Beyond Shakespeare

A look at the epilogue to The Fawn, or Parasitaster by John Marston, performed by Fiona Thraille. 
Our First Look Exploring sessions on the complete play can be found on our Tube of You channel - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIaZAtWIC3NOYTXU2nd2I_a
The epilogue is performed by Fiona Thraille - a British voice actor, narrator and audio producer who has worked in voiceover, podcasts, and who has narrated and produced over a dozen audiobooks through Audible. She is the founder and producer of Dashing Onions Audio - an audio drama podcast, was co-host and producer of the Audio Drama Production Podcast for a year, and has given lectures and presentations on aspects of audio drama podcast creation.

Our patrons received this episode in February 2023 - approx. 1 year and 2 months early. (It was released in part about three years prior to that... we're getting ahead here.)
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Welcome to this edited version of our live discussion of The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton
It was an online event celebrating the publication of The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024
Featuring Drs Will Green, Anna L. Hegland, Sam Jermy; with host Robert Crighton.

You can purchase the book online at... https://www.routledge.com/The-Theatrical-Legacy-of-Thomas-Middleton-1624-2024/Green-Hegland-Jermy/p/book/9781032556093

For more info on all our events for this play, go to our Game at Chess webpage.

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 marks the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624), presenting readers with a celebration of the impact and lasting salience of Middleton's body of dramatic works from 1624 up to the present day. This live event brings the editors of this collection together to discuss Middleton, and the book they have produced.

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 marks the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624), presenting readers with a celebration of the impact and lasting salience of Middleton's body of dramatic works from 1624 up to the present day. The collection is divided into three sections: ‘Critical and Textual Reception’, ‘Afterlives and Legacies’, and ‘Practice and Performance’. This division reflects the book’s holistic approach to Middleton’s dramatic canon, and its emphasis on the continuing significance of Middleton’s writing to the study of early modern English drama. The book offers an assessment of the place of Middleton’s drama in culture, criticism, and education today, through a variety of critical approaches. Featuring work from a range of voices (from early career, independent, and seasoned academics and practitioners), this collection will be of interest to specialists in early modern literature and drama who are interested in both theory and practice, and students or scholars researching Middleton’s historical significance to the study of early theatre.

Dr. Will Green is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham, and an associate tutor in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in 2021, and his work has appeared in journals including Exchanges, Theatre Notebook, and Critical Survey.
Dr Anna L. Hegland is an advisor in The Aspire Center and adjunct professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She earned a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from the University of Kent in 2022. Her research examines the intertwining of rhetoric and action in early modern English theatre during moments of staged violence, combining textual and practice-based methods to think about enactment and embodiment then and now. Her work is published in the British Shakespeare Association’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Symbolism, and a chapter on Middleton appears in the recent edited collection Boundaries of Violence (Routledge, 2023).
Dr. Sam Jermy is an independent researcher whose research explores the ways that masculinities are imagined, staged, articulated, and problematised across Thomas Middleton’s body of work. They have published reviews in Shakespeare Bulletin and Urban History, and appeared as a guest on several podcasts including That Shakespeare Life and The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast.

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.

At last, it's the last of the big pre-plague audio recordings to come through the machine. It's...
The World and the Child, or Mundus et Infans by the Unknown. 
With Sarah Golding as The World, Robert Crighton as Infans to Age, Rob Myson as Age, Hugh Weller-Poley as Folly, and Fiona Thraille as Perseverance. 
Technical presentation by Robert Crighton, with additional sfx from https://www.zapsplat.com/

Earlier exploring session on the podcast can be found here - https://audioboom.com/posts/7413235-exploring-mundus-et-infans
YouTube First and Second look sessions here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLGMp3bRtUBO0KY_38X0vnc

Our patrons received this episode in February 2024 - approx. 2 months early.
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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 Four: The second time of the Spirit appearing to Faustus in his house and their parley.
 
Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text -  join our chat here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/76209410

Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com
Our patrons received this episode in June 2023 - approx. 7 months early.
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

This is the first of a three part series looking at The Shrewsbury Fragments - this is fragment number one, a Shepherds play.
This clears the very earliest surviving material, clearing a path towards the late medieval plays, that survive in greater abundance. 
In The Shrewsbury Shepherds by the Unknown
Third Shepherd was played by Fiona Thraille, with Simon Nader as the cue.
The host was Robert Crighton

Our patrons received this episode in Nov 2023 - approx. 5 months early.
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This week it's the live discussion about Richard III in literature, The Road to Bosworth Field, as recorded at the Quay Theatre at Sudbury on Thursday 20th July 2023, following our live performance of Bosworth Field by Sir John Beaumont.

With host Robert Crighton were Doctor Jitka Štollová & Doctor Stephen Longstaffe, with additional readings by Sarah Golding and Karim Kronfli

Our patrons received this episode in August 2023 - approx. 7 months early.
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And as a bit of a run up to our next live show The Fall of Richard II, we have a chat with Professor Scott C. Lucas about A Mirror for Magistrates, which he edited in a fine modern edition in 2019, published by Cambridge University Press.
If you'd like to hear more about Beware the Cat, we have another episode just for you.

Our patrons received this episode in February 2024 - approx. 2 months early.
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Welcome to Bosworth Field by Sir John Beaumont, recorded live at the Quay Theatre at Sudbury.
The second half of the evening - The Road to Bosworth Field - will drop very soon.

Bosworth Field by Sir John Beaumont was hosted by Robert Crighton, sound recorded by Jack Lawson of the Quay Theatre. Many thanks to Joe Fawcett, Sharon Buckler, and the team at the Quay for helping make this show possible.

Cast
Pamela Flanagan – Narrator for King Richard
Karim Kronfli – Narrator for Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond
Sarah Golding – The Ghost of Henry VI, Ferrers, Hungerford
Gillian Horgan – Richmond, Earl of Surrey (Norfolk’s son), Bourchier
Heydn McCabe – Thomas Stanley, Byron, Talbot
Simon Nader – King Richard III
Rob Myson – Duke of Norfolk (father to Surrey), Clifton
Stephen Longstaffe – Brakenbury, Oxford
Kit McGuire – Catesby, Narrator for the French, Percy, Scout

Special thanks to Doctor Jitka Štollová for assisting in all our work on Richard III texts.
Also thanks to the Beyond Shakespeare online group who’ve contributed to making this piece come to life through our exploring sessions - Alan Scott, Eric Karoulla, Liza Graham, Emma Kemp, Gina Moravec, Lynn Freitas, Aliki Chapple, Lois Potter, Rachel Warburton, Gregory Musson.

Our patrons received this episode in August 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
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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 Three: The conference of Doctor Faustus with his Spirit Mephostophiles the morning following at his own house.
 
 Our patrons also get an exploring session looking in detail at the text -  join our chat here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/76209306

Thunder sfx thanks to zapsplat.com
Our patrons received this episode in July 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
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The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

A chat about The World and the Child or, Mundus et Infans, with Professor Greg Walker - who you will remember many a chat about John Heywood on the pod. We're turning the clock back a little bit for a play that survives in print from 1522, but precise dating of production is less clear. Spoilers on the play are already available, and the full cast audio to follow soon.
This episode features clips from the upcoming production, featuring performances by Sarah Golding as the World, Rob Myson as Conscience, Hugh Weller-Poley as Folly and Fiona Thraille as Perseverance. A playlist of all the audio we have on The World and the Child can be heard here.
There's also an excerpt from The Chester Fall of Lucifer play with Trevor Laver as Lucifer - the full episode can be heard here.
These clips include some effects from zapsplat.com

Our patrons received this episode in January 2024 - approx. 3 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.