Put out (2023 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: Othello

Director

Victor Malana Maog

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Audio podcast. Seventh and final episode of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Episode scripts were adapted and produced by Catherine Eaton and rendered into modern English verse by Mfoniso...

Dialogue 3 - Future Intersections of the Archives and the Stage, Part 1 (2023 Video)

Series

Imagining Shakespeare in 2050: Performance and Archives

The second session from the Imagining Shakespeare in 2050: Performance and Archives conference. Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare Library) moderates the coversation between the panellists Greg Doran (Royal...

Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 220

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

Podcast. Sir Patrick Stewart joins Barbara Bogaev to talk about how Shakespeare has shaped his life and his new memoir, Making It So.

Dialogue 4 - Future Intersections of the Archives and the Stage, Part 2 (2023 Video)

Series

Imagining Shakespeare in 2050: Performance and Archives

The second session from the Imagining Shakespeare in 2050: Performance and Archives conference. Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) moderates the conversation between the panellists Michelle M. Dowd...

Shakespeare and the Bloomsbury Group (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 221

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber about her new book, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, which explores how modernist writers of London’s Bloomsbury Group made Shakespeare their own.

Sara Topham (2023 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Sara Topham in which she discusses how important playing the female lead in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet played a crucial role in her life and career.

Michael Rosen Shares His Poem for Shakespeare Week 2023 (2023 Video)

Michael Rosen reads a poem inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which he has written for Shakespeare Week 2023 (20 to 26 March).

Ushering in the Metaverse (2023 Video)

Recording of a live lecture by James Turnbull, Producer - Digital Development at the Royal Shakespeare Company, on new ways of engaging and immersing audiences in live performances when individuals aren’t...

Bongs, Parental Shaming and Respecting the Work of the Bard (2023 Video)

aka: Episode 31

Series

Cayacast

Podcast, This edition features an interview with members of the Cape Town theatre troupe, Baked Shakespeare. In their productions they invite the audience to select two of the actors to continue performing...

Shakespeare’s Rival (2023 Radio)

Series

Sunday Feature

Producer

Leonie Thomas

Radio broadcast. Professor Nandini Das explores how the life and works of Robert Greene can offer us new insight into what English theatre might have been, beyond the shadow of Shakespeare. Controbutors...

Francis Bacon’s Notebook the Promus - The Source for Hundreds of Paralells with His Shakespeare Works (2023 Video)

aka: Bacon’s Promus - His Private Notebook

Video essay by A. Phoenix, an independent scholar researching the areas of Francis Bacon, the Shakespeare Authorship Question and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood. It explores the links between...

How was the First Folio Physically Made? (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 287

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week looks at how the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays was actually manufactured in 1623...

Winter’s Tale, A: Act II (2023 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim is joined by his friend Emily Maeda to discuss the second act of A Winter’s Tale.

Winter’s Tale, A: Act III (2023 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim is joined by his friend Emily Maeda to discuss the third act of A Winter’s Tale.

Winter’s Tale, A: Act IV (2023 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim is joined by his friend Emily Maeda to discuss the fourth act of A Winter’s Tale and the importance of flowers to the author’s philosophy.

Writing Letters in Renaissance England Using Special Tricks and Antiquated Tools (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 248

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Professor Alan Stewart (Columbia University) discusses the art and techniques of...

Twelfth Night Celebrations Every January Including Music and Misrule (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 246

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Rachel Aanstad discusses the rituals of Twelfth Night in Elizabethan times and dicusses...

Shakespeare As Inspiration (2023 Radio)

Series

Free Thinking

Producer

Ruth Watts

Matthew Sweet is joined live by Professor Preti Taneja, author of a novel We That Are Young, which sets the King Lear in Delhi; Dr Iain Smith, who studies films from around the world; and by Andrew Dickson,...

Ian Gould (2023 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Ian Gould in which he discusses playing Bottom as "smartly stupid" in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come (2023 Audio)

Series

Sonnetcast - William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

Podcast hosted by Sebastian Michael. Each edition looks at a particular sonnet, which is first recited then analysed. This episode look at the last of the so-called Procreation Sonnets in which Shakespeare...

Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (2023 Audio)

Series

Sonnetcast - William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

Podcast hosted by Sebastian Michael. Each edition looks at a particular sonnet, which is first recited then analysed. This episode look at one of the most famous of all the sonnets.

Sonnet 20: A Woman’s Face, With Nature’s Own Hand Painted (2023 Audio)

Series

Sonnetcast - William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

Podcast hosted by Sebastian Michael. Each edition looks at a particular sonnet, which is first recited then analysed. This episode look at the sonnet though to possibly reveal the identity of the youth to...

Lady Macbeth (2023 Radio)

Series

Free Thinking

Producer

Ruth Watts

Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...

Lear (2023 Video)

Director

Isaac Chong

Single camera recording of this pared down student production featuring a largely bare stage and a cast of seven actors.

Teenaged Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

Series

Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition talks at teenagers who love Shakespeare and even younger autistic children for whom Shakespeare has become a...

Women in Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Video recording. Online panel from the Streamed Shakespeare company moderated by its founder, Holly Champion. Members of the panel include Charlotte Wiltshire (technical director), Shelley Casey (Artistic...

Thinking Shakespeare Live (2022 Audio)

Series

Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition looks at how the Bard is quoted in every day life and on special occasions and features the US Air Force Band...

