The History of English Podcast
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Theaters were an important part of cultural life in Elizabethan England, and they contributed many words to the English language. Those words joined thousands of other words that were pouring into English from around the world. In this episode, we look at how distant cultures were contributing to the growth of English and how Shakespeare’s acting company built a world-famous theater in the late 1500s. Works discussed in this episode include:
‘Henry IV, Parts One and Two’ – William Shakespeare
‘The Merry Wives of Windor” – William Shakespeare
‘“A Report of the Kindome of Congo’ – Abraham Hartwell, Translator
‘The Isle of Dogs’ – Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe
‘Discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies’
‘A Worlde of Wordes’ – John Florio
‘Palladis Tamia, Wit’s Treasury’ – Francis Meres
Episode 27: Broken Empire and Fractured Languages
Episode 26: Imperial Crisis and the Goths
Episode 25: Germanic Markings and the Runes
Episode 24: Germanic Mythology
Episode 23: Tacitus and Germanic Society
Episode 22: Early Germanic Grammar
Episode 21: Early Germanic Words
Bonus Episode 2: History of the Alphabet
Episode 20: The Early Germanic Tribes
Episode 19: The Romanization of Britain
Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans
Episode 17: Ancient Celts and the Latin Invasion of Gaul
Episode 16: The Rise of Rome – and Latin
Episode 15: Etruscans, Romans and a Modified Alphabet
Episode 14: The Greek Word Horde
Episode 13: Greece, Phoenicia and the Alphabet
Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)
Bonus Episode 1
Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors
Episode 10: Early Indo-European Migrations
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