{"podcast":{"title":"Shakespeare Anyone?","slug":"shakespeare-anyone-2709617","podcast_index_feed_id":2709617,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/314081/rss","website_url":"http://www.shakespeareanyone.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/0/0/3/300359073e5f977288c4a68c3ddbc4f2/2024_Podcast_Cover.png","author":"Kourtney Smith & Elyse Sharp","episode_count":154,"summary":"Shakespeare Anyone? is co-hosted by Elyse Sharp and Kourtney Smith, two professional actors and hobbyist Shakespeare scholars. Join us as we explore Shakepeare's plays through as many lenses as we can by looking at the text and how the text is viewed through modern lenses of feminism, racism, classism, colonialism, nationalism… all the-isms. We will discuss how his plays shaped both the past and present, and look at how his work was performed throughout various periods of time–all while trying our best to approach his works without giving in to bardolatry. We examine one play at a time for an extended window of time, interspersed with mini-episodes about Shakespeare's time for context. Episodes are released every other week.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T16:17:05.854676+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617"},"episode":{"title":"Mini: Court Masques and How They Shaped Shakespeare's Plays","slug":"mini-court-masques-and-how-they-shaped-shakespeare-s-plays","published_at":"2025-08-27T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617/mini-court-masques-and-how-they-shaped-shakespeare-s-plays","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617","url":"https://shakespeareanyone.libsyn.com/mini-court-masques-and-how-they-shaped-shakespeares-plays","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shakespeareanyone/SA_Mini_Court_Masques_Final_Cut_with_Bells_and_Whistles.mp3?dest-id=2528357","summary":"Want to support the podcast? Join our Patreon or buy us a coffee. As an independent podcast, Shakespeare Anyone? is supported by listeners like you. In this mini-episode, we explore the world of the Court Masque, a form of entertainment that flourished in the Tudor and Stuart courts. From its roots in medieval pageantry and music to its height as a vehicle for royal celebration and political display of wealth, the masque became a defining cultural event during Shakespeare's time. While Shakespeare never wrote a Court Masque, we will explore how Ben Jonson's Hymenaei may have influenced Shakespeare's choices for the masques that appear in As You Like It and The Tempest . For more on some of the topics we've previously covered that also mention the Court Masque, check out: Mini: Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's Colleague and Competitor Twelfth Night: Plays for the Court Stuff You Should Know Part 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean England & Theatre (Revised) Mini: Traveling Theatre Companies Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is \"Neverending Minute\" by Sounds Like Sander. Special thanks to Nat Yonce for editing this episode. For updates: join our email list , follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone , buying us coffee , or by shopping our bookshelves at bookshop.org/shop/shakespeareanyonepod (we earn a small commission when you use our link and shop bookshop.org). Find additional links mentioned in the episode in our Linktree . Works referenced: Butler, Martin. \"The Court Masque | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson.\" The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, 2014, universitypublishingonlin…","meta_description":"Want to support the podcast? Join our Patreon or buy us a coffee. As an independent podcast, Shakespeare Anyone? is supported by listeners like you. In th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1173,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/shakespeare-anyone-2709617/episodes/mini-court-masques-and-how-they-shaped-shakespeare-s-plays/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617/mini-court-masques-and-how-they-shaped-shakespeare-s-plays.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}