Sniveling Little Freshmeat (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 5

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Fifth episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Pericles’ daughter Marina is kidnapped by pirates and believed dead.

For I was Born at Sea (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 6

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Sixth episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Marina helps Lysimachus to find a new path. She is asked to help a man...

"Change It, Change It" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 171

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Richard Schoch (Queen’s University Belfast) about his new book, A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance, and the way Shakespeare was produced in the Restoration...

Amateur Shakespeare: Crossing Professional Borders, Empowering Communities (2021 Video)

Video. Recording of a conversation hosted by Professor Michael Dobson on non-professional drama groups with Pauline Scott of the Brownsea Island Open Air Theatre and Ian Wainwright of the Royal Shakespeare...

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2021 Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Simon Tillotson

Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s sonnets with Hannah Crawforth (King’s...

King Lear’s Edgar (2021 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Daniel José Molina discusses with Austin Tichenor the difficulties of playing the highly reactive role of Edgar in the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear starring Andre De Shields.

Shakespeare and East Asia, With Alexa Alice Joubin (2021 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. Professor Alexa Alice Joubin discusses her new book, Shakespeare and East Asia, which looks at the...

Bill Barclay on Shakespeare and Music (2021 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. A conversation with the former Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Sukanta Chaudhuri on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ - In India (2021 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri discusses editing the text of Shakespeare’s comedy in India.

Kamilah Long (2021 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Kamilah Long, the Managing Director of Play On Shakespeare, which has recently produced audio podcast serials of Macbeth and Pericles.

Andrea Smith on Radio Shakespeares (2021 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews BBC producer Andrea Smith, who is now working on her PhD on audio Shakespeare at the University of East Anglia.

Nadia Nadarajah on Shakespeare in Sign Language (Bsl), Celia, Titania, Guildenstern, Cleopatra (2021 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani discusses Shakespeare in British Sign Language (BSL) with Ms Nadia Nadarajah (interpreter: Ms Linda Bruce).

Shakespeare’s Families (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 57

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the depiction of families, happy and not, in Shakespeare’s work and how this fitted in with Elizabethan concepts of domestic life.

Mr Shakespeare, Or How I Learned to Stop Loathing and Love the Bard (2021 Video)

Recording of a Zoom lecture by actor Callum Coates in which he discusses how Shakespeare’s plays would have been produced at the time and Sam Wanamaker’s long efforts to rebuild the Globe (Coates was...

Comedy of Errors, The (2021 Video)

Series

Creative Conversations

Video made to celebrate the post-lockdown reopening of the RSC’s theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon. Director Philip Breen, associate designer Ruth Hall, set and costume designer Max Jones, composer Paddy...

We Want to Hear Our Story (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 7

Series

Play on Podcasts: Pericles

Director

Lisa Rothe

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Seventh and final episode of a weekly radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s play, translated into modern English verse by Ellen McLaughlin. Pericles is reunited with his daughter, Marina.

Romeo & Juliet (2021 Video)

Series

Behind Closed Doors

Director

Michelle Terry

The second 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...

Wherein I See Myself (2021 Video)

Director

Wayne T. Carr

Video featuring Black actors performing iconic Shakespearean pieces. The director is Wayne T. Carr and the actors include: Kasey Inez Black (The Tempest / Twelfth Night), Feyintoluwa Ekisola (Henry VI part...

Shakespeare in Nigeria (2021 Video)

Series

All the World’s a Stage

Video of 5 Shakespearean monologues, each in a different Nigerian language (with English subtitles), featuring the JOS repertory company of Nigeria. These include: Macbeth in Pidgin English narrated by...

Obscenely and Courageously (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Play on Podcasts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Catherine Eaton

Part one of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted into modern English verse and directed by Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more...

Scottish Play in the Time of the Pandemic, The (2021 Video)

Recording of a panel discussion in front of a live audience featuring Will Brooks (Artistic Producer of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan space) with Peter Robinson, Gordon DesBrisay and Joanne Rochester from...

Performances of Condensation: Dickinson Appropriating Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Video recording of two brief lectures - the first by Regina Yoong (University of Malaya) and the second by David Reckford (University of North Carolina) - on the influence of Shakespeare on the American poet...

Outing the Past: Becoming Othello, A Black Girl’s Journey (2021 Video)

Paul Edmondson talks to Debra Ann Byrd, artistic director of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival, about her one-woman theatrical memoir, Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey.

