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Have you ever wondered what might be hiding between the lines of a play? Writ in the Margins investigates dramaturgical mysteries from early modern (and early modern adjacent) plays. Season 1 focused on The Witch of Edmonton, FuenteOvejuna, Convent of Pleasure, and House of Desires. In Season 2, we turn to El muerto disimulado or Presumed Dead by Ângela de Azevedo, The Antipodes by Richard Brome, The Island Princess by John Fletcher, Loa to the Divine Narcissus by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz, and Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. As we embark on Season 3, we're tackling ...

Produced by Sydney Lotterby of Yes Minister and Porridge fame. Each instalment featured a mixture of sketches (some foreshadowing Bennett's subsequent television dramas, others mocking television clichés, such as documentaries about working-class Northern writers and discussion programmes featuring pretentious critics). This is a never before broadcast compilation of sketches and extracts from the TV series before the tapes where wiped.