Female Power in Shakespeare (2018 Video)

Video of a discussion between Dartmouth English professor Tom Luxon and Stratford dramaturg Keira Loughran. She discusses the role of Katherine in ‘Taming of the Shrew’; Volumnia in ‘Coriolanus’ and...

Seven Ages of Love (2018 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Producer

McLean Fiona

Under the theme of "The Seven Ages of Man"; actors Samuel West and Hattie Morahan perform the poetry of outstanding writers. The programme explores how love changes during the course of a human life. The...

Julia Coffey (2018 Audio)

aka: Richard II; Act 3, Scene 2

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Coffey describes how she has approached playing Richard II and discusses Act 2, Scene 2

Liz Wisan (2018 Audio)

aka: The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 2

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Wisan describes how she has approached playing Kate in Taming of the Shrew and discusses Act 5, Scene 2.

Jackson Dean (2018 Audio)

aka: Titus Andronicus Act 5, Scene 1

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Dean, this year’s winner of the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare competition, talks about playing villains and looks at Titus Andronicus Act 5, Scene 1.

Zuzanna Szadowski (2018 Audio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 2

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Szadowski discusses her playing of both Juliet and Yelena in the Bedlam production of ‘Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet’ by Kimberley Pau, a mashup of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Anton Chekhov’s...

Mark the Manner of His Teaching (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 109

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Julie Schumacher about her new campus novel, The Shakespeare Requirement, which examines the role of Shakespeare in the American academic curriculum.

Kat is a Lesbian (2018 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Lads

Irreverent audio podcast in which young hosts Kat and Jay discuss Shakespeare’s plays. In this edition they discuss ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ (1999), a movie adaptation of ‘Taming of the Shrew’...

Strong Passion is Impressed in Youth (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 110

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev talks to English teacher Stefanie Jochman about Shakespeare in popular culture and how she uses this to connect with students in the classroom.

21st-Century Storytelling: The High-Tech Design and Transfer of Coriolanus (2018 Video)

Video of a presentation by Technical Director Elissa Horscroft and Assistant Lighting Designer/ATD C.J. Astronomo on the multimedia challenges behind the Stratford Festival’s 2018 staging of the Robert...

Wealth and Power in Timon of Athens (2018 Audio)

Series

Much Ado About Shakespeare

This podcast is a collaboration between The Telegraph and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). In this edition, Ben Lawrence chairs a discussion with Simon Godwin and Dr Sarah Dustagheer about what Timon of...

Shakespeare’s ‘12th Night’ At the Coffee Creek (2018 Audio)

Series

Think out Loud

Radio documentary presented by Dave Miller looking at a production of Twelfth Night staged for one night only at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Wilsonville, Oregon....

What a Piece of Work (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 111

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev talks to Jonathan Croall about his new book, Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age, which examines 43 celebrated productions of Hamlet.

Julius Caesar Revealed (2018 Television)

Director

Alexander Leith; Russell England

Mary Beard questions Shakespeare’s depiction of the most famous Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar as she goes on a mission to discover who he really was and his lasting legacy.

Shakespeare, Sonnets and Heart (2018 Video)

Actor and teacher Ben Crystal discusses his passion for Shakespeare and its value in education at the PiXL English Conference at Central Hall Westminster, London, on National Poetry Day, 4 October 2018.

Julius Caesar Revealed (2018 Television)

Mary Beard questions Shakespeare’s depiction of the most famous Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar as she goes on a mission to discover who he really was and his lasting legacy.

Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains (2018 Film)

Director

Stephen Cookson

Producer

Stephen Cookson

Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains is an adaptation of Berkoff’s one-person play, ‘Shakespeare’s Villains’. Here, Berkoff interrogates and analyses the psyche of the Bard’s most memorable and...

Bizarre Interlude (2018 Audio)

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

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in detail at the second Act of Henry VI and if someone other than Shakespeare contributed to this part of the play.

Plucking Roses (2018 Audio)

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

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in detail at the second Act of Henry VI and how red and white roses became the symbols of the conflict.

Ill Met by Moonlight (2018 Television)

aka: Series 1: Episode 10

Series

Shakespeare and Hathaway - Private Investigators

Director

Piotr Szkopiak

Producer

Ella Kelly

When the disappearance of an expensive necklace coincides with the disappearance of an aristocrat’s errant daughter, Shakespeare and Hathaway are called upon to investigate.

When Shakespeare Travelled with Me (2018 Radio)

Series

Essay, The: New Generation Thinkers

Reflecting on his travels and encounters around the Arab world, ‘New Generation Thinker’ Islam Issa (Birmingham City University) discusses how canonical English writers (Shakespeare and Milton) creep...

Orson Welles and Shakespeare (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 89

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Esther French; Richard Paul

The author of "Orson Welles, Shakespeare and Popular Culture and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Dakota; Andrew Anderegg, discusses how Orson Welles pioneered innovations in the...

Michael Whitmore: The Wisdom of Will (2017 Audio, Television)

aka: Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture 2017: Michael Whitmore

Shakespeare Scholar and Director of the Folger Institute, Michael Whitmore marks the Bard’s birthday with an exploration of ten of many widsom’s that Shakespeare espoused on the subjects of people,...

"Something then in Rhyme" (2017 Audio)

aka: Q Brothers - Othello: The Remix

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ - the Q Brothers - have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of Shakespeare....

"The West Yet Glimmers with Some Streaks of Day" (2017 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare in California

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When we think of Shakespeare in the American West, Hollywood immediately comes to mind, but this podcast episode also takes us back to the California Gold Rush...

