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Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Good piece on the arts and television by John Wyver @illuminations.bsky.social. The virtual disappearance of the arts from our national BBC TV screens is a disaster for the arts generally and also for civic discourse. We’ve also lost local and regional BBC and independent TV coverage of the arts.
27.01.2026 09:31 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
🔊Exclusive exploring read through over on the patreon feed - it's our slow burn working out of the extended Mirror for Magistrates Universe. We're into the prequel phase, where the franchise desperately hunts for more history to eat. Locrinus' family have a bad day.🌊 www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
26.01.2026 09:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0... and a bonus performance of Lusty Juventus, source for the play within a play. Pre-sale tickets are available for our patrons and those who've signed up to our mailing list. Join us and get early access to tickets that are going fast! #drama #theatre #live #More www.patreon.com/posts/147002...
25.01.2026 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A black ident with text on it - The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - Sunday 12th April 2026 from 1pm at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington Join us for our latest deep dive into a play full of history and mischief. Our newest all day event is covering the manuscript play of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday, with a little help from his friends. The text of the play will be performed in full, covering all the twists and turns of a manuscript being written, rewritten, and censored by the Master of the Revels. With introductions, panel discussions, a full script in hand performance of the text, and a performance of the play-within-a-play of Lusty Juventus, this is a not to be missed all day event, from the producers of Middleton’s Endgame: A Game at Chess LIVE!
🚨Not long now till we announce more about our next big event: The Book of Sir Thomas More...
Beyond that it's an epic deep dive into the play, with a script in hand performance of as much of the manuscript as is practical (recording for the podcast) with detailed introduction, panel discussions...
... and a bonus performance of Lusty Juventus, source for the play within a play. Pre-sale tickets are available for our patrons and those who've signed up to our mailing list. Join us and get early access to tickets that are going fast! #drama #theatre #live #More www.patreon.com/posts/147002...
25.01.2026 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A black ident with text on it - The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - Sunday 12th April 2026 from 1pm at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington Join us for our latest deep dive into a play full of history and mischief. Our newest all day event is covering the manuscript play of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday, with a little help from his friends. The text of the play will be performed in full, covering all the twists and turns of a manuscript being written, rewritten, and censored by the Master of the Revels. With introductions, panel discussions, a full script in hand performance of the text, and a performance of the play-within-a-play of Lusty Juventus, this is a not to be missed all day event, from the producers of Middleton’s Endgame: A Game at Chess LIVE!
🚨Not long now till we announce more about our next big event: The Book of Sir Thomas More...
Beyond that it's an epic deep dive into the play, with a script in hand performance of as much of the manuscript as is practical (recording for the podcast) with detailed introduction, panel discussions...
🔊Our epic crossover event with the Hamlet to Hamilton podcast has... well not concluded, but reached the end of the 1570's... and here we'll pause. Will we go on, will we dare to venture into the 1580's? Only time will tell. It usually does. #audio #theatre #discussion audioboom.com/posts/882200...
23.01.2026 09:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🔊Our epic crossover event with the Hamlet to Hamilton podcast has... well not concluded, but reached the end of the 1570's... and here we'll pause. Will we go on, will we dare to venture into the 1580's? Only time will tell. It usually does. #audio #theatre #discussion audioboom.com/posts/882200...
23.01.2026 09:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Early access for our wonderful patrons: it's our full cast audio adaptation of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, recorded live at our Winter Revels 2023. We're currently editing Arden of Faversham too, which will join Dido soon! #JoinUs www.patreon.com/posts/dido-q...
21.01.2026 09:59 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Early access for our wonderful patrons: it's our full cast audio adaptation of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, recorded live at our Winter Revels 2023. We're currently editing Arden of Faversham too, which will join Dido soon! #JoinUs www.patreon.com/posts/dido-q...
21.01.2026 09:59 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🔊More from The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, exploring exclusively for our patrons. A host of other jest books and other literature is explored in our Monday exclusive releases. #JoinUs #Merry #Storytelling www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...
19.01.2026 09:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👀Is this a Knight riding into town we see? edwardsboys.org.uk/news/tour-da...
