The History Of European Theatre

By Philip RoweEducation Arts History Performing Arts

The History Of European Theatre episodes

December 26, 2023 Coda: The Life of Augustine Phillips
Episode 113:
As a coda to season 5 this episode is a potted history of the life of Augustine Phillips, player in the Lord Chamberlin's Men, with the details taken from documented records.
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December 11, 2023 English Renaissance Conclusions (sort of)
Episode 112:
To close season five of the podcast I pick up three items I dropped in the previous narrative and then offer some concluding thoughts:
Thomas Watson – the life and works of the possible co-author of ‘Arden of Faversham.
Henry Chettle – the life and works of the prolific collaborator.
Thomas Heywood – the life and works of a playwright now better remembered for his commentary on others rather than for his own work.
Drawing some conclusions on:
The public playhouses
The players
The State vs. the theatre
The growth of education
Pamphlets, prose, and poetry
Christopher Marlowe
The city of London
The lesser known playwrights
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33 min
November 27, 2023 Arden of Faversham and the Domestic Tragedy
Episode 111:
The true story behind 'Arden of Faversham'
The plot outline of the play
Is the domestic tragedy really tragedy?
The main themes of the play
The domestic eating of the play
The low characters
The role of destiny in the play
Questions of authorship
Other surviving domestic tragedies -
'A Warning for Faire Women'
'Two Tragedies'
'A Yorkshire Tragedy'
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35 min
November 13, 2023 The Play’s the Thing: Elizabethan Acting Style and Stage Conventions
Episode 110:
The problems of the lack of evidence about conventions and acting style.
How a player learned his craft.
The rhetorical or performance style of acting.
Theatre as a poetic form.
The rhetorical style is overtaken by a more naturalistic style.
Stage sets and costume.
Thomas Hayward’s thoughts on a player’s skills.
Hayward on players as scholars.
The impact of Iambic Pentameter.
Hayward on Alleyn and Perkins playing Barabas in ‘The Jew of Malta’.
The convention of the soliloquy.
The convention of the aside.
The convention of eavesdropping.
The convention of boy players and female roles.
The convention of the play within the play.
The convention of the masque.
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35 min
October 30, 2023 The Star Players: Kemp. Alleyn and Burbage
Episode 109:
We don't know a lot about individual players of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, but there are three stars of the day that we have some information about.
Richard Tarlton, the Queen’s favourite comic player.
Will Kempe’s origins and early career.
‘A Knack to Know a Knave’ and ‘Fools of Gotham’.
Did Kempe fall out with Shakespeare?
‘Kempe’s Jig’ and last days.

Edward Alleyn’s family and early life.
Touring with the Earl of Worcester’s Men.
Return to London and success with the Admiral’s Men.
Praise of Alleyn from Ben Johnson.
Marriage and events in London while on tour.
Semi-retirement from acting.
Business partnership building the Fortune Playhouse and other entertainments.
Alleyn’s wealth and founding of Dulwich College.
Remarriage and death.

Richard Burbage’s family and early life.
Early career in several troupes.
Leading roles with the Lord Chamberlin’s Men.
Burbage as a character actor.
His continuing long career and death.
Mourning and praise on the death of Burbage.

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35 min
October 16, 2023 Thomas Dekker: London's Playwright
Episode 108:
The second part of the story of Thomas Dekker and his works
'Old Fortunas' - Dekker's first known play
‘The Honest Whore’, a good example of what was good and bad in Dekker’s work.
‘The Civil Wars in France’ - three parts, an introduction and a bit of a mystery.
Dekker's debt to the Lord Chamberlin's Men and rescue by Henslowe.
How Henslowe's Diary shows Dekker's incredible work rate.
The Play of Sir Thomas Moore - including a word on Shakespeare's contribution.
'The Shoemaker's Holiday', Dekker's best surviving work
The Bishop's Ban of 1599 and a theatrical spat.
Dekker's account of the failure of 'The Whore of Babylon'.
Later works, the Lord Mayor's pageant and prison.
Last years and death in poverty.

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39 min
October 02, 2023 Thomas Dekker: Gulls, Gallants and the London Playhouse
Episode 107:
In the first of two episodes on Thomas Dekker I discuss his earliest life and his prose works.
Dekker's early life and first forays into the playhouse.
His prose work 'The Wonderful Year'
The Gull's Handbook - with some extensive quotes from and explanation of his piece on behaviour in the playhouse
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34 min
September 18, 2023 Henslowe’s Diary
Episode 106:
We have the detail about the way a London playhouse functioned thanks, in a large part, to one document. Theatre owner Philip Henslowe kept a record of many aspects of his enterprise at the Rose theatre from 1591 to 1609. A large part of the diary comprises of daily records of the takings at the box office, which plays were performed, if they were new or revivals, and various other details about expenses, costumes and matters related to the running of The Rose.
This episode looks at activity at The Rose for two months through the eyes of Henslowe's Diary
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36 min
September 11, 2023 Drag: A British History - A Conversation with Jacob Bloomfield
Bonus Episode 31
Guest Jacob Bloomfield discusses his book 'Drag: A British History', with particular reference to Arthur Lucan (AKA Old Mother Riley), the drag review shows that came out of both WW1 and WW2 concert parties and the demise of theatre censorship in the UK through the lens of drag performances.
Jacob Bloomfield is Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. His research is situated primarily in the fields of cultural history, the history of sexuality, and gender history. He is currently working on a book about the historical reception to musician Little Richard in the United States and Europe.
'Drag: A British History' is available here in the UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drag-British-History-Berkeley-Studies/dp/0520393325/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IUQICBCBTYJ8&keywords=drag+a+british+history&qid=1693586351&sprefix=drag+a+british+history%2Caps%2C230&sr=8-1
Here in the US
https://www.amazon.com/Drag-British-History-Berkeley-Studies/dp/0520393325/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1194T6PB8E6C9&keywords=drag+a+british+history&qid=1693586422&sprefix=drag+a+britiah+history%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1
and from all good bookshops.

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35 min
September 04, 2023 Thomas Kid and the Spanish Tragedy
Episode 105:
The life of Thomas Kyd, including a word on Elizabethan schooling.
Thomas Nashe on Kyd.
Kyd and the London playwright set.
Kyd and Lord Strange.
Questions over the first performances of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’.
Is ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ a sequel?
Cornelia, Kyd’s other surviving play.
The Ur-Hamlet and other plays and collaborations.
Kyd and Marlowe.
The publication of the ‘The Spanish Tragedy’
A synopsis of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’
The power of the plotting of the story.
Similarities to ‘Hamlet’.
The weaknesses of Kyd’s verse.
The strengths of Kyd’s visual and dramatic settings.
The body strewn stage at the end of the play.
Why Kyd is no Shakespeare.
The significance of ghost of Andreas and the personification of Revenge.
The role of Bel-Imperia and the growing impact of female characters of stage.
The morality of revenge debate.
Kyd as the father of ‘revenge tragedy’.

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A podcast tracing the development of theatre from ancient Greece to the present day through the places and people who made theatre happen. More than just dates and lists of plays we'll learn about…