Leontes’ Paranoia (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 35

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and Dr Lisa Grogan examine the character of Leontes from The Winter’s Tale.

Measure for Measure (2021 Film)

Director

Meadow Capon

An imaginative student production featuring gender-neutral casting in a ‘true crime’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, presented as a TV investigation into the crimes of Duke Vincentio, flashing back...

Lights, Camera, Action at the Globe (2021 Audio)

Series

Bard Times

Podcast. Royal Holloway alumnus Rebecca Hitchcox talks about her experiences working at The Globe Theatre.

Shakespeare’s Toilet Paper (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 178

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 Tiffany Stern to discuss what alternatives to paper were used as toilet...

Mary Bly on Lizzie & Dante and Romeo & Juliet (2021 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews Professor Mary Bly about her new novel, Lizzie & Dante, a reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespearean Support Group (2021 Radio)

Director

Francesca Hsieh

Audio drama by Kimi Handa Brown. This post-modern play imagines what happened next to assorted characters from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The...

Falstaff: Hero or Villain? (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 43

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode examines the character of Sir John Falstaff. Participants include: Edward Gero, Rosa Joshi and Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilson.

Shakespeare’s Last Act (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 44

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode, the last in the series, looks at Shakespeare’s late plays, the ones Coleridge dubbed ‘romances’ including Cymbeline, The...

Bard Explored with Emma Smith (2021 Video)

Series

Bard Explored

Recording of a discussion held via Zoom between Paul Budra and Professor Emma Smith on contemporary approaches to staging Shakespeare, including edits to the text and gender- and race-neutral casting and the...

Teaching Shakespeare (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 63

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss some of the obstacles to teaching Shakespeare in schools and some of the techniques in overcoming them, with contributions from the teachers Francis...

Henry IV, Part One (2021 Video)

Director

Tony Pisculli

Recording of a live outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s play presented by the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival.

Hamlet: Act I (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidi White devote multiple episodes to each Shakespeare play. In this episode they are joined by Andrew Kern (Circe Institute) to discuss the importance of Hamlet, its themes...

Hamlet: Act II (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidi White devote multiple episodes to each Shakespeare play. In this episode they are joined by Andrew Kern (Circe Institute) to discuss Hamlet’s second act, including the...

Hamlet: Act III (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidi White devote multiple episodes to each Shakespeare play. In this episode they are joined by Andrew Kern (Circe Institute) to discuss the third act of Hamlet, which...

Hamlet: Act IV (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidi White devote multiple episodes to each Shakespeare play. In this episode they are joined by Andrew Kern (Circe Institute) to discuss the fourth act of Hamlet, which...

Hamlet: Act V (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidi White devote multiple episodes to each Shakespeare play. In this episode they are joined by Andrew Kern (Circe Institute) to discuss the final act of Hamlet, which...

Taming of the Shrew, The: Act I (2021 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidi White devote multiple episodes to each Shakespeare play. In this episode Tim is joined by Matt Bianco (Circe Institute) and Nora Ankrom (West Virginia Shakespeare...

Shakespeare’s Novels: King Lear (2021 Audio)

Series

Ideas with Nahlah Ayed

Audio podcast. Nahlah Ayed talks to novelists Preti Taneja and Jane Smiley about the ways in which they have adapted Shakespeare’s Lear story. She also discusses the play with Stratford Festival artistic...

World Cinema and Shakespeare (2020 Audio)

Series

Bard Times

Podcast. Cassie Dickson speaks with the Shakespeare Society’s First Year Rep, Subhan Ahmed Haye, about Shakespeare and world cinema and how this can make the original plays more accessible to contemporary...

"I Am No Thing to Thank God on" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 156

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Charles LaPorte about his new book, The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century.

Fear, Conjuring and Catharsis in Macbeth (2020 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe. This edition covers the Globe’s upcoming Macbeth: A Conjuring, a semi-staged reading. Also includes an interview with Dr Will Tosh on the connections between the current...

Shakespeare and Politics (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 41

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay, following the results of the 2020 US Presidential election, discuss Shakespeare and politics both today and in Elizabethan England.

Plague on All Our Houses, A (2020 Radio)

Producer

Maggie Ayre

Radio Documentary. Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks at the impact that the plague had on the life and work of William Shakespeare, focusing in particular on how this may...

Sir Richard Eyre on His Career, Shakespeare, And "Trump: The Opera" (2020 Video)

Recorded zoom interview. The National Arts Club presents a conversation on Shakespeare between director Sir Richard Eyre and John Andrews, head of the Shakespeare Guild. Eyre discusses his love of...

