Rousing the vox populi in James Shirley’s The Politician

In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Kathleen Foy from  Durham University explains how James Shirley’s 1639 tragedy The Politician reflected the court and politics of Charles I. For more information and an accessible transcript, visit our blog.

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