Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 41

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode examines the myths surrounding Shakespeare’s love sonnets with guests Donna Denizé and Rufus Wainwright.

Living with Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Geoffrey Marsh in which he explores the period in the 1590s when William Shakespeare lived near St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate and what influence that place and his...

Shake Up Shakespeare (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Esu Happy Hour

Recording of a live interactive video session presented by Carol Ann Lloyd that includes polls and chats. She looks at the contemporary relevance of Shakespeare’s plays, asks users to identify plots and...

Shakespearean Operas (2021 Video)

Series

Opera Novice

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Kathryn Smith in which she explores how some of Shakespeare’s works have been adapted for opera. Some the works discussed include adaptations of Macbeth (Verdi,...

Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing & Romeo and Juliet (2021 Audio, Multimedia)

Series

Book Isn’t Necessarily Better, The: A Library Podcast

Podcast hosted by Mikayla and Roxanne. In this edition they focus in particular on Kenneth Branagh’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993) and Baz Luhrmann’s WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET (1996).

Shakespeare & Race (2021 Video)

Recording of the book launch event for Dr. Ruben Espinosa’s new book, Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism. A reading from the book, an analysis of Macbeth, is followed by a conversation with Dr. Kathryn...

Singing Notes and Slinging Jokes Meet "The Bard" (2021 Video)

The married team of comedian Kenneth McLaurin and the recording artist SingTrece take on Shakespeare. In this video, McLaurin riffs on Shakespeare quotes in modern / coarse vernacular while SingTrace...

Ghosts of Shakespeare, The (2021 Video)

Jay Michaels talks to Rodney Hakim about supernatural themes in Shakespeare’s plays and how this reflected the attitudes and beliefs of the Elizabethan era.

'No Man Ever Loved’: Looking for Shakespeare in His Sonnets (2021 Video)

Recording of a live illustrated lecture by Anna Beer, which explores what can be divined about Shakespeare the man from his sonnets. Followed by a Q&A.

Romeo and Juliet (2021 Video)

Director

Sam White

Recording of a student production of Romeo and Juliet by the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance. It is set in 2020 Verona during the Coronavirus pandemic, with the chorus (performed...

Bard to Believe - The Oxfordian Case for Shakespeare (2021 Audio)

Series

Hard to Believe

Podcast hosted by John Brooks. In this edition he speaks to Steven Sabel, who podcasts at Don’t Quill the Messenger, on their shared belief that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays was actually Edward...

"He Writes Brave Verses" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 167

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews the Reverend Dr. Paul Edmondson (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust). about his book, All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (CUP).

"In the Old Age, Black was Not Counted Fair" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 168

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev discusses race and Blackness in Elizabethan England with Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College).

All My Pretty Ones (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 6

Series

Play on Podcasts: Macbeth

Director

Edward Torres

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Sixth episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare play, adapted into modern English verse by Migdalia Cruz and directed by Edward Torres. In Scotland, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks through her...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of a live webinar, the first in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, Professor Aldo Billingslea and Dr Vanessa I. Corredera discuss...

Academic Freedom and the Shakespeare Authorship Question (2021 Video)

Video recording of an illustrated presentation by Michael Dudley (Librarian, University of Winnipeg) in which he argues that actually knowing who Shakespeare was may be less important compared with issues of...

James Marsters Macbeth Lectures Supercut!! (2021 Video)

The American actor James Marsters - known inter alia for playing Spike on the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel - discusses Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Theatre Plans to ‘Decolonise’ Shakespeare’s Plays (2021 Television)

Extract from a Russia Today TV broadcast hosted by Bill Dod in which Former UKIP MEP Roger Helmer criticises Shakespeare’s Globe for starting a series of webinars on Decolonising Shakespeare (qv).

Othello Noir (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Drunk Shakespeare

Director

Jonathan Minchew-Gonzalez

Recording of a Zoom presentation of Shakespeare’s play in the style of a 1940s Film Noir. The Cast: OTHELLO - Ernest Neal DESDEMONA - Nicole Ramos Nesson BRABANTIO - Henry Graham Murray IAGO - Jonathan...

Two (Pirate) Gentlemen of Verona (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Drunk Shakespeare

Director

Chris Turner

Recording of a Zoom presentation of Shakespeare’s play in the style of a pirate movie. Directed by Chris Turner.

Merry Wives of Windsor in Ze Nude [Part 1] (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Drunk Shakespeare

Director

Elizabeth Crocker

Recording of a Zoom presentation of Shakespeare’s play in the style of a 1960s nudist film. Directed by Elizabeth Crocker. The Cast: Mistress Ford: Caryn Fulda Ford: Henry Graham Murray their servants:...

Merry Wives of Windsor in Ze Nude [Part 2] (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Drunk Shakespeare

Director

Elizabeth Crocker

Recording of a Zoom presentation of Shakespeare’s play in the style of a 1960s nudist film. Directed by Elizabeth Crocker. The Cast: Mistress Ford: Caryn Fulda Ford: Henry Graham Murray their servants:...

Who Will Be Crowned at Scone? (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 7

Series

Play on Podcasts: Macbeth

Director

Edward Torres

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Seventh and last episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare play, adapted into modern English verse by Migdalia Cruz and directed by Edward Torres. After learning of his wife’s death,...

