Beyond Shakespeare

A discussion with Professor Elizabeth Schafer about The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary, and other plays. This, as you may have noticed by now, is part of a sequence of discussions about female playwrights, and might be leading up to something special further down the line. Or not. We're working on it.
The host was Robert Crighton

A full cast audio adaptation of Mariam, discussions of Mariam, and everything else we have on women writing in the pre-modern world can heard in full on our Dramatic Women playlist.

Our patrons received this episode in January 2024 - approx. 6 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Welcome to our !Spoilers! walk through of Beware the Cat by William Baldwin.
The audio recording of our live adaptation from the Revels season is available now - but it isn't on the pod for the moment. It can be listened to by signing up for free to our Patreon. Why so? In brief, I'm planning a full production of this show for next year, so I won't be releasing the audio on the podcast as per usual so as not to give away too easily a future production. So, for now, I'm holding it back on the patreon - albeit as a free access for sign ups. There will be more on this live show to come.

Part One can be heard here! Just sign up and listen!
Part Two can be heard here! Just sign up and listen!

This !Spoilers! episode features Robert Crighton as host and in the show, as well as material from our live show performed by Sarah Blake, Valentina Vinci and Alexandra Kataigida (on spoons). There are also clips from previous episodes of the pod, featuring Geir Madland, Sarah Golding, & Gillian Horgan.

An initial exploring session playlist - streamed live during lockdown - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJ_WZDPxuav1w6NgrCuivSK
Mentioned pod episodes -
Various Cat elements in Gammer Gurton's Needle - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4628938-gammer-gurton-s-needle
For the earlier example of the Dame and her 'magically' transformed daughter, Dame Sirith - https://audioboom.com/posts/8079017-dame-sirith-full-cast-audio-adaptation
For an example of anti-Catholic propaganda of the period - https://audioboom.com/posts/8242513-john-bon-and-master-parson-by-luke-shepherd-full-cast-audio-adaptation
Discussing: Beware the Cat with Dr Rachel Stenner - https://audioboom.com/posts/7252019-discussing-beware-the-cat
Discussing: A Mirror for Magistrates - also by William Baldwin - https://audioboom.com/posts/8456073-discussing-a-mirror-for-magistrates-with-prof-scott-c-lucas

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story.
Performed by Robert Crighton
Chapter Six: How Doctor Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warm ashes, and writ as followeth.
 
Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text - join our chat here.

Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com
Our patrons received this episode in August 2023 - approx. 10 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

Finale of a three part series looking at The Shrewsbury Fragments - this is fragment number three, a Pilgrims play.
This clears the very earliest surviving material, clearing a path towards the late medieval plays, that survive in greater abundance.

The Shrewsbury Pilgrims by the Unknown
With Alex Scott-Fairley as Cleophas, Valentina Vinci as Luke’s cue in, and Robert Crighton as the cues from Jesus.

The host was Robert Crighton

Our patrons received this episode in Nov 2023 - approx. 6 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Hello and welcome to this special presentation of Preist the Barber, based on a live streamed recording session from 2023.
This episode also comes in two full cast audio versions – the first is a relatively straightforward audio adaptation, which has a few sound effects, and then a sillier mix of the same presented as a studio comedy from the 1970’s with canned laughter track. Because nobodies laughing now.
In both versions of Preist the Barber by the Unknown
Liza Graham is Preist the Barber and Emma Kemp is Sweetball
Produced by Robert Crighton, with additional sound effects from www.zapsplat.com

Edit one (standard edit) opens the episode, edit two (canned laughter) starts from 9mins 20sec

Our patrons received this episode in January 2024 - approx. 4 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Hello!
Just a quick update on some things happening in the REAL WORLD. Yes, tickets are on sale now for… our next public live show Middleton’s Endgame: A Game at Chess LIVE!, running at The White Bear in Kennington on Sunday 11th August from 1pm till the evening. Tickets are on sale here!
It’s not just our live recording of A Game at Chess, it’s a whole pop up festival of Thomas Middleton, featuring his last performed works, including his most (in)famously successful play A Game at Chess, and his Lord Mayor’s Show for 1626. Following our successful Winter Revels run at the White Bear, Beyond returns for a day long event celebrating the work of Thomas Middleton at the end of his career. A Game at Chess, a play featuring chess pieces in a cold war, one side against the other, was performed nine times in a row in 1624, a scandalous event that ended his career. Beyond will be recording the play live for the podcast, as well as other works and material from the end of Middleton's career. With expert discussion, and even a whole Lord Mayor's Show, this is not to be missed.
There are 32 tickets now on general sale. Yes, the same as on a chess board. So, you will all be pieces in our little game.
Tickets available via Ticketsource - Book your tickets now!

Outline Events for the Day:
Setting up the Board… an overview of Thomas Middleton in the 1620’s, and the theatrical context for…
A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton – a live recording of the play with the Beyond company.
The Aftermath – a look into the scandal of A Game at Chess and the responses to it.
Lord Mayor’s Show 1626 by Thomas Middleton – an adaptation of Middleton’s last performed work.
Middleton’s Endgame – a panel discussion about everything that the day has covered.
So, book your tickets now – or go to our website beyondshakespeare.org for more info.
Sunday 11th August from 1pm till the evening, at The White Bear in Kennington.

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This is a discussion with Professor Marion Wynne-Davies about the collection of plays and documents, published in 1996, Renaissance Drama by Women, which was co-edited with S.P. Cerasano. Whilst it was published a fair while ago, it was this collection that began our work on these plays, and we're probably not alone.
This episode features clips from our audio adaptations of the plays in question, all of which can be heard in full on our Dramatic Women playlist.
The host was Robert Crighton, and additional voices include Simon Nader as Caesar in The Tragedy of Antony, Fiona Thraille from Elizabeth I's translation, and Pamela Flanagan as Cleopatra in The Tragedy of Antony translated by Mary Sidney, as well as Salome in The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary.

Our patrons received this episode in October 2023 - approx. 7 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

Welcome to another spoilerific walk through of our live streamed curio of Preist the Barber. It's a genuinely odd work which needs a lot of glossing - more than I have been able to do for this release. So, this might make more sense than the final full audio release. Because there's nothing funnier than someone laboriously explaining the jokes as they go.
With Liza Graham as Preist the Barber, and Emma Kemp as Sweetball.
The host was Robert Crighton

Our patrons received this episode in January 2024 - approx. 4 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton. 

The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, is the book that is the source for Christopher Marlowe's play. Chapter by chapter we will wander through the twists and turns of this story.
Performed by Robert Crighton
Chapter Five: The third parley between Doctor Faustus and Mephostophiles about a conclusion.
 
Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text -  join our chat here.

Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com
Our patrons received this episode in August 2023 - approx. 9 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

 Second of a three part series looking at The Shrewsbury Fragments - this is fragment number two, a Marys play.
This clears the very earliest surviving material, clearing a path towards the late medieval plays, that survive in greater abundance.
The Shrewsbury Mary's by the Unknown
Mary Three was played by Fiona Thraille, with Valentina Vinci as the cue.
The host was Robert Crighton

Our patrons received this episode in Nov 2023 - approx. 6 months early.
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.