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GEES Project Podcast
by GEES Project
The GEES Project challenges the old assumption that girls were not allowed to perform on the early English stage. It explores girls’ participation in English dramatic culture from its earliest beginnings, and shows that they took active roles in religious drama, court masques, royal entries, civic pageants, and household entertainments: basically everywhere except the commercial London stage of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Episodes
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Rachel Fane's May Masque with Deanne Williams, Ruby Bones and Alison Findlay
Over the same weekend in the spring of 2025 Alison Findlay, Professor at Lancaster University and Ruby Bones both directed separate productions of Lady Rachel Fane's May Masque of 1627. Professor Deanne Williams of York University and author of Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood and Girl...
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Parthenia: Music for Virginals Ep. 4: Louise Hung on Tuning and Temperament, Gibbons' Fantasia of Foure Parts
'Parthenia or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls (in England at least), composed by three famous masters: William Byrd, Dr. John Bull and Orlando Gibbons' was probably printed in 1613 probably as part of the celebrations for a royal wedding. MIO's…
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Parthenia: Music for Virginals Ep. 3: Prof. Deanne Williams and Bull's Pavan and Gibbons' Galiardo and The Queen's Command
'Parthenia or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls (in England at least), composed by three famous masters: William Byrd, Dr. John Bull and Orlando Gibbons' was probably printed in 1613 probably as part of the celebrations for a royal wedding. MIO's…
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Parthenia: Music for Virginals Ep. 2: Louise Hung and John Edwards on the Earl of Salisbury and Byrd's Earl of Salisbury's Pavan and Galiardo Secundo
'Parthenia or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls (in England at least), composed by three famous masters: William Byrd, Dr. John Bull and Orlando Gibbons' was probably printed in 1613. As the chief counsellor in the last years of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign...
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Parthenia: Music for Virginals Ep. 1 Louise Hung and Byrd's Preludium and Galliardo Mary Brown
'Parthenia or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls (in England at least), composed by three famous masters: William Byrd, Dr. John Bull and Orlando Gibbons' was probably printed in 1613. MIO's Artistic Director John Edwards talks to harpsichordist Louise…
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Anne Boleyn's Songbook: Prof. Matt Kavaler and the Basse Danse La Magdalena
Profs. Matt Kavaler and Deanne Williams talk with John Edwards about the paintings of the Master of the Female Half-lengths and their shared context with Anne Boleyn's songbook. We hear the Basse Danse La Magdalena by Pierre Blondeau played by John Edwards. This episode was originally released on...
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Anne Boleyn's Songbook: Rev. Lisa Wang and Brumel's Sicut Lilium
The Rev. Dr Lisa Wang speaks to John Edwards about the adoration of the Virgin Mary and the Song of Solomon in the context of the Anne Boleyn Songbook. We hear Sicut Lilium by Antoine Brumel sung by The Musicians In Ordinary, Julia Morson, Whitney O'Hearn and Katherine Anderson, led by Hallie...
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Anne Boleyn's Songbook: John Edwards and Jacob Obrecht's Alma Redemptoris Mater
John Edwards talks to Prof. Deanne Williams about performance practice questions thrown up by the Anne Boleyn Songbook. We hear Alma Redemptoris Mater composed by Jacob Obrecht performed by Julia Morson, sop. Whitney O'Hearn, mezzo, Katherine Anderson alto, Eleanor Verrette, vielle, John Edwards,...
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Anne Boleyn's Songbook: Deanne Williams and the Anon. Gabrielem Archangelum
Prof. Deanne Williams talks to John Edwards about Anne Boleyn's Songbook. We hear the anonymous Gabrielem Archangelum sung by Julia Morson, Whitney O'Hearn and Hallie Fishel. This episode was originally released on the Musicians In Ordinary's podcast feed.
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John Milton's Comus - Interview with John Edwards on the music of Comus - Pt. 2
Director Heather Davies and theorbo player and music director John Edwards chat about the music in John Milton's masque Comus and especially about the dance music of masques in general, and the dances of William Lawes which we used in our production. Visit https://musiciansinordinary.ca/episodes…
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John Milton's Comus - Interview with John Edwards on the music of Comus - Pt. 1
Director Heather Davies and theorbo player and music director John Edwards chat about the music in John Milton's masque Comus and especially about the original songs by Henry Lawes. Visit https://musiciansinordinary.ca/episodes to click through the series and download mp3s to add to your music...
