Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2022 Video)

Series

Bard Explored

Recording of a lecture by Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University) in which he explores Shakespeare’s popular comedy and present his theory - that Shakespeare, after several successes, decided to test himself...

Romeo and Juliet (2022 Video)

Series

Bard Explored

Recording of a lecture by Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University) in which he explores the context, ideas and inspiration behind Shakespeare’s popular tragic romance about young lovers.

Shakespeare and the King’s Men (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 36

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition, Lucy Munro (King’s College, London) discusses her recent book, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men.

Shakespeare Apocrypha (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 71

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. In this edition, husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the variety of works sometimes attributed to Shakespeare and a collaborator but which are not necessarily considered to be part of...

Shakespeare in the 18th Century (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 37

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition, Fiona Ritchie (McGill University) discusses her forthcoming book on 18th-century theatre, Shakespeare in the...

Shana’s "All’s Well" (2022 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Shana Cooper about her recent production of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, which ran at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in the Spring of 2022.

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (2022 Video)

Director

Elle While; Ian Russell

Stage recording of Elle While’s 2019 production of Shakespeare’s comedy starring Bryony Hannah as Mistress Ford and Pearce Quigley as Falstaff. The setting is a generic 1930s. Directed for the screen by...

"Your Way is Shorter" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 182

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks about the editing of Shakespeare’s plays when performed with Aili Huber, co-author with Dr. Toby Malone of Cutting Plays for Performance: A Practical and Accessible Guide.

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 102

Series

Telly Visions: The Podcast

Podcast hosted by Lacy Baugher Milas and Ani Bundel. In this edition they explore their reactions after viewing Joel Coens’ film, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021), focusing on its use of violence, the cutting...

Bottom’s Dream: Interpretation, Context and Directors of Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Recording of a lecture by director Kate Gaul at the Reginald Theatre at the Seymour Centre, Sydney on British and Australian productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starting with Peter...

Henry IV, Part I: Act II (2022 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidy White discuss the second act of the play and how Falstaff dominates it.

Authorship Question, The (2022 Video)

Series

Shelby Loves Shakespeare

Video in which Shelby Lewis discusses the Shakespeare authorship question with Dr David Montee. They focus in a light-hearted way on various books on the subject, including the following titles: The Truth...

Henry IV, Part I: Act III (2022 Audio)

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidy White discuss the insurrectionist theme of the play.

Hamlet: Succession and Geopolitics (2022 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Anyone?

Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...

King Lear Interview: Lue Douthit and Michael Goodfriend (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Audio podcast. Play On Shakespeare CEO and Creative Director Lue Douthit talks with Executive Producer Michael Goodfriend about their dedication to bringing Shakespeare to audio and their upcoming production...

Pumpkin History & The Great Pompion (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 236

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Professor Cindy Ott (University of Delaware) discusses the history of the pumpkin...

Or What You Will ... (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 77

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel explores the writing and first production of Twelfth Night in the context of the so-called Shakespeare Authorship Question.

Sound Effects on Stage (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 197

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 Chris Johnston and Alexander Sovronsky about the use of mood music and...

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Roman Catholic Play? (2022 Video)

Series

Reading the Past with Dr Kat

Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant explores some of the religious dimensions to Shakespeare’s play and whether it can be considered a crypto-catholic text.

Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (2022 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...

Henry V (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts

Director

Krista Williams

Omnibus edition of the 7-part audio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s Henry V (qv). Adapted by Catherine Eaton and rendered into modern English verse by Lloyd Suh. Part of the ‘Play On...

King Lear Interview: Marcus Gardley (Part 1) (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Audio podcast. Play On Shakespeare’s Executive Producer Michael Goodfriend talks to playwright Marcus Gardley about translating Shakespeare into modern English for their upcoming production of King Lear (qv).

Attack Vice in My Name (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: Measure for Measure

Director

Jessie Austrian

Audio podcast. First episode of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Adapted by Catherine Eaton and Nat Cassidy, rendered into modern English verse by Aditi Brennan Kapil. Part of...

Tempest, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 72

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. In this penultimate edition of the series, husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss Shakespeare’s The Tempest and how it explores colonialism, family dynamics, the passage of time and...

Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, And Gandalf (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 195

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

Podcast. Second part of an episode in which Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare. Here he discusses playing Macbeth opposite Dame Judi Dench in 1979 (qv) and his 1995 film version of...

Mere Bardolatry? (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: "Unfolding" The Real Shakespeare

Series

Virtue Podcast

Podcast promoting classical education available in video and audio formats hosted by Robert L. Jackson (Great Hearts Institute). This edition features an interview with Nick Hutchison of Shakespeare’s...

