Till then we're going to have two ways of donating - one ongoing via patreon, and the other as a little one off.
Just a One Time Thing...
The one off is simple and effective, you can give £3 via ko-fi, if you so choose. The money from there goes to the development side of things, our explorations of plays at read through's etc. We have a simple, low goal to achieve at present - we want to cover our printing costs for the autumn. Check it out. Help us print things. http://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare
For As Long (or as short) As You Like
The patreon feed is on going (www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare), a donation a month, but you get cool stuff in return. You can join our patreon here. And, unlike other podcast, we're not primarily offering access, trips to the studio, meet and greets, merchandise or special editions (we will do this, but it's not the cool thing) - we're offering you...
A VOTE!
You get to shape our repertoire!
Hell, not just a vote - you can flat out bribe us to produce whatever you want. Taxation with representation.
The system is simple, though there is some flanging round the details to be figured out - the more money you give, the more control you have over what we do. It starts with shaping the vague areas of work, from genre or time period, to focusing on specific playwrights and plays - to the final and logical end point of co-opting our production base.
The ballots occur every six months or so - so don't worry about missing one, you'll be in place for the next one.
Here's a rough outline of what you get: (NB: don't panic if it's not in your currency, whilst there is a variation in exchange rate for the amount, there are no massive fees or anything silly.)
$1 - gets to take the general survey, however any results will be considered non binding.
$3 - Vote for a Playwright - the first past the post winning gets some kind of project developed based on their work. Number of projects will depend on funds raised. This playwright will then have their tally dropped to zero for future rounds, though people can vote again later. This can be the same as the winning of the play category, and runners up may also get content produced, depending on funds raised. (Voting guide below.)
$5 - Vote for a Play - the first past the post winner will go into some kind of production, depending on funds raised. Second or third runners up may also do so. These plays will then be removed from the ballot for at least a year. (Voting guide below.)
$10 to $30 - Speeches and Scenes - your pledge gets you a special recording of speeches or scenes from plays of your choice, sometime over the next year, probably sooner. Once that is produced, we will work on your next choice over a similar timetable.
$50 - we will produce a table reading of a play of your choice, again sometime in the next year, again working on another project of your choice once your first choice is complete.
$250 - Full audio production of a play of your choice, recorded over a year.
$1000 - Full stage production of a play of your choice, produced over a year.
We will go back to the tally with an additional ballet whenever the voted for projects are complete, every four to six months or so - new patrons will be able to vote for the first time, patrons from previous ballots will get to vote again.
So, you want to help out, or more importantly boss us around - pledge today and start voting - www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare
Don't know who to vote for?
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| Not in play, we've done him... |
You can be obvious and go for a big hitter like Marlowe or Jonson, or someone obscure like R.B. Up to you. So long as they wrote prior to 1642.
Here's some names - it's not an exhaustive list, there may be errors, typos, omissions, and even some red herrings: Anonymous, Henry Medwall, John Rastell, John Skelton, John Bale, John Redford, L. Wager, John Phillip, W. Wager, Henry Cheke, George Gascoigne, George Peele, Robert Wilson, Thomas Watson, Nathaniel Woods, John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Lodge, Henry Porter, Anthony Munday, Mary Herbert, William Alabaster, William Warner, Thomas Heywood, Samuel Daniel, Robert Yarington, Samuel Brandon, William Rowley, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Richard Benard, Henry Chettle, William Haughton, John Marston, Michael Drayton, Fulke Greville, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Tomkis, Richard Vennar, Elizabeth Cary, Samuel Rowley, Francis Verney, William Alexander, John Day, Francis Beaumont, Samuel Daniel, Edward Sharpham, Cyril Tourneur, George Wilkins, Robert Armin, Barnabe Barnes, John Webster, Gervase Markham, Nathan Field, Robert Daborne, Jo Cooke, George Ferebe, Samuel Brooke, John Stephens, Robert Tailor, Phineas Fletcher, William Browne, George Ruggle, Thomas Tomkis, Robert Daborne, John Fletcher, James Shirley, Richard Brome, Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Thomas Nuce, Thomas Newton, Sir Philip Sidney, Philip Massinger, John Ford & Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
Plays? There's literally hundreds of plays to choose from (and there's a ridiculous list below!) - and we're not adverse to some cheating, so poems that are a bit dramatic, translations from the period, stuff that's about theatre of the time, we'll give it a chance (and if we dismiss it, we'll give you another vote for something else, we're nice that way). Plays we've already done are excluded from the ballot - if you vote for something we've done we will take that as a vote for something similar to that play - in an IF YOU LIKE THAT, YOU'LL LOVE THIS kind of way.
Here's a stupidly inaccurate list of plays - with typos, errors, omissions, and red herrings.
