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Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
๐Exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's another dive into the Elizabethan underworld from the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene. Of a crafty mate, that brought two young men unto a Tavern... #Crime #TrueCrime?
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๐Exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's another dive into the Elizabethan underworld from the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene. Of a crafty mate, that brought two young men unto a Tavern... #Crime #TrueCrime?
www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
drwillgreen.co.uk ๐
I've had a varied year in 2025 so I'm now rolling out my independent research and heritage consultancy site.
If you have any teaching or speaking needs, whether in an academic or museums setting, I may be your guy: get in touch at WDGreen.Research@gmail.com ๐
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Of the many problems with that version of Greene, the running gag that Friar Bacon is a bad play is perhaps the most annoying.
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If you want to support our production of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, or any of the hundreds of plays we are honour bound to make happen, then why not become a patron. Lots of bonus and early access stuff every week! And next vote, you get to choose! #JoinUs
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Find out more about the runners and riders for the 2025 vote on our website - the race was a close run thing, with a tie-break situation to choose the final winner. beyondshakespeare.org/the-big-vote/
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๐จThe winner of the patreon vote this year was...
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene. We will now begin the groundwork to make this into a full cast audio adaptation over the next year or so, and maybe some of the runners up will go into production too.
#patreon #vote
The results have been tabulated, the answer to the question has been given. We have our next project for 2026. And it's... in this episode of the podcast!
Oh, alright, here it is in emojis.
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More on this in the future...
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๐Todays bonus exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's more from Higgins' iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates, and today we have reached King Locrinus, who is taken down by his wife Guendoline. โ๏ธWhilst eating bread and butter. Probably.๐ #history #kinda www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
01.12.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels ๐ including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun.
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
๐ฌMeanwhile, dropping on the YouTube this week, it's The Elder Brother by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. People in the room enjoyed it a lot, so there must be something interesting going on. More #exploring sessions every week - subscribe to keep up to date! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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๐Another chapter has been added to our ongoing reading of the book of Doctor John Faustus - with 22 chapters now on the playlist, and almost as many available on our patreon feed. More of this Damnable Life, and Deserved Death, each month. ๐ #devilish #ContractLaw audioboom.com/playlists/46...
02.12.2025 10:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels ๐ including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun.
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
๐It's that time of year again, for the Christmas lights to go on and the festive season to officially begin.
Here's an Early Modern version of the lights on ceremony, except with more threatening of vengeful newts for those unfestive of spirit. #xmas #christmas #newts audioboom.com/posts/842640...
๐Another chapter has been added to our ongoing reading of the book of Doctor John Faustus - with 22 chapters now on the playlist, and almost as many available on our patreon feed. More of this Damnable Life, and Deserved Death, each month. ๐ #devilish #ContractLaw audioboom.com/playlists/46...
02.12.2025 10:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐It's that time of year again, for the Christmas lights to go on and the festive season to officially begin.
Here's an Early Modern version of the lights on ceremony, except with more threatening of vengeful newts for those unfestive of spirit. #xmas #christmas #newts audioboom.com/posts/842640...
๐Todays bonus exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's more from Higgins' iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates, and today we have reached King Locrinus, who is taken down by his wife Guendoline. โ๏ธWhilst eating bread and butter. Probably.๐ #history #kinda www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
01.12.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Albion Knight - an exposition of how opportunists and grifters will find ways to power through divide and conquer tactics, disrupting the normal checks and balances. The surviving text of this play is mostly set up, so we don't even get the comfort of a happy ending. audioboom.com/posts/880417...
28.11.2025 09:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Albion Knight - an exposition of how opportunists and grifters will find ways to power through divide and conquer tactics, disrupting the normal checks and balances. The surviving text of this play is mostly set up, so we don't even get the comfort of a happy ending. audioboom.com/posts/880417...
28.11.2025 09:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Latest early access release, it's the post show discussion following our live recording of Thyestes by Seneca (see last week) with @robertcrighton.bsky.social, Helen Good & Simon Nader chatting about the historical moment of the translation and performing the text. ๐ฅง www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
26.11.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐More exclusives for our patrons - and this week it's another jest from The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham.
Sometimes a grasshopper is not Satan.
Sometimes the grasshopper is just a grasshopper.
#audio #jest #comedy?
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๐Meanwhile, over on our patreon feed, more archiving from our Entertaining Henry season - with full audio and video of dress and some live performance of Bale's Temptation and Heywood's Gentleness and Nobility. #SupportUs #JoinUs #BehindTheScenes www.patreon.com/posts/entert...
22.11.2025 13:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Meanwhile, over on our patreon feed, more archiving from our Entertaining Henry season - with full audio and video of dress and some live performance of Bale's Temptation and Heywood's Gentleness and Nobility. #SupportUs #JoinUs #BehindTheScenes www.patreon.com/posts/entert...
22.11.2025 13:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐Let's talk about printing, printing and publishing, printing and publishing plays - and specifically let's talk about John Danter. (We were going to talk about Fair Em, but then we didn't.) Fun discussion with Michelle Michel and host @robertcrighton.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/880417...
21.11.2025 09:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Just begun dropping on the YouTube channel, it's our First Look at A New Wonder A Woman Never Vexed by William Rowley. Terrible title, but not a terrible play. Discuss. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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๐Our wonderful patrons get early access to the whole of our Wyrd Revels season early. Today we release our rough edit of Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. The recording includes the pre-show and more. Join us and listen now! #AudioDrama #SupportUs
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
๐Our wonderful patrons get early access to the whole of our Wyrd Revels season early. Today we release our rough edit of Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. The recording includes the pre-show and more. Join us and listen now! #AudioDrama #SupportUs
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
๐ณ๏ธWell, the votes are in, and there was a tie - but the tie break rules worked well and we have a firm winner of our next patreon project.
Oh, you'd like us to tell you?
Might have a wait a little bit for that...
Not long...
A day or twelve...
We'll see...
Have you been good?
๐Early and exclusive access to more from Doctor John Faustus - the book that became a play. Chapter 40 - How Doctor Faustus through his charms made a great Castle in presence of the Duke of Anholt. More next month! #DoctorFaustus #drama #storytelling #audio www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
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๐ปLatest exploring sessions dropping on our YouTube channel this week - The Ghost or, The Woman Wears the Breeches. More videos dipping into plays for the first time every week - why not subscribe and keep up to date. #drama #theatre #exploring #beyond #ghost
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