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Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
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🚨The winner of the patreon vote this year was...
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene. We will now begin the groundwork to make this into a full cast audio adaptation over the next year or so, and maybe some of the runners up will go into production too.
#patreon #vote
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🎄Tonight in the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at the Towneley Second Shepherds Play.
🌟What's that coming over the hill to redeem mankind - is it a baby?👶
No - it's a sheep!🐑
Ewe!
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
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The Towneley Second Shepherds Play | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)
YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare
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December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🎄On the First Day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
A Christmas Masque by Ben Jonson.
#MerryChristmasEveryone #MerryChristmas
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Christmas, His Masque by Ben Jonson | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)
YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare
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December 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🔊Early access to our End of Year Round Up 2025 available now for patrons, including free subscribers. Subscribe for free, and keep up to date with future productions and activity. 2025 has been a busy year - what is coming up next? www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...
End of Year Round Up 2025 (Free Subscribers) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's time to go fishing with the mad men of Gotham. A classic tale of head counting, which anyone running a school trip will know can be a nightmare. #comedy #fish www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...
Mad Men of Gotham 10 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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🎄This Christmas season we're going long form, as we have a three episode mini-crossover with the Hamlet to Hamilton @hamlettohamilton.bsky.social podcast, continuing our chat about nearly every play ever written in terms of verse. More coming soon! #audio #discussion audioboom.com/posts/880964...
1570 and All This - Part 1 (Hamlet to Hamilton Crossover
A return to the wilds of the 1570's!
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December 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🎄This Christmas season we're going long form, as we have a three episode mini-crossover with the Hamlet to Hamilton @hamlettohamilton.bsky.social podcast, continuing our chat about nearly every play ever written in terms of verse. More coming soon! #audio #discussion audioboom.com/posts/880964...
1570 and All This - Part 1 (Hamlet to Hamilton Crossover
A return to the wilds of the 1570's!
audioboom.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🎄Tonight in the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at the Towneley Second Shepherds Play.
🌟What's that coming over the hill to redeem mankind - is it a baby?👶
No - it's a sheep!🐑
Ewe!
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
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The Towneley Second Shepherds Play | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)
YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare
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December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
😈Latest early access patreon release - the rough mix of our post season discussion of What Makes a Revel Wyrd, looking at witches, demons, cunning folk, and everything in between. With @robertcrighton.bsky.social @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
Discussing: What Makes a Revel Wyrd? - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Dropping this evening, it's a Second Look run at The Summoning of Everyman by the Unknown. Do you have a decent tally in your good deeds file? Cos that's all you can take into the next life, everything else is slowly taken away.
🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎄
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The Summoning of Everyman by the Unknown | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)
YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare
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December 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Dropping this evening, it's a Second Look run at The Summoning of Everyman by the Unknown. Do you have a decent tally in your good deeds file? Cos that's all you can take into the next life, everything else is slowly taken away.
🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎄
youtu.be/XNU8L7WmNXQ
The Summoning of Everyman by the Unknown | Second Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)
YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare
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December 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🍷Latest exclusive for our wonderful patrons - it's an exploratory dip into the book of Doctor John Faustus. We're at Chapter 41, and we're visiting the Bishop of Saltzburg’s Wine-Cellar! Full reading of the chapter by @robertcrighton.bsky.social also on this tier.
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Doctor John Faustus - Chapter 41 (Early Access/Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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😈🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of Doctor Faustus (1616 version) by Christopher Marlowe & Friends. A final edit of this will land next year on the pod, but you can get it now by supporting us on the patreon. #drama #theatre www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
Doctor Faustus (1616) - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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🔊Latest pod drop - a discussion about ballads... hundreds of 'em. Well, a 100 of them. Well, actually, about 120 of them. An excellent resource to dip into and share. #audio #music #drama audioboom.com/posts/880916...
Discussing: 100 Ballads
Ballads, hundreds of em...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🔊Latest pod drop - a discussion about ballads... hundreds of 'em. Well, a 100 of them. Well, actually, about 120 of them. An excellent resource to dip into and share. #audio #music #drama audioboom.com/posts/880916...
Discussing: 100 Ballads
Ballads, hundreds of em...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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🚨Dropping this week on the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at Respublica, added to the playlist with previous looks. One of the greatest moral interludes created, where the complex comedy business of the Vices rock. Subscribe to the Tubes for more. #drama #vice youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨Dropping this week on the Exploring sessions - it's a Second Look at Respublica, added to the playlist with previous looks. One of the greatest moral interludes created, where the complex comedy business of the Vices rock. Subscribe to the Tubes for more. #drama #vice youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
😈🔊Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of Doctor Faustus (1616 version) by Christopher Marlowe & Friends. A final edit of this will land next year on the pod, but you can get it now by supporting us on the patreon. #drama #theatre www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
Doctor Faustus (1616) - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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🔊Exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's another dive into the Elizabethan underworld from the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene. Of a crafty mate, that brought two young men unto a Tavern... #Crime #TrueCrime?
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Cony-Catching with Robert Greene 32 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🔊Exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's another dive into the Elizabethan underworld from the cony-catching pamphlets of Robert Greene. Of a crafty mate, that brought two young men unto a Tavern... #Crime #TrueCrime?
www.patreon.com/posts/cony-c...
Cony-Catching with Robert Greene 32 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨The winner of the patreon vote this year was...
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene. We will now begin the groundwork to make this into a full cast audio adaptation over the next year or so, and maybe some of the runners up will go into production too.
#patreon #vote
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The results have been tabulated, the answer to the question has been given. We have our next project for 2026. And it's... in this episode of the podcast!
Oh, alright, here it is in emojis.
🍳💇🥓➕🍳💇🥖🏳️‍🌈by🤖🥬
More on this in the future...
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The BIG Vote RESULTS!
What's the play next year?
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December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🔊Todays bonus exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's more from Higgins' iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates, and today we have reached King Locrinus, who is taken down by his wife Guendoline. ⚔️Whilst eating bread and butter. Probably.🍞 #history #kinda www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
Higgins' Mirror for Magistrates | Exploring 8 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels 😈 including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun.
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
Doctor Faustus (1604) - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🔬Meanwhile, dropping on the YouTube this week, it's The Elder Brother by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. People in the room enjoyed it a lot, so there must be something interesting going on. More #exploring sessions every week - subscribe to keep up to date! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM