Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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  • Arden of Faversham: Anon
    A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is concerned with the politics of the household, with gender roles within marriage, and presents a black comedy of botched murder attempts rather like The Ladykillers.
    42 min
  • The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd
    Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age.
    50 min

About Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what religious changes might mean for attitudes to the dead to fantasies of easy money and social elevation.

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