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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.

  • 52 minutes 52 seconds
    The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher
    A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Fletcher’s play is a riposte to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: in this lecture I discuss their interconnectedness as a way to identify Fletcher’s particular dramaturgy.
    16 November 2015, 3:33 pm
  • 53 minutes 19 seconds
    Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford
    Reboot of Romeo and Juliet and other Elizabethan plays This lecture discusses the play’s reboot of Romeo and Juliet and other Elizabethan plays, its sensationalism, and its connections to anatomy.
    11 November 2015, 10:49 am
  • 45 minutes 59 seconds
    The Witch Of Edmonton
    Witchcraft and bigamy. A collaborative play about witchcraft, bigamy - and a talking Dog - what more could you want?
    3 November 2015, 10:28 am
  • 53 minutes 46 seconds
    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.
    27 October 2015, 11:33 am
  • 48 minutes 37 seconds
    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.
    27 October 2015, 11:21 am
  • 49 minutes 10 seconds
    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.
    26 October 2015, 3:30 pm
  • 37 minutes 41 seconds
    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.
    24 November 2009, 11:31 am
  • 48 minutes 15 seconds
    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.
    13 November 2009, 4:22 pm
  • 45 minutes 30 seconds
    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.
    6 November 2009, 12:51 pm
  • 45 minutes 33 seconds
    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.
    6 November 2009, 12:40 pm
  • 41 minutes 38 seconds
    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.
    5 November 2009, 12:35 pm
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