Discussing John Rastell

This week in audio - we're sharing a discussion with John Thor Ewing about printer, lawyer, playwright, adventurer, explorer, theatre builder... we run out of appellations, he seemed to do everything... John Rastell.

Around 1524/5 he published his jest book A Hundred Merry Tales, which has just been republished in a new edition by John Thor Ewing. Now, you might expect a book called A Hundred Merry Tales to contain one hundred merry tales, but you'd be mistaken.
To find out why there aren't you'll have to listen to the podcast OR you can buy the book on amazon here - it's excellent.
Enjoy.


Rastell also probably had a hand in writing Gentleness and Nobility with John Heywood. There's some debate on that, but you can decide for yourself by listening to our full cast audio adaptation.


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