and argues that the…

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King John: ‘New Made Honour Doth Forget Men’s Names’ 32:44

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Episode 160 A synopsis of the play The sources and dating of the play The problems with a historical drama in verse The historical accuracy of the play King John as neither a hero nor anti-hero Philip the bastard as a central character in the play The theme of self-identity and changing fortune in the play Blanche as a representation of innocence m…

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The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: A Conversation with Serena Laiena 44:33

2M ago44:33

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Episode 159 For today’s guest episode we are going back to the Italian renaissance theatre and the world of the Commedia Dell’arte. You will remember that I covered the Commedia and other early Italian theatre in season five of the podcast, but in this conversation with Serena Laiena we have much more detail about a particular theatrical couple and…

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Richard II: ‘Sad Stories of the Death of Kings’ 35:52

2M ago35:52

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Episode 158 Picking up the journey through Shakespeare's plays with 'Richard II' A brief summary of the play The early performance history of the play The early print history of the play The variations in the quarto editions concerning the deposition scene The sources for the play The role of the play in the Essex rebellion The historical accuracy …

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Woke Shakespeare: A Conversation with Ian McCormick 38:22

3M ago38:22

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In the fifth part of this short series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon I had the chance to speak with Dr Ian McCormick about the collection of essays he edited, which pulls together recent Shakespeare criticism in the framework of woke and anti-woke culture and the culture war…

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Trackers of Oxyrhincus: A Reprised Conversation with Jimmy Walters 40:01

3M ago40:01

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In the fourth part of this short series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon today’s episode is a repeat of episode 32 of the podcast, first released in late 2020. Having just produced an episode on satyr play on the main podcast and another on the papyologists who rediscovered the…

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Boy Actors: A Conversation with Roberta Barker 40:55

3M ago40:55

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In the third part of this series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon, we are going deep into the world of the renaissance period boy actors, or perhaps, as they should more properly be called, apprentice players. The habit of the period of young actors playing female roles is well…

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The Development of Roman Theatre: A Reprised Conversation with Dr Elodie Palliard 41:25

3M ago41:25

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Episode 154 As you know form last week’s episode I’m running a short series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon. Today’s episode is a repeat of episode 30 of the podcast, first released in late 2020. At the time I was discussing the early theatre of Rome and with the Ancient Greek…

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Playing with Shakespeare: A Conversation with Charles Moseley 56:13

4M ago56:13

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Episode 153 Today’s guest episode serves as a great precursor to what is to come. The discussion that you are about to hear with Charles Mosely focusses on Shakespeare as a man of the theatre and discusses how the plays were created for and affected by the Theatre, the Audience and the conventions of the time. And that brief description does not do…

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Conversation With Rachel Aanstad 35:23

4M ago35:23

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Episode 152 Following on from my thoughts on A Midsummer Night’s Dream last time I’m very pleased to welcome back Rachel Aanstad to the podcast for further thoughts on the play. You may remember from our previous conversation about Twelfth Night that Rachel has devoted a lifetime to both the study and presentation of Shakespeare plays and as with T…

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Man Is but An Ass If He Go About to Expound This Dream’ 33:35

4M ago33:35

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Episode 151 Having finished with Ben Jonson’s biography we can now go back in time just a little to work through Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s plays in more detail. By the early 1590s was then the man of the theatrical moment, no longer the young upstart, but the proven playmaker and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ surely did nothing but enhance that repu…

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A Bawdy Twelfth Night: A Conversation with Rachel Aanstad 34:09

4M ago34:09

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Episode 150: For this very appropriately timed guest episode, which is released on the 6th January, Rachel Aanstad kindly agreed to come on the podcast and talk about the Elizabethan twelfth night traditions and Shakespeare’s play of the same name. As you will hear our discussion became very much more wide ranging than that, as is often the way whe…

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The Life of Ben Jonson Part Six: ‘Posterity Pays Every Man His Honour’ 33:08

