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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher

A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford

Reboot of Romeo and Juliet and other Elizabethan plays
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Witch Of Edmonton

Witchcraft and bigamy.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton

This lecture discusses comedy, fertility, and all those illegitimate children in this play about sex, economics and meat.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Alchemist: Ben Jonson

Written in the context of plague in London, The Alchemist’s plot and language are deeply concerned with speed and speculation.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

My lecture on this infernal play discusses Elizabethan religion, the revisions to the play, and whether we should think about James Bond in its final minutes.
Approaching Shakespeare

Timon of Athens

Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of Athens.
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Shakespeare and the Lower Register of Constitutional Thought

Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford will deliver this lecture as part of the new programme on Law, Film and Literature from the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society podcast series
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton

A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker

Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Arden of Faversham: Anon

A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is concerned with the politics of the household, with gender roles within marriage, and presents a black comedy of botched murder attempts rather like The Ladykillers.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age.

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