Once and Future Queen, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Act V Scene 1, 2, 3

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in detail at the fifth Act of Henry VI, looking at the conclusion of Joan’s story arc and the introduction of a new major character, Margaret, who would continue in Parts 2 and 3 and then in...

Ash and Desire (2019 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Act V Scene 4, 5

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in detail at the fifth Act of Henry VI. France agrees to peace, and Henry chooses his Queen.

This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith - Live at Conway Hall (2019 Video)

Recording of a presentation by Professor Emma Smith to accompany the publication of her new book, This is Shakespeare. Smith discusses The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The...

Games and Shakespeare (2019 Video)

Lecture by Dr Stephen Curtis (Lancaster University), part of the Game Lab series, examining the ways in which the Bard and his works have been used as the inspiration or setting for games, both card/board...

Rain It Raineth Every Day, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 125

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Andrew McConnell Stott is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev to discuss his new book, What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee that Made Shakespeare, looking at David Garrick’s 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee in...

Introduction to the Shakespeare Authorship Mystery, An (2019 Audio)

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Introductory episode for a series in which Steven Sabel of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship and various guests examine the who was the author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. The prime...

Shakespeare Authorship Question 101, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel and Bryan Wildenthal, the Vice President of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, look at the basic questions around who wrote the Shakespeare plays and why such candidates as Marlowe,...

Shakespeare and the Law (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel and Bryan Wildenthal are joined by Tom Regnier and Mark Andre Alexander to discuss the many references to the law in Shakespeare’s plays.

Will of Shakspere, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 3

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel discusses Shakespeare’s last will and yestament with Bonner Miller Cutting and Professor Don Rubin.

It was All Greek to Me ... (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 4

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel discusses Shakespeare knowledge of Greek texts and myths with Earl Showerman, Theresa Lauricella, and Paul Bianchi, host of the podcast Mythunderstood.

"Truth" Of a Documentary Film, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 5

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel interviews Cheryl Eagan-Donovan about her new film, ‘Nothing Truer Than Truth,' a documentary on the life of Edward de Vere, and his visit to Italy in 1575.

Sacked by the S.A.Q. With Dragon Wagon Podcasters! (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 6

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel is joined by actor/filmmaker Jake Lloyd and writer/poet Alexandra Hoey from podcast, Dungeons and Dragon Wagon. They ask him lots of questions about the Shakespeare Authorship...

Compounded Historical Blunder, A (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 7

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel discusses the implications of the authorship of the Shakespeare plays being misattributed with Julie Sandys Bianchi, Robert Meyers, and Hank Whittemore.

Declaration of Reasonable Doubt (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 8

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel is joined by John Shahan of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition to discuss claims of obfuscation by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Sex and the Sonnets (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 9

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel is joined by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, Roger Stritmatter and Charles Boynton to discuss the references to sex in the sonnets and what they might tell us about their author.

Bard and the Cards, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 10

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel discusses references to Tarot and playing cards in Shakespeare’s works with Julie Sandys Bianchi and her son, host of the Mythunderstood podcast, Paul Bianchi.

Pain to Pen the Book, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 11

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel interviews Dr. Roger Stritmatter about his new book, ‘The Poems of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ... and the Shakespeare Question Volume I: He that Takes the Pain to Pen the...

Politicising Shakespeare (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This edition looks at Poland’s continuing fascination with Shakespeare and especially the work of Stanis aw Wyspia ski, who was fascinated by...

Mirrors and Windows (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This edition looks at disability and performance. Contributors include Nadia Albina, Jessi Parrott and Dougie Walker.

Taming of the Shrew, The: A History (2019 Audio)

Series

Podcast Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Samuel Yeo, a graduate in Theatre Studies and English Literature from the Australian National University, Canberra. It explores the history of The Taming of the Shrew, from folk tales to...

Shakespeare and Blackface (2019 Video)

Video recording of the the keynote address by Professor Ayanna Thompson on Shakespeare and the American minstrel tradition and productions in which actors wear dark make-up to play Othello to explore bacl...

"What Imitation You Can Borrow" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 126

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews novelist Ian Doescher about his ‘pop Shakespeare’ series, books that refashion popular film stories, such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series as well as the comedy...

Deaon Griffin-Pressley (2019 Audio)

aka: Twelfth Night; Act 4, Scene 3 Sebastian

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

An interview with young African American actor Deaon Griffin-Pressley about his love of Shakespeare.

Are we Too Reverent with William Shakespeare? (2019 Audio)

Series

The Guardian Book Podcast

Professor Emma Smith talks to Claire Armitstead about her new book about Shakespeare’s plays, This Is Shakespeare.

Twelfth Night (2019 Video)

Director

Emma Rice; Ian Russell

Filming of Emma Rice’s 2017 production of the play for The Globe. Set in 1979 with a strong emphasis on music and comedy, it also features additional text and lyrics by Carl Grose. Directed for the screen...

Radical Optimism (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. Globe associate director Sean Holmes discusses what ‘radical optimism’ means in his new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream - is just...