5M ago33:08

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Episode 149 The life story of Ben Jonson concludes with events after the publication of his first folio to his death in 1637. ‘Bartholomew Fair’, a different sort of Jonson play. The finances of the court become more problematic, and Jonson earns and spends money. The trend for ‘projectors’ and Jonson becomes involved with Sir Willian Cockayne. ‘Th…

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Will, Ben & Tom at Christmas: An Affectionate Pastiche 25:57

5M ago25:57

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'Will, Ben and Tom at Christmas' is an affectionate pastiche, with my very best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year. Support the podcast at: www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com www.patreon.com/thoetp www.ko-fi.com/thoetp Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Life of Ben Jonson part Five: ‘Tis the House of Fame, Sir’ 33:02

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Episode 148: The life of Ben Jonson continues after he is released from prison after the publication of 'Eastward Ho!' Jonson’s possible involvement in the gunpowder plot and it’s aftermath. Jonson writes a masque for the marriage of Frances Howard and Robert Devereaux. Jonson defends his religious position in the face of recusancy fines. ‘Volpone’…

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'The Divas Gift': A Conversation With Pamela Allen Brown 48:01

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One of the generally accepted facts about theatre in the time of Shakespeare and Jonson is that boy actors took female roles and women were banned from appearing on the stage. This is in fact only partly true and my guest for today’s episode has made a study of how early modern actresses, from traditions on the European continent, influenced the En…

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The Life of Ben Jonson part Four: The Playhouse, the Court, and ‘The Masque of Blackness’ 36:02

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Episode 146: The banning of printed satire. ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’ is produced by The Lord Chamberlin’s Men. ‘Cynthia’s Revels’ is performed at court but is not well received. ‘Poetester’ is performed at the Blackfriars and sparks ‘the war of the poets’ with Dekker and Marston. ‘Sejanus: His Fall’ fails to impress. Jonson cultivates friendsh…

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The Life of Ben Jonson part Three: ‘There is no Greater Hell Than to be a Prisoner of Fear’ 31:54

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Episode 145: Continuing the story of Ben Jonson’s life from the point where just as he starts to make his mark in the theatre scene everything goes very badly wrong for him. ‘The Isle of Dogs’ at the Swan Theatre The closure of the London Theatres Jonson in prison How the London theatres reopened The Swan and Pembroke’s Men Speculation on the conte…

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Shake-Scene Shakespeare: A Conversation With Lizzie Conrad-Hughes 43:47

6M ago43:47

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Episode 144: On several occasions through the story of the renaissance theatre I have touched on how the players made use of cue sheets rather than full scripts as they rehearsed and performed plays, so I was fascinated to see that there is a company of actors working today who produce plays by Shakespeare and other renaissance playwrights using cu…

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The Life of Ben Jonson Part Two: He That is Taught Only by Himself Has a Fool for a Master 33:08

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Episode 143: The second part of the life of Ben Jonson takes him from his birth, through his years at school and onto working as a bricklayer. He then briefly joined the army before returning to become a player, a poet and a playwright. Jonson’s Scottish ancestry. His father’s loss of position under queen Mary. His Stepfather Robert Brett, bricklay…

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The Culture of The Shrew in Early Modern Europe: A Conversation with Dr Natalia Pikli 34:52

6M ago34:52

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Episode 142 Dr Natália Pikli discusses the changing view of the 'The Shrew' in Medieval and Early Modern European culture and how women are represented in Shakespeare's early comedies, She then goes on to outline how Shakespeare became part of national Hungarian culture and how the plays have been treated in translation. Dr Natália Pikli is Associa…

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The Life of Ben Jonson Part One: It’s Complicated 31:04

7M ago31:04

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Episode 141: In this episode I set us up for a look at the life of Ben Johnson discussing some of the sources for information about his life and how far we can trust them – it’s complicated. Jonson’s 1618 visit to Scotland and why he might have undertaken the journey on foot. His conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden. Jonson’s opinions on othe…

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The Kings Lynn Medieval Stage: A Conversation With Tim Fitzhigham 31:38