Hell Can Dance to Such a Tune (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

First episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Young Prince Pericles leaves his home to win the hand of a princess.

Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Comedy (2021 Multimedia)

Series

Conversations with Bill Kristol

University of Virginia literature professor Paul Cantor discusses Shakespeare comedies and his use of comedy. The discussion is split into three sections: 1. Comedy and Scepticism; 2. Shakespeare’s Comedy;...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2021 Video)

Series

Behind Closed Doors

The first in a series of videos made by Shakespeare’s Globe that looks at the process of putting their productions in the 2021 Summer season on the stage in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic and the...

Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague (2021 Video)

Series

Author Events

Recording of a conversation between the novelists Nicole Galland and Maggie O’Farrell about the latter’s Hamnet, a fictional look at William Shakespeare’s family and the life and death of his son, Hamnet.

Search for Shakespeare’s Lost Library, The (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 112

Series

Talkingtudors

Audio Podcast. Natalie Grueninger and Stuart Kells discuss his book, Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature. It details Kells’ attempts to track Shakespeare’s personal...

Romeo and Juliet (2021 Video)

Series

So You Haven’t Read

Animated educational short. A brief, fast-paced introductory guide to the plot and themes of Shakespeare’s tragedy. It includes trigger warnings as it is aimed at younger learners.

Shakespeare Bachelor (2021 Film, Video)

Director

Jacqueline Elisabeth

Recording of a Zoom production of a play written by Kristen Doherty and directed by Jacqueline Elisabeth. It imagines William Shakespeare being a contestant of the reality series "The Bachelor" where he is...

Depicting William Shakespeare (2021 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Nicole Galland discusses the challenges she faced in making Shakespeare a character in her new novel, Master of the Revels.

Jealousy in Shakespeare (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 53

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the depiction of jealousy in Shakespeare’s plays such as Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Shakespeare in the 90s (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 55

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay are joined by their friend Brittany to discuss the Shakespeare movies that were released in the 1990s and how they reflected that decade. The films being...

Cymbeline - Special Episode (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and guest Madelaine Wheeler discuss Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s less performed plays. They explore its complicated magpie plot, some of its themes such as the nature vs...

James Shapiro and Shakespeare in a Divided America (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh talks to James Shapiro about his book, Shakespeare in a Divided America. They discuss how Shakespeare’s work has been both a common ground but also used as a political tool as...

Romeo & Juliet Source Material (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 24

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode hosts Ian Doescher and Sara Plasskett look at the sources that Shakespeare used when writing Romeo and Juliet, including an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello, a poem by Arthur...

Michael Witmore - The Folger Shakespeare Library (2021 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Michael Witmore of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Look What Heaven Can Do if She Wants (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Second episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Pericles lands on Tarsus with provisions to eliminate the famine...

Shakespeare and East Asia (2021 Video)

Recording of an online illustrated lecture by Professor Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University) in which she discusses her book, Shakespeare and East Asia, that looks at the relationship between...

Reacting to Shakespeare Deniers! (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 66

Series

Ear Read This

Podcast. Ash, the podcast host, takes a fairly light-hearted and very sarcastic look at the Shakespeare Authorship Question as explored in the 2012 documentary LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT (qv) that followed in...

Shakespeare & Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021 Video)

Director

Jeremy De Ryckere; de Roovers

Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed in an empty auditorium, the actors appearing on stage alongside the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by...

"We’Ll Wander Through the Streets and Note the Qualities of People" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 169

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Geoffrey Marsh (Victoria and Albert Museum) about his new book, Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen’s Parish, 1593-1598, which looks at the people who lived near...

Teaching Shakespeare to Inner-City la Students (2021 Audio)

Series

Learning Curve, The

Podcast from the Libertarian think tank, Pioneer Institute. Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson interview Los Angeles school teacher Rafe Esquith about his work with disadvantaged students and their...

Let Punishment Continue with a Kiss (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 3

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Third episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Pericles marries Thaisa and they head back to Tyre.

"Farewell, Master, Farewell, Farewell" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 170

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Madeline Sayet speaks to Barbara Bogaev about her play, Where We Belong, which dramatises her own experience as a Native American woman and studying Shakespeare in the UK and the resistance she felt...

"Best Fool" Susie C (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 3.1

Series

Protest Too Much

Podcast. Weekly showdown hosted by Stephanie Crugnola that pits her against academics, actors and teachers to debate a Shakespeare-related ‘best of’ - with listeners getting the opportunity to vote on...

"Play with Best Music" Bill B (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 3.10

Series

Protest Too Much

Podcast. Weekly showdown hosted by Stephanie Crugnola that pits her against academics, actors and teachers to debate a Shakespeare-related ‘best of’ - with listeners getting the opportunity to vote on...

"Funniest Noncomedy" Austin T (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 3.09

Series

Protest Too Much

Podcast. Weekly showdown hosted by Stephanie Crugnola that pits her against academics, actors and teachers to debate a Shakespeare-related ‘best of’ - with listeners getting the opportunity to vote on...

Signing Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Recording of a discussion on the ‘Signing Shakespeare’ project, a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and the Royal Shakespeare Company to improve access to Shakespeare for young D/deaf...

This Fresh New Sailor (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 4

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Fourth episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Pericles gives Thaisa’s body to the seas and her coffin drifts to...