The History Of European Theatre

By Philip Rowe

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A podcast tracing the development of theatre from ancient Greece to the present day through the places and people who made theatre happen. More than just dates and lists of plays we'll learn about the social. political and historical context that fostered the creation of dramatic art.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Conversation With Rachel Aanstad
Jan 20, 2025
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Man Is but An Ass If He Go About to Expound This Dream’
Jan 13, 2025
A Bawdy Twelfth Night: A Conversation with Rachel Aanstad
Jan 06, 2025
The Life of Ben Jonson Part Six: ‘Posterity Pays Every Man His Honour’
Dec 30, 2024
Will, Ben & Tom at Christmas: An Affectionate Pastiche
Dec 24, 2024
The Life of Ben Jonson part Five: ‘Tis the House of Fame, Sir’
Dec 16, 2024
'The Divas Gift': A Conversation With Pamela Allen Brown
Dec 09, 2024
The Life of Ben Jonson part Four: The Playhouse, the Court, and ‘The Masque of Blackness’
Dec 02, 2024
The Life of Ben Jonson part Three: ‘There is no Greater Hell Than to be a Prisoner of Fear’
Nov 25, 2024
Shake-Scene Shakespeare: A Conversation With Lizzie Conrad-Hughes
Nov 18, 2024
The Life of Ben Jonson Part Two: He That is Taught Only by Himself Has a Fool for a Master
Nov 11, 2024
The Culture of The Shrew in Early Modern Europe: A Conversation with Dr Natalia Pikli
Nov 04, 2024
The Life of Ben Jonson Part One: It’s Complicated
Oct 28, 2024
The Kings Lynn Medieval Stage: A Conversation With Tim Fitzhigham
Oct 21, 2024
The Comedy of Errors: ‘Hand in Hand, Not One Before the Other.’
Oct 14, 2024
A Knack to Know a Knave: ‘Laugh at the Faults and Weigh it as it is.’
Oct 07, 2024
Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘O Heaven, Were Men but Constant.’
Sep 30, 2024
Words, Language and Actions in ‘Titus Andronicus’: A Conversation with Eleanor Conlon.
Sep 23, 2024
Titus Andronicus: 'Vengeance Is In My Heart, Death In My Hand'
Sep 16, 2024
Adventures In Theatre History - Philadelphia: The Book
Sep 14, 2024
Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L Sayers: A Conversation with Jem Bloomfield
Sep 09, 2024
The Taming of the Shrew: ‘No Profit Grows Where No Pleasure Is taken’
Sep 02, 2024
Richard 3rd at Shakespeare's Globe
Aug 26, 2024
Richard 3rd: 'And Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy'
Aug 19, 2024
The search for Richard 3rd: A Conversation with Mathew Morris
Aug 12, 2024
Henry 6th part 3: ‘How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown.’
Aug 05, 2024
John Hall of Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Conversation with John Taplin
Jul 29, 2024
Henry 6th part 2: ‘The Fox Barks Not When He Would Steal the Lamb’
Jul 22, 2024
Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: A Conversation with Dr. Darren Freebury-Jones
Jul 15, 2024
Henry 6th part 1: ‘My Thoughts Are Whirled Like a Potter's Wheel’
Jul 08, 2024
'To Gender or Not to Gender': A Conversation With Margaret Oakes
Jul 01, 2024
Hunt, Grenfell and the Satyr Play
Jun 24, 2024
William of Stratford, a Coda: The History of New Place
Jun 17, 2024
William of Stratford part 4: ‘With Mirth and Laughter Let Old Wrinkles Come.’
