• What’s your star sign? And what does astrology have to do with Lyly’s play?
• What role did astrology play in early modern English society?
• What can we learn from astrologers’ casebooks?
• What is “The Astronomer’s Game?”
• Richard Greene’s Planetomachia:
  • Brief intro to Robert Greene and a summary of Planetomachia.
  • How does Planetomachia demonstrate astrological concepts?
  • How did Planetomachia influence The Woman in the Moon?
• Dramatic reading of opening and closing scenes from The Woman in the Moon, with Joan as Nature and Jake as Pandora
• How does Lyly interpret his astrological sources and how does understanding the cosmos like the early moderns help us connect to Lyly’s play?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.

• What does it mean when Jupiter shows up in your play?
• King of the Gods or Lustful Jove — let’s discuss (with eagle sound effects)!
• How to stage Jupiter’s spectacle
  • Dolphin’s Back case study
  • Edward’s Boys case study
• An excerpt of Act II of Woman in the Moon performed by Jake Raiter and Joan Raube-Wilson
• Staging concerns round-up — how would we stage Lyly’s astrological sex comedy?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.