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.
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 Culture brought Alison and Ruby together to discuss their productions and the remarkable young author and playwright, Lady Rachel Fane.
This podcast was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and York University.
26 Jul 2025
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 Artistic Director John Edwards talks to keyboardist Louise Hung about pitch and temperament - how early keyboards were not tuned the same way a modern piano is. We then hear Louise Hung perform Gibbons' Fantazia in Foure Parts.
This episode was originally released on the Musicians In Ordinary's podcast feed.
26 Jul 2025
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 Artistic Director John Edwards talks to Prof. Deanne Williams about the plays by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, and masque performances during the run up to the marriage of Frederick, Count Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart. We then hear Louise Hung perform music by Bull and Gibbons from the book.
This episode was originally released on the Musicians In Ordinary's podcast feed.
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