This episode is a little different from the norm - come with us as we explore the wild world of early modern playing companies! What were they? Why were they? Who were they? And other W words as well. Our look at the Queen’s Men (aka the all-star troupe of actors commanded by Her Majesty) will set us up for the rest of the season, throughout which we will closely examine some of the big headliner titles from the Queen’s Men’s repertory and ask you to VOTE on which one we should feature as a 101 episode at the end of this season. We introduce a new game - The Lost Plays Game! - and also take a few short trips down tangential creeks into the origins of the vacuum cleaner and a memorially reconstructed version of “The Documentary” Shakespeare in Love. It’s a romp. A Queen’s Men romp.
Here’s what we recommended** in this week’s Happy Hour feature:
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
American Royals by Katherine McGee
Kim F Hall’s 2016 Shakespeare Birth lecture
**The links for the above books are NOT affiliate links, but we did take care to send you to non-Am@z0n booksellers #supportindiebookstores #citescholarsofcolor
Here’s what we featured in our Game/ShakesBubble Gossip segments:
The Public’s Richard II radio play now available in a 4-part podcast
The Donmar Trilogy which will be streaming for free all of October 2020
