Stay ConnectedA 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
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Episode 111:
The true story behind 'Arden of Faversham'
The plot outline of the play
Is the domestic tragedy really tragedy?
The main themes of the play
The domestic eating of the play
The low characters
The role of destiny in the play
Questions of authorship
Other surviving domestic tragedies -
'A Warning for Faire Women'
'Two Tragedies'
'A Yorkshire Tragedy'
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Episode 110:
The problems of the lack of evidence about conventions and acting style.
How a player learned his craft.
The rhetorical or performance style of acting.
Theatre as a poetic form.
The rhetorical style is overtaken by a more naturalistic style.
Stage sets and costume.
Thomas Hayward’s thoughts on a player’s skills.
Hayward on players as scholars.
The impact of Iambic Pentameter.
Hayward on Alleyn and Perkins playing Barabas in ‘The Jew of Malta’.
The convention of the soliloquy.
The convention of the aside.
The convention of eavesdropping.
The convention of boy players and female roles.
The convention of the play within the play.
The convention of the masque.
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Episode 109:
We don't know a lot about individual players of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, but there are three stars of the day that we have some information about.
Richard Tarlton, the Queen’s favourite comic player.
Will Kempe’s origins and early career.
‘A Knack to Know a Knave’ and ‘Fools of Gotham’.
Did Kempe fall out with Shakespeare?
‘Kempe’s Jig’ and last days.
Edward Alleyn’s family and early life.
Touring with the Earl of Worcester’s Men.
Return to London and success with the Admiral’s Men.
Praise of Alleyn from Ben Johnson.
Marriage and events in London while on tour.
Semi-retirement from acting.
Business partnership building the Fortune Playhouse and other entertainments.
Alleyn’s wealth and founding of Dulwich College.
Remarriage and death.
Richard Burbage’s family and early life.
Early career in several troupes.
Leading roles with the Lord Chamberlin’s Men.
Burbage as a character actor.
His continuing long career and death.
Mourning and praise on the death of Burbage.
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Episode 108:
The second part of the story of Thomas Dekker and his works
'Old Fortunas' - Dekker's first known play
‘The Honest Whore’, a good example of what was good and bad in Dekker’s work.
‘The Civil Wars in France’ - three parts, an introduction and a bit of a mystery.
Dekker's debt to the Lord Chamberlin's Men and rescue by Henslowe.
How Henslowe's Diary shows Dekker's incredible work rate.
The Play of Sir Thomas Moore - including a word on Shakespeare's contribution.
'The Shoemaker's Holiday', Dekker's best surviving work
The Bishop's Ban of 1599 and a theatrical spat.
Dekker's account of the failure of 'The Whore of Babylon'.
Later works, the Lord Mayor's pageant and prison.
Last years and death in poverty.
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Episode 107:
In the first of two episodes on Thomas Dekker I discuss his earliest life and his prose works.
Dekker's early life and first forays into the playhouse.
His prose work 'The Wonderful Year'
The Gull's Handbook - with some extensive quotes from and explanation of his piece on behaviour in the playhouse
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Episode 106:
We have the detail about the way a London playhouse functioned thanks, in a large part, to one document. Theatre owner Philip Henslowe kept a record of many aspects of his enterprise at the Rose theatre from 1591 to 1609. A large part of the diary comprises of daily records of the takings at the box office, which plays were performed, if they were new or revivals, and various other details about expenses, costumes and matters related to the running of The Rose.
This episode looks at activity at The Rose for two months through the eyes of Henslowe's Diary
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Bonus Episode 31
Guest Jacob Bloomfield discusses his book 'Drag: A British History', with particular reference to Arthur Lucan (AKA Old Mother Riley), the drag review shows that came out of both WW1 and WW2 concert parties and the demise of theatre censorship in the UK through the lens of drag performances.
Jacob Bloomfield is Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. His research is situated primarily in the fields of cultural history, the history of sexuality, and gender history. He is currently working on a book about the historical reception to musician Little Richard in the United States and Europe.
'Drag: A British History' is available here in the UK
Here in the US
and from all good bookshops.
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Episode 105:
The life of Thomas Kyd, including a word on Elizabethan schooling.
Thomas Nashe on Kyd.
Kyd and the London playwright set.
Kyd and Lord Strange.
Questions over the first performances of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’.
Is ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ a sequel?
Cornelia, Kyd’s other surviving play.
The Ur-Hamlet and other plays and collaborations.
Kyd and Marlowe.
The publication of the ‘The Spanish Tragedy’
A synopsis of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’
The power of the plotting of the story.
Similarities to ‘Hamlet’.
The weaknesses of Kyd’s verse.
The strengths of Kyd’s visual and dramatic settings.
The body strewn stage at the end of the play.
Why Kyd is no Shakespeare.
The significance of ghost of Andreas and the personification of Revenge.
The role of Bel-Imperia and the growing impact of female characters of stage.
The morality of revenge debate.
Kyd as the father of ‘revenge tragedy’.
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Episode 104:
Continuing the story of the Elizabethan theatre buildings.
The construction of The Globe
Master carpenter Peter Street
The death of The Globe
The Fortune - Henslowe's replacement for The Rose
The Whitefriars Theatre
The Hope - Henslowe's replacement for his bear garden, almost.
The second Globe Playhouse
The Globe reimagined.
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Episode 103:
The story of the next phase of theatre building in Elizabethan London featuring the indoor and outdoor playhouses.
The First Blackfriars Theatre
The Curtain
Philip Henslowe
The Rose
Francis Langley
The Swan
The Second Blackfriars Theatre
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