The Cambridge
Prologue, Interludium de Clerico et Puella (frag), The Pride of Life,
The Castle of Perseverance, Shrewsbury Fragments, Dux Moraud, The
Rickinghall Fragment, The Durham Prologue, Reynes – Delight /
Epilogue, Wisdom or Mind, Will, and Understanding, Play of the
Sacrament, The Northampton Abraham, Mankind, Brome Abraham and Isaac,
Robin Hood and the Sheriff/Knight (frag), Norwich Grocers’ Play, The four Mystery 'cycles' - N-Town, York, Chester and Towneley, Occupation and Idleness, Lucidus and Dubius, The Killing of the
Children, Mary Magdalene, Fulgens and Lucrece, Nature, Ashmole
Fragment, Mundus et Infans, The Summoning of Everyman, The Conversion
of St Paul, Youth, Hickscorner, The Four Elements, Magnificence,
Christ’s Burial, Christ’s Resurrection, Callisto and Melebea,
Godly Queen Hester, Witty and Witless, John John, Gentleness and
Nobility, Pardoner and the Friar, Play of Love, The Prodigal Son or
Pater, Filius et Uxor (frag), Lucrece (frag), The Four PP, Courage,
Kindness, Cleaness (frag), D, G, T (frag), Play of the Weather, Old
Christmas or Good Order (frag) Temperance and Humility (frag), Albion
Knight (frag), Thersites, God’s Promises, Baptism, Temptation,
Three Laws, King Johan, Wit and Science, Love Feigned and Unfeigned
(frag), The Four Cardinal Virtues (frag), Resurrection of Our Lord,
Impatient Poverty, Somebody and Others (frag), Lusty Juventus, Nice
Wanton, Somebody Avarice and Minister, Ralph Roister Doister, Gammer
Gurtons Needle, Respublica, Jacob and Esau, Wealth and Health, Jack
Juggler, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, Patient Grissell,
The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art? The Disobedient Child,
Enough is as Good as a Feast, The Pedler’s Prophecy, Tom Tyler and
his Wife, Robin Hood and the Friar, Robin Hood and the Potter (frag),
Cambises, Gorboduc, Free Will, The Bugbears, Apius and Virginia, King
Darius, Damon and Pithias, The Cruel Debtor (frag), Supposes, Gismond
of Salerne, Horestes, The Trial of Treasure, The Marriage of Wit and
Science, Like Will to Like, Susanna, Misogonus, Clyomon and Clamydes,
Juli and Juliun, New Custom, The Conflict of Custom, Glass of
Government, Abraham’s Sacrifice, Common Conditions, The Tide
Tarrieth No Man, All For Money, Promos and Cassandra, A Marriage
Between Wit and Wisdom, The Arraignment of Paris, Three Ladies of
London, The Conflict of Conscience, Rare Triumphs of Love and
Fortune, Maleager, Dido, Fidele and Fortunio, Oedipus, Campaspe,
Sappho and Phao, Galatea, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Famous Victories
of Henry V, Love’s Metamophosis, Hunting of Cupid, The Troublesome
Reign of King John, Alphonsus, The Spanish Tragedy, Tamberlaine I,
Dido (again), David and Bathsabe, Mucedorus, The Misfortunes of
Arthur, The Wounds of Civil War, Endymion, Tamberlaine II, The Two
Merry Women of Abingdon, Three Lords and Three Ladies of London,
Taming of a Shrew, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Midas, Mother
Bombie, The Jew of Malta, John a Kent and John a Cumber, Battle of
Alcazar, Fair Em, King Leir, Soliman and Perseda, James IV, George a
Green, A Looking Glass for London and England, The Old Wives’ Tale,
The Cobblers Prophecy, Tragedy of Antony, A New Northern Jig, Arden of Faversham,
Jack Straw, Locrine, True Trag of Richard III, Orlando Furioso,
Edward I, A Knack to Know a Knave, Thomas of Woodstock, Ulysses
Redux, Selimus, John of Bordeaux, Dr Faustus, Edward II, Massacre at
Paris, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, Roxana, The Four Prentices
of London, The Woman in the Moon, Cornelia, Thomas Kyd, Cleopatra,
John a Kent and John a Cumber, Two Lamentable Tragedies, The Virtuous
Octavia, A New Wonder - A Woman Never Vexed, A Match at Midnight, The
Birth of Merlin, The Blind Begger of Alexandria, An Humourous Day’s
Mirth, The Case is Altered, Every Man In His Humour, The Downfall of
Robert Earl of Huntingdon, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon,
Englishmen for My Money or A Woman Will Have Her Will, The Two Angry
Women of Abingdon, Antonio and Mellida, Sir John Oldcastle, Old
Fortunatus, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Every Man Out of His Humour,
All Fools, Cynthia’s Revels, Alaham, Mustapha, Lust’s Dominion,
The Weakest Goeth to the Wall, Patient Grissel, I Blind Beggar of
Bethnal Green, The Bloody Banquet, What You Will, Satriomastix, The
