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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 Institute Library. While print sales of adult fiction are down in the last decade, the juvenile market - which includes YA (Young Adults) - has gone up 40 percent. In this episode,...
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. The period when Shakespeare was writing was one torn by disagreements over the proper method of observing Christianity in England. Protestantism was at war with...
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. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ - the Q Brothers - have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of Shakespeare....
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, printed in 1623, can sell for millions of dollars. But the First Folio wasn’t always valued so highly. In...
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...
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