The History Of European Theatre Philip Rowe

Episode 114:
As an introduction to season six of the podcast in the first part of this episode I lay out the aims for the next season and the approach I will be taking to the monoliths of early English theatre tha tare Shakespeare and Jonson.
In the second part of the Episode I give a quick recap of Season Five to get you and I back in the zone for all the detail that will follow on Shakespeare and Jonson.
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Episode 115:
A dive back into Ancient Greek theatre with a look at 'The Frogs' by Aristophanes.
A recap on the life and plays of Aristophanes.
A summary of the plot of the play.
Analysis of the main points raised by the play.
A short word on a recent production of the play by 'Spymonkey' played at the Kiln Theatre, London in February and March 2024.

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Episode 116:
As an introduction to the season on Shakespeare this episode gives a timeline of events in Shakespeare's life. The focus is on the best estimates for the dates of all his plays and the reasons for those estimates, but also includes the milestones of his life and other significant events of the time that occurred in England.

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Episode 117:
‘To you your father should be as a God’.
-              A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1 Scene 1

The first of a series of episodes covering the biography of William of Stratford.
Richard Shakespeare – William’s grandfather
Richard Shakespeare – William’s uncle
John Shakespeare – William’s father
                  His move to Stratford Upon Avon
                  His trade as a glover
                  The question of the midden heap
                  Marriage to Mary Arden
                  The elder children of John and Mary Shakespeare
                  The question of William’s birthdate
                  The effect of the plague in Stratford that summer
                  The younger children of John and Mary Shakespeare
                  The business interests of John Shakespeare
                  The legal activates of John Shakespeare
                  The rise to become Mayor of Stratford
                  The application for a coat of arms
                  Accusations of usury
                  Financial worries
                  The withdrawal from the council and church
                  Final years and death

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Episode 118:
Shakespeare's youth, his school days, religious life and marriage.
A couple of corrections to the last episode on John Shakespeare
The Shakespeare family's domestic set up.
Religion and the life of a child in the late 1500's
Examples of how William's education in Stratford may have looked.
Anne Hathaway and her family history.
William and Anne's marriage and the many speculations about anomalies in the records.

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Episode 119:
For this episode I’m very pleased to welcome Katherine Sheil, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.  Katherine is Author of several books about Shakespeare, but today we particularly talk about her book about Shakespeare’s wife called ‘Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway’.  It is a fascinating examination of the known facts of Anne’s life and of how her persona has been used and abused through the centuries, as a means of examining and justifying views of Shakespeare, but also about how Anne has been viewed in her own right.
Katherine is a leading expert on Anne Hathaway and her legacy to history so, following on from the last podcast episode about Shakespeare’s early life and marriage this was a perfect opportunity to talk to Katherine, who adds much nuanced thought and detail to the subject of Anne’s life, which adds to the basic facts I detailed last time, so if you have not listened to that episode yet it’s probably a good idea to do so before returning here.
Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of several books about Shakespeare, including The Taste of the Town: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre; Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama (with Randall Martin);  She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America; Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway; Shakespeare & Biography (with Graham Holderness); and Shakespeare & Stratford. She is finishing a book on the history of women and Stratford-upon-Avon, and a book about Shakespeare and biofiction, called Father Shakespeare. She was one of the co-editors of the recent Annethology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare. Her work on the epitaph of Anne Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church will be coming out later this year with Cambridge University Press.
Links to Katherine's latest books, available from any bookshop.
www.cambridge.org/9781108404068
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/anne-thology
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