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| The Gunpowder Plot | 28 sept. 2022 | 00:28:25 | |
The Tower of London is hosting an immersive experience that combines live performance and digital technology to explore the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to kill the King and Parliament. Audiences get to decide whose side they are on as they encounter the world the plotters inhabited. In this film, historian Tracy Borman, joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, tells us about the Gunpowder Plot experience, its place at the Tower of London and the research and creative work behind the show. Tracy offers us a history of the Tower itself, from its early purpose to 'subdue the evil inhabitants of London' for William the Conquerer, to its emergence as a tourist attraction and its later Victorian revamps. Finally, we hear about Tracy's own extensive publishing career, her 15 books ranging across fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on the cultural impact of the British monarchy. For more information on The Gunpowder Plot, and to book, go to: https://gunpowderimmersive.com For more information on Tracy Borman, go to: http://www.tracyborman.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Engendering the Stage | 06 févr. 2022 | 00:45:09 | |
Engendering the Stage are re-investigating the evidence base for early modern theatre, and using these findings to make space for an inclusive performance history that involves female-identified and gender-non-conforming performers as well as performers of colour. We discuss failed performance, the porousness of theatre, the politics of domestic performance, rope-dancing, tumblers, sword-dancing, performing masculinity, dynamic femininity, androgynous clothing, the famous ‘Jumping Judy’, cocoanut shies, forbidden students, The Roaring Girl, the Fortune playhouse, female shareholders, archival research in an age of Covid, practice-as-research, and more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sacha Coward on queer history, museums and mermaids | 06 févr. 2022 | 00:39:11 | |
Sacha Coward tells us about life as a queer tour guide, graveyard explorer, folklore expert, escape room designer and mermaid enthusiast - what a CV! All of these things, he tells us, are rooted in storytelling, in a conversation that ranges across 'the strange tension between life and death', Zelda and the Muppets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ABL Richard O'Brien | 04 févr. 2022 | 00:39:54 | |
Richard O’Brien discusses his new collection, The Dolphin House, a poetic exploration of “a failed NASA research project to teach a dolphin the English language in a flooded apartment on a Caribbean Island.” He introduces us to this strange and compelling story and the people involved, and reads from the collection, while also discussing his other poetic hats, including his tenure as Poet Laureate of Birmingham (2018-20), which features the first public reading of his poem written for Warstone Lane Cemetery. We also hear about the benefits of poetic forms, the relationship between indie music and poetry, and visual and material elements of printed poetry pamphlets (by way of Broken Sleep Books and the Emma Press). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ABL 136 Improvising Shakespeare | 23 janv. 2022 | 00:53:17 | |
Ronan Hatfull speaks with Rebecca MacMillan and Tom Wilkinson from Impromptu Shakespeare about improvisation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ABL 134 Mira Katantaris | 23 janv. 2022 | 00:57:46 | |
Mira Assaf Kafantaris (Butler University) talks to her mentor, friend, and collaborator Jennifer Higginbotham (The Ohio State University) about the politics of racialization and the embodied threat of foreign ruling women in the early modern period. They discuss how early moderns grappled with the racialized presence of foreign queens and how they became loci of competing ideologies. Finally, Assaf Kafantaris and Higginbotham reflect on the conversation surrounding Meghan Markle’s marriage into the British royal family, which sparked transatlantic, even global, conversations about race, nation, belonging, and reproduction. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ABL140 Phoenix Andrews | 21 janv. 2022 | 00:47:08 | |
The very polymathic Phoenix Andrews talks us through some of the polys that they math. We hear about the development of fan and internet cultures via Ed Balls, which Phoenix uses to work up a really rich and convincing political history of the early twenty-first century across the UK and US. Visit ABitLit.co for more conversations, and to book our brand-new courses and events. How to Make an Elizabethan Theatre starts on 14 February 2022: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-make-an-elizabethan-theatre-tickets-198132237857 Warning: some strong language.
