The History Of European Theatre Podcast
The History Of European Theatre Podcast
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6.41 The Development of Roman Theatre: A Reprised Conversation with Dr Elodie Palliard
Episode 154
As you know form last week’s episode I’m running a short series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon. Today’s episode is a repeat of episode 30 of the podcast, first released in late 2020. At the time I was discussing the early theatre of Rome and with the Ancient Greek theatre already under my belt I had started to reach out to academics and authors who could add depth and colour to the research that I had been able to do. This episode with Dr Elodie Palliard was, I thought, particularly helpful in describing the likely developments in theatre in the murky period between the end of recorded Athenian theatre an...
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6.40 Playing with Shakespeare: A Conversation with Charles Moseley
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Episode 153 Today’s guest episode serves as a great precursor to what is to come. The discussion that you are about to hear with Charles Mosely focusses on Shakespeare as a man of the theatre and discusses how the plays were created for and affected by the Theatre, the Audience and the conventions of the time. And that brief description does not do this wide ranging and detailed discussion any ...
6.39 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Conversation With Rachel Aanstad
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Episode 152 Following on from my thoughts on A Midsummer Night’s Dream last time I’m very pleased to welcome back Rachel Aanstad to the podcast for further thoughts on the play. You may remember from our previous conversation about Twelfth Night that Rachel has devoted a lifetime to both the study and presentation of Shakespeare plays and as with Twelfth Night she has written an Illustrated Han...
6.38 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Man Is but An Ass If He Go About to Expound This Dream’
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Episode 151 Having finished with Ben Jonson’s biography we can now go back in time just a little to work through Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s plays in more detail. By the early 1590s was then the man of the theatrical moment, no longer the young upstart, but the proven playmaker and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ surely did nothing but enhance that reputation and it has been popular ever since. A br...
6.37 A Bawdy Twelfth Night: A Conversation with Rachel Aanstad
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Episode 150: For this very appropriately timed guest episode, which is released on the 6th January, Rachel Aanstad kindly agreed to come on the podcast and talk about the Elizabethan twelfth night traditions and Shakespeare’s play of the same name. As you will hear our discussion became very much more wide ranging than that, as is often the way when we talk about Shakespeare. Rachel’s close stu...
6.36 The Life of Ben Jonson Part Six: ‘Posterity Pays Every Man His Honour’
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Episode 149 The life story of Ben Jonson concludes with events after the publication of his first folio to his death in 1637. ‘Bartholomew Fair’, a different sort of Jonson play. The finances of the court become more problematic, and Jonson earns and spends money. The trend for ‘projectors’ and Jonson becomes involved with Sir Willian Cockayne. ‘The Devil is an Ass’ satires money making project...
Will, Ben & Tom at Christmas: An Affectionate Pastiche
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'Will, Ben and Tom at Christmas' is an affectionate pastiche, with my very best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year. Support the podcast at: www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com (www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com/) www.patreon.com/thoetp (www.patreon.com/thoetp) www.ko-fi.com/thoetp (www.ko-fi.com/thoetp) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (acast.com/privacy) for more informat...
6.35 The Life of Ben Jonson part Five: ‘Tis the House of Fame, Sir’
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Episode 148: The life of Ben Jonson continues after he is released from prison after the publication of 'Eastward Ho!' Jonson’s possible involvement in the gunpowder plot and it’s aftermath. Jonson writes a masque for the marriage of Frances Howard and Robert Devereaux. Jonson defends his religious position in the face of recusancy fines. ‘Volpone’ is performed at The Globe as Jonson continues ...
6.34 'The Divas Gift': A Conversation With Pamela Allen Brown
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One of the generally accepted facts about theatre in the time of Shakespeare and Jonson is that boy actors took female roles and women were banned from appearing on the stage. This is in fact only partly true and my guest for today’s episode has made a study of how early modern actresses, from traditions on the European continent, influenced the English stage. During out conversation we covered...
6.33 The Life of Ben Jonson part Four: The Playhouse, the Court, and ‘The Masque of Blackness’
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Episode 146: The banning of printed satire. ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’ is produced by The Lords Chamberlin’s Men. ‘Cynthia’s Revels’ is performed at court but is not well received. ‘Poetester’ is performed at the Blackfriars and sparks ‘the war of the poets’ with Dekker and Marston. ‘Sejanus: His Fall’ fails to impress. Jonson cultivates friendships with nobility close to the Stuart dynasty....
