212 Episodes

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

    Published: 1/13/2025
  2. A Bawdy Twelfth Night: A Conversation with Rachel Aanstad

    Published: 1/6/2025
  3. The Life of Ben Jonson Part Six: ‘Posterity Pays Every Man His Honour’

    Published: 12/30/2024
  4. Will, Ben & Tom at Christmas: An Affectionate Pastiche

    Published: 12/24/2024
  5. The Life of Ben Jonson part Five: ‘Tis the House of Fame, Sir’

    Published: 12/16/2024
  6. 'The Divas Gift': A Conversation With Pamela Allen Brown

    Published: 12/9/2024
  7. The Life of Ben Jonson part Four: The Playhouse, the Court, and ‘The Masque of Blackness’

    Published: 12/2/2024
  8. The Life of Ben Jonson part Three: ‘There is no Greater Hell Than to be a Prisoner of Fear’

    Published: 11/25/2024
  9. Shake-Scene Shakespeare: A Conversation With Lizzie Conrad-Hughes

    Published: 11/18/2024
  10. The Life of Ben Jonson Part Two: He That is Taught Only by Himself Has a Fool for a Master

    Published: 11/11/2024
  11. The Culture of The Shrew in Early Modern Europe: A Conversation with Dr Natalia Pikli

    Published: 11/4/2024
  12. The Life of Ben Jonson Part One: It’s Complicated

    Published: 10/28/2024
  13. The Kings Lynn Medieval Stage: A Conversation With Tim Fitzhigham

    Published: 10/21/2024
  14. The Comedy of Errors: ‘Hand in Hand, Not One Before the Other.’

    Published: 10/14/2024
  15. A Knack to Know a Knave: ‘Laugh at the Faults and Weigh it as it is.’

    Published: 10/7/2024
  16. Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘O Heaven, Were Men but Constant.’

    Published: 9/30/2024
  17. Words, Language and Actions in ‘Titus Andronicus’: A Conversation with Eleanor Conlon.

    Published: 9/23/2024
  18. Titus Andronicus: 'Vengeance Is In My Heart, Death In My Hand'

    Published: 9/16/2024
  19. Adventures In Theatre History - Philadelphia: The Book

    Published: 9/14/2024
  20. Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L Sayers: A Conversation with Jem Bloomfield

    Published: 9/9/2024

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A podcast tracing the development of theatre from ancient Greece to the present day through the places and people who made theatre happen. More than just dates and lists of plays we'll learn about the social. political and historical context that fostered the creation of dramatic art.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.