Shakespeare After an Apocalypse (2022 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh talks with Josiah Martens about the new HBO series Station Eleven (qv), about an acting troupe that performs Shakespeare plays in a post-apocalyptic America, and Emily St. John...

Faith and Wonder (2022 Audio)

Series

Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition looks at how the Bard informs religious practices and ceremonies and also looks at A Winter’s Tale.

Medlars (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 215

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 food historian Neil Buttery about the references to the Medlar plant in some...

Troilus and Cressida (2022 Radio)

aka: The Complete Troilus and Cressida

Series

Pendant Shakespeare, The Aka the Wild Bill Variety Show

Director

James Rossi; Joel Rowan

Audio staging of Shakespeare’s play given a science fiction setting. Omnibus edition of the production first broadcast in eight episodes between 13 November 2019 and 12 August 2020.

Taming of the Shrew 201 (2022 Audio)

Series

Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show, The

An irreverent audio podcast hosted by Aubrey Whitlock and Jess Hamlet. In this edition they discuss ‘romance’ and what it means in Shakespeare’s controversial comedy, The Taming of the Shrew.

As You Like It 301 (2022 Audio)

Series

Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show, The

An irreverent audio podcast hosted by Aubrey Whitlock and Jess Hamlet. In this edition they discuss Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the notes on it in the New Oxford edition and why there was no Quarto of...

Gu Shakespeare Society - Romeo & Juliet (2022 Video)

Student video about the University’s a production of Romeo and Juliet by the Glasgow University Shakespeare Society, which was performed on 28 and 29 March 2022.

Plague o’ Both Your Houses, A (2022 Video)

aka: Shakespeare in the Park: A Plague o’ Both Your Houses!

Director

Angela Newell

A brief play by Angela Newell that brings together various extracts from Shakespeare’s plays that deal with medicine and health issues. These include King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. CAST:...

Roméo et Juliette (2022 Video)

Recording of a live streamed presentation of Berlioz’s 1839 Roméo et Juliette, a ‘symphonie dramatique’ presenting the story in seven parts. Performed at the Washington National Cathedral with dance...

Screwball Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Director

Brian Lohmann

Recording of a live streamed performance by the Impro Theatre, a comedy troupe that improvises as they go. This performance meshes together classic Hollywood screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s with the...

Othello (R&D April 2022) (2022 Video)

Director

Sinéad Rushe

Producer

Trish Wadley

A short film of research and development on Shakespeare’s Othello in which Iago is played by three actors to turn the role into a ‘shape-shifting organism’ that infects the title character.

Fishy, Fishy (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: The Winter’s Tale

Director

Tracy Young

Audio podcast. First episode of an eight-part radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Adapted by Catherine Eaton, directed and rendered into modern English verse by Tracy Young. Part of...

Shakespeare’s Psalms: Hearing the Holiness of the Heart’s Affections (2022 Video)

Recording of an online lecture by Paul Edmondson (Shakespeare Birthday Trust), introduced by Sean Keilen. Edmondson discusses moments in Shakespeare’s work that can be read as being like holy scripture....

I’Ll Spay ‘Em All (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: The Winter’s Tale

Director

Tracy Young

Audio podcast. Second episode of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Adapted by Catherine Eaton, directed and rendered into modern English verse by Tracy Young. Part of the ‘Play...

To Make Oppression Bitter: Shakespeare Scholars on the Frontline in Ukraine (2022 Audio)

Series

To Be or Not to Be: Lockdown Shakespeare

Audio podcast hosted by Andrew Smith. In this special edition, scholars from the Ukraine Shakespeare Centre talk about Shakespeare and his work and what it means to them during the Russian invasion.

Alex Ryrie: The English Reformation and Shakespeare (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 33

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Alec Ryrie (Durham University) discusses English drama from the 16th and 17th century and the impact of the...

Edward Wilson-Lee: Shakespeare, Books, Water, Africa, And the New World (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 31

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge) discusses his research into Shakespeare in East Africa.

How Tolkien Rings the Changes on Shakespeare and Wagner (2022 Video)

Series

Crisis of Beauty, The: Plato, Shakespeare, And Tolkien

Video lecture by David O’Connor (University of Notre Dame) that explores some of the literary influences on JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. He focuses on the inspiration he drew from...

Hip Hop Vs. Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Series

Sotheby’s Talks

Recording of a debate on cultural expression between author Howard Jacobson and spoken word performer George the Poet, moderated by Shahidha Bari (University of the Arts, London). They explore how relevant...

'Plays Inside out’: Theatre, Marketing and Ballads (2022 Video)

Recording of the inaugural lecture by Professor Tiffany Stern at the University of Birmingham on the mutual and complimentary relationship between plays and broadside ballads in Shakespeare’s theatre....

Speak the Speech, I Pray You: On Shakespeare’s Language (2022 Video)

Brief video lecture by Robin Williams in which she explores the flexible metric structure on which the playwright layers plot, emotion, imagery, poetry, and rhetoric.

If It Were Done (2022 Film)

Director

Will Poole

Producer

Carey Thring

A short film with a contemporary setting based on scenes 1 and 7 from Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The meeting with the three wishes takes place in a garage while the scene in which the Macbeth’s plan...

Stephen Greenblatt: Shakespeare, The Bible, And Lucretius (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 34

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) discusses his research on Shakespeare, the Bible, and Lucretius.