James Marsters Romeo and Juliet Lectures (2022 Video)

Series of videos in which American actor James Marsters - known inter alia for playing Spike on the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel - discusses Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Andronicus (2022 Video)

Director

Bill Walthall

Producer

Laura Comstock

Recording of a stage adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, written and directed by Bill Walthall, set in a dystopian future where a virus has wiped out half of the world’s population and most of...

Lena Cowen Orlin (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 28

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, USA) talks about her recent book, The Private Life of William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare at the Sharp End (2022 Video)

Recording of a lecture by Professor John Gardyne (Trinity College London) held in front of staff and students at the Istituto Copernico Pasolini in Verona, Italy. Delivered as part of an online sumposium on...

David Sterling Brown: Shakespeare, Race and Social Justice (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 27

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University) discusses recent initiatives exploring whiteness and modern racial...

Merchant of Venice, The (2022 Video)

Director

Roslyn Hicks

Recording of a live streamed production of Shakespeare’s dark comedy, presented in the medium of video conference theatre, starring Geoff Sirmai, Haki Pepo Olu Crisden, Jess Loudon and Jamie Collette.

Tragedy of Macbeth, The; Top 10 Shakespeare Adaptations (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 514

Series

Cinereelists Podcast

Movie podcast. In this edition Zach, James and Kyle discuss Joel Coen’s film of Shakespeare Macbeth in the first hour and and then for the second hour consider their favourite films adapted from the...

Laura Mandell: The New Variorum Shakespeare (2022 Audio, Video)

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition he talks to Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University) about the New Variorum Shakespeare, a project that is working to...

Heave My Heart into My Mouth (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Director

Eric Ting

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Part one of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s tragedy relocated to modern day San Francisco, adapted into modern English verse by Marcus Gardley and directed by Eric Ting. Part of the ‘Play...

Impersonation Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

Series

Bardcast, The: "It’s Shakespeare, You Dick!"

Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition looks at examples of characters who disguise themselves and / or...

Keith Hamilton Cobb (2022 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Keith Hamilton Cobb about his Untitled Othello Project, in which he and nine actors explore Shakespeare’s play as well as the way it has been produced in the past with a view to...

Pirates and Privateers (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 237

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week James Seth, author of Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages,...

"Between You and the Women the Play May Please" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 183

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Joyce Green MacDonald about four Black women who performed Shakespeare professionally between 1821 ands 1960 in the USA: The African Grove Theatre’s "Miss Welsh,"...

Hamlet’s Speech and Your Brain (2022 Audio)

Series

To Be or Not to Be: Lockdown Shakespeare

Audio podcast hosted by Andrew Smith. In this episode Professor Simon Palfrey (Oxford University) and Professor Philip Davis (Liverpool University) explore the meaning of the line uttered by Hamlet: "The...

Authorship Question, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 73

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. In this final edition of the series, husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the various theories about who actually wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare.

How Hamlet’s Speech Saved My Life (2022 Audio)

Series

To Be or Not to Be: Lockdown Shakespeare

Audio podcast hosted by Andrew Smith. In this episode Stephan Wolfert talks about DE-CRUIT, the organisation he runs that uses Shakespeare to help army and navy veterans cope with trauma. The episode also...

Not Another Shakespeare Podcast on Their Mission to Humanise Early Modern Drama (2022 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. The hosts of the Not Another Shakespeare Podcast, James and Nora, discuss their mission to demystify and humanise early...

Shakespeare Enthusiast’s Chaotic Review, A: She’s the Man (2022 Video)

Series

Lady McDuff

Kate McDuffie looks at SHE’S THE MAN (2006), a contemporary update of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - and doesn’t like what she finds. She focuses on deviations from the play, the removal of a Malvolio...

Lisa Wolpe on Shakespeare and Gender (2022 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. A conversation with actor and director Lisa Wolpe.

Midsummer Nights Dream, A (2022 Video)

Series

So You Haven’t Read

Animated educational short. A brief but fast-paced and witty guide to the plot and themes of Shakespeare’s comedy, aimed at younger learners.

Evie Gurney on Her Process and Costume Design (2022 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this edition she speaks to costume designer Evie Gurney about her work on the National Theatre’s Antony and Cleopatra...

Adrian Lester on His Shakesperian Roles (2022 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Paul Edmondson that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. A conversation with actor Adrian Lester about his Shakespearian roles - Rosalind, Henry V, Hamlet, and Othello - and...

Romeo and Juliet (2022 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 Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s treatment of what to Elizabethan...

Freddie Fox on Performing Hamlet (2022 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Alive

Podcast hosted by Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this edition she speaks to actor Freddie Fox about Playing Hamlet.