Holidays in Shakespeare's England, with Erika T. Lin
b'Many of us have holiday traditions: we trim trees, spin dreidels, trick-or-treat, set off fireworks, and host parties. People had holiday traditions in Shakespeare\\u2019s time too: they crossdressed, roleplayed, acted in amateur theatricals, fought, ate pancakes, and watched cockfights. If you\\u2019re thinking some of those holiday traditions sound familiar from Shakespeare\\u2019s plays\\u2026 well, you\\u2019re right.\\n\\nDr. Erika T. Lin studies holidays in early modern England. Some of them, like Christmas and Easter, are still big dates on today\\u2019s calendars, while others, like Martlemas, Shrovetide, Midsummer, or The May, are less familiar. Lin talks with Barbara Bogaev about how people celebrated and how they might have felt about Shakespeare\\u2019s plays in a period when the line between holiday festivity and theater wasn\\u2019t quite so clear.\\n\\nDr. Erika T. Lin is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. You can find her writing on Elizabethan festivals and holidays in a couple of places. Her article \\u201cPopular Festivity and the Early Modern Stage: The Case of George a Greene,\\u201d appeared in Theatre Journal in 2009. Her chapter entitled \\u201cFestivity\\u201d appeared in the 2013 book Early Modern Theatricality, edited by Henry S. Turner and published by Oxford University Press.\\n\\nFrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published November 23, 2021. \\xa9 Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, \\u201cRevels, Dances, Masques, and Merry Hours,\\u201d was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits a transcript of every episode, available at folger.edu. We had technical help from Andrew Feliciano and Evan Marquart at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California, and Josh Wilcox at Brooklyn Podcasting Studio.'