Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

🔊Latest early access release for the wonderful patrons - it's a chat about... yes, you've guessed it... A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. Again! But wait, this time it's with other people who've staged the play. Which is lovely.♟️ www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Meanwhile, over on the Exploring sessions, we just released a Second Look at The Conversion of Saint Paul. 🐴Good horse🐴 youtu.be/DshbYMFBBcw

😈It's the morning of Tuesday 6th of January, and somewhere a group of players are gathering to rehearse Pierce Penniless: His Supplication to the Devil by Thomas Nashe. It is cold outside (but devilishly warm within) as they navigate the questions: what to cut, what to keep, and where is the coffee?

🔊More Cony-catching! We're onto The Third and Last part of Cony-catching (spoilers, it's not) and @robertcrighton.bsky.social and Michelle Michel continue their journey through the Elizabethan criminal underground. #TrueCrime? #Crime #Elizabethan www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...

Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-

REP returns to action this week. Monday: our palaeography group continues to work on documents of the Tudor Revels Office. Tuesday: our Playmakers will write more scenes for a brand new play from 1616, “The Cunning Florentines”. Wednesday: we read the Somerset Wedding Masques of 1613/14.

🚨Coming to London on Sunday 12th April 2026 The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece This is another of our long form deep dives into one play in detail, as we dig into the manuscript of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday & Friends. Featuring a live recording of the complete text, panels and more!

One should always have something sensational to read in the train...

🚨Coming to London on Sunday 12th April 2026 The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece This is another of our long form deep dives into one play in detail, as we dig into the manuscript of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday & Friends. Featuring a live recording of the complete text, panels and more!

As per usual, we will be posting our New Year Resolution on the 25th March.

🎭It's our end of year round up for 2025.🎉 Our various online haunts have hit 180,000 and we've covered over 65% of all of the plays from before the closing of the theatres in 1642 in initial First Looks, and an increasing number of return visits and productions. Here's to more adventures in 2026!

🎉It's our end of the year round up! Yes, quite of lot of pre-modern drama happened. Not in places you'd necessarily hope or expect it, but it was there. Some stats to follow... maybe. #drama #EarlyModern #Medieval #PreModern #Theatre audioboom.com/posts/882156...

🎄Tonight in the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at the Towneley Second Shepherds Play. 🌟What's that coming over the hill to redeem mankind - is it a baby?👶 No - it's a sheep!🐑 Ewe! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 youtu.be/tTEQyCs2nSo

🎄On the First Day of Christmas my true love gave to me... A Christmas Masque by Ben Jonson. #MerryChristmasEveryone #MerryChristmas youtu.be/EzQ2LUjlHSE

🔊Early access to our End of Year Round Up 2025 available now for patrons, including free subscribers. Subscribe for free, and keep up to date with future productions and activity. 2025 has been a busy year - what is coming up next? www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...

🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's time to go fishing with the mad men of Gotham. A classic tale of head counting, which anyone running a school trip will know can be a nightmare. #comedy #fish www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...

🎄This Christmas season we're going long form, as we have a three episode mini-crossover with the Hamlet to Hamilton @hamlettohamilton.bsky.social podcast, continuing our chat about nearly every play ever written in terms of verse. More coming soon! #audio #discussion audioboom.com/posts/880964...

🎄This Christmas season we're going long form, as we have a three episode mini-crossover with the Hamlet to Hamilton @hamlettohamilton.bsky.social podcast, continuing our chat about nearly every play ever written in terms of verse. More coming soon! #audio #discussion audioboom.com/posts/880964...

🎄Tonight in the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at the Towneley Second Shepherds Play. 🌟What's that coming over the hill to redeem mankind - is it a baby?👶 No - it's a sheep!🐑 Ewe! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 youtu.be/tTEQyCs2nSo

😈Latest early access patreon release - the rough mix of our post season discussion of What Makes a Revel Wyrd, looking at witches, demons, cunning folk, and everything in between. With @robertcrighton.bsky.social @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Dropping this evening, it's a Second Look run at The Summoning of Everyman by the Unknown. Do you have a decent tally in your good deeds file? Cos that's all you can take into the next life, everything else is slowly taken away. 🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎄 youtu.be/XNU8L7WmNXQ

Dropping this evening, it's a Second Look run at The Summoning of Everyman by the Unknown. Do you have a decent tally in your good deeds file? Cos that's all you can take into the next life, everything else is slowly taken away. 🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎄 youtu.be/XNU8L7WmNXQ

🍷Latest exclusive for our wonderful patrons - it's an exploratory dip into the book of Doctor John Faustus. We're at Chapter 41, and we're visiting the Bishop of Saltzburg’s Wine-Cellar! Full reading of the chapter by @robertcrighton.bsky.social also on this tier. www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

😈🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of Doctor Faustus (1616 version) by Christopher Marlowe & Friends. A final edit of this will land next year on the pod, but you can get it now by supporting us on the patreon. #drama #theatre www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

🔊Latest pod drop - a discussion about ballads... hundreds of 'em. Well, a 100 of them. Well, actually, about 120 of them. An excellent resource to dip into and share. #audio #music #drama audioboom.com/posts/880916...

