Beyond Shakespeare
@beyondshakes.bsky.social
Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Pinned
Endgame - Discussing: A Game at Chess (Middleton's Endgame 6)
It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for...
audioboom.com
♟️It's the last part of Middleton's Endgame - following a day of performing A Game at Chess and all the context and materials around the play, we chat about the play itself. @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @drwillgreen.bsky.social @danielyabut.bsky.social #drama #theatre audioboom.com/posts/880337...
🔊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...
Discussing: Thyestes LIVE - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🔊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...
Sometimes a grasshopper is not Satan.
Sometimes the grasshopper is just a grasshopper.
#audio #jest #comedy?
www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...
Mad Men of Gotham 9 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🔊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...
Sometimes a grasshopper is not Satan.
Sometimes the grasshopper is just a grasshopper.
#audio #jest #comedy?
www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
👑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...
Entertaining Henry Day 6 - Exclusive Audio+Video | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
👑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...
Entertaining Henry Day 6 - Exclusive Audio+Video | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
👑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...
🔊Let's talk about printing, printing and publishing, printing and publishing plays - and specifically let's talk about John Danter. (We were going to talk about Fair Em, but then we didn't.) Fun discussion with Michelle Michel and host @robertcrighton.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/880417...
Discussing: John Danter with Michelle Michel
Discussing printing and a specific printer of plays...
audioboom.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🔊Let's talk about printing, printing and publishing, printing and publishing plays - and specifically let's talk about John Danter. (We were going to talk about Fair Em, but then we didn't.) Fun discussion with Michelle Michel and host @robertcrighton.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/880417...
Just begun dropping on the YouTube channel, it's our First Look at A New Wonder A Woman Never Vexed by William Rowley. Terrible title, but not a terrible play. Discuss. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed by William Rowley - YouTube
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just begun dropping on the YouTube channel, it's our First Look at A New Wonder A Woman Never Vexed by William Rowley. Terrible title, but not a terrible play. Discuss. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
🔊Our wonderful patrons get early access to the whole of our Wyrd Revels season early. Today we release our rough edit of Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. The recording includes the pre-show and more. Join us and listen now! #AudioDrama #SupportUs
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
Thyestes by Seneca - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🔊Our wonderful patrons get early access to the whole of our Wyrd Revels season early. Today we release our rough edit of Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. The recording includes the pre-show and more. Join us and listen now! #AudioDrama #SupportUs
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
🔊Our wonderful patrons get early access to the whole of our Wyrd Revels season early. Today we release our rough edit of Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. The recording includes the pre-show and more. Join us and listen now! #AudioDrama #SupportUs
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
Thyestes by Seneca - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🔊Our wonderful patrons get early access to the whole of our Wyrd Revels season early. Today we release our rough edit of Thyestes by Seneca, as translated by Jasper Heywood. The recording includes the pre-show and more. Join us and listen now! #AudioDrama #SupportUs
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
www.patreon.com/posts/thyest...
🗳️Well, the votes are in, and there was a tie - but the tie break rules worked well and we have a firm winner of our next patreon project.
Oh, you'd like us to tell you?
Might have a wait a little bit for that...
Not long...
A day or twelve...
We'll see...
Have you been good?
Oh, you'd like us to tell you?
Might have a wait a little bit for that...
Not long...
A day or twelve...
We'll see...
Have you been good?
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🗳️Well, the votes are in, and there was a tie - but the tie break rules worked well and we have a firm winner of our next patreon project.
Oh, you'd like us to tell you?
Might have a wait a little bit for that...
Not long...
A day or twelve...
We'll see...
Have you been good?
Oh, you'd like us to tell you?
Might have a wait a little bit for that...
Not long...
A day or twelve...
We'll see...
Have you been good?
🔊Early and exclusive access to more from Doctor John Faustus - the book that became a play. Chapter 40 - How Doctor Faustus through his charms made a great Castle in presence of the Duke of Anholt. More next month! #DoctorFaustus #drama #storytelling #audio www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
Doctor John Faustus - Chapter 40 (Early Access/Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🔊Early and exclusive access to more from Doctor John Faustus - the book that became a play. Chapter 40 - How Doctor Faustus through his charms made a great Castle in presence of the Duke of Anholt. More next month! #DoctorFaustus #drama #storytelling #audio www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
👻Latest exploring sessions dropping on our YouTube channel this week - The Ghost or, The Woman Wears the Breeches. More videos dipping into plays for the first time every week - why not subscribe and keep up to date. #drama #theatre #exploring #beyond #ghost
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
👻Latest exploring sessions dropping on our YouTube channel this week - The Ghost or, The Woman Wears the Breeches. More videos dipping into plays for the first time every week - why not subscribe and keep up to date. #drama #theatre #exploring #beyond #ghost
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
🔊You can listen to the entire day, and all the additional work we've done on the play, via this handy playlist of all things A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. It was all five years in the making, and our next long form event is in the works! #chess #game #Middleton
audioboom.com/playlists/46...
audioboom.com/playlists/46...
