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A Proclamation Declaring the Undoubted Right of our Sovereign Lord King James to the Crown of the Realms of England, France and Ireland, from March 1603.

A reading of the proclamation made shortly after the death of Elizabeth the First in March 1603. Performed by Robert Crighton

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Chess Pieces: Exploring A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton
A planning session for our future productions of A Game at Chess by Middleton. We focus on the big scenes of the play (Act 2.1, 3.1 & 5.3), where there are more speakers than an audio adaptation might like to have in a single sequence. Can we conflate characters? What do we need to explicate some of the business? And what noises do chess pieces make?

With Eric Karoulla as White Knight, Black King; Alan Scott as Black Bishop; Elizabeth Amisu as White King, White Bishop's Pawn, Black Jesting Pawn; Rachael Nicole as White Queen, White Duke; Helen Good as Fat Bishop, White Knight's Pawn, Black Queen's Pawn; Briony Sparrow as White Queen's Pawn, Black Duke; Lynn Freitas as White Bishop, Black Queen.

The host was Robert Crighton, who also read the Black Knight.

Our initial First Look Exploring Session can be found on our YouTube channel - feel free to browse, like, subscribe - and all that malarky. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJWOdHzBzkdJXtRR7UkydSW

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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It's a mini double bill, with Robert wittering on about the new patreon voted play/workshop series - followed by another 'lost' discussing episode. It's a bittersweet convo with Beth Burns about Hidden Room Theatre's production of Arden of Faversham, which was supposed to come to the UK - but this was recorded pre-pandemic and... well, things didn't turn out the way everyone hoped. But, there is a good chat about early modern theatre in revival and Arden specifically, so good stuff.

The Hidden Room Theatre page on Arden of Faversham is here - http://hiddenroomtheatre.com/past/arden-of-faversham/

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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This is our spoilerly introduction to the Chester Temptation play - with the Woman Taken in Adultery. It is play 12 of the Chester cycle, which we've danced around as a sequence a fair amount since our inception. 
The forthcoming full cast audio adaptation has been produced by the wonderful Dashingly Quirky, one of a number of upcoming works we've commissioned. The full cast audio adaptation follows in a few weeks time.
!Spoilers! is hosted by Robert Crighton, featuring the voices of...
Satan - Robert Cudmore
Jesus - Karim Kronfli
Doctor - Méabh de Brún Maeve de Brun
Pharisee 1 - Fiona MacKinnon
Pharisee 2 - Emily C. A. Snyder
Woman - Sarah Golding
Play text directed by Sarah Golding & Fiona Thraille.
The upcoming production of The Temptation was produced by Fiona Thraille and Sarah Golding and is a Dashingly Quirky Production for the Beyond Shakespeare podcast.

We've done a lot on Chester and Temptation plays...
Chester Playlist - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4623693-the-chester-mystery-cycle
There's another Temptation from the N-Town text here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDIvat2NYPQ
And there's John Bale's alternative later take on the Temptation here...  https://audioboom.com/posts/7181363-exploring-the-temptation-by-john-bale
Or, differently, on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1SXyTt9quc

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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This is a bonus episode of interviews with the youth company of last year's Lord Mayor's Show reconstruction of The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton. This is pretty much the last of our material from the show - new shows to come!
Many thanks to Charlie Beer, Holly Bartlett Giles, Quinn Scott, and Sam Plumb for giving their time to this project and that interview – the interview was recorded at Chesterton Community College in November 2021.

More on this LMS, and our reconstruction of the event, can be found here - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-sun-in-aries-recon/

Previous podcasts on the 1621 LMS include this intro to our reconstruction - https://audioboom.com/posts/7961092-reconstructing-middleton-s-1621-lord-mayor-s-show
And this recording of the live event - https://audioboom.com/posts/8000607-triumph-1621-live-recording-of-the-sun-in-aries-recon
And this !Spoilers! episode, walking you through the whole text in detail - https://audioboom.com/posts/8137014-spoilers-the-sun-in-aries-by-thomas-middleton-1621-lord-mayor-s-show

Videos of the Triumph 1621 Reconstruction (low quality) can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJnnmvfHrmUBcerTSZ3uP49
Video of the initial First Look exploring session (as per second half of this episode) can be found here - https://youtu.be/nPHTWH4GBgk
Videos of works by Thomas Middleton can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKAT8ej_crYtxo6nvzB0wVi
Videos exploring the Lord Mayor's Show can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIA2ktcBFPPnb6Eqss2So5k

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 this very special !Spoilers! episode, covering The Sun in Aries by Thomas Middleton - it goes through the text in the usual stop/start way, with a mix of readings from our prep for the live recon, plus the original exploring session in full. It's everything you didn't need to know under one roof. I have yet to do a final pass over the audio, so some tweaking will occur prior to final release.

