Shakespeare Republic: Katherina (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 5

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Katharina discovers the harsh realities of trying to be the master of her destiny in a man’s world.

Shakespeare Republic: Henry V (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 6

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

King Henry V grapples with two enemies: the fear of his men and the awesome might of his foes as Agincourt beckons.

Shakespeare Republic: Hamlet (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 7

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Hamlet contempates dust and mortality.

Shakespeare Republic: Jacques (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 8

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Jacques is mindful of the seven ages of man as he strives to complete his performance as The Life and Soul of the Party.

Shakespeare Republic: Cleopatra (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 9

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Cleopatra mourns the death of the man who can never be part of her future.

Shakespeare Republic: Helena (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 10

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Helena’s day of reckoning requires him to tell his boss that he loves her son

Shakespeare Republic: Sebastian (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 11

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Sebastian mourns the loss of his sister which has left him alone in the world.

Shakespeare Republic: Beatrice (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 12

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Beatrice is loud and larger than life on the outside but on the inside, she’s far more perceptive and astute than she appears.

Shakespeare Republic: Iago (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 13

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Powered by hate, Iago fashions his revenge to deliver fateful wounds and condemn his soul.

Ken Dodd: In His Own Words (2017 Television)

aka: Ken Dodd: My Life - In His Own Words

Director

Liam Carroll

Producer

Liam Carroll

Reflecting on his long and varied career in show business; British comedian, Ken Dodd, describes his forays into Shakespeare. Fellow actor and friends describe his talent for Shakespearean theatre focussing...

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2017 Audio)

Series

Approaching Shakespeare

The 2017 series of Shakespeare lectures concludes with an exploration of one of the Bard’s early comedies.

From Script to Stage to Script (2016 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Tiffany Stern. This lecture considers the relationship between ballads and Shakespeare’s plays...

Shakespeare’s Life Stories (2016 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Stephen Greenblatt. "In this harsh world draw thy breath in pain," the dying Hamlet tells...

Othello was My Grandfather: Shakespeare in the African Diaspora (2016 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Kim F. Hall. This lecture discusses Afrodiasporic appropriations of Othello.

"Why, Here’s a Girl!" (2016 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and Girlhood

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. How does Shakespeare portray girls and girlhood in his plays, and what do those portrayals tell us about life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England? Deanne Williams...

Shakespeare and Film Theory with Scott Hollifield (2016 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...

Shakespeare and Queer Theory (2016 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...

Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory with Christopher Marlow (2016 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...

Interview with Stephen Greenblatt (2016 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...

"Press Among the Popular Throngs" (2016 Audio)

aka: Pop Sonnets

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Erik Didriksen takes hit songs from artists such as Taylor Swift and Coldplay and rewrites them as Elizabethan-style sonnets. Tumblr, where Didriksen has posted...

Shakespeare and Trump with Jeffrey R. Wilson (2016 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...

"The Quick Fire of Youth" (2016 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and Ya Novels: Ryan North and Molly Booth

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. While print sales of adult fiction are down in the last decade, the juvenile market - which includes YA (Young Adults) - has gone up 40 percent. In this episode,...

Living Shakespeare (2016 Film, Video)

Producer

Jonathan Wells

Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...

"Now I Will Lead You to the House" (2016 Audio)

aka: Uncovering Shakespeare’s House: The Archaeological Dig at New Place

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 2002 the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has supported an archaeological dig on the former grounds of a house called "New Place." New Place was one of the...

Sam West (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Solos

Director

Dan Susman

Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Samuel West speaks Henry’s soliloquy "Upon the King" from...

David Threlfall (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Solos

Director

Dan Susman

Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s "Our revels now are ended"...

Camille O’Sullivan (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Solos

Director

Dan Susman

Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. David Threlfall speaks Constance’s "Tho Art Not Holy" speech...

Sacha Dhawan (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Solos

Director

Dan Susman

Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Daniel Mays speaks an edited version of Parolles "Are you...