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| ira Assaf Kafantaris and Jennifer Higginbotham on royalty, race and gender | 15 oct. 2021 | 00:57:46 | |
Mira Assaf Kafantaris (Butler University) talks to her mentor, friend, and collaborator Jennifer Higginbotham (The Ohio State University) about the politics of racialization and the embodied threat of foreign ruling women in the early modern period. They discuss how early moderns grappled with the racialized presence of foreign queens and how they became loci of competing ideologies. Finally, Assaf Kafantaris and Higginbotham reflect on the conversation surrounding Meghan Markle’s marriage into the British royal family, which sparked transatlantic, even global, conversations about race, nation, belonging, and reproduction. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Eric Weiskott on his new book, Meter and Modernity | 15 oct. 2021 | 00:37:49 | |
In this film Eric Weiskott tells us about his new book, Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 which explores English poetry across its forms and across time periods often divided up and isolated in conventional academic discussion. The book is, Eric tells us, an attempt to 'get around the retrospective reading of form'. The book traces three metrical traditions across 300 years: alliterative (that is, lines features words starting with the same letter), tetrameter (lines of usually 8 syllables) and pentameter (lines of usually 10 syllables). This historical and cross-metrical approach allows the book to identify iambic pentameter, in its earliest years, as a specifically London-based compositional practice. Asked to define 'literature', Eric says that it recognises and responds to life, and invites us all to turn to the poem Piers Plowman as a poem about close reading practices. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Luke Kennard's new book, Notes on the Sonnets | 18 sept. 2021 | 00:32:29 | |
In this film Luke Kennard tells us about his new collection of prose poems, Notes on the Sonnets, which responds to Shakespeare's sonnets from the point of view of someone at a really bad party. We at A Bit Lit love a really bad party, so we were excited from this discussion! Luke tells us that Shakespeare's poetry is obsessed with avoiding wrinkles, as though written by the 'military-industrial beauty complex', and he wants his poems to be somewhere between insolent and impudent in their relation to Shakespeare's work. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Trevor, Carla, Shakespeare and Latinidad | 18 sept. 2021 | 00:37:47 | |
In this film Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta tell us about their new book, Shakespeare and Latinidad, which they hope will be 'of value to anyone wanting to make culturally-relevant Shakespeare' productions. The book contains 25 essays by both theatre scholars and practitioners and celebrates the more than 130 Latinx productions of Shakespeare taking place since 1969. Trevor and Carla emphasise the importance of co-creation between art and knowledge, practitioners and scholars, and exploring new ways for theatres to create self-documentation and archiving practices. Both literature and theatre are made by 'living and breathing real people', they tell us, and they stress the need to ground ourselves in the orality, sound, noise and silences of creative work. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Richard Katz on the joys of being a clown | 03 sept. 2021 | 00:41:22 | |
The actor and writer Richard Katz tells us about devising work, the creative space between play and playtext and the joys of being a clown. In devised work, Richard tells us, everyone directs, and there is no power structure in which the director is in charge of a group of actors. Clowning involves being in the moment, escaping the Freudian need to ask why a character does something. This film is a fascinating insight on theatre from a performer who has worked across The Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe, Complicité, Told By an Idiot and Improbable. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Edwards Boys The Fawn 2 The Company | 01 sept. 2021 | 00:40:25 | |
In this film we hear from Felix, Jamie, Johan, Ewan and Will about performing in Edwards' Boys' forthcoming production of John Marston's The Fawn. The boys tell us about the play and their experience of working in this boys company, based at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Edwards Boys The Fawn 1 Perry | 01 sept. 2021 | 00:32:18 | |
Perry Mills tells us about his forthcoming production of John Marston's The Fawn, on sale now and onstage in early October. See http://edwardsboys.org for more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Studying English and Creative Writing | 06 août 2021 | 00:32:18 | |
