Episodios

  • 374: !Spoilers! Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe (Act 1)

    374: !Spoilers! Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe (Act 1)
    May 23 2025
    It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act One of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss, 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.
    We know we said Robert would be doing briefer Spoilers episodes, but that clearly didn't happen...
    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.
    Kit McGuire – Aeneas
    Karim Kronfli - Iarbus
    Pamela Flanagan - Ascanius
    Lynsey Beauchamp - Ilioneus
    Sarah Blake - Venus
    Keith Hill - Jupiter / Achates
    Alexandra Kataigida - Cloanthus
    Liza Graham – kinda Hermes
    Simon Nader - Sergestus
    The host was Robert Crighton, who was also an accidental Ganymede.

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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

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    54 m
  • 373: Queen Isabella from Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (Speech! Speech!)

    373: Queen Isabella from Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (Speech! Speech!)
    May 16 2025
    Speech! Speech! Occasional scenes and speeches from plays, voted for by those you support our work. This is a speech from Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, recorded live at our Revels season on Tuesday 12th December 2023. With Pamela Flanagan as Isabella.

    Our patrons received the scene within this episode in January 2024 - 17 months early!
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    4 m
  • 365: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 18)

    365: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 18)
    May 13 2025
    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 Eighteen: A question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit, concerning Astronomy.

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    Our patrons received this episode in April 2024 - approx. 13 months early.
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    The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.
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    7 m
  • 372: Discussing: York Plays 2025 with Matthew Sergi

    372: Discussing: York Plays 2025 with Matthew Sergi
    May 9 2025
    This discussion is with organiser Matthew Sergi, Associate Professor of English (Medieval Drama), University of Toronto about the York Plays 2025. Performing on Saturday 7th June 2025, (8th if there is rain) starting at 6am will be 17 performance groups who will present all the York Plays, repeating their performances on replica wagon stages.
    As ever with these discussions, we go on a number of tangents, but they're really good tangents.
    Find out more at yorkplays.ca where there is a host of useful information - and go, if you can. Seriously GO! It's going to be epic!

    We mention in the episode the editor of the texts for the cycle, Christina M. Fitzgerald - who we interviewed back in 2019! https://audioboom.com/posts/7297248-discussing-the-york-corpus-christi-play

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    1 h y 18 m
  • 371: Discussing: You Can't Just Throw a Woman at It

    371: Discussing: You Can't Just Throw a Woman at It
    May 2 2025
    Discussing: You Can't Just Throw a Woman at it: Dramaturgical Misogyny in Early Modern Drama with Dr Nora J. Williams.

    Nora J. Williams is the Associate Dean for Access and Participation at BIMM University. Her first book, Canonical Misogyny, is available now from Edinburgh University Press. Her interests lie in practice-as-research, staging violence and intimacy, and feminist dramaturgies.

    Our patrons received this episode in October 2024 - 6 months early!
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    1 h y 21 m
  • 362: Richard III or, The English Prophet by Samuel Rowley (Fragment)

    362: Richard III or, The English Prophet by Samuel Rowley (Fragment)
    Apr 25 2025
    It's an interesting double bill episode this week, as we contemplate two pieces of evidence for one or two plays on Richard III. The first element comes from the licencing of a play, the other a reported line from a play. Are they the same play? Impossible to tell, but it helps make this episode a little more substantial.
    You can find the source for our text here.
    There is also an exposition on the Rowley play at the Lost Plays Database.
    With Aliki Chapple as the Messenger.

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    6 m
  • 357: The Guise from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe (Speech! Speech!)

    357: The Guise from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe (Speech! Speech!)
    Apr 18 2025
    Welcome to this other side of our new strand, a return to a promised thing for our patrons - occasional scenes and speeches from plays, voted for by those you support our work. This is a speech from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe, recorded live at our Revels season on Tuesday 12th December 2023. With Lynsey Beauchamp as the Guise.

    Our patrons received the scene within this episode in January 2024 - 12 months early!
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    7 m
  • 364: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 17)

    364: Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 17)
    Apr 15 2025
    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. This month, we begin part 2 of the narrative...
    Performed by Robert Crighton
    Chapter Seventeen: Here followeth the second part of Doctor Faustus his life, and practises until his end.

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    Our patrons received this episode in March 2024 - approx. 13 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
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    3 m
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