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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. 1606 was a critical year for Shakespeare’s creative career. It was the year in which he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. It was also a time...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The majority of Shakespeare’s plays call for singing and while the lyrics to the songs appear to have always been a part of the text, the musical notes...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, What do we know about Shakespeare’s life? This episode considers not only that question, but two others: During the past four centuries, when and how did...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 28 in the series. The link between Shakespeare and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales stems from an anecdote found in a little-known manuscript which...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Henry Clay Folger became the world’s leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. Economist and author Andrea Mays talks with Neva Grant about Folger’s...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. From the duels in Romeo and Juliet to a brutal mob in Julius Caesar, street fighting transforms several of Shakespeare’s plays. How much, though, does it...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with theatre scholars and artists about how Romeo and Juliet has been cut and moulded to fit certain cultural expectations in different...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 17 in series. In 2014 an old book in a French library, acquired in the 1790s, was identified as an unknown copy of the 1623 First Folio of...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare is brought to life by the actors and actresses who speak his lines. Professor Stanley Wells considers the most outstanding Shakespeare performers,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare’s time, only men appeared on stage, with teenage boys playing the women’s parts. Today, women play women and sometimes menand vice-versa. In...
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