Stand Up for Bastards (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Director

Eric Ting

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Part two 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...

Richard II (2022 Video)

Director

Glenn Dobbs

Single camera recording in front of a live audience of an all-female and non-binary production of Shakespeare’s play, adapted and directed by Glenn Dobbs. The setting is a contemporary American prison...

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

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidy White discuss the ways in which this is proves to be an unusual fourth act compared with other Shakespeare plays and how it inverts expectation of Hotspur and Hal.

Just Nothing: How King Lear Means (2022 Video)

Recording of an online illustrated presentation by Bradd Shore (Emory University) in which he focuses on the language and linguistic techniques used by Shakespeare - such as metaphor and simile - in King...

"Influence is Thine" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 184

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Stephen Marche about his new book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything, which catalogues the myriad ways in which the playwright’s work influenced the world.

Shakespeare’s Violence (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 201

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 Jared Kirby and Seth Duerr about the history of staging and choreographing...

We Cannot Make a Scarecrow of the Law (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: Measure for Measure

Director

Jessie Austrian

Audio podcast. Second 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...

Measure for Measure (2022 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Henry Godinez about his new production of Shakespeare’s play for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, set in 1950s Cuba.

Shakespeare After Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Video recording of five brief lectures delivered ahead of Manhattan Arts Center’s opening night of Lauren Gunderson’s new play, The Book of Will, which dramatises Henry Condell and John Heminges’s...

William Shakespeare: To Cancel or Not to Cancel? Sheilah Winn Funding Cut. (2022 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Coverage of the decision by the New Zealand government to cut its support for the annual secondary school Shakespeare Festival amid claims that the playwright’s work promotes a ‘canon of...

Shakespeare and Love (2022 Video)

aka: Literary Café Presents: Shakespeare and Love

Series

Literary Café

Recording of a live online event. Marjan Kamali talks to Michael Blanding about his new book, North by Shakespeare, and explores some of the questions relating to the contested authorship of the plays and...

Shakespeare and God (2022 Audio)

Audio podcast in which host Mark Bauerlein is joined by Lee Oser joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature.

The Tempest - William Shakespeare (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 66

Series

Ear Read This

Podcast available in video and audio formats. Ash, the podcast host, talks to Paul Edmondson about the characters and themes of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Gregory Doran (2022 Audio)

aka: Series 3 Episode 11

Series

Speak the Speech

Audio podcast. Each episode takes a specific speech from a Shakespeare play and discusses it in depth with actors, directors and creatives. In this episode host James Evans interviews Gregory Doran about his...

Ben Crystal (2022 Audio)

aka: Series 3 Episode 8

Series

Speak the Speech

Audio podcast. Each episode takes a specific speech from a Shakespeare play and discusses it in depth with actors, directors and creatives. In this episode host James Evans interviews Ben Crystal, who...

Here He Stood in Darkness (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 3

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Director

Eric Ting

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Part three 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...

David McInnis (2022 Audio)

aka: Series 3 Episode 6

Series

Speak the Speech

Audio podcast. Each episode takes a specific speech from a Shakespeare play and discusses it in depth with actors, directors and creatives. In this episode host James Evans interviews David McInnis. He...

"Remember Me": Ghosts and the Afterlife in Hamlet and Rabbinic and Medieval Jewish Literature (2022 Audio)

Series

Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

Audio podcast. Series that explores themes in Shakespeare through the the Hebrew Bible. In this edition, Dr. Susan Weissman (Lander College for Women) explores concepts of death and the afterlife in the...

Rachael Maza (2022 Audio)

aka: Series 3 Episode 9

Series

Speak the Speech

Audio podcast. Each episode takes a specific speech from a Shakespeare play and discusses it in depth with actors, directors and creatives. In this episode host James Evans interviews award-wining actor,...

Legal 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 what the legal system was like in Shakespeare’s day...

Shameful Ransom, A (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: Measure for Measure

Director

Jessie Austrian

Audio podcast. Third 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...

Sources for Twelfth Night, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 41

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli examine Barnabe Rich’s Apollonius and Silla and how it acted as a source text for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Stephen Wittek: Conversion in Shakespeare and Shakespeare Vr (2022 Audio, Video)

Series

Speaking of Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition he talks to Stephen Wittek (Carnegie Mellon University) about conversion, religious and otherwise, in Shakespeare...

George Peele and Titus Andronicus (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 42

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli explore how much George Peele may have contributed to the composition of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.

Adrian Noble on How to Direct Shakespeare (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 196

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to director Adrian Noble about his new book, How to Direct Shakespeare.

Shakespeare Apocrypha, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 43

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli explore the way theatre works were written in Shakespeare’s time and how a variety of plays, whole or in part, have been attributed to him...

Shakespeare Full Circle (2022 Audio)

Weekly podcast series hosted by Qarie Marshall. Each 5-minute episodes looks at the etymological and historical origin of phrases either first found or popularised in Shakespeare’s works. Individual...

