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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 13h
And that's it for the Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham... were they merry? Were they tales? Answers to some of these questions have largely not been forthcoming... but that's jest books for you. Where will we go next? Who knows! #literature #books #jests www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Mad Men of Gotham 20 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Welcome to our final look at The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, gathered together by A. B. of Physic, Doctor.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨Latest pod drop - it's... 🥧Thyestes🥧 by Seneca as translated by Jasper Heywood Recorded live at the White Bear Theatre during our Wyrd Revels 2025 More on this play, and the historical moment of the translation, also available on the pod. #drama #theatre #live audioboom.com/posts/895644...
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Thyestes by Seneca (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)
Who ate all the pies!
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Delighted to learn that Sir Thomas Middleton, LM in 1613, had a jester
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⚔️Things can talk - and fight! - Toy Story is so far behind the curve on this kinda thing. More of these kinds of plays to come! Footwear gets a chance to do bad puns as well! #EarlyModern #Comedy #Drama #Theatre audioboom.com/posts/890623...
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Band, Cuff, and Ruff (Full Cast Audio Adaptation)
Things can talk! And fight!
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔊This afternoon at 2.30pm (GMT+1) we'll be live-streaming our audio recording session of Hick Scorner, the complete play, live. Available for our wonderful patrons, it will be edited for future release on the podcast. #ListenLive #drama #audio www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Hick Scorner (Live Stream) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello! This is our landing page for the live stream starting this afternoon at 2.30pm BST (GMT+1) of Hick Scorner - A Tudor moral interlude
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔊This afternoon at 2.30pm (GMT+1) we'll be live-streaming our audio recording session of Hick Scorner, the complete play, live. Available for our wonderful patrons, it will be edited for future release on the podcast. #ListenLive #drama #audio www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Hick Scorner (Live Stream) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello! This is our landing page for the live stream starting this afternoon at 2.30pm BST (GMT+1) of Hick Scorner - A Tudor moral interlude
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🔊Tomorrow we live-stream our recording session for Hick Scorner. There's a whole playlist of other plays from the reign of Henry the Eighth, and we are approaching the last big plays from that period to do. #drama #theatre #live #audio #AudioDrama audioboom.com/playlists/46...
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Henry the Eighth (r.1509-1547)
Plays dating from the reign of Henry the Eighth.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😀On Monday we're live-streaming our audio recording session for Hick Scorner, a play from the reign of Henry 8th. It's the whole play, in full, live - to be edited later for the podcast. The stream is via our £3+ tier patreon, where our last show is still available.👇 www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨Latest pod drop - it's... 🥧Thyestes🥧 by Seneca as translated by Jasper Heywood Recorded live at the White Bear Theatre during our Wyrd Revels 2025 More on this play, and the historical moment of the translation, also available on the pod. #drama #theatre #live audioboom.com/posts/895644...
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Thyestes by Seneca (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)
Who ate all the pies!
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎟️The line up for our Christmas Revels!🎟️ The Towneley Second Shepherds Play A Christmas Mess Narcissus - A Twelfth Night Entertainment Christmas, His Masque by Ben Jonson Plus a host of short bits and pieces, and a post show discussion. 6 Dec, White Bear, from 1pm www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😈Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's an exploring session working through Chapter 50 of Doctor John Faustus, the book which was the source of the play. We're nearing the end of the text now, but still in some of the jest book type material. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Doctor John Faustus - Chapter 50 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Welcome to more from our monthly read through and discussion of The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus,
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today we are mostly workshopping Gammer Gurton's Needle - the physical business is extremely fun to play with, and there are so many jokes to be mined as we play. Sight gags, games, and the hunt for balance between doing too much/too little. Cats turd anyone?
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons (who make it all happen) is a look at the surviving material from the 1609 Lord Mayor's Show, given the full early modern Outside Broadcast Unit treatment. A bit more from Munday for this year. #LordMayorsShow www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Lord Mayor's Show 1609 (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
Lord Mayor's Show 1609 (Early Access) by Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon. Join Beyond Shakespeare's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔊📹Latest Behind the Scenes release for our wonderful patrons - it's a further look at work on The World and the Child, with audio from workshops for £5+ tiers, and video for £10+ tier. We're increasingly doing more R&D on possible projects, releasing most weeks. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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BTS World and the Child | Workshop (21/07/26) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello, As part of our ongoing development of certain small scale productions, we returned to The World and the Child which we staged during
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🔊Latest pod drop is a bit of chat about Thyestes with Dr Harriet Archer. It's timed to set up our release of Seneca's play (in the Jasper Heywood translation) later this month. We will be doing more on this play, though we will stop short of baking lessons. #Seneca audioboom.com/posts/894500...
