Beyond Shakespeare

Learning the music for today’s @beyondshakes.bsky.social livestream of Lusty Juventus. Composer Roel Fox has done really lovely settings of the play’s 2 songs! You too can hear them today from 2.30 live here: (Livestream open to all; recording will then be patron-walled for a while)

🔊Have you wanted to count how many sins you've been committing? Luckily there are helpful demonstration texts to help you, and to remind you, repeatedly, that we're all worms meat.🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱 #SinWagon #SinFunTimes #SinCity audioboom.com/posts/895646...

The new issue of Marlowe Studies has been published today - new research plus a wide range of reviews. Fully open access, and available here: journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

We've had a return for our Lord Mayor's Show day, 1 ticket, grab it while stocks last! www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...

🎄There will be some updates on future events soon, but till then, another ticket sold for our Christmas Revels! An afternoon packed full of shows about, or from, the Christmas season.❄️ Our Lord Mayor's Show day has long ago sold out, so don't wait too long... www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...

🎄There will be some updates on future events soon, but till then, another ticket sold for our Christmas Revels! An afternoon packed full of shows about, or from, the Christmas season.❄️ Our Lord Mayor's Show day has long ago sold out, so don't wait too long... www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...

😈Exclusive exploring sessions on Doctor John Faustus has reached chapter 51: How Doctor Faustus, led his friends into his garden at Christmas, and showed them many strange sights - upping your Christmas tree light game this year are you Faustus? www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

🚨Latest early access release is The Eight Worthies! (It should be nine, but we seem to have lost Hector somewhere, possibly behind the sofa). Every week new episodes are added in advance of release, including our Sir Thomas More event not due till next year. #JoinUs www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

The entire manuscript with the Aernout van Buchell drawing of the Swan Theatre (as described by Johannes de Witt) is online! objects.library.uu.nl/reader/1874-...

We're off to Warwick today to catch a bit of Marlowe... it has sold out by the looks of things, which is nice. And helps prove the point that you *can* sell unlikely things. If you put your mind to it. Hint. Hint.

"History offers few precedents for the alarming scales and speeds of today’s anthropogenic ecological changes. These comparisons may be informative, but they are rarely comforting." - @malentendre.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/05/s... #envhist #cdnhist #wildfires #smokeseason #toronto

🚨Extended Deadline Klaxon🚨 The deadline to submit papers for the Stuart Drama Conference has been extended to 16th October. Get your proposals in and get excited! @racheljwillie.bsky.social @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social

🚨New Revels play edition alert! Yes, it's The Parnassus Plays! Have you ever wondered whether the promise that going to Uni is going to deliver you stable employment is a lie? Don't worry, it always was! Listen to the modern editors as they talk text with us on the pod. audioboom.com/posts/895645...

🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's the return of The Cony-Catchers, as we dig into The Black Dog of Newgate and the crimes therein. We will return to Robert Greene in the future, but this is our first dip into the wider criminal underworld. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

The landing page for this afternoons live-stream is now available on our patreon - free to listen during the stream itself. Be there at 2.30pm GMT+1 for Youth, plus Abraham and Isaac. #live #audio #liveStream www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

The landing page for this afternoons live-stream is now available on our patreon - free to listen during the stream itself. Be there at 2.30pm GMT+1 for Youth, plus Abraham and Isaac. #live #audio #liveStream www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

🔊Mondays are increasingly days when interesting things happen. If we're not live-streaming things, we're workshopping things, if we're not prepping other things. Lots of things basically. Two plays will be live-streamed this coming Monday, but also a secret other thing too. #drama #shows #preModern

Andrew Garfield plays a ploughman in the Uprising but the real medieval rebel weren't all peasants. How do the people described in the @Peopleof1381 database compare with the rebels depicted in @theuprisingmov? theconversation.com/andrew-garfi...

🔊Monday afternoon at 2.30pm GMT+1 we're live-streaming our audio recording session for two early plays... The Interlude of Youth & Abraham and Isaac (Northampton/Dublin text) It's free to listen to live, but afterwards the patreon page will go behind a paywall. #audio #drama #live #theatre #sheep

🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - we're zipping past King Leir to the really rather harrowing end of Cordila. Higgins' goes all medieval on us, as Despair turns up with a present for the ousted Queen. #literature #history #Patreon #Exclusive www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

⚔️Revenge is a dish best served with an ambush... More from the book of Doctor John Faustus... audioboom.com/posts/895646...

🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons: it's the other Norwich Grocers' Play, B, if you will, or The Story of the Temptation of Man in Paradise from 1565. More of this kind of thing every week! Support us & help make these things happen. #drama #audio www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Is it worth attending lectures as a student? The C15 German perspective:

It's that time again! New draw tomorrow!

🎟️Another ticket sold for our Christmas show... always nice to see. Are you coming along for some Christmas cheer? #drama #theatre #live www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...

🔊Latest pod drop - it's the close of our little Thyestes trilogy, with the post-show discussion of the play. Do go back and have a listen to the play if you like, open a beer, and you will get a sense of where we were as we recorded this. #audio #discussion #histroy audioboom.com/posts/895645...

The next production by Edward’s Boys will be Your Five Gallants by Thomas Middleton, a playwright with whom we have had some dealings. Mid-March 2027. Tour is a work in process - although Stratford-upon-Avon, London and Paris (France) are confirmed. Please spread the word. More details to follow.

The signal has been sent... Something is coming...

Welcome to October (the best month of the year, imho) and day 2 of #LisaFest. Today's chapter is by the thoroughly excellent @racheljwillie.bsky.social, who has been a constant source of support and sanity throughout. Rachel's chapter focuses on Lyly's _The Woman in the Moon_, a neglected...

*Sighs* in early modern... again...

The signal has been sent... Something is coming...