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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Elizabethan Jazz Hands (ft Louise Banham)
Description: London, 1592. Shakespeare is writing plays, Queen Elizabeth I is ruling with an iron fist, and Louise Banham has just arrived with a plan to beat the Bard to the punch by writing Macbeth: The Musical. Her mission: become ruler of England through the power of jazz hands. It's a strategy that nobody, in any century, has attempted before.
Louise's approach to Elizabethan power: infiltrate the theatre scene, secure a face-to-face meeting with the Queen, and deploy the one weapon that Tudor England has no defence against. The Game Master's identity is a mystery this week — the AI ha...