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Discussing: Thyestes with Dr Harriet Archer
A chat about baked goods...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎄Yeah, we know, Christmas... bit early... but we do have a fun line up of entertainments this 6 December. They are, mostly, on the silly end of the spectrum of drama (though we might occasionally be serious and mention the ghost of Lent to come). #BookNow! #show www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎄Yeah, we know, Christmas... bit early... but we do have a fun line up of entertainments this 6 December. They are, mostly, on the silly end of the spectrum of drama (though we might occasionally be serious and mention the ghost of Lent to come). #BookNow! #show www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.
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Stuart Drama: Call for Papers — Call for Papers — Stuart Drama Conference 2027
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons: another dive into the criminal underworld of early modern literature with 👮‍♂️The Cony-Catchers👮‍♀️ This month we complete The Third and Last part of Cony-catching by Robert Greene, before we go off on a new tangent. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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The Cony-Catchers ep.36 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello! The team complete Book 3 - The Third and Last part of Cony-catching, with the new devised knavish art of Fool-taking. The like Cosnag
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons: another dive into the criminal underworld of early modern literature with 👮‍♂️The Cony-Catchers👮‍♀️ This month we complete The Third and Last part of Cony-catching by Robert Greene, before we go off on a new tangent. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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The Cony-Catchers ep.36 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello! The team complete Book 3 - The Third and Last part of Cony-catching, with the new devised knavish art of Fool-taking. The like Cosnag
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔊After our first live-stream of the autumn season (Banks Bay Horse is still available for £3+ tier patrons) we're gearing up for the next show in two weeks. Hick Scorner - live-streamed audio recording session of the whole play - 28 Sept at 2.30pm GMT+1 #drama #live www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Autumn Season from Beyond! | Beyond Shakespeare
We're doing some shows! Quite a lot of shows, starting this autumn with live audio streaming, ending with a final celebration in time for Ch
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All went well! The internet did not desert us! The live audio is still up for our patrons, and the updated mix will replace it later. Yay, not nay, for the horse!
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mild panic at Beyond HQ as we lost the internet. Someone found it behind the sofa, so we *seem* to be good to go for some horse action this afternoon for our wonderful patrons. Bankes Bay Horse in a Trance - live at 2.30pm BST. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Banks' Bay Horse (Live Stream) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello! This is our landing page for the live stream starting this afternoon at 2.30pm BST of Maroccus extaticus or, Banks’ Bay Horse in a Tr
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🐴Tomorrow (Monday) we will be running our first live-stream of the autumn season. At 2.30pm BST we will share the recording session of Maroccus extaticus or, Banks’ Bay Horse in a Trance – Available for £3+ tier patrons, who get early access to all our releases. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Autumn Season from Beyond! | Beyond Shakespeare
We're doing some shows! Quite a lot of shows, starting this autumn with live audio streaming, ending with a final celebration in time for Ch
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔊Latest Behind the Scenes Saturday release, and it's the dress rehearsal for Doctor Faustus 1604 from our Wyrd Revels season in 2025. Elements of this run will be mixed with the live show for the final podcast release. #marlowe #faustus #drama #audio #live www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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BTS Doctor Faustus A | Dress Rehearsal (24/10/25) | Beyond Shakespeare
BTS Doctor Faustus A | Dress Rehearsal (24/10/25) by Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon. Join Beyond Shakespeare's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just sold another couple of tickets. We know it's a way away, but do book now to avoid disappointment
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔊Latest fragmentary fun time - it's a look at fragment featuring two reprobates with an innocent soul who probably shouldn't be working as a tapster. #drama #audio #theatre audioboom.com/posts/894500...
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Two Thieves and a Gullible Tapster (Fragment)
Two reprobates walk into a bar, the tapster says "Ouch!"
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
*Sighs* in early modern
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔊The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood Enjoy our full cast audio adaption, recorded live at The White Bear Theatre during our Wyrd Revels 2025 #drama #theatre audioboom.com/posts/894454...
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The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)
There are two things to know about the wise-woman of Hogston... first! She is a woman! The second is...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🎟️We know, it's a bit early to talk about Christmas, but these Christmas's are hundreds of years old, so technically we're very late. A day of (mostly) silly shows about or performed during the season of jollity, from medieval to early 17th century. Book now! www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
😈Faustus is feeling a bit horny. Or rather, an unfortunately knight is! #book #chapter #source #Marlowe audioboom.com/posts/894990...
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Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 30)
Faustus feeling horny, horny, horny, horny.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How many times has Satan tempted you to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming?
Four panels from an early modern English printed broadside showing: 1) The School-master and Schollar: a teacher and student in a doorway 2) The Vertu-ous Student: a young man at his desk with books 3) Satan tempteth him to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming: Satan at a table with playing cards 4) SATAN tempteth him from his Study to evil company: satan at a table with men and women playing cards, drinking, and smoking
Source: THE YOUNGMANS VICTORY Over the POVVER of the DEVIL (London, 1672-1696?), Houghton Library, Harvard https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/34760/album
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔊Over on our patreon, it's an early access release of a chat about a new book on Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage by Dr Katherine Walker. A dance around various plays that we (coincidentally) covered as part of our Wyrd Revels. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Discussing: Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello, This week we're having a chat about Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage with Dr Katherine Walker
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🎟️We know, it's a bit early to talk about Christmas, but these Christmas's are hundreds of years old, so technically we're very late. A day of (mostly) silly shows about or performed during the season of jollity, from medieval to early 17th century. Book now! www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
👑We are approaching a point where we will have a complete playlist of all of the plays from the reigns of various monarchs. Still incomplete, our Henry 8th playlist is close enough to drop. 🧩The gaps are being filled.🧩 🧩Maybe next year it will be done.🧩 #drama #theatre audioboom.com/playlists/46...
