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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired ... Read more

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The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

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Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with s... Read more

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