Jun 10, 2024
The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway: A Conversation with Prof Katherine Scheil
Jun 03, 2024
William of Stratford Part 3: ‘Would I Were in an Alehouse in London’
May 27, 2024
Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: A Conversation with Prof Katherine Scheil
May 20, 2024
William of Stratford Part 2: 'He Wears The Rose of Youth Upon Him'
May 13, 2024
That Shakespeare Life: A Conversation with Cassidy Cash
May 06, 2024
William of Stratford Part 1: 'To You Your Father Should Be As a God’
Apr 29, 2024
Polish Theatre Revisited: A Conversation with Dr Agata Luksza
Apr 22, 2024
Shakespeare In His Time
Apr 15, 2024
Dionysus and Xanthias: The First Double Act
Apr 08, 2024
From the English Renaissance to Shakespeare and Jonson
Apr 01, 2024
Adventures In Theatre History Philadelphia with Peter Schmitz
Jan 09, 2024
Schedule Announcement
Jan 02, 2024
Coda: The Life of Augustine Phillips
Dec 26, 2023
English Renaissance Conclusions (sort of)
Dec 11, 2023
Arden of Faversham and the Domestic Tragedy
Nov 27, 2023
The Play’s the Thing: Elizabethan Acting Style and Stage Conventions
Nov 13, 2023
The Star Players: Kemp. Alleyn and Burbage
Oct 30, 2023
Thomas Dekker: London's Playwright
Oct 16, 2023
Thomas Dekker: Gulls, Gallants and the London Playhouse
Oct 02, 2023
Henslowe’s Diary
Sep 18, 2023
Drag: A British History - A Conversation with Jacob Bloomfield
Sep 11, 2023
Thomas Kid and the Spanish Tragedy
Sep 04, 2023
Two Globes, a Fortune, a White Friar and Hope: The London Playhouses 1587 – 1642 part 2
Aug 21, 2023
Two Blackfriars, a Curtain, a Rose and a Swan: The London Playhouses 1587 – 1642 part 1
Aug 07, 2023
The Elizabethan Playing Troupes
Jul 24, 2023
Edward 2nd & The Jew of Malta: The Rest of Marlow
Jul 10, 2023
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 3 The Folio In The World
Jul 03, 2023
Dr Faustus: Wisdom, Power, and the Immortal Soul
Jun 26, 2023
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 2 Creating the Folio
Jun 19, 2023
The Two parts of Tamburlaine the Great
Jun 12, 2023
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 1 The Folio on Display
Jun 05, 2023
Marlowe’s Mighty Line
May 29, 2023
Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres: A Conversation With Nick Bromley
May 22, 2023
The Short Life and Strange Death of Christopher Marlowe
May 15, 2023
The Reasonable Audience: A Conversation With Dr Kirsty Sedgman
May 08, 2023
Thomas Nashe: Satirist, Pamphleteer & Playwright
May 01, 2023
The Genius of Shakespeare with Colin David Reese
Apr 23, 2023
A Sextet of Tudor Playwrights
Apr 17, 2023
Theatre Lore: A Conversation With Nick Bromley
Apr 10, 2023
Gorboduc: The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex
Apr 03, 2023
The History Of European Theatre on Patreon
Mar 27, 2023
Comedy, History & Morality: Three Early Tudor Plays
Mar 20, 2023
From The Battlefield To the Stage: A Conversation with Professor Norman Poser
Mar 13, 2023
The State Vs the Theatre part 2: Elizabeth
Mar 06, 2023
Shakespeare Unbound: A conversation With Colin David Reese
Feb 27, 2023
The State Vs the Theatre part 1: Henry, Edward, & Mary
Feb 20, 2023
Creating a Profession: The Development of the Stage-Player
Feb 06, 2023
Building Theatre: The Earliest Playhouses in London
Jan 23, 2023
The Renaissance from Europe to England
Jan 09, 2023
Pantomime: A conversation with Aaron Odom - part 2
Dec 31, 2022
Pantomime: A conversation with Aaron Odom - part 1
Dec 24, 2022
The Oberammergau Passion Play
Dec 12, 2022
Pericles & Aspasia: A Conversation With Yvonne Korshak
Nov 28, 2022
Athens
Nov 14, 2022
The Bones Of Calderon de la Bacca
Oct 31, 2022
Renaissance Places of Seeing: Life at the Corral Del Principe
Oct 17, 2022
European Renaissance Conclusions
Oct 03, 2022
Bernini and Others: Sculpture, Architecture and Plays
Sep 19, 2022
Behind the Dikes: Renaissance Theatre in The Netherlands
Sep 05, 2022
Commedia Dell’arte: Players and Troupes
Aug 22, 2022
Commedia Dell’arte: A Selection of Scenarios
Aug 08, 2022
Commedia Dell’arte: Characters and Masks
Jul 25, 2022
Mountebanks, Charlatans, and the Origins of Commedia Dell’arte
Jul 11, 2022
Keeping It Real: Italian Theatre In Perspective
Jun 27, 2022
Entertaining Madrid: The Corral del Principe
Jun 13, 2022
Life Is a Dream: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
May 30, 2022
A Master At Work: The Plays of Lope de Vega
May 16, 2022
The Second Anniversary Episode
May 03, 2022
Lope de Vega: The World’s Most Prolific Playwright
May 02, 2022
Shakespeare: Wordsmith of the English Language
Apr 23, 2022
The Spanish Playhouse, its manager, his actors, and their audience
Apr 18, 2022
Spanish Renaissance Theatre part 2: Before the Comedia
Apr 04, 2022
Spanish Renaissance Theatre part 1: The Beginning of a National Drama
Mar 21, 2022
French Renaissance Theatre part 2: Aristotle Rules, OK?
