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Exit Ghost

Exit Ghost

Drama, subterfuge and murder make happy bedfellows in this story from Shakespearean Southwark.
Philip Gooden

Exit Ghost, by Philip Gooden. It’s not the best part I’ve ever played or the biggest but it’s the one that had the greatest effect on my audience. In fact I’ve never seen an audience reaction like it. Very pleasing, in one way. Very unpleasing in another. Every time I...

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Renaissance Man in the Middle Ages, by Philip Gooden

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Renaissance Man in the Middle Ages, by Philip Gooden

The author of a series of Chaucerian mysteries describes the poet's early career.
Philip Gooden

In the winter of 1359 a young English soldier was taken prisoner during the siege of Reims, the holy city where French kings were anointed. The captive Englishman was a page in the household of Prince Lionel, one of the sons of King Edward III, and the siege was a...