Beyond Shakespeare
Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
- ♟️Meanwhile, over on the pod we're having a chat about A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. Again. Yes, again. We're like a dog with a bone, we're not gonna stop. A lovely discussion about a performance of the play from last year. #discussion #chess #history #drama audioboom.com/posts/882200...
- Some fun things about The Book of Sir Thomas More, which the internet has been talking about of late. 74% of the surviving text is written by Anthony Munday. Literally. He might have worked on it with someone else, say Chettle, but he LITERALLY wrote it out. Then the text had some rewrites...
- These are called Additions, but they are all rewrites of scenes, much of which survives in the manuscript in their original form, except for the pages removed to make way for the rewrites. The rewrites are pretty similar in form to the original by Munday, the plotting remains broadly the same.
- One of these rewrites is in a hand labelled as D. This rewrite must follow the outline of the original scene by Munday. Unless Munday had More try to stop the rioting by riding a unicycle and telling jokes, it's a polish/tidy up of Munday's work. This addition amounts to about 5% of the text.
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View full thread🎟️All of which is to say - hey, would you like to spend 7 hours finding out how complicated the text of The Book of Sir Thomas More is? A full performance of the text, discussion, sources, play-within-a-play and a whole lot... ahem... more. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
- 🪓Meanwhile, this week our exploring session releases have reached The Atheist's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur. We haven't reached the really bonkers part of the play, you will have to wait till next week to hit that bit. 1st part out now, 2 more to follow! #drama www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- 🎟️Another couple of tickets sold for The Book of Sir Thomas More - it's a small room, and there aren't many spaces, so book now to avoid disappointment! More (ahem) on the event and other exciting developments in this thread.👉 #drama #theatre #live #DeepDive #unique #events
- 🎉The show will be an epic deep dive into The Book of Sir Thomas More, with an introduction & a full script-in-hand live audio recording of the text. 🎟️Pre-sales were very healthy, so there really aren't many available - book now to avoid missing out. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
- 🚨Sponsorship announcement🚨 We're proud to announce that the Beyond podcast is now sponsored by... 📖The Malone Society📖 who are kindly sharing a number of volumes with us to give away to our followers and those coming to our live events. #MaloneSociety #Drama #Theatre #Sponsor
- 📢Also today: tickets for 📖The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece📖 are now on general sale!🎟️ And we can announce that this has always been a collaboration/launch event for our sponsors, as they have kindly supplied us with books to giveaway to every ticketholder to the event. #live #LiveShow
- 🎉The show will be an epic deep dive into The Book of Sir Thomas More, with an introduction & a full script-in-hand live audio recording of the text. 🎟️Pre-sales were very healthy, so there really aren't many available - book now to avoid missing out. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
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View full threadAll of this could not happen without our wonderful sponsors, The Malone Society. If you want to support the society, and the continued availability of their editions of pre-modern drama, then do join them today. Considering what you get for your membership, it's a bargain. #Join malonesociety.com
- 🔊Adventures in the criminal underworld, as we delve further into the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene - and today we're slicing our way into the specialist equipment for a cutpurse. 🗡️Yes, it's cuttle bung time! 👛Dare we say, Cuttlebunga man! #Audio #Exclusive www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
- 🎟️Next week we will be opening up tickets for our Sir Thomas More event to general sale. 📢We will also be making a little announcement about the event and other things associated with it. 😀Some special elements, which have been in the works for a year or so. 📖So, Tuesday, see you then.
