Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama

Season Three is kicking off with an Unhinged Rant about the plays of T. S. Eliot.  Strap in for a wildly biased, barely scholarly, totally unhinged rant from Emily C. A. Snyder.  Hide the kids, and get out your popcorn.

The first two Unhinged Rants will be available for all listeners from your favorite podcatchers.  To access all the Unhinged Rants, become a patron on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/hamlettohamilton

Today's Unhinged Rant focuses on Eliot's view of his three major plays, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, and The Family Reunion.  The text used is On Poetry and Poets, essays by Eliot about...well poetry and verse drama and writing and other writers and things.  It's a very good read.  Even if Emily's copy is full of angry marginalia putting a certain poet in his place, TOM.  Book: https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Poets-FSG-Classics/dp/0374531978

Our patrons on Patreon have opened up another bonus episode for you!  This one from November 2020, when Colin and Emily sat down to chat more about the creation of this podcast, the Odyssey, and verse drama in general.

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(CW: frank discussion of coercion, sexual violence, and incest as they pertain to world mythology.)

Do you love Richard Hovey as much as our hosts do?  Because it's time to see how he did as he wrote his sequel to "The Marriage of Guenevere" with his "Birth of Galahad."  

This episode was previously only available to our patrons on Patreon.  Thanks to them, we're able to bring this episode to you!

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We sit down with Glyn Maxwell, esteemed poet, librettist, and verse playwright, to chat all things versical - particularly the intersection of the world of poetry and the stage.  

If you haven't, check out his On Poetry - an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about writing in verse.

To hear a bit of Cyrano de Bergarac by Maxwell, listen here.

To read Claire Helie's article on Glyn Maxwell, see Coup de Theatre.

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Our patrons on Patreon got to hear this full interview early.  Now you can hear it too!  Emily sits down with Daniel James Roth and two of his actor friends, Benedetto Robinson and Grace Beardsley, to read out selections his "Tragedy of King Arthur" (2019) and chat about it.

What was the process of writing for some of our living Arthurian playwrights?  How did they approach Lancelot and Guinevere?  Which books did they read?  What did they think of incorporating magic?  Listen to this Round Table of the Round Table, an interview with Lucy Nordberg (King Arthur 2009), Daniel James Roth (The Tragedy of Arthur 2019) and Emily C. A. Snyder (The Table Round and The Siege Perilous 2019), moderated by Colin Kovarik.

Season Two we're looking at Arthur Through the Ages, looking at how  English verse playwrights took on the King Arthur myth, from 1587-2019.

Show Notes and Texts: https://www.hamlettohamilton.com/s2e14.html

Support: http://www.patreon.com/hamlettohamilton

It's time for a spicy Lancelot and Guinevere with The Table Round and The Seige Perilous by our very own Emily C. A. Snyder, looking at the 2019 original workshop production script.

Content Warning: Today's play takes seriously questions of sex and consent.  The discussion will also briefly mention sexual coercion and the after effects of incest in the context of the Arthurian myth.

Season Two we're looking at Arthur Through the Ages, looking at how  English verse playwrights took on the King Arthur myth, from 1587-2019.

Show Notes and Texts: https://www.hamlettohamilton.com/s2e13.html

Support: http://www.patreon.com/hamlettohamilton

We've got an extra special episode with guest actors and the playwright himself as we take a look at The Tragedy of King Arthur (2019) by Daniel James Roth.

Season Two we're looking at Arthur Through the Ages, looking at how  English verse playwrights took on the King Arthur myth, from 1587-2019.

Show Notes and Texts: https://www.hamlettohamilton.com/s2e12.html

Support: http://www.patreon.com/hamlettohamilton

We're looking at Lucy Nordberg's "King Arthur" from 2009, today - a philosophical and political take on the myth!

Season Two we're looking at Arthur Through the Ages, looking at how  English verse playwrights took on the King Arthur myth, from 1587-2019.

Show Notes and Texts: https://www.hamlettohamilton.com/s2e11.html

Learn More: https://movingpicturestheatre.com/king-arthur/

We're finally in the 2000's with verse drama King Arthur plays!  First, we'll take a quick look at how everyone kept "reviving verse drama" in the 1900's (or did they) before reading Lancelot and Guinevere in Matthew Freeman's The Death of Arthur (2001).

Season Two we're looking at Arthur Through the Ages, looking at how  English verse playwrights took on the King Arthur myth, from 1587-2019.

Show Notes and Texts: https://www.hamlettohamilton.com/s2e10.html