"You Have Heard Much" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 172

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Carla Della Gatta (Florida State University) about the act of listening to a play.

Romeo & Juliet (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of a live webinar, the second in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Hanh Bui, Kathy Hsieh and Dr Varsha Panjwani discuss Romeo and Juliet from ab Asian cultural...

Shakespeare and Economics (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 59

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the depiction of money and finance in Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare’s Stratford (2021 Video)

Video. The actor Jennifer Rigby (aka Jen Stone) provides a tour of Stratford-upon-Avon as it relates to the life and work of William Shakespeare.

Dream (2021 Video)

Director

Robin McNicholas

Recording of a live / interactive virtual reality project from the RSC using motion capture in which audiences were able to join Puck in a journey through a forest setting inspired by Shakespeare’s A...

Patrick Harvey (2021 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with actor Patrick Harvey about his role as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hartford’s Playhouse on Park as part of the Connecticut Shakespeare Festival.

Creation of Shakespeare’s First Folio, The (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 27

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett looks at the publication of the First Folio and speaks to Professor Emma Rice, whose books include, Shakespeare’s First Folio.

Norse Origins of Hamlet, The (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 29

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett looks at the Danish sources used by Shakespeare for his play, Hamlet.

King Lear’s Need to Be Loved (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 28

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and Dr. Lisa Grogan look at the depiction of mental health in King Lear.

Analyzing of a Shrew (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 32

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and Dr. Lisa Grogan take a close look at the character of Katherine from The Taking of the Shrew.

Folklore Cymbeline (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 33

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at the oral storytelling tradition and how folk tales may have influenced Shakespeare when he wrote Cymbeline, especially Snow White.

Mischief in the Wood (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Play on Podcasts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Catherine Eaton

Second part of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted into modern English verse and directed by Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more...

Our Shakespeare Reading Club: Dickinson Reading Antony and Cleopatra and Othello (2021 Video)

Video recording of a live seminar held online over Zoom starting with a half hour presentation by Páraic Finnerty (University of Portsmouth) on American poet Emily Dickinson’s engagement with...

You See an Ass Head of Your Own? (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 3

Series

Play on Podcasts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Catherine Eaton

Third part of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted into modern English verse and directed by Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more...

Cheek by Jowl (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 4

Series

Play on Podcasts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Catherine Eaton

Fourth part of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted into modern English verse and directed by Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more...

Jeffrey Wilson (2021 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with author Jeffrey Wilson about his new new book on Shakespeare and Donald J Trump, with a special emphasis on the depiction of deformity and villainy in Richard III.

How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Recording of a live illustrated online lecture by Scott Newstok (Rhodes College) based on the 14 chapters of his book, How to Think Like Shakespeare, aimed primarily at American scholars. The presentation is...

"Lord, How we Lose Our Pains!" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 173

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Mona Awad about her new novel, All’s Well, which combines Shakespeare’s plays All’s Well That Ends Well and Macbeth (and maybe even The Tempest) with Alexander...

Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 5

Series

Play on Podcasts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Catherine Eaton

Fifth part of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted into modern English verse and directed by Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more...

Lovers to Bed (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 6

Series

Play on Podcasts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Catherine Eaton

Sixth and final part of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted into modern English verse and directed by Catherine Eaton. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create...

Tempest, The (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of a live webinar, the third in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Hanh Bui, Dr Scott Manning Stevens and Madeline Sayet discuss the colonial context and...

Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Recording of a live interactive event in which Lily Weitzman interviews filmmaker Andrew Giles Buckley about the making of his new documentary, Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck, which...

Interview with Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Edmonton (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Recording of a Zoom interview by Michael Van Osch (HarkJournal.com founder) with David Horak (Freewill Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton, Alberta). They discuss how the Freewill Festival moved to smaller...

"Plots Have I Laid, Inductions Dangerous" (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 174

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Mike Lew about his new play, Young Dick, a comedy that transposes Shakespeare’s Richard III to an American high school, its protagonist now a senior with cerebral palsy....

Flatwater Shakespeare’s ‘Unshaken’ (2021 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Summer Lukasiewicz, outgoing director of the Flatwater Shakespeare Company, about her company’s many projects including their ‘Unshaken Festival,' which is producing...

Shakespeare’s Most Famous Plays (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 61

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss what they think should be Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Their criteria was based on judging the works based on: Characters, Plot/story,...

City Comedies (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 34

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at The Merry Wives of Windsor as an example of the then popular city comedy genre.