Mini-Episode: The Gunpowder Plot

Introducing the first of our Mini Episodes! 

In these mini-episodes, we’ll be exploring topics that are related to Shakespeare but aren’t necessarily connected to whatever play we’ve been discussing.

And they’re mini, because well, they’re shorter than our other episodes. They’re like quartos if the regular episodes are folio editions. 

In this episode, we dive into the Gunpowder Plot--an event which shook Early Modern England and shaped Shakespeare's Macbeth. 

Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp.

Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith".

Episode written and researched by Kourtney Smith with contributions by Elyse Sharp.

Our theme music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander.

Works referenced: 

Arnold, Catharine. Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2016.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. W.W. Norton Et Company, 2016.

Quinn, Shannon, and Jennifer Da Silva. Guy Fawkes and the Conspiracy of the Gunpowder Plot. Performance by Simon Whistler, Youtube, Biographics with Highlight History, 5 May 2019, Accessed 17 Dec. 2020, from www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWZIbnkkI9U&t=300s