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Henry the Eighth (r.1509-1547)
Plays dating from the reign of Henry the Eighth.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🎟️Our Lord Mayor's Show might have sold out (you can still join the waiting list, you might be lucky) but there's still our upcoming Christmas Revels! It's going to be a day of short plays plus panels. 2 more tickets sold this morning! Book now, while stocks last! www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
💰Latest Exclusive Behind the Scenes release, and it's a workshop/text session working through Gentleness and Nobility by John Heywood & John Rastell, as we return to our staging of the play from last year and look to take it out for another spin. #drama #theatre #BTS www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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BTS Gentleness and Nobility | Workshop (21/07/26) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello, As part of our ongoing development of certain small scale productions, we returned to Gentleness and Nobility which we staged during
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Always lovely to have some new patrons joining us, two people this last week. Coming, we think, because of the upcoming live-streaming audio recording sessions (yes, bit of a mouthful) hoping to get us 8 more plays, plus fragments, in the can before our Xmas show. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
Deep red background with white text. The Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast - Sponsored by The Malone Society - the permanent utility of original texts. Live Streams this Autumn - live streamed audio recording sessions on Monday afternoons - available for all £3 tier patreons - Banks' Bay Horse in a Trance - 14th September - Hick Scorner - 28th September - Youth / Abraham and Isaac - 12th October - Lusty Juventus - 26th October - The Baptism & the Temptation by John Bale - 9th November - Mankind - 23rd November
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🔥In a little over a month there will be a production of The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe - we had a chat with the director Stewart McGill about the play, and producing it today. #drama #theatre #Paris #live #performance #directing audioboom.com/posts/894499...
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Discussing: Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
It does what it says on the tin.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Really looking forward to reading this one...
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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New research in Early Modern culture and drama is available 📚🎭 Popular Romance in Early Modern Amateur and Regional Drama: bit.ly/4fAdtKM Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture: bit.ly/4wseueW
Two book covers from The Arden Shakespeare series are shown. The first book, titled "Popular Romance in Early Modern Amateur and Regional Drama: The Age of Mucedorus" and the second book, titled "Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture".
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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The stuff you read in the margins of inquisitorial denunciations: "About the duck that went to the house of the Englishmen."
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🔊Latest monthly round up + bonus thing for our patrons, our ongoing work in progress edit of Thomas of Woodstock. Still quite basic, but we have a fair number of additional performances in the can and it's coming together. There is a free subscriber newsletter too. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Monthly Round Up (August 2026) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello All, There hasn't been a lot to shout about this summer, the heatwave shut us down more than expected. However, we have been busy bees
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
2 September 1583: Considerable excitement in London as the Northern Lights are spotted. A pamphlet, no doubt written very soon after, says that this evening, 'maruailous strange, rare, miraculous, & wonderful permouements ... with constellations of the ayre and watery elements, ... 1/ #earlymodern
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📖We've moved our literature exclusive releases to Wednesdays, to make way for our live-streams of plays on Mondays, so today we get another Merry Tale* of the Mad Men of Gotham. It's the penultimate tale... where will we go next! #comedy? *Merriment not guaranteed www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Mad Men of Gotham 19 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Welcome to more from The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, gathered together by A. B. of Physic, Doctor.
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Free subscribers and our paying patrons are all entered in our monthly Malone Society edition giveaway - it draws on the 5th, and remains in play each month till early next year. You can also sign up for the giveaway via a form on our website. beyondshakespeare.org/our-sponsors/
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Our Sponsors
Beyond Shakespeare is proud to announce our sponsor for the coming year is the Malone Society, whose works help keep alive the plays we work on. The Malone Society regularly publishes volumes of ea…
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
... It was followed by a comedy, The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood, which we initially thought of as a bit of a stretch, programmed largely to put more fun into an otherwise very dark season. But, actually, parallels between these plays did immerge... audioboom.com/posts/894454...
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The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)
There are two things to know about the wise-woman of Hogston... first! She is a woman! The second is...
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our Wyrd Revels last year delivered such a weird and wonderful selection of plays, coming online now. The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford and Rowley opened the season, and the full cast audio recording is now online. We have some follow up work to do on this one... audioboom.com/posts/893327...
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The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford and Rowley (LIVE Full Cast Audio Recording)
There's trouble in Edmonton...
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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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