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.


Learn more about CenterForLit's Online Academy. ⁠⁠

⁠⁠Buy the books we're discussing this season and support BiblioFiles!⁠⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow our Substack and join the conversation.⁠

Om Podcasten

In which the CenterForLit staff embarks on a quest to discover the Great Ideas of literature in books of every description: ancient classics to fresh bestsellers; epic poems to bedtime stories. This podcast is a production of The Center for Literary Education and is a reading companion for teachers, homeschoolers, and readers of all stripes.