🚨Latest early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the first part of our epic all day event on The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece!
It's our introduction to the text, I am the Booke 📖
The play itself will follow soon. First to our patrons.
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📖The book that inspired the play, chapter by chapter. #audio audioboom.com/posts/886518...
We have a farces poster! So excited to see it going up, to invite actors to come drop in for some fun reading characters, & audiences to watch some joyful silliness, in a beautiful medieval building! #frenchfarces
🔊It's time for another happy story from ancient Briton, via the Higgins iteration of A Mirror for Magistrates. How the Lady Sabrine, daughter of King Locrinus and Elstride, was drowned by Queen Guendoline. #history #literature www.patreon.com/posts/higgin...
Right, we're looking at the backstage dramas behind masques - anyone have good starting points for targets to dig into? Ideally a masque that we have a reasonable amount of data for the show itself (script/household accounts etc) as well as juicy BTS stuff. Suggestions?
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Morning early modernists! Where would I go for a good and full account of the Lord Chamberlain's Men tour of 1594 please?
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Just adding some tags for attention but imagine many of you know!
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🔊Not only did we drop our live recording of Arden of Faversham yesterday, we also added it to this handy playlist of all our work on the play. More to come on Arden, we haven't yet done a Spoilerific overview, and... well... you can't really expect us to stop now.
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📖Over on the patreon, we've started collating our work on Sir Thomas More. We're about to start mixing the live show, but till then, here are the rehearsal/prep that led to the show. Special thanks to our patrons for their support, without which none of this happens!
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An image of the actor Keith Hill, wearing glasses and a jumper to the right of frame, fading into black across the left. A red banner across the frame at an angle with the words: Sold Out. Text over the image The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - 12 April 2026. (text obscured by red banner) An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of The Book of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday and other hands. As well as a live script in hand audio recording of the play (in all its contradictions) we are hosting panel discussions and a deep dive into the play-within-a-play. Sponsored by The Malone Society - the permanent utility of original texts Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast, top right beyondshakespeare.org, bottom middle White Bear Theatre logo, bottom right (obscured)
Well, our Sir Thomas More event is over.
An entire text performed warts and all, with panels, discussion, drinking, and a lot of hard work.
There were 22 people directly involved in the show, but also an army of regulars in our exploring sessions who made it the show it was.
Thank you.
🎭Just doing the final checks before heading out for our Sir Thomas More event... it's less than two years since we did this kind of show, when we did a deep dive into A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. All available on the podcast. Cos that's how we roll. #audio
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That single return is still available people! Don't miss this unique show tomorrow afternoon!
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🔊Not only did we drop our live recording of Arden of Faversham yesterday, we also added it to this handy playlist of all our work on the play. More to come on Arden, we haven't yet done a Spoilerific overview, and... well... you can't really expect us to stop now.
audioboom.com/playlists/46...
That single return is still available people! Don't miss this unique show tomorrow afternoon!
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🚨We once again have a returned ticket for
The Book of Sir Thomas More
for Sunday - snap it up before it disappears like the last one.
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🔊Latest release: full audio recording of our live performance of
Arden of Faversham
from our Winter Revels 2023.
There's going to be a murder, but it's taking a little longer than planned.
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🔊Latest release: full audio recording of our live performance of
Arden of Faversham
from our Winter Revels 2023.
There's going to be a murder, but it's taking a little longer than planned.
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And it's gone... so putting your name on the waiting list does make a difference!
We'll keep you posted about additional returns as and when...
🚨We have a return! One ticket is now available for our epic deep dive into the play people just couldn't stop tinkering with:
The Book of Sir Thomas More
Join us for a full performance of the text for the podcast, plus panels and discussion. #drama #theatre #live
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Launching a new site called Suffolk Wills, which has two aims: to publish transcripts of wills from Suffolk, 1490-1620, and analyse the wills to see how they changed or varied from pre- to post-Reformation. suffolkwills.org
#TudorHistory #16thC #Tudors
Early modernists! I'm writing about Frost Fairs and keep seeing claims that Elizabeth I played archery on the frozen Thames, but can't find source besides Holinshed who says in 1587 'diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames'. Is there another source?
Excellent news to wake up to - my book has officially been sent to press! 😄 Now just to wait less than two months for publication day. I'm so excited to finally hold it in my hands.
There will be a book launch event - news forthcoming 😎
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An image of the actor Keith Hill, wearing glasses and a jumper to the right of frame, fading into black across the left. A red banner across the frame at an angle with the words: Sold Out. Text over the image The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - 12 April 2026. (text obscured by red banner) An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of The Book of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday and other hands. As well as a live script in hand audio recording of the play (in all its contradictions) we are hosting panel discussions and a deep dive into the play-within-a-play. Sponsored by The Malone Society - the permanent utility of original texts Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast, top right beyondshakespeare.org, bottom middle White Bear Theatre logo, bottom right (obscured)
🎟️We were able to release an additional ticket for Sir Thomas More yesterday, but it was snapped up by the waiting list almost immediately. But don't despair, we will keep you posted if there are any additional seats released. #ThomasMore #drama #history
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We still have open audition spaces for our upcoming production of “The War in Heaven”! Come join us for a truly special theatre experience! Visit hiddentheatre.com/about/jobs-a... for all the details! #yorkmysteryplays #medievaldrama #auditions
🔊Latest early access release, it's a work in progress for an upcoming audio adaptation of Gorboduc - it's only got a few takes added to a working track based on our exploring sessions, but will be updated each month or so as we complete the recording. www.patreon.com/posts/gorbod...
😈Exclusive exploring sessions on Doctor John Faustus over on the patreon - and we've reached chapter 44. And Faustus is STILL feasting with his students. It's starting to look a little desperate now dude. #audio #exploring www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
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Black background with photos down the right hand side, next to text about The Book of Sir Thomas More - Panelists Tracey Hill - Professor Emerita of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist in the pageantry and entertainments of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century City of London. Will Green is a historian focused on the intersection between drama and the experience of public life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in 2021. Thomas Middleton's Theatre of War: The King's Men and Political Performance in the Public Sphere, 1620-1624 will be published by Routledge in summer 2026. Daniel Yabut is an actor, teaching artist at ENSAD and at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, and CNRS Research Associate. He is Managing Editor of Cahiers Élisabéthains. Tiffany Stern is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her books are Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey, 2007), Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009), Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology (2023), and Ballad Business (2026). Previously general editor of New Mermaids and the Norton Anthology of English Literature: Sixteenth Century, she is currently general editor of Arden Shakespeare: Fourth Series. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the British Academy. Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King’s College London. Her most recent book is Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men, and she has published on the uses of archaic theatrical forms in Sir Thomas More. She is currently writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars playhouses and editing Henry IV, Part 1 for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series. beyondshakespeare.org
We have a wonderful team of panellists for the show, discussing all the ins and outs of the play, the manuscript of the play, the plays the play is based on, and all the questions that the document raises about how early modern theatre was created. #theatre #drama #live