🔊Latest pod drop - a discussion about ballads... hundreds of 'em. Well, a 100 of them. Well, actually, about 120 of them. An excellent resource to dip into and share. #audio #music #drama audioboom.com/posts/880916...

🚨Dropping this week on the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at Respublica, added to the playlist with previous looks. One of the greatest moral interludes created, where the complex comedy business of the Vices rock. Subscribe to the Tubes for more. #drama #vice youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚨Dropping this week on the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at Respublica, added to the playlist with previous looks. One of the greatest moral interludes created, where the complex comedy business of the Vices rock. Subscribe to the Tubes for more. #drama #vice youtube.com/playlist?lis...

😈🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of Doctor Faustus (1616 version) by Christopher Marlowe & Friends. A final edit of this will land next year on the pod, but you can get it now by supporting us on the patreon. #drama #theatre www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

🔊Exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's another dive into the Elizabethan underworld from the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene. Of a crafty mate, that brought two young men unto a Tavern... #Crime #TrueCrime? www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...

🔊Exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's another dive into the Elizabethan underworld from the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene. Of a crafty mate, that brought two young men unto a Tavern... #Crime #TrueCrime? www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...

drwillgreen.co.uk 🙂 I've had a varied year in 2025 so I'm now rolling out my independent research and heritage consultancy site. If you have any teaching or speaking needs, whether in an academic or museums setting, I may be your guy: get in touch at [email protected] 🙂 (Please share!)

🚨The winner of the patreon vote this year was... Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene. We will now begin the groundwork to make this into a full cast audio adaptation over the next year or so, and maybe some of the runners up will go into production too. #patreon #vote

The results have been tabulated, the answer to the question has been given. We have our next project for 2026. And it's... in this episode of the podcast! Oh, alright, here it is in emojis. 🍳💇🥓➕🍳💇🥖🏳️‍🌈by🤖🥬 More on this in the future... audioboom.com/posts/881202...

🔊Todays bonus exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's more from Higgins' iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates, and today we have reached King Locrinus, who is taken down by his wife Guendoline. ⚔️Whilst eating bread and butter. Probably.🍞 #history #kinda www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels 😈 including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun. More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

🔬Meanwhile, dropping on the YouTube this week, it's The Elder Brother by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. People in the room enjoyed it a lot, so there must be something interesting going on. More #exploring sessions every week - subscribe to keep up to date! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🔊Another chapter has been added to our ongoing reading of the book of Doctor John Faustus - with 22 chapters now on the playlist, and almost as many available on our patreon feed. More of this Damnable Life, and Deserved Death, each month. 😈 #devilish #ContractLaw audioboom.com/playlists/46...

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels 😈 including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun. More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

🎄It's that time of year again, for the Christmas lights to go on and the festive season to officially begin. Here's an Early Modern version of the lights on ceremony, except with more threatening of vengeful newts for those unfestive of spirit. #xmas #christmas #newts audioboom.com/posts/842640...

🔊Another chapter has been added to our ongoing reading of the book of Doctor John Faustus - with 22 chapters now on the playlist, and almost as many available on our patreon feed. More of this Damnable Life, and Deserved Death, each month. 😈 #devilish #ContractLaw audioboom.com/playlists/46...

🎄It's that time of year again, for the Christmas lights to go on and the festive season to officially begin. Here's an Early Modern version of the lights on ceremony, except with more threatening of vengeful newts for those unfestive of spirit. #xmas #christmas #newts audioboom.com/posts/842640...

🔊Todays bonus exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's more from Higgins' iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates, and today we have reached King Locrinus, who is taken down by his wife Guendoline. ⚔️Whilst eating bread and butter. Probably.🍞 #history #kinda www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...

🔊Albion Knight - an exposition of how opportunists and grifters will find ways to power through divide and conquer tactics, disrupting the normal checks and balances. The surviving text of this play is mostly set up, so we don't even get the comfort of a happy ending. audioboom.com/posts/880417...

🔊Albion Knight - an exposition of how opportunists and grifters will find ways to power through divide and conquer tactics, disrupting the normal checks and balances. The surviving text of this play is mostly set up, so we don't even get the comfort of a happy ending. audioboom.com/posts/880417...

🔊Latest early access release, it's the post show discussion following our live recording of Thyestes by Seneca (see last week) with @robertcrighton.bsky.social, Helen Good & Simon Nader chatting about the historical moment of the translation and performing the text. 🥧 www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

🔊More exclusives for our patrons - and this week it's another jest from The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham. Sometimes a grasshopper is not Satan. Sometimes the grasshopper is just a grasshopper. #audio #jest #comedy? www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...

👑Meanwhile, over on our patreon feed, more archiving from our Entertaining Henry season - with full audio and video of dress and some live performance of Bale's Temptation and Heywood's Gentleness and Nobility. #SupportUs #JoinUs #BehindTheScenes www.patreon.com/posts/entert...

👑Meanwhile, over on our patreon feed, more archiving from our Entertaining Henry season - with full audio and video of dress and some live performance of Bale's Temptation and Heywood's Gentleness and Nobility. #SupportUs #JoinUs #BehindTheScenes www.patreon.com/posts/entert...