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These resources are a rolling Before Shakespeare collection of materials and research insights for theatre history and sixteenth-century English drama and performance. They include prompts for further study and classroom use.
Looking to escape the 2020s for a brief period? Wondering what alternatives you might find to a Christmas pantomime if you were in a different century? Or simply looking to sharpen up your Trivial Pursuit knowledge (with extremely niche facts…)?
This is just a short note to let you know that members of the Before Shakespeare team have set up a YouTube channel seeking to provide a space for fun, relaxed and silly conversations about scholarship and creativity.
Welcome to Elizabethan England via the digital world! This post takes the form of “remote quest(ions)” that take us on a tour of early modern recreation via a range of digital platforms…
For this piece, I’ll be spending a year in the young Curtain playhouse as it makes its way into the brave new decade of 1580s.
Just as writers in twenty-first century New York have opinions on how other people should behave in theatre spaces, so early modern London has its fair share of advice to spectators.
Summer 1567. A feature piece for Elizabethan developers, house buyers, tourists, and those interested in keeping up with the latest cultural developments just outside of the City of London.