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EPISODE · May 22, 2025 · 33 MIN

Series 2 Episode 5 - A Vengeful Archbishop (Transcript added).

from The Rise of the Protestants · host Shaughan Holt

Feel free to email me your thoughts.Episode Type     •   Season    Episode Season   •   Episode    Episode Number     •  Episode Title  Artwork  •    John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1602. John Whitgift (c1530-1604) was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1567-1576. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1583. He attended Elizabeth I on her deathbed and crowned James I.Music (1)•Hela'r Dryw (Hunting the Wren). An Ancient Welsh folk song, sung by the band Fernhill.Hunting the Wren’ in Wales usually took place between the 6th of January  and the 12th which was Twelfth Night. It was a custom connected with luck-visiting and formed part of the celebrations around the winter solstice.Music (2)•The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599).A pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1599).                                                    Written by Christopher Marlowe (1485–1603).Marlowe composed the poem in iambic tetrameter (four feet of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable) in six stanzas, and each stanza is composed of two rhyming couplets; thus the first line of the poem reads: "Come live with me and be my love".Read by  @thebardscz

Feel free to email me your thoughts. Episode Type • Season Episode Season • Episode Episode Number • Episode Title Artwork • John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1602. John Whitgift (c1530-1604) was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1567-1576. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1583. He attended Elizabeth I on her deathbed and crowned James I. Music...

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