Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

By Oxford University

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This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what religious changes might mean for attitudes to the dead to fantasies of easy money and social elevation. Each lecture outlines the play so there is no assumption you have already read it, then goes on to try to understand its historical context and its dramatic legacy, drawing parallels with modern film and contemporary culture as well as with Elizabethan material. The lecturer's aim with students in the room and with interested online listeners is to broaden our understanding of the theatre Shakespeare wrote for by thinking about some non-Shakespearean drama, and to recreate some of the excitement and dramatic possibilities of the new, popular technology of Renaissance theatre.

Episode Date
The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher
Nov 16, 2015
Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford
Nov 11, 2015
The Witch Of Edmonton
Nov 03, 2015
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton
Oct 27, 2015
The Alchemist: Ben Jonson
Oct 27, 2015
Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe
Oct 26, 2015
The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
Nov 24, 2009
The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
Nov 13, 2009
The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton
Nov 06, 2009
The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker
Nov 06, 2009
Arden of Faversham: Anon
Nov 05, 2009
The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd
Nov 05, 2009