Shakespeare’s Great Fairies: Myth and Magnanimity in Midsummer and Antony and Cleopatra (2022 Video)

Recording of an audiovisual presentation by Julia Reinhard Lupton (UCI English) prepared for the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. It explores the Hellenic influences linking Shakespeare’s...

Hamlet: Wrap-Up (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 final...

Storm Still (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 4

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Director

Eric Ting

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Part four 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...

Cesarean Section Surgery in 16th Century England (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 238

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Mary Fissel looks at the history of the caesarean section (crucial to the plot of Macbeth).

Merchant of Venice, The: A Director’s View Inside the Production (2022 Video)

aka: Episode 48

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode looks at The Merchant of Venice from the historical context from which it emerged and how the new production of the play from the...

Measure for Measure (2022 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of an online webinar, the fifth in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on Measure for Measure, is hosted by Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and the participants are Professor...

Julius Caesar - Part 13 (2022 Film)

Series

Julius Caesar

Director

Peter Romano

Producer

Brynne McManimie

Production of Shakespeare’s play aimed at schools and set in a near-future New York. Released online in 18 parts. Part 13: Act 3 Scene 3 Cinna the Poet is murdered by Roman Citizens. Act 4 Scene 1...

"Woman’s Voice May Do Some Good, A" (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 185

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Molly Yarn talks to Barbara Bogaev about her new book - Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’ - on the stories of the over 70 women so far who have worked as editors on Shakespeare editions.

Julius Caesar - Part 14 (2022 Film)

Series

Julius Caesar

Director

Peter Romano

Producer

Brynne McManimie

Production of Shakespeare’s play aimed at schools and set in a near-future New York. Released online in 18 parts. Part 14: Act 4 Scene 2 Brutus and Cassius struggle under the weight of rebellion. Act 4...

Film Versions of "Hamlet" (2022 Video)

Series

Talking About Movies

Local access video discussion series hosted by Rick Winston and Bill Morancy. In this edition Rick explores his favourite film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with theatre director Joanne Greenberg....

Julius Caesar - Part 15 (2022 Film)

Series

Julius Caesar

Director

Peter Romano

Producer

Brynne McManimie

Production of Shakespeare’s play aimed at schools and set in a near-future New York. Released online in 18 parts. Part 15: Act 4 Scene 2 Brutus confronts the Ghost of Caesar. Act 4 Scene 1 Antony and...

Is Man No More Than This? (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 5

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Director

Eric Ting

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Part five 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...

Julius Caesar - Part 16 (2022 Film)

Series

Julius Caesar

Director

Peter Romano

Producer

Brynne McManimie

Production of Shakespeare’s play aimed at schools and set in a near-future New York. Released online in 18 parts. Part 16: Act 5 Scene 1 Antony and Octavius prepare for battle against Brutus and Cassius....

Merchant of Venice, The: The Jewish Question (2022 Video)

aka: Episode 49

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode explores the character of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and how the new production of the play from the Shakespeare Theatre...

Julius Caesar - Part 17 (2022 Film)

Series

Julius Caesar

Director

Peter Romano

Producer

Brynne McManimie

Production of Shakespeare’s play aimed at schools and set in a near-future New York. Released online in 18 parts. Part 17: Act 5 Scene 3 Failing on the battlefield, Cassius surrenders herself to death....

Romeo, Juliet and the Case of Friar Laurence (2022 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Uc Shakespeare Trial

Recording of a live virtual event in which Friar Laurence is put on trial for the murder of Romeo and Juliet. The proceedings are run by real legal professionals: Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law) appears...

Julius Caesar - Part 18 (2022 Film)

Series

Julius Caesar

Director

Peter Romano

Producer

Brynne McManimie

Production of Shakespeare’s play aimed at schools and set in a near-future New York. Released online in 18 parts. Part 18: Act 5 Scene 4 & 5 Brutus surrenders his life. Antony and Octavius eulogize...

Curses and Blessings in King Lear (2022 Video)

aka: "Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue": Shakespeare and Equity

Series

Shakespeare and Hebrew Wisdom Literature

Illustrated lecture by Julia Lupton on Shakespeare and Hebrew wisdom literature. She explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s King Lear parallels Jewish scripture.

Mike Lew (2022 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Mike Lew about his play Teenage Dick, which re-imagines Shakespeare’s Richard III as a student with cerebral palsy at an American high school. Lew says, ‘We set out to...

Angel on the Outward Side (2022 Audio)

Series

Play on Podcasts: Measure for Measure

Director

Jessie Austrian

Audio podcast. Fourth 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...

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

Series

Play’s the Thing, The

Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh, Heidy White and Brandon look at the last act of Shakespeare’s play and Falstaff’s role in it.

Not Too Tame Opening for Shakespeare North’s Midsummer (2022 Audio)

Series

British Theatre Guide Podcast

Podcast. David Chadderton speaks to Jimmy Fairhurst, who co-directed the new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Not Too Tame company. The production ran at the Shakespeare...

It Must Be the Stars (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 6

Series

Play on Podcasts: King Lear

Director

Eric Ting

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Part six 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...