Shakespeare’s Language (2019 Audio)

Series

New Thinking

Producer

Luke Mulhall

Audio podcast from BBC Arts and Ideas. John Gallagher, from the University of Leeds, talks to Professor Alison Findlay and Professor Jonathan Culpeper, both from Lancaster University, about the Encyclopedia...

Shakespeare in Love (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 127

Series

Pop Culturally Deprived

Audio podcast. Mandi Kaye and Matthew Vode discuss movies and his dislike of British cinema in general and then look at whether a screening of Shakespeare in Love broke that pattern. (Spoiler: it didn’t.)

Edinburgh 2019: Shakespeare for Breakfast and Paines Plough’s Roundabout (2019 Audio)

Series

British Theatre Guide Podcast

Podcast. The director Damian Sandys talks about how Shakespeare for Breakfast, which offers a modernised version of a Shakespeare play with coffee and buns, has been a perennial at the Edinburgh Festival...

The King’s Lynn Shakespeare Festival 2019: Ages of Man (2019 Video)

Recording of a lecture / performance by actor Andrew Jarvis, the organiser of the King’s Lynn festival, with musical accompaniment from the Easy Anglian Renaissance Consort. It begins with the ‘All the...

Kenneth Branagh on His Acting Career and Playing Shakespeare in ‘All is True’ [Extended Interview] (2019 Video)

Ethan Alter interviews Sir Kenneth Branagh about his film about the life of Shakespeare, All is True. He also discusses the authorship debate and on the continuing relevance of Shakespeare’s plays,...

Dark Side of the Dream (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. In the context of the Globe’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this edition looks at the darkness in Shakespeare’s comedies...

Shakespeare in the Arab World (2019 Video)

Lecture delivered by Khalid Amine at the University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities that examines the radical shift in performing Shakespeare in Arab countries since the 1960s. Includes a...

Love’s Labour’s Lit (2019 Audio, Video)

Series

Point of Learning

Podcast available in audio and video versions. Peter Horn looks at the production of Love’s Labour’s Lost performed as part of the outdoor ‘Shakespeare in Delaware Park’ festival held in Buffalo, New...

Shakespeare Rocks Tonight (2019 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Lou Cardozo discusses his new album, By Me and Shakespeare, which is made up of songs using words from the sonnets and plays.

"Come, Sing" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 127

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev and Colleen Fay discuss the history of operas based on Shakespeare.

"Tell the Tale Anew" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 128

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews the director Iqbal Khan. They discuss his career, depictions of race in Shakespeare and contradictions found in the plays.

"We Shall Jointly Labor" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 129

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Cambridge University’s Jason Scott-Warren and Dr. Claire M. L. Bourne, from Penn State University, to discuss their discovery that the annotations in the copy of Shakespeare’s...

Ambition Follows (2019 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 2 - Act I Scene 1

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in detail at the the opening Act and Scene of Henry VI part 2. Suffolk returns with England’s new queen.

"We Being Strangers Here" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 130

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Elisabeth Kinsley about her new book, Here in this Island We Arrived: Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York, that examines the impact of Shakespeare on three specific...

"The Porpoise How He Bounced and Tumbled" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 131

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Mark Haddon about his novel The Porpoise, which reinterprets Shakespeare’s Pericles. Haddon discusses what drew him to the play, including the fact that he felt less intimidated...

Paul Cantor on the "Shakespeare Authorship Question" (2019 Multimedia)

Series

Conversations with Bill Kristol

A discussion presented in two parts hosted by Bill Kristol with University of Virginia literature professor Paul Cantor. In the first, Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? (from 00:00 to 45:00), Cantor debunks...

Lifting Shakespeare off the Page (2019 Video)

Series

Vermont Humanities Council 1st Wednesday

interactive workshop run by Peter Gould who runs a camp where students are invited to come and study Shakespeare. He had a speech impediment as a child and the camp came from his own process of overcoming...

Othello - A Complete Analysis (2019 Multimedia)

Series

Shakespeare’s Works Explained

Video essay by David Ramenah featuring illustrations by Karlo Lottersberger, serving as a beginner’s introduction to Othello, looking at its plot, characters and major themes. Aimed at schools.

Tragedy of Hamlet, The - A Complete Analysis (2019 Multimedia)

Series

Shakespeare’s Works Explained

Video essay by David Ramenah featuring illustrations by Karlo Lottersberger, serving as a beginner’s introduction to Hamlet, looking at its plot, characters and major themes. Aimed at schools.

Masala Shakespeare - The Bard’s Continuing Relevance (2019 Video)

Jonathan Gil Harris (Professor of English at Ashoka University) discusses his book ‘Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian’ - on adaptations of Shakespeare in Indian cinema - with critic...

"She Can Spin for Her Living" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 132

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Clare McManus (Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton) about women who did appear on stage in Europe in Shakespeare’s time....

"Let’s Have a Dance" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 133

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews director Kenny Leon about his contemporary all-black production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ starring Danielle Brooks. First performed at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in...

"My Age is As a Lusty Winter" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 134

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

The renowned director Peter Brook, now 94, is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.

Civic Shakespeare (2019 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture at Boston College by Professor Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. He discusses the role of the Library, the use of digital...