Episode 1: Episode One: Jacobean Drama

In this installment of my quarantine lecture series: Skazka gets lightly toasted and discusses English Renaissance drama and its subgenres at length. Topics include: pants on fire; wax hands; a hot butch with a lute; extremely non-union stage employment. Commissioned by Mira of the blog For The Gothic Heroine.

Further reading:

- “The Case of Moll Frith”, Natasha Korda
- Jacobean Public Theatre - Alexand Leggatt
- Jacobean Private Theatre - Keith Burgess
- Jacobean Drama - David Farley-Hills
- Labors Lost: Women’s Work And the Early Modern Stage - Natasha Korda
- Documents of Performance in Early Modern England - Tiffany Stern

Plays recommended:

- The Devil’s Charter - Barnabe Barnes
- The Duchess Of Malfi - John Webster
- The Roaring Girl - Thomas Dekker/Philip Massinger
- The Virgin Martyr - Thomas Dekker/Thomas Middleton

Cocktails imbibed:

The Roaring Girl
2 oz. rum (I used Mount Gay Eclipse)
2 oz. apple cider
4 oz. ginger beer (I used Reed’s)
a spritz of orange peel & clove bitters

Commission a two-cocktail quarantine lecture on the history topic of your choice on my Ko-Fi today! I am very bored and I need money for books.

Music: Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-su…ore-di-liuto
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license