#002 - A Brief History of Theatre

Podcast Shakespeare

"She sat like Patience on a monument,

smiling at grief." -- Viola, 'Twelfth Night'

Before we kick off the festivities, a quick trip through the backstory of Western theatre, and a look at some of the early playwrights of the Elizabethan era, including Kit Marlowe.

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Links mentioned:

Aristotle, Poetics

Kevin Costner, The Postman

The playwright Hrosvitha

Shakespeare's Way - signposted walk from Stratford-upon-Avon to London

Stephen Greenblatt on the "controversial" 2017 Julius Caesar at New York's Public Theatre (The Guardian)

Clips:

Sergei Prokofiev, "Montagues and Capulets", from Romeo and Juliet (ballet), 1935

Leonard Bernstein, Intro from West Side Story, 1957

Luciano Michelini, 'Frolic', from Curb Your Enthusiasm, 2000 - present

Niamh Cusack as Viola, Twelfth Night Act II scene iv

William Walton, Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario, 1947

Thomas Adès, The Tempest (after William Shakespeare), Act II scene iv, 2004

Henry Purcell, "Ritornelle" from Dido and Aeneas, Act II, 1689

Giuseppe Verdi, Act I finale from Otello, 1887