🚨Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons: it's the first of our panel discussions on Censorship, Revision and the Book from our Sir Thomas More day. We've performed the text, now to talk in greater detail about what made it what it is. #history #drama www.patreon.com/posts/censor...

With the plans to retract and close swathes of departments across UKHE, we reaffirm the value of the humanities and other subject areas under threat. A broad and capacious knowledge base is vital for a thriving democracy. rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

😈More from our ongoing exploration of the book of Doctor Faustus, and this time it's this shocking incident of wheel theft. Hell's too good for him. How Doctor Faustus conjured away the four wheels from a clowns waggon. www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

🔊From our Winter Revels 2023, recorded live, The Tragedy of Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel. A sequel to The Tragedy of Antony translated by Mary Sidney, it follows in the moment after the last play ended - an outbreath of despair into an inbreath for the next challenge... audioboom.com/posts/866308...

🚨Latest pod drop, it's a chat about Jocasta by George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmersh and Christopher Yelverton. Joining @RobertCrighton is Dr Carla Suthren, talking about editing the play for an upcoming edition, and just how good the drama is. #drama #theatre #audio audioboom.com/posts/889543...

🎉Coming this Summer into Autumn on the Podcast!🎉 We have a host of full cast audio adaptations of plays for your listening pleasure - a mix of live shows from our 😈Wyrd Revels last year, to a number of shorts from our in-studio work. Add Beyond to your podcatcher now! audioboom.com/channels/495...

🎉Coming this Summer into Autumn on the Podcast!🎉 We have a host of full cast audio adaptations of plays for your listening pleasure - a mix of live shows from our 😈Wyrd Revels last year, to a number of shorts from our in-studio work. Add Beyond to your podcatcher now! audioboom.com/channels/495...

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a full cast audio recording of Band, Cuff and Ruff - a comedy skit from Cambridge. The Footlights started a lot earlier than you might have realised, in spirit if not form. WILL YOU START THE PUNS PLEASE! #comedy www.patreon.com/posts/band-c...

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a full cast audio recording of Band, Cuff and Ruff - a comedy skit from Cambridge. The Footlights started a lot earlier than you might have realised, in spirit if not form. WILL YOU START THE PUNS PLEASE! #comedy www.patreon.com/posts/band-c...

🐶Dropping on the visual channel this week, our Second Look exploring run at The Witch of Edmonton, which was part of our prep for last years Wyrd Revels. The recording from the live show is in the edit now, and will land on the podcast asap. #drama #theatre #witch youtu.be/OGw4bMLihYk

🐶Dropping on the visual channel this week, our Second Look exploring run at The Witch of Edmonton, which was part of our prep for last years Wyrd Revels. The recording from the live show is in the edit now, and will land on the podcast asap. #drama #theatre #witch youtu.be/OGw4bMLihYk

🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - as we prepare the final edits for the live show, we continue to release our BTS material for The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford & Rowley. More to come from this play very soon! #exclusive #patreon #drama #BTS www.patreon.com/posts/wyrd-r...

It's currently quite warm in the UK. But is it as hot.... AS HELL?!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

📖As well as putting on plays, we like to adapt other bits of literature and see what happens. A Mirror for Magistrates: The Fall of Richard II reworks the opening of the vast history project started by William Baldwin, as the authors meet to share their poems. audioboom.com/posts/875334...

Christopher #Marlowe’s devastating #queer historical tragedy is now out in a new @ardenpublisher.bsky.social edition. Amply illustrated, w/ an intro to its historical meanings, sexual politics, early readers, & extensive performance/adaptation history. Sneak peek at link mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/e...

🚨Unexpected Fulgens and Lucrece in the bagging area!🚨 www.tickettailor.com/events/sthil...

🎭A live recording from our Entertaining Henry season last year - it's Gentleness and Nobility by John Heywood. Yes, for those counting, this is the 3rd time we've released a version of this play. Each a different cut/interpretation. Cos we can. #theatre #live #drama audioboom.com/posts/889543...

📖Latest pod drop - it's Chapter 26 of The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus. More Q and A on the issues of spirits that vex men. Gin usually for us. #audio #literature audioboom.com/posts/886519...

🚨Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons! It's part four of our Sir Thomas More day, the close of the play itself. Doesn't end well for More. We'll have more from the More day in future releases, plus a secret bonus episode that's in the edit now! #drama www.patreon.com/posts/close-...

Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640 This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers. spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk

🎭Premiering over on the visual channel, it's a First Look at The Goblins by John Suckling. More on Thursday! #drama #theatre #readings #exploring youtu.be/XlwzQL-YZ9k?...

🔊Latest Patreon Exclusive - How King Madan for his evil life was slain by Wolves. Spoilers I guess. The Higgins iteration of Mirror for Magistrates continues with a wolf attack, but apparently it was morally justified, so that's okay then. www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...

🔊Recorded live at our Winter Revels 2023, Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe - a full cast audio adaptation, plus additional materials about the play in one handy playlist. #drama #audio #AudioDrama #theatre #Marlowe #ChristopherMarlowe audioboom.com/playlists/46...

You can hear about The Malone Society below, and you can be entered in our monthly giveaway too! Free entry via a form or by a free subscription on our Patreon. Next draw closes the 5th June. 3 winners so far, we're just packing the latest for posting. #drama beyondshakespeare.org/our-sponsors/

hiddentheatre.com/about/jobs-a... We need YOU to be in our waggon crew, maybe even our waggon master! Come help our waggon move & be part of something very special & unique to York!

And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!

