Working with Shakespeare: Stage, Screen, Seminar Room ... (2020 Video)

Video recording of the lecture by Russell Jackson (Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham). He discusses his work on preparing Shakespeare text for various productions...

Generations (2020 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. A look behind the scenes at the Globe’s production of Macbeth (part of their Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank series), which has been...

"Give Me Some Ink and Paper" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 137

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Stuart Kells (author of Shakespeare’s Library) and Jason Scott-Warren (author of Shakespeare’s First Reader) to discuss how people read, acquired, and collected books in...

"The Strangest Tale That Ever I Heard" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 138

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. This edition focuses on Shakespeare and folktakles. Charlotte Artese, whose anthology ‘Shakespeare and the Folktale’ brings together some of the original tales that may...

"Welcome, My Tall Fellow" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 139

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. She interviews Professor Michael Anderegg about Abraham Lincoln’s passion for Shakespeare.

"O Nation Miserable" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 140

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. She talks to Professor James Shapiro about the current rifts in American society as explored in his new book, ‘Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us...

Americans React to Alastair Stewart’s Resignation over Shakespeare Quote (2020 Video)

This is a ‘reaction video’ by YouTube broadcasters ‘The Modern Family’ (UK-based American couple, Felipe and Lillian) to Talk Radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer talking about Alastair Stewart’s...

Introduction to King John (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Professor Emma Smith introduces King John, her favourite of Shakespeare’s history plays.

Introduction to Julius Caesar (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Associate Professor Andrea Walkden introduces the main themes and characters of Julius Caesar, including a discussion of how it can be seen as a...

Introduction to the Two Gentlemen of Verona (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Professor Thomas H. Luxon introduces the main themes and characters of the play, including the charges of misogyny made against it.

Introduction to Richard III (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Robin Hizme introduces the main themes and characters from this, her favourite among the history plays. She focuses on the depiction of the title...

Introduction to the Taming of the Shrew (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Robin Hizme introduces the main themes and characters from this early comedy. She discusses the induction scenes, the marriage and the play’s...

Introduction to Romeo and Juliet (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which actor and director Lenny Banovez introduces the main themes and characters and why this play has always been so popular with audiences.

Introduction to Titus Andronicus (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Ayanna Thompson (Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies) introduces the main themes and characters from a play that she...

Introduction to the Comedy of Errors (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Professor Thomas H. Luxon introduces the main themes and characters of the play, looks at the sources that Shakespeare drew on and the value of the...

Introduction to Twelfth Night (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Actor and director Murray Biggs discusses Shakespearean language, his use of twins as a plot device and the place of Twelfth Night among his comedies.

Tempest, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Self-Isolation Shakespeare

This is the first in a series of collaborative online readings of Shakespeare’s plays conducted using the Zoom video conferencing platform with the actors each appearing in a panel on screen, the number...

Romeo and Juliet (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Self-Isolation Shakespeare

This is the second in a series of collaborative online readings of Shakespeare’s plays conducted using the Zoom platform with the actors each appearing in a panel on screen. The number of actors on-screen...

Richard III (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Self-Isolation Shakespeare

This is the third in a series of collaborative online readings of Shakespeare’s plays conducted using the Zoom video conferencing platform with the actors each appearing in a panel on screen. The number of...

Introduction to Henry VI Part 1 (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. PhD candidate Hailey Bachrach discusses the order in which the Henry VI plays were written and the depiction of Joan of Ark.

Introduction to Henry VI Part 2 (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. PhD candidate Hailey Bachrach discusses the way this play subverts what one might expect from a traditional historical play, especially in its depiction...

Introduction to Henry VI Part 3 (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. PhD candidate Hailey Bachrach discusses the complexity of the characters and the fact that this may have been the play that established Shakespeare’s fame.

Henry V (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Director

Hal Chambers

Stage recording edited together from various performances from the original run. Created for online delivery in response to the theatre’s closure due to the Covid-19 crisis. A modern-dress production with...

Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2020 Video)

Audiovisual presentation by actor and educator Mark Cabus - made as preparation for a later class - in which he discusses the ways in which Hamlet is a play that can be seen as having special relevance in...

"That’s Not My Meaning" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 141

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. She talks to Dr Emma Smith about her new book, This is Shakespeare, and the multiple ways in which the playwright’s works can be interpreted. She focuses in particular on...

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

The first in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...

Taming of the Shrew, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

The second in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform,...

Henry VI Part I (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

The third in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...

Dave Hitz (2020 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

An interview with Dave Hitz about his ‘Play On!' project that translated all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. Started in 2015 by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the three-year project...

Henry VI Part II (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

The fourth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform,...

Henry VI Part III (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

The fifth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...

Titus Andronicus (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The sixth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...

Richard III (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The seventh in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform,...

Comedy of Errors, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The eighth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform,...

Unsex Me: Exploring Gendered Adaptation in Shakespeare (2020 Video)

Video essay by Audrey Loomis, a Senior from University of Texas at Austin, as part of her thesis on gendered Shakespeare adaptation. Along with several interviews with theatre artists, it also features...

Macbeth (2020 Video)

Series

Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank

Director

Cressida Brown

Live recording of a performance from Shakespeare’s Globe in London of Cressida Brown’s 90-minute production of the play prepared for secondary school children. Directed for the screen by Glenn Barton and...

Love’s Labour’s Lost (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The ninth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...

Introduction to Hamlet (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Ralph Alan Cohen (Gonder Professor of Shakespeare at Mary Baldwin University) discusses the four soliloquies from Hamlet and the way that they swing...

Introduction to Venus and Adonis (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa) discusses the work that made Shakespeare famous and, in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, its references to the plague.

Introduction to Lucrece (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Robin Hizme (Queens College, CUNY) discusses Shakespeare’s narrative poem, The Rape of Lucrece. Hizme explores the work in terms of volition, guilt and...

Introduction to Othello (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Murray Biggs, who discusses Othello in terms of race and racism and and the possible origins of the title character in the Moroccan ambassador to the court...

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Director

Robert Myles

Steve Purcell (University of Warwick) introduces a live staged performance of excerpts from Ian Doescher’s novel, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, the first in a series of comic pastiches told in...

"Return to the Verses" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 142

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. She talks to Dr. Jane Kingsley-Smith (Roehampton University) to the changing view of Shakespeare’s sonnets over the centuries. This edition is a follow up to episode 136,...

"One Thing to Rejoice and Solace in" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 143

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. In an episode created as a response to the Covid-19 lockdown, she speaks with the current Folger Shakespeare Library director, Michael Witmore, and his predecessor, Gail...

"Death is Certain" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 144

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev in which she interviews Dr. Kathryn Harkup, a chemist, author, and science communicator, about her new book: Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts.

Twelfth Night (2020 Multimedia)

Series

Drawing on Shakespeare

The first in a series of chats between actor Austin Tichenor (Reduced Shakespeare Company) and artist Gary Andrews. While they discuss Twelfth Night and their favourite screen adaptations of the play,...

La Tempesta - Shakespeare in Quarantena (2020 Video)

aka: The Tempest - Shakespeare in Quarantine

Director

Mark Di Giuseppe; Emanuela Ambrosino

Imaginative Italian adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which is turned into an allegory for the Covid-19 lockdown. It is performed by 22 street performers, mostly from Naples, in their own...

"If I Should Despair, I Should Grow Mad" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 145

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev in which she interviews Sandra Newman about her new novel, The Heavens, a time travel fantasy about Emilia Bassano, the woman some believe may have been the ‘Dark Lady’...

"An Ancient Tale New Told" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 146

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev in which she interviews Sir Jonathan Bate about his book, How the Classics Made Shakespeare, which looks at the original Greek and Roman sources that inspired Shakespeare’s...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2020 Multimedia)

Series

Drawing on Shakespeare

The second in a series of chats between actor Austin Tichenor (Reduced Shakespeare Company) and artist Gary Andrews. While they discuss the plot, themes and productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,...