We hear about moving from short stories to the novel as a creative writer, and the balance between historical and contemporary issues in the study of literature. We also hear what it has been like to study at a time of Covid, both the good and the bad sides of lockdown learning. Oli and Lauren also tell us about Fincham Press, Roehampton's own publishing house, which nurtures new writing from students and staff. We hear about student trips to Paris and across the streets of London, bringing literature back into the real world that produced it and where it is set. They both speak powerfully about love, literature and stories, and working as a student community to take each other seriously and help one another to develop. Literature, they tell us, is something that records who we are and who we might be, and documents our lives even as it changes them. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Theatre of Wrestling: Unruly Music Hall Sport Interview | 06 août 2021 | 00:30:21 | |
The project draws on the transgressive histories of British popular theatre, including the Victorian music hall, variety theatre, the Shakespearean stage, and fairgrounds and circuses. In a far cry from the polite theatre that dominates today, Music Halls were bold and scandalous spaces where feats of strength and exhibitions of wrestling were interwoven with comedy, popular songs, and other variety acts such as human statuary and animal performances. In this interview, Richard Summers-Calvert and Sam West tell us about making these films, celebrating a time 'before wrestling was pinned down' and fixed, and instead mingled with other art and festival forms in what Claire Warden has called a 'queer music hall sport'. This work allows us to 'see wrestling differently', and connect wrestlers to the long history of their craft. Richard and Sam tell us about recreating and reimagining rare archival footage, and creating an 'experimental learning space' as a 'structure in which only wrestlers could thrive' - celebrating the unique skillset of a wrestler. The film also celebrates the importance of failure in any form of performance experiment, which is music to Andy Kesson's ears! You can see the documentary itself in our previous film, and be sure to check out our other wrestling films with Claire Warden and Sam West at Wrestling Resurgence, and the wrestlers Nick Radford, Chuck Mambo, RJ City, The OJMO and Josef Kafka. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The devil on holiday in eighteenth-century England | 06 août 2021 | 00:32:47 | |
He talks us through The Devil upon Two Sticks, which sees the devil looking into people's houses, which feels both spooky and also like an early version of reality TV. John Milton's Paradise Lost, Daniel Defoe's A Political History of the Devil and Eliza Heywood's A Spy upon the Conjuror all also feature, as does the anonymous The Adventures of Lucifer in London, in which the devil is a kind of human connoisseur and body-hops his way around England's capital city. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A celebration of Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel’s The Middle Ages: A Graphic History | 11 juil. 2021 | 00:33:33 | |
Eleanor Janega tells us about her new book, ‘The Middle Ages: A Graphic History’, illustrated by Neil Max Emmanuel. She tells us about the Eurocentric and Italian ways that history has been told, seeing the very concept of time periods as an Italian, impe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Muriel Spark, the impossible experimenter: a celebration of James Bailey's new book | 25 juin 2021 | 00:50:23 | |
In this film, Noreen Masud talks to James Bailey about his new book, Muriel Spark's Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form. They discuss Spark's brevity, polish and precision, 'the impossibility of her novels', the way Spark was able Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Nedda Mehdizadeh on early modern Persian and English connections | 25 juin 2021 | 00:39:16 | |
Nedda Mehdizadeh tells us about the networks existing between Safavid Persia and Tudor and Stuart England, and how English fantasies of ancient Persia as a fallen Empire affected their ability to interact with the contemporary country they actually encoun Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Erik Wade on the global origins of sex and race in English literature | 25 juin 2021 | 00:33:18 | |
Erik Wade tells us about the global origins of the ideas of sex and race in early English literature and language. We hear about Alfred the Great and his search for 'books most needful to know', and the need to work across text and images to understand th Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Posthumanism and Ethics: Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun | 25 juin 2021 | 01:07:42 | |
Klara and the Sun, the eighth novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, was published in March 2021. Ishiguro is well-known for the combination of a subtle, understated style of narration, often delivered by unreliable and compromised narrators, with d Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Catherine Fletcher on public engagement, academic labour and her book on the Renaissance | 21 mai 2021 | 01:00:45 | |