A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton
Everything we have on the 1624 play A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton
audioboom.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🔊You can listen to the entire day, and all the additional work we've done on the play, via this handy playlist of all things A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. It was all five years in the making, and our next long form event is in the works! #chess #game #Middleton
audioboom.com/playlists/46...
audioboom.com/playlists/46...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
Mon 24 Nov @ 6.30pm online
JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE
Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE
Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Mon 24 Nov @ 6.30pm online
JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE
Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE
Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
🔊Early access for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live performance of The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood, plus the pre-show and all the atmos. A tighter mix and edit will follow on the pod next year. #audio #AudioDrama #theatre #live #hoxton www.patreon.com/posts/wise-w...
The Wise-woman of Hogston - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🔊Early access for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live performance of The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood, plus the pre-show and all the atmos. A tighter mix and edit will follow on the pod next year. #audio #AudioDrama #theatre #live #hoxton www.patreon.com/posts/wise-w...
♟️It's the last part of Middleton's Endgame - following a day of performing A Game at Chess and all the context and materials around the play, we chat about the play itself. @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @drwillgreen.bsky.social @danielyabut.bsky.social #drama #theatre audioboom.com/posts/880337...
Endgame - Discussing: A Game at Chess (Middleton's Endgame 6)
It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for...
audioboom.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
♟️It's the last part of Middleton's Endgame - following a day of performing A Game at Chess and all the context and materials around the play, we chat about the play itself. @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @drwillgreen.bsky.social @danielyabut.bsky.social #drama #theatre audioboom.com/posts/880337...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
🗳️It's but a few days to go before the vote closes - if you want to help choose the next projects for us to focus on, join us and go for it.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🗳️It's but a few days to go before the vote closes - if you want to help choose the next projects for us to focus on, join us and go for it.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
👻Latest exploring sessions dropping on our YouTube channel this week - The Ghost or, The Woman Wears the Breeches. More videos dipping into plays for the first time every week - why not subscribe and keep up to date. #drama #theatre #exploring #beyond #ghost
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
👻Latest exploring sessions dropping on our YouTube channel this week - The Ghost or, The Woman Wears the Breeches. More videos dipping into plays for the first time every week - why not subscribe and keep up to date. #drama #theatre #exploring #beyond #ghost
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🔊Early access for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live performance of The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood, plus the pre-show and all the atmos. A tighter mix and edit will follow on the pod next year. #audio #AudioDrama #theatre #live #hoxton www.patreon.com/posts/wise-w...
The Wise-woman of Hogston - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🔊Early access for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live performance of The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood, plus the pre-show and all the atmos. A tighter mix and edit will follow on the pod next year. #audio #AudioDrama #theatre #live #hoxton www.patreon.com/posts/wise-w...
🗳️It's but a few days to go before the vote closes - if you want to help choose the next projects for us to focus on, join us and go for it.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🗳️It's but a few days to go before the vote closes - if you want to help choose the next projects for us to focus on, join us and go for it.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
There is a current lead in the voting... but the differential is fairly slight.
🦹♂️Exclusive for our patrons, it's our ongoing series delving into the criminal underworld - as revealed to us by Robert Greene and his cony-catching pamphlets. Another tale of a cozening companion, who would needs try his cunning... #TrueCrime #Kinda #HeSaysItsTrue www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
Cony-Catching with Robert Greene 31 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🦹♂️Exclusive for our patrons, it's our ongoing series delving into the criminal underworld - as revealed to us by Robert Greene and his cony-catching pamphlets. Another tale of a cozening companion, who would needs try his cunning... #TrueCrime #Kinda #HeSaysItsTrue www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
The BIG Vote - Patron Only Round | Beyond Shakespeare
Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🗳️The public round of voting has now closed in our BIG vote. It's now time to go over to our patrons and subscribers to set the agenda for the next year or so.
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Didn't vote in the public round, but want to shape our schedule? Become a patron or free subscriber today!
www.patreon.com/posts/143168...
Reposted by Beyond Shakespeare
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Lord Mayor's Show 1626 (Middleton's Endgame 5)
Let's go over to the live broadcast of the Lord Mayor's Show...
audioboom.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Last call for the public vote! Choose what you want to see us produce next!
🗳️The public round of the big vote closes in a few days - get your vote in for the plays you want us to produce!
Anything written prior to the closing of the theatres in 1642, in English, and not one of the 38 plays we don't do!
forms.gle/a43kWkkHz9JK...
Anything written prior to the closing of the theatres in 1642, in English, and not one of the 38 plays we don't do!
forms.gle/a43kWkkHz9JK...
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Last call for the public vote! Choose what you want to see us produce next!
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Lord Mayor's Show 1626 (Middleton's Endgame 5)
Let's go over to the live broadcast of the Lord Mayor's Show...
audioboom.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...