Susan Heyward (2020 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with actress Susan Heyward, who discusses the Shakespearean roles she has played over the years and the issues of historical bias in the plays and gender-blind and race-blind casting in...

Introducing Shakespeare Alive (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan. Very broef introduction to a new series that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. Each week guests and listeners are invited to choose one...

Shakespeare and Race, With Farah Karim-Cooper (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. Each week guests and listeners are invited to choose one modern-day item that they think should be...

Illustrating Shakespeare, With Mya Gosling (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this episode, stick figure artist Mya Gosling discusses how she tries to make Shakespeare more...

Becoming Othello, With Debra Ann Byrd (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this episode, Debra Ann Byrd, artistic director of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival, discusses her...

Resurrecting Shakespeare, With Victoria Baumgartner (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this episode the guest is Victoria Baumgartner, the founder of theatre company Will & Co that...

Directing Shakespeare, With Gregory Doran (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this episode Gregory Doran, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, discusses his work...

Reviewing Shakespeare, With Nathan and Simon Dowling (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this episode the guests are Nathan and Simon Dowling, the hosts of the YouTube theatre review...

What Manner of Man was Shakespeare? (2020 Audio)

Series

What was Shakespeare Really Like

Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham) introduces the first of a series of four audio lectures from Professor Sir Stanley Wells, C.B.E., to mark his 90th birthday.

How Did Shakespeare Write a Play? (2020 Audio)

Series

What was Shakespeare Really Like

Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, introduces the second of a series of four audio lectures from Professor Sir Stanley Wells, C.B.E., to mark his 90th birthday.

What Do the Sonnets Tell Us About Shakespeare? (2020 Audio)

Series

What was Shakespeare Really Like

Professor Lena Orlin, Georgetown University, introduces the third of a series of four audio lectures from Professor Sir Stanley Wells, C.B.E., to mark his 90th birthday.

What Made Shakespeare Laugh? (2020 Audio)

Series

What was Shakespeare Really Like

Professor Michael Dobson, Director of The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, introduces the last of a series of four audio lectures from Professor Sir Stanley Wells, C.B.E., to mark his 90th...

Christmas Miracle?, A (2020 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe presented by Michelle Terry. In this Christmas edition, Dr Will Tosh debunks some of the myths surrounding the dismantling in December 1958 of the Globe Theatre in...

Vr Immersive Theater in the Under Presents: Tempest! (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Norman Chan reviews The Under Presents: Tempest, a 45-minute interactive theatre experience that pairs real actors with small groups of participants for a virtual reality re-imagining of Shakespeare’s The...

Comparing Twelfth Nights (2020 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Dee Ryan, adjunct professor at Northwestern University, compares the strengths, weaknesses and differing approaches of various stage productions - including recent productions in productions by the...

"O This Learning, What a Thing It is!" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 135

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Joseph Haughey, Northwest Missouri State University, discusses the role of Shakespeare in the evolution of the English curriculum in American schools with Barbara Bogaev.

"To Thee I Send This Written Embassage" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 136

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Jane Kingsley-Smith about her new book, The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

Shakespeare in Victorian Poetry and Painting: The Pre-Raphaelites (2020 Video)

Producer

William Fallows

Video recording of an undergraduate lecture by Professor John Holmes in the University of Birmingham’s Discovering Shakespeare module.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2020 Multimedia)

Text-based online revision guide hosted by Baani Gambhir which looks at the plot, major characters, themes in Shakespeare’s comedy. Aimed at British secondary school students.

Julia Lupton and Shakespeare’s Role at State Banquets (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 93

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 Julia Lupton, University of California, Irvine, about what William...

Helen Cooper and Chaucer’s Influence on Shakespeare (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 92

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 Dr. Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, on the influence of Geoffrey...

Sonnets, The (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 19

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the history of the Sonnet form and Shakespeare’s work within it.

Richard II (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 20

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss Richard II and whether he is a tragic figure or not and its depiction of sons and fathers.

Twelfth Night 301 (2020 Audio)

Series

Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show, The

Podcast. An irreverent podcast in which hosts Aubrey Whitlock and Jess Hamlet discuss the merits of the Shakespeare comedy today and why companies should consider staging it.

Julius Caesar 201 (2020 Audio)

Series

Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show, The

Podcast. An irreverent podcast in which hosts Aubrey Whitlock and Jess Hamlet discuss: how Brutus uses isocolon rhetorical devices and the Plutarch source text used by Shakespeare.

Richard II 201 (2020 Audio)

Series

Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show, The

Podcast. An irreverent podcast in which hosts Aubrey Whitlock and Jess Hamlet discuss: the use of metonymy; and the historical context of the Essex rebellion.