Mar 07, 2022
French Renaissance Theatre part 1:The Italian Influence
Feb 21, 2022
Germanic Renaissance Theatre
Feb 07, 2022
La Pellegrina: Comedy for a Royal Renaissance Wedding
Jan 24, 2022
The Italian Rebirth part 3
Jan 10, 2022
The Italian Rebirth part 2
Dec 27, 2021
The Italian Rebirth part 1
Dec 13, 2021
From Medieval to the Renaissance
Nov 29, 2021
Season Four Trailer: European Renaissance Theatre
Nov 22, 2021
Medieval Places Of Seeing
Nov 15, 2021
An Introduction to the Diary of Philip Henslowe
Nov 01, 2021
Salome, Oscar Wilde and Lazarus Theatre
Oct 18, 2021
Medieval Conclusions
Sep 20, 2021
For the Money: The Medieval Commercial Theatre
Sep 13, 2021
Just For Fun: Medieval Secular Theatre
Sep 06, 2021
Everyman: Dutch Morality
Aug 30, 2021
The Castle of Perseverance
Aug 23, 2021
Virtues Vs Vices: The Morality Play
Aug 16, 2021
Hell Harrowed, the World Flooded
Aug 09, 2021
While Shepherds Watched
Aug 02, 2021
The Home of the Cycle Plays: York, Chester, Coventry and Wakefield
Jul 19, 2021
Medieval Stage Effects
Jul 12, 2021
Medieval Performance and Rehearsal
Jul 05, 2021
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet: A Return to Theatre
Jun 30, 2021
Corpus Christi: New Feast Day, New Plays
Jun 28, 2021
Synods Tropes Asses and Fools
Jun 21, 2021
Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Theatre and Worship
Jun 14, 2021
From Roman to Medieval
Jun 07, 2021
Season Three Trailer: Medieval Theatre
May 31, 2021
Lazarus Theatre: A conversation with Ricky Dukes
May 24, 2021
Actors of Dionysus: A conversation with Tamsin Shasha
May 17, 2021
Greek Theatre and before: A conversation with Rosie Beech
May 10, 2021
The First Birthday Episode
May 03, 2021
Website Announcement
Apr 26, 2021
Windows On A Shakespearean Life
Apr 23, 2021
Roman Places Of Seeing
Apr 12, 2021
Roman Conclusions Part 2
Apr 05, 2021
Roman Conclusions Part 1
Mar 29, 2021
Roman Pantomime: The Silent Art
Mar 22, 2021
Roman Mime: It’s not what you think.
Mar 15, 2021
Seneca’s Phaedra: Mother Lust
Mar 08, 2021
Seneca’s Medea: Beware Pure Evil
Mar 01, 2021
Seneca: Bloody Tragedy
Feb 22, 2021
The Brothers: How to Get The Best From Your Children
Feb 15, 2021
The Self Tormenter: Fathers and Sons and Lovers
Feb 08, 2021
Terence: The Bloom of Youth
Feb 01, 2021
Plautus and Shakespeare: Two Brothers?
Jan 25, 2021
The Menaechmus Brothers: Hand in hand, not one before the other
Jan 18, 2021
Casina: The Unseen Bride
Jan 11, 2021
Plautus: Comedy Tonight
Jan 04, 2021
A Christmas Time
Dec 28, 2020
Trackers of Oxyrhynchus with Jimmy Walters
Dec 21, 2020
The Stage and the City with Dr Elodie Paillard
Dec 14, 2020
The Development of Roman Theatre with Dr Elodie Paillard
Dec 07, 2020
Stages, Scenery, Props and Politics
Nov 30, 2020
Later Rome: Theatre Finds a Home
Nov 23, 2020
Early Rome: Theatre Gets Mobile
Nov 16, 2020
From Greek to Roman – Part 2
Nov 09, 2020
From Greek to Roman – Part 1
Nov 02, 2020
Greek Conclusions Part 2
Oct 05, 2020
Greek Conclusions Part 1
Sep 28, 2020
The Satyr Play: Just for Laughs?
Sep 24, 2020
Fragments of Menander
Sep 21, 2020
The Misanthrope: Sole Survivor
Sep 14, 2020
From Old to New and Menander
Sep 07, 2020
Lysistrata: Women On Top
Aug 31, 2020
The Wasps: Legal Laughter
Aug 24, 2020
The Clouds: Serious Comedy
Aug 17, 2020
Aristophanes: Comedy, Satire, War
Aug 10, 2020
The Bacchae: Dionysus Is Coming Home
Aug 03, 2020
Electra: A Touch Of Realism
Jul 27, 2020
Medea: Beware a Woman Scorned
Jul 20, 2020
Euripides: An Outspoken Life
Jul 13, 2020
Oedipus at Colonus: Death of a Hero?
Jul 06, 2020
Let’s Talk About Oedipus
Jun 29, 2020
Antigone: Nomos Vs Physis
Jun 22, 2020
Sophocles: That Charming Man
Jun 15, 2020
The Oresteia part 2
Jun 08, 2020
The Oresteia part 1
Jun 01, 2020
Aeschylus: The First Tragedies
May 25, 2020
The Place Of Seeing
May 18, 2020
Dionysus and the beginning of Greek Theatre
May 11, 2020
Prologue and Pre History
May 03, 2020
Trailer
May 03, 2020