"Who is It That Can Tell Me What I Am?" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 189

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Leonard Barkan (Princeton University) talks to Barbara Bogaev about his new book, Reading Shakespeare Reading Me, a personal look at how ten of Shakespeare’s plays connect with his own life and...

William C. Carroll: Adapting Macbeth (2022 Audio, Video)

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition he talks to William Carroll of Boston University about Bill’s recent book, ‘Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural...

Thing of Darkness (2022 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to novelist Allan Batchelder about his new book, This Thing of Darkness, which imagines what may have happened if Shakespeare has not died on 23 April 1616 but instead set...

How William Became Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Recording of a lecture by Dr. Elliot Engel that looks at how plays were staged in Elizabethan times and what audience expectations might have been.

Shirine Babb (2022 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Shakespeare Lightning Round

Instagram series hosted by Ben Lauer, the Folger Shakespeare Library’s web producer, in which guests are asked 30 rapid-fire questions about Shakespeare. In this edition, the actor Shirine Babb discusses...

Missy Dunaway (2022 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Shakespeare Lightning Round

Instagram series hosted by Ben Lauer, the Folger Shakespeare Library’s web producer, in which guests are asked 30 rapid-fire questions about Shakespeare. In this edition, the artist Missy Dunaway...

Macbeth (2022 Film)

aka: Gorilla Rep’s Macbeth

Director

Christopher Carter Sanderson

Producer

Christopher Carter Sanderson

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, filmed uncut and entirely in close-up using iPhones.

Stephen Hopkins (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 210

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Andrew Buckley about his research into the life of Stephen Hopkins, whose...

Moon, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 209

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Rachel Aanstad, author of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Illustrated Handbook...

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

Series

Say That Again Slowly

Producer

Rebekah King

Audio Podcast. Paul Edmondson and Sir Stanley Wells discuss their new book, All the Sonnets of Shakespeare, with Reuben J. Brown.

All’s Well That Ends Well: Pre•amble with Katie Blankenau, Phd (2022 Video)

Series

Pre•amble

One of a short series of videos made to engage with a new production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Katie Blankenau, PhD, discusses Shana Cooper’s new production of All’s Well That Ends Well for the Chicago...

All’s Well That Ends Well: Pre•amble with Sara B.T. Thiel, Phd (2022 Video)

Series

Pre•amble

One of a short series of videos made to engage with a new production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Sara B.T. Thiel, PhD, discusses Shana Cooper’s new production of All’s Well That Ends Well for the Chicago...

Hamlet (2022 Film)

Director

Benji Tucker; Vivian Wolfson

Producer

Vivian Wolfson; Benji Tucker

15-minute comedy reduction of Shakespeare’s tragedy made by high school students, presented with some wit and style.

Life of Shakespeare, The: Q&A (2022 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim is joined by members of the Maeda family from Colorado who all love Shakespeare for an extended Q&A on the life of the Bard.

Winter’s Tale, A: Act I (2022 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim is joined by his friend Emily Maeda to discuss the first act of A Winter’s Tale.

"I Do but Dream on Sovereignty" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 190

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. In the light of the recent invasion of the Ukraine, Dr. Irena Makaryk (University of Ottowa) talks to Barbara Bogaev about the current situation there and her previous research exploring Shakespeare...

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence (2022 Video)

Recording of an online presentation by Professor Caroline Bicks (University of Maine) delivered for the Festival Shakespeare Buenos Aires. After the lecture there is a Q&A session for the final 20 minutes of...

Reduced Shakespeare Company (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 17

Series

Untamed Shrews: Women Talk Theatre!

Producer

Hannah Fontes

Podcast. Hosts Hannah Fontes, Dawn Tucker and Becki Zaritsky interview Austin Tichenor about his work with the Reduced Shakespeare Company troupe.

Rewriting Shakespeare (2022 Video)

aka: Updating Shakespeare? Gender in She’s the Man and 10 Things I Hate About You

Video from the Film Fatales YouTube channel hosted by Ellen, an English and Film Studies student. In this video she analyses the updated Shakespeare adaptations, She’s the Man (2006) from Twelfth Night and...

Richard Blanding on Shakespeare’s Shadow (2022 Video)

aka: Michael Blanding: Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?

Series

Keen on

Daily podcast. In this edition, host Andrew Keen interviews Richard Blanding on his book, In Shakespeare’s Shadow: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work. The book posits that...

Wendy Lennon on Shakespeare, Race, And Pedagogy (2022 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews Wendy Lennon on her web resource Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy, which explores the plays in the Elizabethan and modern context.

Sophia on the Cydnus: Shakespeare’s Alexandrian Softscapes (2022 Video)

Recording of an online illustrated lecture by Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine) on Shakespeare and Hebrew wisdom literature, delivered as part of the SEDERI Conference in Barcelona....

How Shakespeare Connects Us: An Afternoon with Sammie Byron and Harry Lennix (2022 Video)

Video recording of a two-part event held at the The Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, Georgia. The first part is entitled ‘A Fellow’s Tribunal’ in which Sammie Byron, who served 31 years in jail for...

