Let my CFP go forth into the world! Naturally, if you know me, you'll know my own research has focused on guildhalls for a couple of years now - but I've long wanted a book that considers other "theatres" of the Renaissance. So please, come and join me in proposing chapters 🙏

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Ahead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - a discussion about Pierce Penniless: His Supplication to the Devil by Thomas Nashe, with Dr Eve Houghton. We chat about the work itself, and what happens when you try to adapt it for performance, as we did in January. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Discussing: Pierce Penniless (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare

Discussing: Pierce Penniless (Early Access) by Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon. Join Beyond Shakespeare's community for exclusive content and updates.

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📖Our next monthly giveaway draws tomorrow! Sign up for our free tier on our patreon, and be entered for our Malone Society edition giveaway - a different volume randomly given away to our subscribers, thanks to our sponsors. #MaloneSociety #Books #Giveaway #SignUp beyondshakespeare.org/our-sponsors/

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Beyond Shakespeare is proud to announce our sponsor for the coming year is the Malone Society, whose works help keep alive the plays we work on. The Malone Society regularly publishes volumes of ea…

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📖Another episode has dropped on A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton, the last will appear on Thursday. Next week, some things completely different. Our Exploring sessions are the first steps towards production & we'll start recording more episodes in September! forms.gle/tqcQX6qdebrU...

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Beyond Shakespeare@beyondshakes.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎭Latest play to get an Exploring session and it's... A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton More episodes next week as we read, discuss, explore this play. Subscribe for more pre-modern drama twice a week! #drama #history #exploring #plays #Middleton youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Ahead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢

🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾There's a dog loose in Edmonton🐾🐾🐾🐾 Join us for the folk horror that is The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford & Rowley, recorded live at our Wyrd Revels season last year. 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 #FolkHorror #Horror #Devil #Dog #Witch audioboom.com/posts/893327...

The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford and Rowley (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)

There's trouble in Edmonton...

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😈We dive into Chapter 48 of Doctor John Faustus in this exclusive Exploring session over on the Patreon feed - How an old man, the neighbour of Faustus, sought to persuade him to amend his evil life and to fall unto repentance. Does he listen? Nope. Gonna end badly. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Doctor John Faustus - Chapter 48 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare

Welcome to more from our monthly read through and discussion of The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus,

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🎉We're gearing up to do more audio productions this autumn, but we're also looking for audiences for some work-in-progress shows. If you have an audience (student/other institution) who'd like to see some pre-modern drama, then we have options for you. #drama beyondshakespeare.org/requestashow/

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We have a selection of shows which are available for performance as work in progress, partly script in hand, shows. At this stage, we’re offering these shows to institutions and audience inte…

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🌈Only 6 more tickets left for our Lord Mayor's Show Discover day in October - take a walk with us around the streets of London for Thomas Middleton's final show, look at some of the original documents, and delve into the 'lost' pageant of 1627. #history www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...

"Discover: The Pre-Modern Lord Mayor’s Show (1626/1627)" at Guildhall

Tickets are now available for Discover: The Pre-Modern Lord Mayor’s Show (1626/1627) at Guildhall, London on Thursday 29th October 2026 at 10:30AM. Click the link for further information and to secure...

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A lot of news about future plans have dropped for our wonderful patrons, including details for live-streamed recording sessions - also patrons get a bonus BTS episode where we wrangle with what sort of cut of Sir Thomas More would we want to bring to a full staging. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Monthly Round Up + Bonus BTS (July 26) | Beyond Shakespeare

Hello All, A lot of things are happening under the surface at the moment, as we have plans! The bonus thing this month is the kind of thing

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🚨The Witch of Edmonton - recorded LIVE - has finally dropped on the podcast! The first of five plays recorded at the White Bear Theatre during our Wyrd Revels 2025 Next month: The Wise-woman of Hogston #drama #theatre #live #AudioDrama #dog #witch audioboom.com/posts/893327...

The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford and Rowley (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)

There's trouble in Edmonton...

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🎭Latest play to get an Exploring session and it's... A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton More episodes next week as we read, discuss, explore this play. Subscribe for more pre-modern drama twice a week! #drama #history #exploring #plays #Middleton youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton - YouTube

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🚨We're gearing up to announcing a host of online and in person events for the autumn, but we already have this deep dive into the Lord Mayor's Show for October - on the 400th anniversary of Thomas Middleton's final work for performance. Only 7 tickets left! www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...

"Discover: The Pre-Modern Lord Mayor’s Show (1626/1627)" at Guildhall

Tickets are now available for Discover: The Pre-Modern Lord Mayor’s Show (1626/1627) at Guildhall, London on Thursday 29th October 2026 at 10:30AM. Click the link for further information and to secure...

