Tom Harrison talks about the works of Aphra Behn with Elaine Hobby and Claire Bowditch, two of the general editors of the new Cambridge Edition of Aphra Behn (published 2021-5). Topics include The Rover, authorial personas, cheeky chimney sweeps, the exci

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Professor Nandini Das and Preti Taneja introduce us to the TIDE project, which asks how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity based on cultural identification and difference. We hear in particular a

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Harry McCarthy explores the relationship between theatre history and contemporary performance as a way of learning about the past.

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Anne G. Morgan talks to Emma Whipday about why dramaturgy is like cartography, new writing, how literature connects us, and what a dramaturg actually does

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Artist and theatre-maker E. M. Parry and design historian Ella Hawkins tell us about acts of 'worlding', of world-creation, visual dramaturgy and material-making. They shift us away from traditional ways of seeing theatre design as secondary to text, a be

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Last month, archaeologist Stephen White of University College London announced the discovery of the Red Lion site, an often-forgotten Elizabethan playhouse that is the earliest we know of. Theatre historian Holger Syme discusses the implications of this d

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Sophie Russell tells us about clowning and performing Shakespeare, especially playing Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe

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Sathnam Sanghera tells us about his new book, Empireland, on the historical and contemporary legacy of the British Empire. Sathnam's book asks where the history of empire sits in the UK's current education system and cultural debate, at a time when concep

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Happy Canada Day! In celebration, Canada's finest and wisest queer poetics professor tells us about his new book, Shakespeare and Queer Representation and literature as an art of construction and decoration, an 'aesthetically-ambitious art made out of wor

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Will Tosh, Research Fellow and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe, talks to Emma Whipday about little-known Elizabethan sonneteer (and friend of Shakespeare) Richard Barnfield, sexual identity, literature as consolation and why sexual desire is like a nest o

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