All The World's a Stage: A Brief History of Theatre in the 1700s

This week Ian and Emily are talking about what happened to the theater after Shakespeare. They follow the trends of comedy and tragedy, Renaissance and Reformation, Enlightenment and Puritanism. Then, as an illustration of the period's offerings, they look at Joseph Addison's influential tragedy, Cato.

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All The World's a Stage: A Brief History of Theatre in the 1700s

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