With Tracey Hill, Perry Mills, Daniel Yabut, Stephen Longstaffe, Liza Graham, Gregory Musson, Eric Karoulla, Rachael Nicole and Angela McShane. Additional reading thanks to Charlie Beer, Holly Bartlett Giles, Quinn Scott, and Sam Plumb of the youth company for the reconstruction.
The episode is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton

More on this LMS, and our reconstruction of the event, can be found here - https://beyondshakespeare.org/triumph-1621-sun-in-aries-recon/

Previous podcasts on the 1621 LMS include this intro to our reconstruction - https://audioboom.com/posts/7961092-reconstructing-middleton-s-1621-lord-mayor-s-show
And this recording of the live event - https://audioboom.com/posts/8000607-triumph-1621-live-recording-of-the-sun-in-aries-recon

Videos of the Triumph 1621 Reconstruction (low quality) can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoJnnmvfHrmUBcerTSZ3uP49
Video of the initial First Look exploring session (as per second half of this episode) can be found here - https://youtu.be/nPHTWH4GBgk
Videos of works by Thomas Middleton can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoKAT8ej_crYtxo6nvzB0wVi
Videos exploring the Lord Mayor's Show can be found here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIA2ktcBFPPnb6Eqss2So5k

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 remixed combination of the two fragmentary play texts, Temperance and Humility and The Four Cardinal Virtues - using the material we recorded for the two separate plays. We think, whilst the match isn't quite perfect, that the similarity of the two texts means we can slot them together, and one day use these fragments to construct a longer, fuller version for performance.

In Temperance and other Virtues – Disobedience who becomes Fortitude was played by Gillian Horgan, Temperance by Pamela Flanagan, Humility by Leigh McDonald, Wilfulness by Robert Crighton, Justice by Geir Madland, and Prudence by Liza Graham.

Recording and technical presentation was by Robert Crighton

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

Discussing: Look About You with Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor Emerita of the University of Delaware. Yes, it's time for a nice chat with YouTube regular Lois Potter about one of our favourite plays - Look About You, or Robin Hood: The Early Years.

We've done exploring sessions on Look About You on YouTube here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIR0raF2UFZ6J8lyzEhyAha

We've done, at the least, a first look exploring run at all the Robin Hood plays, plus more for select others. 
Full Cast Audio Adaptation on the Podcast:Robin Hood and the Sheriff/Knight - https://audioboom.com/posts/7124367-robin-hood-and-the-sheriff

Robin Hood and the Friar - https://audioboom.com/posts/7114942-robin-hood-and-the-friar

Robin Hood and the Potter - https://audioboom.com/posts/7120136-robin-hood-and-the-potter

YouTube videos: General Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLajx9vcZ7Vtw07YsJgY8FD

Edward I by George Peele - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoI-6hCF_T_COL-JP6mZfzye

George-a-Greene - First & Second Look videos - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLRO4JytErVlpau9mru68Fj

Also, Fantasy Production Meeting episode - https://audioboom.com/posts/8030320-fantasy-production-meeting-ep-2-george-a-greene

Robin Hood p1 (Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIegZlY2hi9JYMxPtkjNkG0

Robin Hood p2 (Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIegZlY2hi9JYMxPtkjNkG0

The Sad Shepherd by Ben Jonson - https://youtu.be/jRuk3DM6NIQ

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

It's another exciting fragments episode - The Four Cardinal Virtues was written sometime between 1537-47. This is a ridiculously long episode for the length of the fragment, but we don't care; no play left behind! There will be a bonus episode doing a link up with Temperance and Humility, which feels very close to this play, soon.

In The Four Cardinal Virtues by the Unknown
Robert Crighton was Wilfulness, Geir Madland was Justice, Pamela Flanagan was Temperance, Liza Graham was Prudence and Gillian Horgan was Fortitude.

Recording and technical presentation was by Robert Crighton

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

Discussing: Robin Hood, Outlaws in Drama with special guest Dr. Liz Oakley-Brown.
First of four lost discussing episodes that we should have released ages ago, but a number of reasons - plague/technical problems/inertia - led to delay after delay. But here we are. A chat about Robin Hood in all the plays.

We've done, at the least, a first look exploring run at all the Robin Hood plays, plus more for select others. 
Full Cast Audio Adaptation on the Podcast:Robin Hood and the Sheriff/Knight - https://audioboom.com/posts/7124367-robin-hood-and-the-sheriff

Robin Hood and the Friar - https://audioboom.com/posts/7114942-robin-hood-and-the-friar

Robin Hood and the Potter - https://audioboom.com/posts/7120136-robin-hood-and-the-potter

YouTube videos: General Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLajx9vcZ7Vtw07YsJgY8FD

Edward I by George Peele - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoI-6hCF_T_COL-JP6mZfzye

George-a-Greene - First & Second Look videos - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLRO4JytErVlpau9mru68Fj

Also, Fantasy Production Meeting episode - https://audioboom.com/posts/8030320-fantasy-production-meeting-ep-2-george-a-greene

Robin Hood p1 (Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIegZlY2hi9JYMxPtkjNkG0

Robin Hood p2 (Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIegZlY2hi9JYMxPtkjNkG0

Look About You - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoIR0raF2UFZ6J8lyzEhyAha

The Sad Shepherd by Ben Jonson - https://youtu.be/jRuk3DM6NIQ

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