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The Jests of George Peele - Episode 11: A Jest of George, riding to Oxford.
Performed by Sarah Blake

A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books.
Music by Tom Cowell.
Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast.

Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake

The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Our patrons received this episode first in December 2022 - seven months early. 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.

More !Spoilers! from The Tragedy of Antony as translated by Mary Sidney from the play by Robert Garnier.
This fourth !Spoilers! episode, works through Act 4, followed by a plain text recording of the Act. The full cast audio adaptation will drop later in the year.

With Simon Nader as Caesar, and Hugh Weller-Poley as Agrippa, Rob Myson as Dircetus/Lucilius and Geir Madland as the chorus.

If you're interested in more plays by women writers from the period, why not dip into The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631219-the-tragedy-of-mariam-by-elizabeth-cary
There is of course a full Tragedy of Antony playlist with all our work on the podcast to date - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4630912-the-tragedy-of-antony

Our patrons received this episode in June 2023 - 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
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.

It's discussing time - this week it's a chat about Every Man Out of His Humour by Ben Jonson, which is getting a production in a couple of weeks in Stratford-upon-Avon. The director is Dr Josh Caldicott, and we have a spoiler free and a spoilerific discussion of the play.

The show is performing from 27th to 30th September at the Bear Pit Theatre - tickets can be purchased here - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/sweet-sorrow-theatre-company/every-man-out-of-his-humour/e-xrarjk
The theatre company Sweet Sorrow can be found here - https://www.sweetsorrowtc.com/our-productions

Our First Look exploring sessions on the play can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKz_-l-i9_Shy_AfacbQ0iC&si=roFpuw_EP-TdfQ7N

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 you can 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.

More !Spoilers! from The Tragedy of Antony as translated by Mary Sidney from the play by Robert Garnier.
This third !Spoilers! episode, works through Act 3, followed by a plain text recording of the Act. The full cast audio adaptation will drop later in the year.

With Heydn McCabe as Mark Antony, Rob Myson as Lucilius, plus Robert Crighton and Gillian Horgan as the chorus.

If you're interested in more plays by women writers from the period, why not dip into The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631219-the-tragedy-of-mariam-by-elizabeth-cary
There is of course a full Tragedy of Antony playlist with all our work on the podcast to date - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4630912-the-tragedy-of-antony

Our patrons received this episode in May 2023 - 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
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.

It's time for a discussion of John Fletcher's Roman plays, with Domenico Lovascio, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa, who has written two books in this area. John Fletcher's Rome and a new edition of The False One, a play by Fletcher and Massinger.
They are both excellent texts - and I wasn't paid to say that, though I did get freebies for this episode so I might be biased. Both books are available via the below links. Manchester University Press have a mailing list, and if you join that, there are discounts available I believe.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526151636/the-false-one/
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157386/john-fletchers-rome/

Domenico Lovascio is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics for the Revels Plays Companion Library and the editor of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One for the Revels Plays. He is the Italian advisor to the Oxford edition of The Complete Works of John Marston, a member of the editorial board of the journal Shakespeare, and a contributing editor to the forthcoming Collected Works of Thomas Kyd and Collected Plays of Robert Greene. He also edited the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and a special issue of Shakespeare on ‘Shakespeare: Visions of Rome’. In 2020 he received the Ben Jonson Discoveries Award for outstanding contribution to The Ben Jonson Journal. His critical edition of Thierry and Theodoret by Fletcher, Massinger, and Field is forthcoming in the Revels Plays.

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 Jests of George Peele - Episode 10: How George Peele served half a score Citizens.
Performed by Sarah Blake

A full audiobook reading, performed by Sarah Blake of Sounds Curious Productions, released monthly - followed by an omnibus version. Our patrons have received early access to nearly all the episodes so far, and have exclusive access to our exploring sessions and discussion of the text - join us on the patreon to get more from the world of jest books.
Music by Tom Cowell.
Produced by Sounds Curious Productions for the Beyond Podcast.

