Tudor True Crime

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The true-crime genre - stories of actual murders and other crimes that are then fictionalised - is not a new phenomenon. More than four centuries ago, a series of plays based on real life cases appeared on the London stage. It was a short-lived craze generated by the insatiable early modern appetite for the "three Ms" - melodrama, moralizing and misogyny. In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to author Charles Nicholl about the little known phenomenon of Elizabethan true crime, which even influenced the works of William Shakespeare.

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0:00.0	Hi folks, welcome to Dance and those history. It's that time of the week when we celebrate
0:03.6	a sibling podcast today. We've got Professor Susanna Lipskins, not just the Judas. They
0:08.8	podcast all about 16th century, not just the Judas though. All sorts of other bits like
0:13.4	Montezuma or what's going on with the Mugals or Ming China. It's all happening. It's
0:18.1	great pod. It's rampaging up the charts. You're going to have a take mine while these days
0:21.9	and then she'll be airing my episodes on her feed. It's going to happen folks. This episode
0:27.4	of Not Just The Judas is all about true crime on the Elizabethan stage with Charles
0:31.6	Nickel. True crime folks, it's not just modern podcast listeners that obsessed with true
0:36.2	crime. It is Tudor, Play Goers, Deer To Goers. They loved it. They couldn't get enough of
0:40.0	it. True crime genre, stories of actual murders and other crimes that are then fictionalized
0:45.3	appeared on the London stage plenty, a plenty. It's quite a short-lived craze. Now Susanna
0:50.1	Lipskins points out it was generated by the insatiable early modern appetite for the 3Ms
0:54.8	melodrama, moralizing and misogyny. How different the world was. Anyway, please subscribe
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1:17.2	of going on folks. We're digging things up. We're explaining things. We're exploring things.
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1:33.1	enjoy this wonderful episode on True Crime in The Elizabethan Stage.
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