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John Milton's Comus - Interview with director Heather Davies
Director Heather Davies discusses the special challenges of the masque form, Milton’s verse and the rehearsal process in the time of covid with John Edwards. Visit https://musiciansinordinary.ca/episodes to click through the series and download mp3s to add to your music playlist. Heather Davies…
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John Milton's Comus - Interview with Prof. Deanne Williams
Deanne Williams is professor in English at York University, a Fellow of the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. She was dramaturge for our production of Comus, has written extensively…
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John Milton's Comus with music by William and Henry Lawes - Part 2
John Milton's Comus (Bridgewater manuscript version), with the original songs set by Henry Lawes and dance music by William Lawes, directed by Heather Davies, performed by Roger Honeywell - Attendant Spirit, Paul Hopkins - Comus, Bethany Jillard - The Lady, Tracy Ryan - Elder Brother, Beryl Bain…
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John Milton's Comus with music by William and Henry Lawes - Part 1
John Milton's Comus (Bridgewater manuscript version), with the original songs set by Henry Lawes and dance music by William Lawes, directed by Heather Davies, performed by Roger Honeywell - Attendant Spirit, Paul Hopkins - Comus, Bethany Jillard - The Lady, Tracy Ryan - Elder Brother, Beryl Bain…
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Board Lutebook Podcasts - George Torres-Deanne Williams-Delyght Pavan-Delyght Gallyard-I cannot keepe my wyfe at Howme
George Torres, Prof. in Music at Lafayette College, Deanne Williams, Prof. in English at York University, and John Edwards discuss correspondences between lute instruction manuals and manuals on civility from 16th and 17th century in France & England, how lute lessons were also decorum lessons, &...
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Board Lutebook Podcasts - Deanne Williams - Masque Dances
Prof. Deanne Williams, author of Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood, discusses the Stuart masque, its meaning and its participants. From Margaret Board's Lutebook we hear lute arrangements of The Antiq Masque, The Witches Daunce, The Lady Phyllyes Masque, The Lady Elyza, her Masque, The...
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Board Lutebook Podcasts - Tom Bishop - Lachrymae, Poore Tome, Bony Sweete Robyn, Goe from my Wyndowe
Prof. Tom Bishop (Univ. of Auckland) talks to John Edwards about plays, theatres, playgoers and pieces in Margaret Board's Lutebook she’d need to know to get all the references in the plays of Jacobean London. From Margaret’s book we hear Lachrymae, by John Dowland, referenced in Knight of the...
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Board Lutebook Podcasts - John Edwards - Delacourt Pavan, Markanthonyes Gallyard, Orlando
Margaret Board was born in 1600, the daughter of a rich merchant, and had Europe's leading lutenist, John Dowland, as a teacher. Her book of lute pieces, notated in tablature in her hand and that of her teacher, is a collaboration between what her lute master thinks she needs to know and her…
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The Concealed Fancies - a discussion of the music in GEES Project's film of the play
This is the first of two episodes about the GEES Project's film of The Concealed Fancies (which you can find on YouTube or by clicking a link at geesproject.com), a play written by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, née Cavendish, during the English Civil Wars with an induction by Paul…
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The Concealed Fancies - a discussion of the GEES Project's film of the play
This is the first of two episodes about the GEES Project's film of The Concealed Fancies (which you can find on YouTube or by clicking a link at geesproject.com), a play written by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, née Cavendish, during the English Civil Wars with an induction by Paul…
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Prof. Stephen Orgel - An Oral History - Episode 4
An oral history of the extraordinary life of Prof. Stephen Orgel, in a series of conversations with Prof. Deanne Williams. Prof. Orgel is best known for his work on the Stuart Court Masque but these conversations also touch on his contribution to and gender studies, his work as an editor, and his...
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Prof. Stephen Orgel - An Oral History - Episode 3
An oral history of the extraordinary life of Prof. Stephen Orgel, in a series of conversations with Prof. Deanne Williams. Prof. Orgel is best known for his work on the Stuart Court Masque but these conversations also touch on his contribution to and gender studies, his work as an editor, and his...
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Prof. Stephen Orgel - An Oral History - Episode 2
An oral history of the extraordinary life of Prof. Stephen Orgel, in a series of conversations with Prof. Deanne Williams. Prof. Orgel is best known for his work on the Stuart Court Masque but these conversations also touch on his contribution to and gender studies, his work as an editor, and his...
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Prof. Stephen Orgel - An Oral History - Episode 1
An oral history of the extraordinary life of Prof. Stephen Orgel, in a series of conversations with Prof. Deanne Williams. Prof. Orgel is best known for his work on the Stuart Court Masque but these conversations also touch on his contribution to and gender studies, his work as an editor, and his...
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The GEES Project challenges the old assumption that girls were not allowed to perform on the early English stage. It explores girls’ participation in English dramatic culture from its earliest beginnings, and shows that they took active roles in religious drama, court masques, royal entries, civic pageants, and household entertainments: basically everywhere except the commercial London stage of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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