Poetaster, Blurt, Master Constable, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Royal King
and the Loyal Subject, Lingua, England’s Joy, Sir Thomas Wyatt,
Hoffman, or a Revenger for a Father, Mariam, The Gentleman Usher, The
Family of Love, The Dutch Courtesan, When You See Me, You Know Me,
Antipoe, The Tragedy of Darius, Sejanus, A Woman Killed With
Kindness, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix, The Honest Whore,
Westward Ho!, Northward Ho!, Law Tricks, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon,
The Malcontent, The Fawn, Croseus, Monsieur D’Olive, Bussy
D’Ambois, The Tamer Tamed, Philotas, A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Fair
Maid of the West, Part 1, The Widow’s Tears, The Queen’s Arcadia,
Eastward Ho!, If You Know Not Me - You Know Nobody, The Whore of
Babylon, A Mad, Mad World My Masters, Michaelmas Term, The Isle of
Gulls, Volpone, The Wonder of Women or Sophonisba, The Fleir, The
Woman Hater, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Puritan, The
Revenger’s Tragedy, Cupid’s Whirligig, The Atheist’s Tragedy,
The Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The Alexandraen Tragedy, Julius
Caesar, The Two Maids of Moreclacke, The Devil’s Charter, Ram
Alley, David, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Travels of Three
English Brothers, Humour out of Breath, Fortune by Land and Sea, The
Lovesick King, Your Five Gallants, The Faithful Shepherdess, Charles
Duke of Byron, The Parliament of Bees, A Shoemaker a Gentleman,
Appilus and Virginia, The Dumb Knight, The White Devil, A Woman is a
Weathercock, Epicoene, May Day, A Christian Turned Turk, The Revenge
of Bussy D’Ambois, Philaster, The Coxcomb, The Alchemist, The
Roaring Girl, If It Be Not Good the Devil is in It, Match Me in
London, The Insatiate Countess, Amends for Ladies, The Golden Age,
Catiline his Conspiracy, The Maid’s Tragedy, A King and No King,
Greenes Tu Quoque or The City Gallant, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy,
No Wit / No Help Like A Woman’s, Cupid’s Revenge, The Captain,
The Silver Age, Rollo or the Bloody Brother, The Brazen Age, The Iron
Age, The Shepherd’s Song, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, The Honest
Man’s Fortune, Adelphe, Scyros, Chabot Admiral of France, Caesar
and Pompey, Cynthia’s Revenge, Hog Hath Lost His Pearl, The
Dutchess of Malfi, The Witch, Wit at Several Weapons, Bonduca,
Valentinian, Wit Without Money, Hymen’s Triumphs, Bartholomew Fair,
Sicelides, Melanthe, Ulysses and Circe, Ignoramus, The Hector of
Germany, Albumazar, More Dissembers Besides Women, The Nice Valour, A
Fair Quarrel, Monsieur Thomas, The Scornful Lady, Thierry and
Theodoret, The Nightwalker or the Little Thief, Four Plays in One,
Love’s Cure or the Martial Maid, Wit at Several Weapons, The
Faithful Friends, The Widow, Hengist, King of Kent, The Devil Is An
Ass, The Poor Man’s Comfort, The Old Law, The Virgin Martyr, The
Witch of Edmonton, Anything for a Quiet Life, The Island Princess,
Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Wonder of a Kingdom, The
Spanish Gypsy, The Suns Darling, A Game at Chess, The New Inn, The
Staple of News, Love’s Tricks, The Maid’s Revenge, The Wedding,
The Witty Fair One, The Grateful Servant, Pleasant Dialogue and
Dramas, The Fair Maid of the West, part 2, The Noble Spanish Soldier,
The Traitor, The Duke or the Humorous Courtier, Love’s Cruelty, The
Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Changes, Hyde Park, The Ball, The
Arcadia, The Bird in a Cage, The Gamester, The Young Admiral, The
Example, The Opportunity, The Coronation, The Lady of Pleasure, The
Duke’s Mistress, Mortimer (frag), The Royal Master, The Constant
Maid, The Doubtful Heir, The Gentlemen of Venice, The Politician, The
Imposture, The Country Captain, A Jovial Crew, The Brothers, The
Cardinal, The Sisters, The Court Secret, The Devil’s Law Case, A
Cure for a Cuckold, The Unnatural Combat, The Duke of Milan, The
Bondman, The Renegado, The Parliament of Love, The Roman Actor, The
Great Duke of Florence, The Maid of Honour, The Picture, The Emperor
of the East, The Fatal Dowry, Debts, The City Madam, The Guardian, A
Very Woman or the Prince of Tarent, The Bashful Lover, Tis Pity She’s
A Whore, The Lover’s Melancholy, The Broken Heart, Love’s
Sacrifice, Perkin Warbeck, The Fancies, Chaste and Noble, The Lady’s Trial,
The Sun’s Darling, A Pleasant Conceited Comedy of how a man may
choose a good wife from a Bad… and many many more!