🔊Latest pod drop - a chat with Professor Lucy Munro about The Malone Society, our wonderful sponsors who produce beautiful editions of pre-modern plays, and more. #theatre #drama #history #MaloneSociety audioboom.com/posts/890164...

🥧Premiering this evening on the visual channel, we have a Second Look run at Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. It was recorded as part of our prep for last years Wyrd Revels, helping to give us a sense of how much of a challenge it would be to act. #drama youtu.be/4Vc9pAEjvVo

🚨Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's more More! This week it's the middle of the play, where the rewrites all riff off each other and jokes are tweaked and character work expanded. We presented it in all its messiness. #audio #drama #theatre www.patreon.com/posts/middle...

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

🔊Our full cast audio adaptation of The Old Wives' Tale by George Peele is free to listen to on our podcast.🐻‍❄️ Been thinking about Queen's Men plays a lot of late. Probably should do some more at some point. If people would be interested. #drama #audio #live #theatre audioboom.com/posts/862347...

🔊The Tragedy of Iphigenia, Antony, Mariam and more - our playlist dedicated to women playwrights and beyond is available on the podcast. Full cast audio adaptations, discussion, breakdowns of the plays. We hope to keep adding more over time. #audio #drama #playlist audioboom.com/playlists/46...

🍞Another archive recording from our live performance of The Temptation by John Bale last year. Recorded at a distance, so not as good as our audio adaptations, but hopefully gives a reasonable sense of the play. More to come from last years season! #drama #theatre #live audioboom.com/posts/889542...

😈Meanwhile, over on the patreon we have more explorations of Doctor John Faustus - chapter 45 has the not so good Doctor conjuring up Helen of Troy for some students. Not the last we'll see of her in the story. #book #literature www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

🍞Another archive recording from our live performance of The Temptation by John Bale last year. Recorded at a distance, so not as good as our audio adaptations, but hopefully gives a reasonable sense of the play. More to come from last years season! #drama #theatre #live audioboom.com/posts/889542...

🔊Looking for listen? We've a handy playlist of discussing episodes - 60+ and rising - covering all early modern and medieval theatrical practice. From mystery plays to interludes, playhouses to printers, general genres to specific drama. #audio #history #podcast audioboom.com/playlists/46...

🔊Looking for listen? We've a handy playlist of discussing episodes - 60+ and rising - covering all early modern and medieval theatrical practice. From mystery plays to interludes, playhouses to printers, general genres to specific drama. #audio #history #podcast audioboom.com/playlists/46...

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a chat about our sponsors, The Malone Society, with Professor Lucy Munro. It will drop on the podcast in a few weeks time, but our supporters get it early. And we've just drawn our latest giveaway winner! www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

📖Tomorrow we will be drawing the next winner for our Malone Society edition giveaway! It's happening every month thanks to our wonderful sponsors, and it's free to enter. Either subscribe (for free) to our patreon or do the sign up form on our website. #Book! beyondshakespeare.org/our-sponsors/

📖Tomorrow we will be drawing the next winner for our Malone Society edition giveaway! It's happening every month thanks to our wonderful sponsors, and it's free to enter. Either subscribe (for free) to our patreon or do the sign up form on our website. #Book! beyondshakespeare.org/our-sponsors/

😈Meanwhile, over on the patreon we have more explorations of Doctor John Faustus - chapter 45 has the not so good Doctor conjuring up Helen of Troy for some students. Not the last we'll see of her in the story. #book #literature www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...

⚔️It's May Day, so it's time to share some Ill May Day stuff, with our growing Sir Thomas More collection over on our Patreon. We're adding more from our live show on the play each week, plus bonus BTS material. #drama #theatre #MayDay www.patreon.com/collection/2...

What’s going on? A reading! Actors- join us at 17.00 to read the scripts (in English), audience join at 20.00! Can only actors join the fun? No! Do you have to do anything before arriving? Maybe reserve tickets at tinyurl.com/4tucfy73! Does it cost much? It’s FREE! Are these plays fun? You bet!

⚔️It's May Day, so it's time to share some Ill May Day stuff, with our growing Sir Thomas More collection over on our Patreon. We're adding more from our live show on the play each week, plus bonus BTS material. #drama #theatre #MayDay www.patreon.com/collection/2...

#OTD in 1517, rioters ran through the streets of London on Evil May Day, targeting immigrant workers. It’s a familiar story: nativist rioters felt that "strangers" (immigrants) were stealing their jobs. The riot itself was mild but the royal reaction was severe, resulting in many executions. 🧵 1/11

🔊Latest pod drop - it's a chat about Tancred and Gismunda and the many, many tellings of this horrific narrative. Fun times had by all! @robertcrighton.bsky.social chatting to Isobel Strevens about vampire Cupid, and what to do with Furies in the basement. #audio #drama audioboom.com/posts/889122...

🐳It's finished dropping on the YouTube, our First Look at The Aphrodysial by William Percy. Ah, Bill. Can plot. Has great songs. Can write zigging one liners. Not sure he knows how to join them together though. But until we stage it, we won't know for sure. #Drama www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚨Direct to our wonderful patrons, it's the first mix of the opening of the play of Sir Thomas More, from our epic live show a few weeks ago. This covers the Ill May Day uprising and the general twitching of Sir Edmund Tilney. More More to come! #drama #theatre #audio www.patreon.com/posts/openin...

This vignette has it all. It's February 1595/6 and Richard Bancroft (yes that Richard Bancroft) is at Fishmongers' Hall about a 'mishapp' over a lease of a property in Pudding Lane. It transpired that 'a mowse hath eaten of the Seale of the Lease' and could he please have another one. 1/2