18.01.2026 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
🌡️It's a bit nippy out, maybe it's time for an Old Wives' Tale as told by an old wife. Silliness abounds in George Peele's The Old Wives' Tale, as recorded live at our 2023 Winter Revels. 🐻❄️ #audio #AudioDrama #Bear #Magic #storytelling #adventure #fireside #tale #theatre audioboom.com/posts/862347...
18.01.2026 10:14 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The show will feature performances of the text, panels, and more! You can sign up for early access tickets (going fast) and keep up to speed with future shows from us (and others who engage with the period) by popping along to our live events page on the website. beyondshakespeare.org/live-events/
13.01.2026 10:04 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
😫We're still recovering from our performance of Pierce Penniless the other week, but we're already preparing our next live event. A deep dive into The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece, the manuscript of a play originated by Anthony Munday, whereupon the pile on started. More info in next post
13.01.2026 10:04 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Digital iteration of Titivillus...
16.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨Latest podcast drop - it's a chat with Nathan Winkelstein of Red Bull Theater about the upcoming performance of Sejanus by Ben Jonson. It'll be available in-person and online on 26th Jan, and online for the following week. Ticket links in the show description. #live audioboom.com/posts/883413...
16.01.2026 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
so excited to see that the Red Bull Theater in NYC is doing a reading of Ben Jonson's Sejanus Jan 26th (and there's a Zoom option if you're not in the region). Thinking about building this or their reading of Roaring Girl in March into my syllabus.....
www.redbulltheater.com/sejanus
Sejanus by Ben Jonson, performing 26 January, available online for a week. You can book tickets, in person or online, via this handy link. www.redbulltheater.com/sejanus
14.01.2026 09:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Over on the patreon we have an early access release of a chat with Nathan Winkelstein of Red Bull Theater about the upcoming Revelation Reading of Sejanus by Ben Jonson. It will be live streamed on the 26th, and available for a week after. Full pod drop Friday! www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
14.01.2026 09:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely extraordinary - and hugely welcome: a great archive collection of Ibsen productions and docs coming to BBC Four and iPlayer; the earliest is the 1953 (!) Lady from the Sea with Irene Worth and Robert Harris, produced by Harold Clayton.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The show will feature performances of the text, panels, and more! You can sign up for early access tickets (going fast) and keep up to speed with future shows from us (and others who engage with the period) by popping along to our live events page on the website. beyondshakespeare.org/live-events/
13.01.2026 10:04 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
😫We're still recovering from our performance of Pierce Penniless the other week, but we're already preparing our next live event. A deep dive into The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece, the manuscript of a play originated by Anthony Munday, whereupon the pile on started. More info in next post
13.01.2026 10:04 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Bookes are like Cheese, that is neuer well seasoned to euery mans tast; for one will say it is too salt, another wil say it is too fresh, a thirde will say it is to tart, another thinkes it to be too milde; one will haue it too hard, another too soft, another too tough, another too brittle, it neuer pleaseth euery mans tast; no more do Bookes.
Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"
06.01.2026 12:56 — 👍 259 🔁 86 💬 7 📌 11
🔊Latest early access release for the wonderful patrons - it's a chat about... yes, you've guessed it... A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. Again!
But wait, this time it's with other people who've staged the play. Which is lovely.♟️
www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
Meanwhile, over on the Exploring sessions, we just released a Second Look at The Conversion of Saint Paul.
🐴Good horse🐴
youtu.be/DshbYMFBBcw
😈It's the morning of Tuesday 6th of January, and somewhere a group of players are gathering to rehearse Pierce Penniless: His Supplication to the Devil by Thomas Nashe. It is cold outside (but devilishly warm within) as they navigate the questions: what to cut, what to keep, and where is the coffee?
06.01.2026 09:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊More Cony-catching! We're onto The Third and Last part of Cony-catching (spoilers, it's not) and @robertcrighton.bsky.social and Michelle Michel continue their journey through the Elizabethan criminal underground. #TrueCrime? #Crime #Elizabethan www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
05.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-
