The History Of European Theatre Podcast Transcripts
Philip Rowe · 269 episodes with transcripts
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.
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Site Specific Shakespeare: A Conversation with Benjamin Blyth
October 19, 2026
Philip Rowe (0:09)
Welcome to the History Of European Theatre podcast, and thanks for joining me on this journey through millennia of theatrical history. Episode 237, Site Specific Shakespeare, a conversation with Benjamin Blyth.
Last time, The Winter's Tale gave us Shakespeare in later life, pondering the passing of time and the nature of forgiveness and redemption. By that time, he was creating his plays with two very different performance spaces in mind, The Globe and The Blackfriars. But probably also with a mind to the portability of…
Benjamin Blyth (2:27)
Oh, yeah, sure. Thank you. Thank you, Phil. Thanks for having me on the podcast. It's great to be here. So yeah, my work with Malachite started in 2013
I just come back from a tour of Italy playing a witch in Macbeth. I had a brilliant time. It was one of those tours where you do school shows and really enthusiastic Italian teenagers.
Philip Rowe (3:28)
Yes.
- Site Specific Shakespeare: A Conversation with Benjamin Blyth
- The Winter’s Tale: ‘What a Fool Honesty Is’.
- The Alchemist as a Plague Comedy: A Conversation with Kay Daly
- The Alchemist: ‘No Country’s Mirth is Better Than Our Own’
- If This Be Magic – Translating Shakespeare: A Conversation with Daniel Hahn
- Cymbeline: 'Tis Slander, Whose Edge is Sharper Than the Sword’
- Lighting the Indoor Theatre: A Conversation with Nic Brownlee
- Pericles: ‘Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss’
- Shakespeare and Biblical Allusion: A Conversation with Paul Fried - Part 2
- Anthony and Cleopatra: ‘Age Cannot Wither Her, Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety’
- Masques of Difference: A Conversation with Kristen McDermott part 2
- The Origins and Development of Masques: A Conversation with Kristen McDermott part 1
- King Lear Part 2: ‘Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise’
- King Lear Part 1: ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth it is to Have a Thankless Child!’
- Reading Shakespeare’s Mind: A Conversation with Steve Sohmer
- Timon of Athens: ‘Nothing Emboldens Sin So Much as Mercy’
- Much Ado About Numbers: A Conversation With Rob Eastaway
- Volpone: ‘What a Rare Punishment is Avarice to Itself’
- Collecting Thomas Kyd: A Conversation with Darren Freebury-Jones
- The Dream Factory: A Conversation With Daniel Swift
- William of Stratford, a Coda: The History of New Place
- William of Stratford part 4: ‘With Mirth and Laughter Let Old Wrinkles Come.’
- The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway: A Conversation with Prof Katherine Scheil
- William of Stratford Part 3: ‘Would I Were in an Alehouse in London’
- Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: A Conversation with Prof Katherine Scheil
- William of Stratford Part 2: 'He Wears The Rose of Youth Upon Him'
- William of Stratford Part 1: 'To You Your Father Should Be As a God’
- Shakespeare In His Time
- Dionysus and Xanthias: The First Double Act
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