Sarah Blake discusses the project with Robert Crighton on the podcast here - https://audioboom.com/posts/8194838-discussing-the-jests-of-george-peele-with-sarah-blake

The jests can be found variously online, though none of the ones we looked at were very tidy or void of errors - this is a fairly good option, but feel free to hunt. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/peele1.html

The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Our patrons received this episode first in January 2023 - seven months early. 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.

A quick round up of the shows we have coming up - with early bird discount tickets for our Winter Revels now online - book now to avoid disappointment.
Book your Early Bird Season Tickets here!
The Beyond Shakespeare Winter Revels 2023
A Season of Tragedy, History, True Crime, Literature & Comedy
Tuesday: Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe – a tragedy
Wednesday: Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel – a history play
Thursday: Arden of Faversham by the Unknown – a true crime thriller
Friday: Beware the Cat by William Baldwin - a Gothic horror story of talking cats
Saturday: The Old Wives' Tale by George Peele - the original shaggy dog story for a winter's night.
Performing 12th to 16th December 2023 at The White Bear Theatre, Kennington
138 Kennington Park Rd, London SE11 4DJ
Book your Early Bird Season Tickets here!

Or there are two free events coming up...
🔊〰️Live Audio Stream in October!
Occupation and Idleness - the earliest surviving interlude play – a ‘moral’ tale about how to educate young boys. Plus surprise bonus show!
Saturday 7th October at 2.30pm on YouTube
https://beyondshakespeare.org/live-events/ 

🔔 The Lord Mayor’s Show 1623 LIVE!
A live audio stream of the 1623 Lord Mayor’s Show, on Sunday 29th October at 2.30pm
Full coverage of the 400 year old event, fed into our studio via the latest scrying glass link up. Join your hosts John and Joan as they commentate on all the action, with guest Professor Tracey Hill in the studio, and behind the scenes chats with Thomas Middleton and Anthony Munday in the green room. Including the water pageant, the Triumphs of the Golden Fleece by Anthony Munday, and the street pageants The Triumph of Integrity by Thomas Middleton
Live streaming as audio on YouTube at 2.30pm on Sunday 29th October 2023
https://beyondshakespeare.org/live-events/ 

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.

More !Spoilers! from The Tragedy of Antony as translated by Mary Sidney from the play by Robert Garnier.
This second !Spoilers! episode, works through the rest of Act 2 (Cleopatra's first scene), followed by a plain text recording of scenes. The full cast audio adaptation will drop later in the year.

With Pamela Flanagan as Cleopatra, Sarah Golding as Eras, Leigh McDonald as Charmion, Geir Madland as Diomede and Robert Crighton and Gillian Horgan as the chorus.

If you're interested in more plays by women writers from the period, why not dip into The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631219-the-tragedy-of-mariam-by-elizabeth-cary
There is of course a full Tragedy of Antony playlist with all our work on the podcast to date - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4630912-the-tragedy-of-antony

Our patrons received this episode in May 2023 - 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
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.

We continue our series of explorations on the podcast with a deep dive into the play Arden of Faversham by the Unknown. We're looking at the final scenes, asking the question of how to adapt the text for an audio production. Which is coming to the stage for a live recording at the end of the year!

The host was Robert Crighton, with Gregory Musson, Liza Graham, Desna Mackenzie, Tom Helsby and Sarah Blake.

There's a First Look Exploring session of the play available on our YouTube channel, with more to come later in the year - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKNs8EPvSfIj1dqslTdwZdi

Our patrons received this episode in April 2023, four months earlier than this release.
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 first !Spoilers! episode of The Tragedy of Antony as translated by Mary Sidney from the play by Robert Garnier.
This first !Spoilers! episode, works through Act 1 and the opening of Act 2, followed by a plain text recording of the opening of the play. The full cast audio adaptation will drop later in the year.

With Heydn McCabe as Mark Antony, Mark Scanlon as Philostratus, and Robert Crighton, Pamela Flanagan and Seb Ranson as voices in the chorus.
The host was Robert Crighton

If you're interested in more plays by women writers from the period, why not dip into The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631219-the-tragedy-of-mariam-by-elizabeth-cary

Our patrons received this episode in April 2023 - 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.