6.32 The Life of Ben Jonson part Three: ‘There is no Greater Hell Than to be a Prisoner of Fear’
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Episode 145: Continuing the story of Ben Jonson’s life from the point where just as he starts to make his mark in the theatre scene everything goes very badly wrong for him. ‘The Isle of Dogs’ at the Swan Theatre The closure of the London Theatres Jonson in prison How the London theatres reopened The Swan and Pembroke’s Men Speculation on the content of ‘The Isle of Dogs’ Jonson’s other early w...
6.31 Shake-Scene Shakespeare: A Conversation With Lizzie Conrad-Hughes
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Episode 144: On several occasions through the story of the renaissance theatre I have touched on how the players made use of cue sheets rather than full scripts as they rehearsed and performed plays, so I was fascinated to see that there is a company of actors working today who produce plays by Shakespeare and other renaissance playwrights using cue sheets. Although we don’t have documentary ev...
6.30 The Life of Ben Jonson Part Two: He That is Taught Only by Himself Has a Fool for a Master
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Episode 143: The second part of the life of Ben Jonson takes him from his birth, through his years at school and onto working as a bricklayer. He then briefly joined the army before returning to become a player, a poet and a playwright. Jonson’s Scottish ancestry. His father’s loss of position under queen Mary. His Stepfather Robert Brett, bricklayer. Life for the Brett/Jonson family on Christo...
6.29 The Culture of The Shrew in Early Modern Europe: A Conversation with Dr Natalia Pikli
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Episode 142 Dr Natália Pikli discusses the changing view of the 'The Shrew' in Medieval and Early Modern European culture and how women are represented in Shakespeare's early comedies, She then goes on to outline how Shakespeare became part of national Hungarian culture and how the plays have been treated in translation. Dr Natália Pikli is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studi...
6.28 The Life of Ben Jonson Part One: It’s Complicated
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Episode 141: In this episode I set us up for a look at the life of Ben Johnson discussing some of the sources for information about his life and how far we can trust them - it’s complicated. Jonson’s 1618 visit to Scotland and why he might have undertaken the journey on foot. His conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden. Jonson’s opinions on other writers as reported by Drummond and thoughts ...
6.27 The Kings Lynn Medieval Stage: A Conversation With Tim Fitzhigham
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6.27 The Kings Lynn Medieval Stage: A Conversation With Tim Fitzhigham
6.26 The Comedy of Errors: ‘Hand in Hand, Not One Before the Other.’
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6.26 The Comedy of Errors: ‘Hand in Hand, Not One Before the Other.’
6.25 A Knack to Know a Knave: ‘Laugh at the Faults and Weigh it as it is.’
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6.25 A Knack to Know a Knave: ‘Laugh at the Faults and Weigh it as it is.’
6.24 Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘O Heaven, Were Men but Constant.’
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6.24 Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘O Heaven, Were Men but Constant.’
6.23 Words, Language and Actions in ‘Titus Andronicus’: A Conversation with Eleanor Conlon.
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6.23 Words, Language and Actions in ‘Titus Andronicus’: A Conversation with Eleanor Conlon.
6:22 Titus Andronicus: 'Vengeance Is In My Heart, Death In My Hand'
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6:22 Titus Andronicus: 'Vengeance Is In My Heart, Death In My Hand'
Adventures In Theatre History - Philadelphia: The Book
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Adventures In Theatre History - Philadelphia: The Book
6:21 Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L Sayers: A Conversation with Jem Bloomfield
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6:21 Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L Sayers: A Conversation with Jem Bloomfield
6.20 The Taming of the Shrew: ‘No Profit Grows Where No Pleasure Is taken’
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6.20 The Taming of the Shrew: ‘No Profit Grows Where No Pleasure Is taken’
6.19 Richard 3rd at Shakespeare's Globe
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6.19 Richard 3rd at Shakespeare's Globe
6.18 Richard 3rd: 'And Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy'
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6.18 Richard 3rd: 'And Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy'
6.17 The search for Richard 3rd: A Conversation with Mathew Morris
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6.17 The search for Richard 3rd: A Conversation with Mathew Morris
6.16 Henry 6th part 3: ‘How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown.’
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6.16 Henry 6th part 3: ‘How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown.’
6:15 John Hall of Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Conversation with John Taplin
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6:15 John Hall of Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Conversation with John Taplin
6:14 Henry 6th part 2: ‘The Fox Barks Not When He Would Steal the Lamb’
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6:14 Henry 6th part 2: ‘The Fox Barks Not When He Would Steal the Lamb’