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🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons is the earlier iteration of The Norwich Grocers' Play - the A version. it's a bit fragmentary, as there's some missing material, but the text flows reasonably well. Coming soon... version B! Reformationlicious! www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Norwich Grocers' Play A (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare

Hello, Welcome to this full cast audio of The Norwich Grocers' Play - version A! Version B from thirty years later will follow anon.

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Something is coming to Edmonton... 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 This Friday dropping on the podcast... 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

I've officially found the best line in any play ever:

So excited to share the cover of my new monograph, published by @ardenpublisher.bsky.social in September! Appropriately for a book about romance, it’s been quite a journey. Many thanks to Jade Grogan at Arden and everyone who’s offered advice, wisdom, and expertise over the years.

Something is coming to Edmonton... 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 This Friday dropping on the podcast... 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

👁️Latest Exploring session drop on the visual channel. It's a Third Look dig around The Interlude of Youth, part of our prep for our Entertaining Henry season last year. #drama #Exploring #history youtu.be/6tspJVzBc6w

The Interlude of Youth by the Unknown | Third Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)

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Were you among our audience for the #yorkmysteryplays? If you saw "The War in Heaven", please consider filling out our feedback survey- we'd really love to know what you thought of it! Find it here: forms.gle/KfYqhPC3685u...

🔊Exclusive for our wonderful patrons, a bonus Jest from The Mad Men of Gotham. The hit rate for these jests has been fairly low, but occasionally we hit a situation that might bare fruit in the future. #comedy #jest #JestBook www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Mad Men of Gotham 18 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare

Welcome to more from The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, gathered together by A. B. of Physic, Doctor.

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🔊Back in 2023 we ran our first Revels season, recording audio adaptations of plays before a live audience. We began with Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. It was a busy week of back to back playing. #drama #theatre #AudioDrama audioboom.com/posts/882200...

Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe (Full Cast Audio Adaptation)

Dido, Queen of Carthage... what more do we need to say?

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🔊Meanwhile, an exclusive BTS release for our patrons, and it's the dress rehearsal for The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood, as recorded for our Wyrd Revels last year. A rough mix of the live show is also available, and our final mix will drop on the pod soon. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

BTS Wise-woman Dress Rehearsal (22/10/25) | Beyond Shakespeare

BTS Wise-woman Dress Rehearsal (22/10/25) by Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon. Join Beyond Shakespeare's community for exclusive content and updates.

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🔊Today in our Exploring sessions we're reading Catiline by Ben Jonson, so why not share again this look at one of his other Roman History plays with a chat about Sejanus. Which in some contexts can get your referred to HR. #drama #theatre #discussion #history audioboom.com/posts/883413...

Discussing: Sejanus by Ben Jonson

Sejanus in your area!

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A sneak peak of The Making of Marlowe exhibition, featuring the new Doctor Faustus Ale by @foundrybrewpub . Following the exhibition's launch yesterday evening at @the_beaney, it opens to the public tomorrow (Saturday 25th July) and runs until Sunday 22nd November. Logo credit: Lorna May Wadsworth

🚨Latest pod drop - it's a chat with @drshirleybell.bsky.social about Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage, a new book covering how dynamic the use of music in drama could be, and which is out now! Go to the show description for links! #drama #theatre #music audioboom.com/posts/891282...

Discussing: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage

Music please!

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📼The last Exploring session for The Widow's Tears by George Chapman has dropped this morning. Thursday morning will be a look at the fragmentary play Albion Knight. Subscribe to our YouTube for more of this kind of thing. Around 600+ plays & other texts released on to date! youtu.be/KtSLkpJU12Y

Albion Knight by the Unknown (Fragment) | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)

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Beyond Shakespeare@beyondshakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

📖Meanwhile, over on the video channel, we are exploring The Widow's Tears by George Chapman. #exploring #theatre #drama youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🔊Very early access release for our wonderful patrons, as this episode won't drop till around October - it's a chat with the editors of an upcoming (guess when) edition of The Parnassus Plays. And a lot of fun we had too. #theatre #history #plays #drama www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Discussing: The Parnassus Plays (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare

Hello, It's another early access discussing episode, this week it's a chat about The Parnassus Plays, written in Cambridge in the early 1600

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The Records of Early English Drama is delighted to announce the open access publication of the tenth digital edition in the REED series. The dramatic records for the Swan Playhouse, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean, are now available on REED Online (ereed.org/collections/...).

📼The last Exploring session for The Widow's Tears by George Chapman has dropped this morning. Thursday morning will be a look at the fragmentary play Albion Knight. Subscribe to our YouTube for more of this kind of thing. Around 600+ plays & other texts released on to date! youtu.be/KtSLkpJU12Y

Albion Knight by the Unknown (Fragment) | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)

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Beyond Shakespeare@beyondshakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

📖Meanwhile, over on the video channel, we are exploring The Widow's Tears by George Chapman. #exploring #theatre #drama youtube.com/playlist?lis...