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The Room Where It’s Happening Listening Order

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A podcast going through Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton one song at a time.

So you know about Hamilton, right? If you don’t, you should listen to it as soon as you can – you won’t be sorry.

If you’ve already listened to it, learn more about the musical in Hamilton: The Revolution or the man in Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton.

This Listening Order arranges the various podcast episodes into the same order as the songs in the musical:

  1. “Alexander Hamilton” — Episode #9: Yvette Nicole Brown: Heart, Comedy, History
  2. “Aaron Burr, Sir” — Episode #16: Matt Belknap: Converted Skeptic
  3. “My Shot” — Episode #2: Kristin Chenoweth: My Shot
  4. “The Story of Tonight” — Episode #24: Utkarsh Ambudkar: Making Lin-monade
  5. “The Schuyler Sisters” — Episode #4: Jasmine Cephas Jones: My Jaw Dropped
  6. “Farmer Refuted” — Episode #28: Barbara Gray: Hamilton With Strangers
  7. “You’ll Be Back” — Episode #8: Kevin Daniels: It’s Not Hype
  8. “Right Hand Man” — Episode #19: Franklin Leonard: Nonstop Listening
  9. “A Winter’s Ball” — Episode #27: Jamie Denbo and John Ross Bowie: Ham Fam
  10. “Helpless” —
  11. “Satisfied” — Episode #3: Ron Chernow: Rockstar Biographer
  12. “The Story of Tonight (Reprise)” —
  13. “Wait for It” — Episode #7: Anthony Ramos: Making Life Onstage
  14. “Stay Alive” —
  15. “Ten Duel Commandments” — Episode #22: Gabourey Sidibe: Hip Hop is My Foundation
  16. “Meet Me Inside” —
  17. “That Would Be Enough” — Episode #32: Rachel Sklar: Musical Theater Knocked Me Up
  18. “Guns and Ships” — Episode #31: Ashley Ford: When Harry (Potter) Met Hamilton
  19. “History Has Its Eyes On You” — Episode #15: David Korins: Designing Hamilton
  20. “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” — Episode #14: Alex Lacamoire: Musical Mastermind
  21. “What Comes Next?” — Episode #33: Mara Wilson: Live from NYC Pod Fest
  22. “Dear Theodosia” — Episode #23: Chris Gethard: Nerding Out on the Founding Fathers
  23. Jefferson vs Hamilton“Non-Stop” — Episode #6: Tracy Clayton: Hamilton Privilege
  24. “What’d I Miss?” — Episode #10: Alex Horwitz: Rolling Cameras on Hamilton
  25. “Cabinet Battle #1” — Episode #11: David Gregory: A Different American Lens
  26. “Take a Break” — Episode #20: Ari Afsar: Live at the Chicago Podcast Festival
  27. “Say No to This” — Episode #25: Rachel Bloom: Queen of Musicals
  28. “The Room Where It Happens” —
  29. “Schuyler Defeated” —
  30. “Cabinet Battle #2” — Episode #5: John Hodgman: The Immediate Effect
  31. “Washington On Your Side” —
  32. “One Last Time” —
  33. “I Know Him” — Episode #21: Jimmy and Oliver Pardo: Father-Son Hamilheads
  34. “The Adams Administration” —
  35. “We Know” —
  36. “Hurricane” — Episode #1: Adam Savage: “Hamilton” is Our Shakespeare
  37. “The Reynolds Pamphlet” — Episode #17: John Tesh: Hamilton, Nine Times Over
  38. “Burn” — Episode #12: Jesse Tyler Ferguson: A Whole Other Level
  39. “Blow Us All Away” —
  40. “Stay Alive (Reprise)” — Episode #29: Eliza Skinner: Rip Your Heart Out
  41. “It’s Quiet Uptown” —
  42. “The Election of 1800” — Episode #26: Mike Still: Politics, Then and Now
  43. “Your Obedient Servant” — Episode #13: Hasan Minhaj: Hamilton’s Tupac Factor
    — Episode #30: Riley Silverman: How I Killed Your Founding Father
  44. “Best of Wives and Best of Women” —
  45. “The World Was Wide Enough” — Episode #18: David Del Rio: The Actor’s Perspective
  46. “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” —
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The Works of Shakespeare Reading Order