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  • @DavidRichardson-y3b
    @DavidRichardson-y3b 2 дня назад

    Pembrokes, Sussex' and Derby's are just one company. the company was formed around Richard Burbage by his father James after an argument with Ned Alleyn in May 1591 and split the Queen's Men that had become Strange's.after the death of Walsingham. After the death of Marlowe and torture of Kyd in Spring of 1593 the Pembrokes abandoned sponsorship of the company and Henslowe records they are broke and seeking new patronage in September (letter to Alleyn). They are picked up by Henry Radcliffe and continue briefly under his wife the dowager Countess of Sussex after his death in December. Early in 1594 they reunite with the Alleyn troop now Derby's Men as Ferdinando Strange became Earl of Derby in September 1593, but he too dies in May of 1594 after which the company splits again as Lord Chamberlain's and Admiral's in Hunsdon's settlement of the Duopoly for London theater.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 2 дня назад

    👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼- Thank you

  • @davidjames5517
    @davidjames5517 2 дня назад

    The Stratfordian assumption severely distorts the analysis, sadly. Otherwise, a good listen.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 8 дней назад

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Wonderful

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 16 дней назад

    So many insights

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 16 дней назад

    Super presentation 🎉🎉🎉 … thank you 🙏

  • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
    @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 22 дня назад

    Great Great Great as usual ❤

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 Месяц назад

    First 🎉🎉🎉 - Thank you for the Links ❗️

  • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
    @Richardwestwood-dp5wr Месяц назад

    Happy new year to you and your faithful viewers ❤

  • @bernardaustin5081
    @bernardaustin5081 Месяц назад

    Hi, thanks for the episode. I am having trouble finding the writings you mention in the beginning from the English traveller..

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 Месяц назад

      There is some info here www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/stratford-venice-oxford-travelling-thomas-coryat/ and here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coryat

  • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
    @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 Месяц назад

    Happy Christmas RUclipsrs!

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 Месяц назад

    Wishing you a very Happy Christmas 🎄and the very Best in 2025 ! With much Gratitude for sharing these literary Treasures ❗️

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 Месяц назад

    Yay ! Blue Sky ❗️

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads Месяц назад

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  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 2 месяца назад

    Glad to join you on this Journey - Happy Holidays 🎄🎉🎊🍾

  • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
    @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 2 месяца назад

    Infinite thanks

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 2 месяца назад

    🎉🎉🎉 No greater Hell ❗️

  • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
    @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 2 месяца назад

    May these lectures stay forever 🙏

  • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
    @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 2 месяца назад

    First viewer and first comment, thank you very much sir, this is awesome ❤

  • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
    @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 3 месяца назад

    Thanks a lot, but we've been looking forward to the second part of jonson's life !

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 3 месяца назад

    So many great insights! Thank you.

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 3 месяца назад

    A quire of playwrights . . . a pun for the punsters

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 3 месяца назад

    Adore this Series and the Journey ❤

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 3 месяца назад

    🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 4 месяца назад

    Lazarus Theatre sounds wonderful. You're so lucky to live in the UK.

