Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama

EXTRA, EXTRA! EXTRA SPECIAL INTERVIEW!

This time Colin and Emily sit down and talk form, drama, poetry — what it is, what it does, and *why* —with Chicago multi-hyphenate writer, translator, performer and (in our professional opinion) hidden gem, Robert Eric Shoemaker!

NOTE: Recorded Nov. 2024.

GUEST BIO:Robert Eric Shoemaker (he/him) is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. His book, Magical Poetics: The Magic of Language and Real-World Effect Poetry, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He is the author of Ca’Venezia (Partial Press, 2021), an artist’s book of hybrid writing and visual art; We Knew No Mortality (Acta Publications, 2018), poetry and memoir; and the poetry chapbook 30 Days Dry (Thought Collection Publishing 2015).

CONTENT: Very brief and sensitive discussion of sexual trauma later on in discussing Eric’s ever-evolving Tiresias cycle. Approx. time stamp: 1h 30m.

WEBSITE: reshoemaker.com

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE: https://newplayexchange.org/users/95195/robert-shoemaker

Join us for a very special conversation with NYC verse dramatist and friend, Duncan Pflaster as we trace his journey from blank verse to experimental poetry, in service of heart and humor. More interviews to come as we kick off our fifth year of exploring verse drama.

NOTE: This was recorded in late 2022.

CONTENT: Frank discussion of sexuality throughout. Brief mention of sexual assault and the #MeToo movement as it pertains to one of Duncan's plays (~55 minutes in). Brief discussion of suicide as it pertains to Duncan's modernization of Romeo and Juliet.

WEBSITE: https://www.duncanpflaster.com/

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE: https://newplayexchange.org/users/1657/duncan-pflaster

It's our season finale, y'all!...Kinda. Today, we cover plays between Kind Edward to Queen Elizabeth I, as we wrap up the season on this feed, before finishing our season properly on the Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast.

Big thanks to Rob Crighton of Beyond Shakes for guiding us through this season. We're excited to share the remainder of the season (including the introduction of blank verse, iambic pentameter, and prose!) on the Beyond Shakes Podcast feed.

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Welcome to our penultimate episode of Season Four, as we continue our journey through Anglophone verse drama. Today, our H2H hosts Emily and Colin, joined by Rob Crighton of the Beyond Shakespeare Company, get a little silly and imagine muppets performing the flurry of fragments from the 1550's.

Make sure you're subscribed to the Beyond Shakespeare Company Podcast feed to continue the second half of our season, as we look at the first iambic pentameter and blank verse plays, as well as the first "prose" plays in English. (Episodes on the BSC Podcast starting August 2024)

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It's time for what Rob Crighton is calling the "most theatrical play ever written!" Get ready for a second look at John Heywood's play...and let us know what you think.

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We're continuing through the beginnings of print culture with John Rastell and John Heywood. Season Four we're examining the origins of Anglophone drama, in crossover with the Beyond Shakespeare Company Podcast!

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Today we're excited to bring you the Tudor master of rhyme, John Skelton and his short and shouty Skeltonics! Thanks to Rob of the Beyond Shakespeare Company for guiding us this season through the history of English verse drama!

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We're back with the Beyond Shakespeare Podcast to (finally!) look at early Tudor drama. Specifically, we're looking at Rhyme Royal, which you can learn more about here!

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What was the importance of manuscripts, and the impact of the printing press on late Medieval drama? This episode introduces our first named playwright, John Lydgate, and his 1465 play, "Mankind."

Rob Crighton of the Beyond Shakespeare Company continues this tour through the History of English Verse Drama, along with your hosts Emily C. A. Snyder and Colin Kovarik.

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And now for something completely different:

H2H is partnering with the Beyond Shakespeare Company, and this time we're pleased to present the BSC's full audio cast production of "The Harrowing of Hell" - one of the very first Anglophone verse dramas, from around 1250 CE.

We'll be back soon with the beginning of the Tudor period as we continue to explore the history of English drama. In the meantime, you can listen to our exploratory session with this text and other Medieval dramas in S4 E1: the Earliest English Verse Drama: http://www.hamlettohamilton.com/s4e1.html

Beyond Shakespeare: https://beyondshakespeare.org/