7M ago31:38

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In October 2023 the story of the discovery of a stage floor that dated from before the Elizabethan period in St George’s Guildhall in Kings Lynn hit the news. The attrition to the headline writers was the fact that that very stage had probably supported Shakespeare as he acted as part of a playing troupe on stage. Of course, that is a great hook fo…

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The Comedy of Errors: ‘Hand in Hand, Not One Before the Other.’ 33:22

7M ago33:22

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Episode 139: Last time ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ gave us a look at second comedy from Shakespeare’s early phase as a playwright. As you heard certain elements in the plotting of the play and execution of its denouement make it problematic, but nevertheless it showed early promise. The lyrical nature of much of the language used in that play is quit…

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A Knack to Know a Knave: ‘Laugh at the Faults and Weigh it as it is.’ 25:11

7M ago25:11

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Episode 138: Over the course of speaking about English Renaissance Plays and Shakespeare I have had cause to mention the play ‘A Knack to Know a Knave’ several times. Most latterly because it is thought to include references to ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Titus Andronicus’ and prior to that, in the season on the Early Renaissance Theatre it had …

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Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘O Heaven, Were Men but Constant.’ 34:25

8M ago34:25

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Episode 137: The dating of the play Printing in the First Folio The sources for the play and the nature of the text A brief synopsis of the play The major themes of the play How the status and youth of Valentine and Proteus helps to understand their actions in the play The role of Speed and how the play features the embryo of Shakespearean wordplay…

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Words, Language and Actions in ‘Titus Andronicus’: A Conversation with Eleanor Conlon. 41:53

8M ago41:53

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Episode 136: Having given you my own thoughts on ‘Titus Andronicus’ last time I’m pleased to say that for this special guest episode I was able to take the discussion even further with Eleanor Conlon, a fellow podcaster and a theatre professional as you will hear Eleanor has a lot to say about the play and insights that, in some cases, go in differ…

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Titus Andronicus: 'Vengeance Is In My Heart, Death In My Hand' 34:54

8M ago34:54

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Episode 135: Is Shakespeare’s early tragedy more than just a gore-fest? The first performance of the play, maybe The three playing troupes involved with the play Is the play a collaboration with George Peele? The popularity of violence in plays The sources for the play A brief summary of the play The establishing of characters in the first act The …

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Adventures In Theatre History - Philadelphia: The Book 11:03

8M ago11:03

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A short word from my good podcasting friend Peter Schmitz, he of the ‘Adventures In Theatre History Philadelphia’ podcast, who has written a book on that very subject and I’m sure that it will be as informative, as amusing and generally as fascinating as his podcast episodes always are. What is even better is that Peter has produced a short audio t…

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Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L Sayers: A Conversation with Jem Bloomfield 42:36

8M ago42:36

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Episode 134: Author Jem Bloomfield joins us to talk about his recently published book, ‘Allusion in Detective Fiction’, which looks at how and why allusion to Shakespeare and the Bible was used by the masters, or I should say mistresses, of golden age detective fiction. This may not seem like an obvious area when considering the pervasive influence…

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The Taming of the Shrew: ‘No Profit Grows Where No Pleasure Is taken’ 38:32

9M ago38:32

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Episode 133: The complications with dating the play and it’s relationship with a similar Elizabethan play The sources for the play A short summary of the play The Christopher Sly framing device Switching of roles in the play The disguise motif The motivations of the leading characters The implication of the falconry images in the play The Elizabeth…

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Richard 3rd at Shakespeare's Globe 22:28

9M ago22:28

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Episode 132 My thoughts on seeing a recent production of Richard 3rd at Shakespeare's Globe, starring Michelle Terry in the titular role. The production and the cotrovercy that surrounded it raises questions about gender fluid casting, the nature of leadership and the casting of able bodied actors in this famous portrayal of deformity. Support the …

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Richard 3rd: 'And Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy' 33:35

9M ago33:35

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Episode 131: Richard 3rd: ‘And Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy.’ Shakespeare dramatises the life of the last Plantagenet king and create one of theatre's most spectacular villains. The dating of the play The quarto editions of the play When is a history play a tragedy, or not? The sources of the play The influence of Seneca Other contemporary versi…