In this film we celebrate Catherine Fletcher's new book, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance. Catherine also talks to us about the opportunities and challenges of writing for the public as an academic, and we discu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Before Trans and Before Queer with Rachel Mesch and Dustin Friedman | 07 mai 2021 | 00:57:02 | |
Rachel Mesch has recently published her new book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France, and Dustin Friedman has recently published Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self. In this film, we bring the two of the Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Bodie Ashton on German nationhood, unexpected snails and the Pet Shop Boys | 30 avr. 2021 | 00:36:16 | |
Bodie Ashton tells us about the nineteenth-century formation of Germany as country and concept, exploring issues such as work, communal ritual, religious belief, language and dialect, and the Brothers Grimm and their role in forming a German brand of folk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Reading Greek Tragedy Online | 23 avr. 2021 | 00:46:15 | |
Reading Greek Tragedy Online started in response to the UK lockdown and is a long-lost twin of A Bit Lit! In this film, Paul O’Mahony speaks to the actor Evelyn Miller and the classics professor Joel Christensen about bringing actors and academics togethe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Andy Kesson on public scholarship, creative practice and collaboration | 16 avr. 2021 | 00:35:42 | |
Jeffrey Wilson gets to turn the tables on Andy Kesson and asks him about his public-facing work, in particular Before Shakespeare and A Bit Lit. Jeff and Andy discuss the art of collaboration, what public audiences and creative practitioners can bring to Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Derek Dunne, Tom Harrison and Paul Salzman discuss Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist | 16 avr. 2021 | 00:25:23 | |
Derek Dunne, Tom Harrison and Paul Salzman discuss Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The writer and historian Mathew Lyons with thoughts on all of us moving indoors | 16 avr. 2021 | 00:15:31 | |
Mathew Lyons puts the current lockdown into historical perspectives, and suggests that ‘though we are separated by space, we aren’t necessarily separated by time’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Becky Yearling talks to Tom Harrison about early modern satire | 16 avr. 2021 | 00:33:24 | |
Becky Yearling and Tom Harrison discuss early modern satire, a popular genre for the stage and page which achieved its greatest notoriety in the 1590s, when the Bishops’ Ban resulted in the censoring and burning of satirical texts. Becky and Tom look in p Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Aphra Behn’s works on stage and page | 16 avr. 2021 | 00:47:56 | |
Tom Harrison talks about the works of Aphra Behn with Elaine Hobby and Claire Bowditch, two of the general editors of the new Cambridge Edition of Aphra Behn (published 2021-5). Topics include The Rover, authorial personas, cheeky chimney sweeps, the exci Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Research and creative work: TIDE Project: travel, transculturality and identity in England | 14 avr. 2021 | 00:46:00 | |
Professor Nandini Das and Preti Taneja introduce us to the TIDE project, which asks how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity based on cultural identification and difference. We hear in particular a Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Harry McCarthy tells us about boy performance in early modern and contemporary theatre | 09 avr. 2021 | 00:28:07 | |
Harry McCarthy explores the relationship between theatre history and contemporary performance as a way of learning about the past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Why dramaturgy is like cartography Anne G. Morgan on what a dramaturg actually does | 09 avr. 2021 | 00:25:32 | |
Anne G. Morgan talks to Emma Whipday about why dramaturgy is like cartography, new writing, how literature connects us, and what a dramaturg actually does Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Theatre design: history and practice with Ella Hawkins and E. M. Parry | 09 avr. 2021 | 00:50:14 | |
Artist and theatre-maker E. M. Parry and design historian Ella Hawkins tell us about acts of 'worlding', of world-creation, visual dramaturgy and material-making. They shift us away from traditional ways of seeing theatre design as secondary to text, a be Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The first English playhouse? Holger Syme on the new archaeological discovery of the Red Lion | 09 avr. 2021 | 01:01:26 | |
Last month, archaeologist Stephen White of University College London announced the discovery of the Red Lion site, an often-forgotten Elizabethan playhouse that is the earliest we know of. Theatre historian Holger Syme discusses the implications of this d Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Clowns and kings: Sophie Russell on playing Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe | 09 avr. 2021 | 00:32:29 | |
Sophie Russell tells us about clowning and performing Shakespeare, especially playing Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sathnam Sanghera on the British Empire and its legacy | 07 avr. 2021 | 00:24:15 | |