  • @kalvarayanmalaintk
    @kalvarayanmalaintk 4 месяца назад

    Really, it is touching story, already read and it was hurting a lot thinking about my parents and loved ones because i too came far away from our country village to town, state and different country now... touching story.. I am not able to think how 100 years before how they shared their feeling to loved once who gone far away from their town, city or village. Now-a-days, we can communication may ways with help of technology boom. thank you.. nice one. salute to you and Anton Checkow

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 3 месяца назад

      Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed the story. All of Chekhov's short stories are worth reading - I return to them regularly - and many deal with the disconnect between those who live in the city and those in the country, but always with humanity that I think still resonates today

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 4 месяца назад

    This video prompted RUclips to offer The Castle of Perseverance and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination on John Wyatt Greenlee channel. Very interesting! Greenlee is a medievalist and a cartographic historian.

  • @bastianconrad2550
    @bastianconrad2550 4 месяца назад

    a Fine summary, But what a shame that you fully rely on“Stratfordianism“. I collected countless arguments in some 100 Videos, all virtually unanimously supporting the Thesis, that Marlowe’s killing belonged to a conspiracy plot, the only playwright Genius Marlowe was helped by the Crown to survive his highly endangered life by changing identity and often altering his poet name. youtube.com/@bastianconrad2550?si=dadz8iHPQnuhbEvC

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 4 месяца назад

    I may be misremembering, but I think Mary Beard said that Emperors required Romans to attend events in the Colosseum.

  • @deanedge5988
    @deanedge5988 4 месяца назад

    Thank you - a really interesting and extremely well informed conversation. Encore!

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 4 месяца назад

    I have always loved Shakespeare references in novels, especially mysteries. The references were a primarily influence in my interest in Shakespeare.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 5 месяцев назад

    Sounds Like Quite the Performance !

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 5 месяцев назад

    Judi Dench's surprising ancestral connections to Elsinore, English people who visited Elsinore and famous Dutch people are revealed in RUclips channel Who Do You Think You Are?'s episode Dame Judi Dench Uncovers Family History all the way to Denmark! One surprise after the other from the 42:00 minute mark to the end.

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 4 месяца назад

      Yes I remember that episode, she seemed genuinely surprised by the outcome in Denmark and obviously affected by it. Some real connection going on there.

  • @robwatson3027
    @robwatson3027 5 месяцев назад

    First!

  • @rockers7889
    @rockers7889 5 месяцев назад

    I had a class in college on this , error fabulae, elements of comedy ex.repetition , characters harlequinino

  • @ethelburga
    @ethelburga 5 месяцев назад

    I really like this approach to digitally understanding texts. Have you noticed, by the way, that Donald Trump has gone all "pinky-eyed" just recently.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 5 месяцев назад

    I’ve shared this with my family … because it is extremely impressive tale ! This channel deserves ten thousand X more followers IMO 🫡

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 5 месяцев назад

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  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 6 месяцев назад

    Your comments on King Henry VI's reluctance to fight are enlightening. Very different from my preoccupation with wondering about the differences in education of King Henry VI and Richard II, both kings from childhood.

  • @vetstadiumastroturf5756
    @vetstadiumastroturf5756 6 месяцев назад

    All discredited. In some places, it seems, the planet is still flat.

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 6 месяцев назад

      Any specifics there or do you find that everything suggested in the discussion is 'discredited'?

    • @vetstadiumastroturf5756
      @vetstadiumastroturf5756 6 месяцев назад

      @@thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 E.G. the so-called "Ur-Hamlet". The existence of a "Hamlet before Hamlet" is pure speculation, introduced because the accepted Shakespeare timeline is violated by Nashe's mention of "whole Hamlets" well before Shakespeare of Stratford could have written anything (if he ever actually did write anything). In order to maintain their timeline, Nashe's Hamlet cannot be the Hamlet that we know, because that would mean that someone other than William of Straford wrote it, so they assert that there must have been an UR- Hamlet despite the fact that no such work has ever been unearthed, or even mentioned by anyone but Nashe. The "Ur-Hamlet" is now accepted by the so-called academic community, who as a whole are discredited for propagating such speculative nonsense and obvious circular logic.