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The search for Richard 3rd: A Conversation with Mathew Morris 40:10

9M ago40:10

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Episode 130: Mathew Morris talk to me about the archaeological dig that resulted in the discovery of the final remains of Richard 3rd, which serves as a prelude to the next episode which will be all about Shakespeare’s take on the final Yorkist king. Towards the end of our conversation, we spoke about the differences between the Richard of the play…

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Henry 6th part 3: ‘How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown.’ 33:22

9M ago33:22

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Episode 129: A brief recap on the dating and sources of the play A brief synopsis of the play The problem of multiple battlefield scenes and the depiction of violence How language in the play is used to underline the changing fortunes of the two sides. The depth of strong characterisation in the play Warwick, the would-be kingmaker Henry as an earl…

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John Hall of Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Conversation with John Taplin 40:26

10M ago40:26

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Episode 128: Author John Taplin discusses researching the Stratford families of Shakespeare's time and particularly the ancestry of John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law. John Taplin spent the majority of his career in management in the telecommunications industry until 2001 when he joined the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at Hall’s Croft and Nash’s H…

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Henry 6th part 2: ‘The Fox Barks Not When He Would Steal the Lamb’ 33:32

10M ago33:32

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Episode 127: A recap of Henry VI part one and the potential involvement of Christopher Marlowe A word on methods of authorship attribution in the context of Shakespeare and Marlowe The dating and sources of the play A synopsis of Henry VI part two The characterisation of the War of the Roses The decline of England mapped out in the play The main ch…

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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: A Conversation with Dr. Darren Freebury-Jones 46:14

10M ago46:14

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Episode 126: A conversation with Dr. Darren Freebury-Jones, author of 'Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers' about the influence of early modern playwrights on Shakespeare where we talk about Marlowe, Kyd, Greene and others and the role of data analytics in modern author attribution studies. Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is author of several works on early m…

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Henry 6th part 1: ‘My Thoughts Are Whirled Like a Potter's Wheel’ 32:33

10M ago32:33

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Episode 125: A detailed look at the first Shakespearean history play 'Henry 6th part 1' The problems with dating 1 Henry VI How much of the play did Shakespeare write? The relationship of the play to parts 2 and 3 The sources of the play A brief summary of the play The play in relation to other history plays of the time Criticism of the battle scen…

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'To Gender or Not to Gender': A Conversation With Margaret Oakes 34:15

11M ago34:15

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Episode 124: A conversation with Margaret Oakes about the book 'To Gender or Not to Gender: Casting and Characters for 21st Century Shakespeare’ which explores ways in which gender is being reinterpreted by British and North American productions since the turn of the millennium. After an initial chapter outlining recent gender theory, which is very…

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Hunt, Grenfell and the Satyr Play 30:56

11M ago30:56

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Bonus Episode 36: Sometimes things conspire against the podcaster, as has happened to me in the last couple of weeks, meaning that I have not been able to get the promised episode up to scratch in time. To make up for this and fill the gap I have created an episode that goes back to Greek theatre. It looks at that most mysterious of the ancient Gre…

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William of Stratford, a Coda: The History of New Place 27:34

11M ago27:34

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Episode 123: The Origins of New Place The Clopton’s of Stratford-Upon-Avon The first house at New Place Hugh Clopton and his support for Stratford William Clopton William Bott and murder at New Place (maybe) William Underhill sells New Place to Shakespeare William Underhill and his son Faulk (another murder) The New Place of Shakespeare’s time The …

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William of Stratford part 4: ‘With Mirth and Laughter Let Old Wrinkles Come.’ 37:15

11M ago37:15

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Episode 122: The fourth and final part of the biography of Shakespeare. The rise of Shakespeare as actor and playwright for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. ‘The Comedy of Errors’ performed at Grey’s Inn, ‘the night of errors.’ The influence of the inns of court. Plays for special occasions. Francis Meres’ comments on Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s involvem…

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