Sathnam Sanghera tells us about his new book, Empireland, on the historical and contemporary legacy of the British Empire. Sathnam's book asks where the history of empire sits in the UK's current education system and cultural debate, at a time when concep Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Stephen Guy-Bray on queer theory, poetics and representation in Shakespeare | 02 avr. 2021 | 00:39:09 | |
Happy Canada Day! In celebration, Canada's finest and wisest queer poetics professor tells us about his new book, Shakespeare and Queer Representation and literature as an art of construction and decoration, an 'aesthetically-ambitious art made out of wor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Will Tosh chats about poetry, sexual identity, and literature as consolation | 02 avr. 2021 | 00:37:05 | |
Will Tosh, Research Fellow and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe, talks to Emma Whipday about little-known Elizabethan sonneteer (and friend of Shakespeare) Richard Barnfield, sexual identity, literature as consolation and why sexual desire is like a nest o Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sound, body and imagination: Alison Bomber tells us about voice coaching and theatre | 02 avr. 2021 | 00:41:51 | |
Alison Bomber, voice coach, tells us about making the 'right noise', using breath and vibration to make connections between sounds, bodies and imagination. You'll never think about inspiration in the same way again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Shakespeare for snowflakes: Ian Burrows chats to Emma Whipday | 02 avr. 2021 | 00:26:56 | |
Ian Burrows chats to Emma Whipday about slapstick, so-called ‘snowflake’ students, and content warnings for ShakespeareIan works on early modern drama, and is particularly interested in how actors' physicality was presented and interpreted on stage and Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Nick Radford, the poet laureate of pro wrestling, on poetry in the ring | 02 avr. 2021 | 00:49:37 | |
Nick Radford is the poet laureate of pro wrestling, and tells us about how he uses the writing and reading literature in his matches. He explores the crossovers between wrestling and eroticism and reflects on the changes in professional wrestling over the Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Cavendishes with Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter | 26 mars 2021 | 00:31:19 | |
Who were the important Cavendish family? Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter talk about their new volume on the family's extraordinary cultural innovation and social importance, in particular women's "right to write" and the many different forms of media covered Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Suzannah Lipscomb: research, TV and gender in the archives | 26 mars 2021 | 00:23:07 | |
Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Andy Kesson about working between the worlds of research and TV, the Tudor court, a French Protestant community of women, and why academics should be more like upside-down swans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Secrets of Jane Austen's House with Sophie Reynolds | 26 mars 2021 | 00:43:30 | |
Sophie Reynolds from Jane Austen's House chats to Emma Whipday about Jane Austen's life, why her heroines are always searching for a home, the miraculous survival of the house where she was finally able to finish her novels - and the mysterious circumsta Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Box Office Bears #1: a new research project on animal-baiting | 26 mars 2021 | 00:41:52 | |
Box Office Bears: Animal-Baiting in Early Modern England is a new Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project that begins today. In our first film for the project, its lead researchers - Hannah O'Regan, Greger Larson and Andy Kesson - have a preli Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ambereen Dadabhoy on early modern race and the English playhouse | 26 mars 2021 | 00:43:13 | |
Ambereen Dadabhoy tells us about the early modern Mediterranean, the English playhouse and the history of race. We hear about the lack of racial literacy in early modern studies, the way 'a white way of knowing' has dominated scholarship, and how to 'foll Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The actor Marc Elliott on performing in Eastenders, Holby City, musicals and Shakespeare | 12 mars 2021 | 00:30:11 | |
Marc Elliott tells us about acting as a kind of ‘pretending to be lots of different people’, and how TV acting can often feel just as live as in the theatre. We hear about the surprising similarities between modern TV script learning and repertory system Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Eleanor Janega on medieval sex positivity, Black Death and revolution | 12 mars 2021 | 00:30:02 | |
Eleanor Janega tells us about medieval European sex positivity, Black Death and revolution, and argues that the fourteenth century was ‘the best century’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||