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The plays and epic poetry of William Shakespeare…

As arranged into the order of their internal chronology by Isaac Asimov in his Guide

The Greeks

Venus and Adonis
Poem published 1593, set in the era of myths.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Play first staged in 1595 or 1596, set in the era of the Greek heroes.
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Play first staged in 1613 or 1614, set in the era of the Greek heroes. Co-written with John Fletcher.
Troilus and Cressida
Play first staged in 1603, set in the era of the Greek heroes.
Timon of Athens
Play written in 1605-6, set in the era of Classical Greece. Co-written with Thomas Middleton.
The Winter’s Tale
Play written in 1610-11, set in the era of Classical Greece.
The Comedy of Errors
Play written in 1594, set in the era of Classical Greece.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Play written in 1607-8, set in the era of Classical Greece. Co-written with George Wilkins.

The Romans

The Rape of Lucrece
Poem published 1594, set in the Roman Kingdom.
Coriolanus
Play written in 1607-8, set in the Roman Kingdom.
Julius Caesar
Play written in 1599, set in the Roman Empire.
Antony and Cleopatra
Play written in 1606–07, set in the Roman Empire.
Titus Andronicus
Play first performed in 1594, set in the Roman Empire.

The English Plays

King Lear
Play written in 1605-6, set in pre-Norman Britain.
Cymebline
Play first performed in 1611, set in pre-Norman Britain.
Hamlet
Play written in 1599-1602, set in pre-Norman Britain.
Macbeth
Play written in 1606, set in pre-Norman Britain.
King John
Play written in 1587-98, set in Middle Ages Britain.
Edward III
Play first printed in 1586, set in Middle Ages Britain. Co-written with Thomas Kyd.
Richard II
Play written in 1597, set in Middle Ages Britain.
King Henry IV, Part 1
Play first performed in 1597, set in Middle Ages Britain.
King Henry IV, Part 2
Play written in 1596-9, set in Middle Ages Britain.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Play first performed in 1597, set in Middle Ages Britain.
Henry V
Play written in 1599, set in Middle Ages Britain.
King Henry VI, Part 1
Play first performed in 1592, set in Middle Ages Britain.
King Henry VI, Part 2
Play written in 1591-2, set in Middle Ages Britain.
King Henry IV, Part 3
Play written in 1591-2, set in Middle Ages Britain.
Richard III
Play written in 1591, set in Middle Ages Britain.
King Henry VIII
Play first performed in 1613, set in Middle Ages Britain.
Sir Thomas More
Play first performed by 1594, set during the reign of King Henry VIII. Co-written with Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle.

The Italians

Love’s Labour’s Lost
Play written in 1595-6, set in Renaissance Italy.
The Taming of the Shrew
Play written in 1592, set in Renaissance Italy.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Play written in 1590-1, set in Renaissance Italy.
Romeo and Juliet
Play written in 1591-5, set in Renaissance Italy.
The Merchant of Venice
Play written in 1596-7, set in Renaissance Italy.
Much Ado About Nothing
Play written in 1598-9, set in Renaissance Italy.
As You Like It
Play written in 1598-9, set in Renaissance Italy.
Twelfth Night
Play written in 1600-1, set in Renaissance Italy.
All’s Well That Ends Well
Play written in 1604-5, set in Renaissance Italy.
Othello
Play written in 1603-4, set in Renaissance Italy.
Measure for Measure
Play written in 1603-4, set in Renaissance Italy.
The Tempest
Play written in 1610-11, set in Renaissance Italy.
Double Falsehood
Play written in 1612-13, set in Renaissance Spain. Co-written by John Fletcher (as ‘Cardenio’), and reconstructed by Lewis Theobald in 1727.