"Any Man That Can Write May Answer a Letter" (2017 Audio)

aka: Juliet’s Answer

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Starting in the 1930s, people began sending letters asking for advice on love and romance to Verona, Italy. The letters were all addressed to Juliet and for...

"As if a Man Were Author of Himself" (2017 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and Marlowe: Attributing ‘Henry VI’ Authorship

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2016 Oxford University Press caused some controversy deciding that, in the New Oxford Shakespeare, the plays Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 would no longer be...

"Play on" (2017 Audio)

aka: Something Rotten

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

P.R. Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2015, a new musical Something Rotten! opened on Broadway. The plot: Two brothers living in England in 1595 have had their playwriting careers upended by the...

Macbeth Full Play (2017 Video)

aka: Macbeth

Director

Christine Appleby

An open-air production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Following a prophecy that he will be King, the impatient and ambitious General Macbeth plots and murders to secure his destiny with disastrous...

Voice (2017 Audio)

A series of podcasts on vocal techniques and voice training practised at the National Theatre, London. The sessions are led by Jeanette Nelson, Head of Voice. Episodes 2 and 3 deal specificially with...

"World in Empire", The (2017 Audio)

aka: How King Lear Inspired ‘Empire’

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. How the Fox TV television series ‘Empire’ was influenced by King Lear in the story of an ageing ruler - in this case the head of a hip-hop music dynasty - who...

Shakespeare, Character and Morality with James a. Knapp (2017 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...

"You That Survive, And You That Sleep in Fame" (2017 Audio)

aka: Book of Will, The

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Why is it that Shakespeare thrives 400 years after his death in a way that none of his contemporaries can match? It’s not necessarily that Shakespeare was a...

Retelling Hamlet As an Opera (2017 Audio)

Series

Glyndebourne Podcast

Producer

Katherine Godfrey

Podcast. Composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn created an operatic retelling, which has its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast, they...

"In This City Will I Stay" (2017 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare 400 Chicago - Barbara Gaines

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, Chicago mobilised the city’s cultural and administrative resources in an unprecedented...

Hamlet (2017 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 Melvyn Bragg discusses Hamlet with Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter and Sonia...

"It is a Copy out of Mine" (2017 Audio)

aka: Adapting Shakespeare

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What exactly counts as a Shakespeare adaptation? And why bother in the first place? The podcast talks to three writers who have wrestled with these questions....

Shakespeare and Counterfactual Thinking with Amir Khan (2017 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Podcast series. What would Hamlet be like if we didn’t already know what was going to happen? What would the play look like if we only knew what Hamlet knew? Neema Parvini talks to Amir Khan (Missouri...

'So Many Journeys’ (2017 Audio)

aka: The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

In this podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Barbara Bogaev interviews the former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, Dominic Dromgoole, about the year he spent attempting...

Hamlet (2017 Audio)

Series

Big Finish Classics

Director

Scott Handcock

Producer

Scott Handcock

Upon the death of his father, the King of Denmark, Hamlet returns home to a surprise discovery. The late King’s brother, Claudius has married the Queen, Hamlet’s mother. When the ghost of the King...

Macbeth (2017 Film)

Director

Kit Monkham

Producer

Alan Latham; Tom Mattinson

One of King Duncan’s best generals, Macbeth is showered with honours at court having achieved a great victory. When some drifters prophesy that he will be King and encouraged by the ambitions of his wife,...

Beautiful Devils (2017 Television)

Director

James Marquand

Producer

Andrew Loveday; Michael Loveday; Terry Loveday; Craig Tuohy

In this modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello, Oz (Othello) is great friends with Ivan (Iago) and they are both music producers. When a lucrative recording contract prompts Oz to sever ties with...

King Lear (2017 Audio)

Director

Barnaby Edwards

Producer

David Richardson

In ancient Britain, the elderly King Lear plans for the future of his estate by putting his three daughters to the test. By indulging his vanity, the King delivers a terrible injustice that wrecks havoc on...

Mats Ek’s Juliet and Romeo (2017 Television)

Director

Thomas Grimm

A full-length, ballet based on Williams Shakespeare’s tragic romance, Romeo and Juliet. The Royal Swedish Ballet performs to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The musical adaptation is by Anders Högstedt.

Will (2017 Television)

Series

Will

Director

Shekhar Karpur

Producer

Craig Pearce

'Will’ is 10-part drama series about the lost years of the young William Shakespeare. From his arrival in London as an unknown, the series chronicles his rise to become the greatest dramatist in England...

Best Shakespeare Play with Austin Tichenor (2017 Audio)

Series

We Got This! With Mark and Hal

Podcast series in which Mark Gagliardi and Hal Lublin debate and settle an issue. In this edition, Mark and Hal talk with Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company to decide which is the best...

Shakespeare in Swahililand (2017 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

An acclaimed playwright, novelist, dissident and social activist; Ng g Wa Thiong’o is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He joins University of...

Barry Edelstein: Thinking Shakespeare (2017 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

A Shakespeare performance master class led by Barry Edelstein. The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director of The Old Globe in San Diego; Edelstein delivers a short version of a "Thinking Shakespeare Live!" - a...

Shakespeare Institute, The (2017 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

An interview with Michael Dobson, the director of the Shakespeare Institute.

Shakespeare and War (2017 Audio)

aka: To the Battle He Came

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Actor and US Army veteren, William Wolfert sheds examines the spoken words of soldiers in Shakespeare’s texts in order to shed light on how war affects men and women who serve. This exploration is the...