Yorkshire Tragedy 101

It’s our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE EXTRAVAGANZAAAAAAA!!! To celebrate, we brought in new and returning friends of the pod, Charlie Bell, Courtney Parker, Molly Seremet, Patrick Harris, and Sawyer Kemp to read Thomas Middleton’s Yorkshire Tragedy in its entirety, purely for your listening pleasure. This week, you get your Summary, Taste of Text, and Tips and Tidbits all rolled into one ridiculous bout of reader’s theatre, with a healthy dose of murder on top. We wouldn’t want to celebrate the Big 100 any other way.

Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:

  • the @adventcarolndar instagram account: 60-second 2020 carols, one a day till Dec. 25, by @joelwaggoner and @juliamet

  • For a “Swiftie” kick: the Evermore album and Long Pond studio sessions

  • @sotherans on Twitter

Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:

  • ShaxBull’s new advisory board: Farah Karim-Cooper, David Sterling Brown, Lauren Eriks Cline, Vanessa Corredera, Sawyer Kemp, Nora Williams, and Sandra Young.

  • Ruben Espinosa’s new book!

  • Hailey Bachrach’s newsletter - Dramatis Personae

  • Nothing for the Group newsletter/roundup by dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen

Insatiate Countess 101

So there’s this Countess, and she’s horny AF…and thus begins John Marston’s The Insatiate Countess. We dish a little happy with some signal boosts in our Happy Hour segment; we tell you everything we know about John Marston and the other writers who had a hand in this text in our Meet the Contemporary feature; our Taste of Text is extra tasty because the titular Countess is, in fact, thirsty like whoa; we give you yet another title to ponder while Keeping Up With the Queen’s Men; we gossip a bit and GTFO. Watch out for that Countess’ “dark hole” is all we’re saying.

Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:

Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:

  • Red Bull Theatre’s live reading of A King and No King on Dec. 14, 2020

  • Listen to some brilliant teens stage their favorite scenes from Shakespeare as radio plays on the Dr. Ralph Presents podcast

Lear 301

In this episode we give you a run down of all the other versions of the King Lear (or Leir) story that have existed before and after Shakespeare wrote his own version. The Queen’s Men had one, Nahum Tate adapted one, as did William Charles Macready. We also list some Shakespeare-themed gift ideas for your holiday shopping list, gossip a little, and address a few important corrections from past episodes. You heard it here first, folx, we’re human and we sometimes make mistakes, but we also try to grow and do better. Unlike King Lear (regardless of which version you prefer).

Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:

  • Fat Rascals: Dining at Shakespeare’s Table by OSF legend John Tufts

  • Give the gift of an experience by buying a gift certificate to your local theatre to be cashed in for tickets when this pandemic is finally over!

  • Whatever and however you gift, we hope you consider sustainability and zero-waste options, like this plantable wrapping paper that not only wraps your lovely gifts, but then grows into wildflowers in the spring

  • Arden editions of a play are great! So is a Norton-edition Folio Facsimile!

  • A cute (and meta) Shakespeare mask on Etsy

  • Also this Lady M inspired bookmark for the bibliophiles on your list

Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:

  • Sign up for the FREE RaceB4 Symposium here

  • Keep an eye out for Dr. Vanessa Corredera’s talk on December 9: “What’s Wrong with Critical Race Theory”

1 Henry VI 201

We return to the War of the Roses with this 201 dive into 1 Henry VI, a history play that even Jess likes. We learn all about the real St. Joan of Arc and how her story and image got twisted to conform to English propaganda and the patriarchy (eye roll), and Aubrey illuminates the moment between Margaret and Suffolk in act 5 that demands to be delivered to no one but the audience. We also Keep Up with the Queen’s Men and give you a quick and dirty summary of George Peele’s The Old Wife’s Tale (which may or may not be the most underrated comedy of its time). Slight microphone issues aside, we hope you enjoy the episode.

Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:

Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:

  • Here are some ways to get your digital 1 Henry VI fix:

    • The Show Must Go Online from earlier this year

    • 2013 Globe version available to rent on the Globe Player

    • 1983 production available on Amaz*n

    • Digital Theatre + (check with your local public library)

  • Macbeth Folger BTS

  • We Acknowledge Ours Roundtable

The White Devil 101

In our first 101 episode in…a while…we take a minute to remind you of who the F* John Webster even is (spoiler: he’s the creepy, dirty, mouse torturer from “The Documentary” Shakespeare In Love); we give you a good old-fashioned short-is summary; we bring you A Taste of Text (and some dumbshows) from The White Devil; Jess and Aubrey each pose some lingering quandaries we have about the play; we launch our new feature, Keeping Up With the Queen’s Men, to tell you all about Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay from the Queen’s Men’s repertory; we gossip some and we laugh a lot. All this and more, so get ready! We’re diving into Webster’s The White Devil like there’s no tomorrow!

Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:

Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:

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