{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65ddca675422320015e040f8/69cf7b3cf57702d2d955be78?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"#119 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' - Ep 1 Shakespeare and the Groundlings","description":"<p>Nothing is what it seems? We, poor Londoners, paying our penny to stand at the Globe in 1606 would agree with that. With Robert Cecil’s government relentlessly pumping out fake news around the Gunpowder Plot, it’s not at all clear who the real criminals are. As Macbeth, murderer of a Scottish king, is overtaken by the evil of ambition we begin to see that our Scottish king James is also in danger. Doesn’t the ambitious scheming of his Principal Secretary threaten to reduce him to an irrelevance? Didn’t Cecil’s father, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, kill our own king’s mother, Mary Queen of Scots?</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe"}