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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2015, a new musical Something Rotten! opened on Broadway. The plot: Two brothers living in England in 1595 have had their playwriting careers upended by the...
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...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, Chicago mobilised the city’s cultural and administrative resources in an unprecedented...
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...
Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. In this episode Stephen Greenblatt expands upon the talk he gave earlier in 2016 for the Folger Institute’s Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture Series, about how...
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...
In this podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Barbara Bogaev interviews the former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, Dominic Dromgoole, about the year he spent attempting...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The podcast deals with race, Othello, and how the Elizabethans portrayed blackness on stage. It also offers a new interpretation of Desdemona’s handkerchief...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. How the Fox TV television series ‘Empire’ was influenced by King Lear in the story of an ageing ruler - in this case the head of a hip-hop music dynasty - who...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2012, Andrew Dickson watched a Shakespeare play in London that set him off on a quest. When it ended, he had travelled to Poland, Germany, India, China and...