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 6 месяцев назад

      @@vetstadiumastroturf5756 The various theories about the ur-Hamlet would fill a podcast episode (and more probably). Perhaps I should tackle that one day. Given we don't know the content of the play, and that Nashe's comment is subject to interpretation (How I wish that these Elizabethans had been a little less cryptic) I'm not going to extrapolate too much from it. If pressed I would say Kyd seems a far more likely candidate than Shakespeare, but then why would Shakespeare revisit the play, unless the ur-Hamlet was quite different from his version (perhaps it was)? I don't know the answer, but much of the fun of studying the period is the speculation.

    • @vetstadiumastroturf5756
      @vetstadiumastroturf5756 6 месяцев назад

      @@thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 Kyd, Nashe, Greene and Shakespeare were all the same person.

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 6 месяцев назад

      Well, that’s a new theory to me

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 6 месяцев назад

    My word, this is brilliant 🎉

  • @Jeffhowardmeade
    @Jeffhowardmeade 6 месяцев назад

    My thanks to Dr. Freebury-Jones for lowering the price on this book. At $100+, Shakespeare’s Tutor was out of my price range.

  • @paulcarmichael2368
    @paulcarmichael2368 6 месяцев назад

    Lovely stuff. Thank you.

  • @mishalee8083
    @mishalee8083 7 месяцев назад

    This was very interesting! To your point about collaboration, I'm not sure how much is Shakespeare or Nashe or Marlowe (although I've read that some scholars believe The True Tragedy was originally a collaboration between Marlowe and Peele), but if you read Joan of Arc's last speech again [the one where she claims not to be from the stock of shepherd swains] and compare it to Tamburlaine's speeches and how people speak about him throughout Tamburlaine Parts I and II, you can see that Marlowe at least wrote the Joan of Arc scenes. She's a traditional Marlovian overreacher and given her deal with devils, heralds his Dr Faustus as well. - I also liked your analysis that Talbot was a proto-Hotspur as well, and the last person holding to the old code of chivalry. There are quite a few layers to this play!

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 7 месяцев назад

      On reflection I think I should have said more about Marlowe's potential involvement - That final scene before Joan is carted off is certainly a good pointer toward's it as a possability. Thanks for your input.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 7 месяцев назад

    Damn, this is Brilliant ! Thank you Sir 🫡

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 7 месяцев назад

    I like that the director, cast and setting were the same for the BBC version of Richard III and the three Henry VI plays.

    • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
      @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 7 месяцев назад

      They kept the same actors which was a tremendous help. Ron Cook who played Richard the third was particularly brilliant. He also played in the movie "Will Shakespeare" with Tim Curry in the leading role. These are the highlights of his career I think.

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 7 месяцев назад

      Yes it was a good plan that worked well. Trevor Peacock (Talbot and Jack Cade) also takes on Titus Andronicus in the same series

    • @Richardwestwood-dp5wr
      @Richardwestwood-dp5wr 7 месяцев назад

      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 l love Trevor Peacock, he did an excellent job as Titus Andronicus. He also played the Fool in Twelfth Night, his singing was unparalleled, I always go back to that play just to hear him sing; the character of the pimp le played in Pericles is memorable.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 7 месяцев назад

    Quite Enjoying Your Series - Rich in Detail & Professionally Presented - Thank you very much 🫡

  • @pjreads
    @pjreads 8 месяцев назад

    It would be helpful to have information about other Elizabethan lives who took care of home and children while husbands worked in other places for long periods of time: sailors, soldiers, etc.

    • @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204
      @thehistoryofeuropeantheatr3204 8 месяцев назад

      Yes that's a good thought. It is so interesting to learn about the people and places around Shakespeare.

  • @seanomaille8157
    @seanomaille8157 8 месяцев назад

    Wonderful. Many thanks.

  • @vicson_songs
    @vicson_songs 8 месяцев назад

    The only complete satyr play is Cyclops by Euripides, Trackers is a fragment