Toby Malone and Aili Huber (2022 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Toby Malone and Aili Huber about their book, Cutting Plays for Performance, and how they approach cuts to Shakespeare’s work.

Transplant Surgery (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 212

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Paul Craddock, author of Spare Parts, about the history of transplant surgery...

Lyn Gardner on Reviewing Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews theatre gritic Lyn Gardner.

John Caius (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 213

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Vivian Nutton about the real John Caius, the 16th century doctor, and the...

Crucified Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

Series

Bardcast, The: "It’s Shakespeare, You Dick!"

Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition looks at references to Jesus Christ in the canon and why there...

Shakespeare and Islam (2022 Video)

Recording of Nadia Khan’s conversation with Professor Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) in which he discusses the Muslim motifs, places and objects in many of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare in Detroit (2022 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Sam White about her work as executive director of Shakespeare In Detroit, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, her new appreciation for King Lear and about making the plays...

Sonnet Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

Series

Bardcast, The: "It’s Shakespeare, You Dick!"

Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition is the first in a series looking at the sonnets. Owen performs...

Shakespeare and Gender (2022 Audio)

Series

Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. In this edition co-host Em Weinstein looks at how Shakespeare dealt with gender and the impact this had audiences.

"Sing Thee to Thy Rest" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 191

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn about their opera based on Hamlet.

Shakespeare and Presidents (2022 Audio)

Series

Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition looks at the impact Shakespeare has had, and continues to have, on US Presidents.

Measure for Measure, Part 1 (2021 Audio)

Series

Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!

Audio podcast hosted by University lecturer Nora and her husband, James. Their approach is generally semi-serious. In this edition they discuss one of Shakespeare’s most problematic comedies.

Measure for Measure, Part 2 (2021 Audio)

Series

Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!

Audio podcast hosted by University lecturer Nora and her husband, James. Their approach is generally semi-serious. In this edition they continue their irreverent dissection of one of Shakespeare’s most...

"Say, What Art Thou That Talk’St of Kings and Queens?" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 175

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews professor Gordon McMullan (King’s College London) about the new online exhibition, Making History: Shakespeare and the Royal Family.

Shakespeare’s Much Ado (About Nothing) (2021 Video)

Director

Quinn Rol

Single camera recording of an open-air production of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted and directed by Quinn Rol, a benefit performance for the Burlington High School Drama Club. The cast features: Tenzin...

Macbeth [Part 1] (2021 Audio)

Series

Vale of Tears

Director

Sirshendu Bhaumik

Producer

Sirshendu Bhaumik

First half of an audio production of Shakespeare’s play, translated into Bangla.

Macbeth [Part 2] (2021 Audio)

Series

Vale of Tears

Director

Sirshendu Bhaumik

Producer

Sirshendu Bhaumik

Second half of an audio production of Shakespeare’s play, translated into Bangla.

Press Conference: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021 Video)

aka: Joel Coen, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and More on the Tragedy of Macbeth

Press conference held before the world premiere screening of The Tragedy of Macbeth at the New York Film Festival (NYFF59). Director Joel Coen and cast members Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington, Bertie...

You Bleed (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Play on Podcasts: Coriolanus

Director

Kate Wisniewski

Part one of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s drama set in Ancient Rome, adapted into modern English verse by Sean San José and Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project...

Every Gash an Enemy’s Grave (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Play on Podcasts: Coriolanus

Director

Kate Wisniewski

Part two of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s drama set in Ancient Rome, adapted into modern English verse by Sean San José and Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project...

"I Understand Thee and Can Speak Thy Tongue" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 176

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. José Cruz González (Cal State Los Angeles) and David Lozano (Cara Mía Theatre, Dallas) speak with Barbara Bogaev about adapting and translating Shakespeare to make it more relevant to Latinx...

Twelfth Night (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of an online webinar, the fourth in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on Twelfth Night, is hosted by Dr Will Tosh and the participants are Associate Professor Arthur...

Political Wisdom of Shakespeare’s Late Plays, The (2021 Video)

Series

Acton Line

Podcast. Gabriel Geagea and doctoral candidate Nicolas McAfee discuss his doctoral thesis on the depiction of power, the powerful and politics in Shakespeare’s plays. Works discussed include Henry VIII and...

Girl Power in Adaptations of Shakespeare for Young Adults (2021 Video)

Recording of a live lecture by Dr. Deborah Uman (Weber State University) on adaptations of Shakespeare in literature and on screen featuring strong female characters aimed at teenage audiences. Highlights...

Rome and Juliet (2021 Video)

Series

Works of William Shakespeare, The: A Catholic Perspective

Recording of a live lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn on Romeo and Juliet, which focuses in part on three film versions: the George Cukor version released in 1936, the Renato Castellani adaptation from 1954 and...

Shakespeare in the Ghetto, The Ghetto in Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Shaul Bassi (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) that looks at the Jewish ghetto in Venice in the 16th century and its representation in Shakespeare’s The...

Shakespeare and Race (2021 Video)

Recording of a conversation between Professor Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) and Greg Doran (Royal Shakespeare Company) about her new book, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race.