How Not to Hate Shakespeare (2016 Video)

A TED talk given by Shakespearean actor and educator Rob Crisell on the importance of integrating acting into the teaching of Shakespeare.

Bre()ch Macbeth and the Language of Terror (2016 Audio)

Series

Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)

Podcast given at the Rose Theatre, Kingston by Simon Ryle. Introduced by Professor Richard Wilson. The third in the Shakespeare and the Uncanny series.

"Every Tongue Brings in a Several Tale" (2016 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and World Cinema

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Mark Thornton Burnett speaks on foreign-language film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. "To imitate Shakespeare or to use Shakespeare either on stage or in...

"Enter Prospero in His Magic Robes, And Ariel" (2016 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and Magic

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In The Tempest, the magician Prospero conjures up a storm, charms his daughter to sleep, and uses his power to control Ariel and other spirits. Is this magic...

Hunter Heartbeat Method, The (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare and the Brain

Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

Shakespeare’s Memory (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare and the Brain

Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

Shakespeare, Mind and World (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare and the Brain

Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

"To Repair Should Be Thy Chief Desire" (2016 Audio)

aka: Inside the Folger Conservation Lab

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Library holds the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, and the crown jewels of that collection are the 82 First Folios. To celebrate 400 years of...

Extracts from Shakespeare (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare and the Brain

Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

Repackaging Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2016 Video)

Series

Pbs Wisconsin University Place

Recording of a lecture by Joshua Calhoun, Professor in the Department of English at UW-Madison, where discusses how Shakespeare’s sonnets have been organised, printed and grouped over the centuries.

Tales of the Bodleian’s First Folio (2016 Video)

Series

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Video podcast. Pip Wilcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2016 DHOXSS on Shakespeare’s First Folio, held by the Bodleian.

Venus and Adonis (2016 Video)

Series

The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)

Video podcast. Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Venus and Adonis. In 1592-93, with London playhouses closed because of plague, Shakespeare wrote...

Everyday Death in Shakespeare’s England (2016 Video)

Series

The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)

Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...

Reduced Shakespeare Company (2016 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Discovered in a treasure-filled parking lot in Leicester, England, an ancient manuscript proves to be the long-lost first play by none other than the young...

Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and Other Elegies (2016 Video)

Series

The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)

Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still,...

Peter Brook: The Esoteric and Profane in Shakespeare (2016 Audio)

Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. A lecture by Peter Brook with questions from the audience.

Was Shakespeare English? (2016 Film)

Director

Alicia Maksimova

Documentary by Alicia Maksimova that explores the theory that Shakespeare was in fact the linguist John Florio, the son of Italian emigree Michelangelo Florio. She travels from Stratford-upon-Avon to...

Stars Down to Earth - Materializing Celebrity (2016 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture delivered by Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English and Director of Theater at Yale University. Literary celebrity expands beyond the literary canon,...

Merry Maids of Madness, The (2016 Film)

Director

Phillip Hughes

Producer

Kelly Stone; Jean Jacobson

After walking out of her wedding for a sandwich, Beatrice decides to take a rest at the Stratford Home for Rest and Rehabilitation. Beatrice soon realises that if she wants to get out, she’ll need a plan...

First Folio Road Trip (2016 Radio)

Series

Sunday Feature

Producer

Beaty Rubens

Radio broadcast. Professor Emma Smith travels across Britain and to France and follows the story of seven of the 750 original copies of the First Folio to learn how Shakespeare’s work was disseminated.

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016 Television)

Director

Bridget Caldwell; Gregory Doran

Producer

Catherine Sirk; John Wyver

David Tennant and Catherine Tate host a celebration of the life and legacy of Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death. Among those joining them on stage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre are Judi...

Science of Shakespeare, The (2016 Audio)

Series

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast

Podcast. To commemorate the 400th year of Shakespeare’s death Science Weekly has found scientists from around the UK and Ireland who can reveal the science of Shakespeare, coverimg everything from...