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"For Never was There a Story of More Woe": Romeo and Juliet Through the Ages (2014 Audio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet Through the Ages

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

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...

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"Speak the Speech I Pray You": Pronouncing English As Shakespeare Did (2014 Audio)

aka: Pronouncing English As Shakespeare Did

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks ‘original pronunciation’ (OP) with Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal and his father, linguist David Crystal, one of the world’s...

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"All Mirth and No Matter": Shakespeare Lol (2014 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare Lol

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Theatre artists and scholars, with narrator Rebecca Sheir, examine why things that were funny in Shakespeare’s time are not so much now — as well as...

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"Bless Thee! Thou Art Translated": Shakespeare in Translation (2014 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare in Translation

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What happens when Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages? Scholars and theatre artists, with Rebecca Sheir, look at what constitutes the...

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Let the Sounds of Music/Creep in Our Wars: Punk Rock Shakespeare (2014 Audio)

aka: Punk Rock Shakespeare

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Members of Taffety Punk, a Washington, DC, theatre company, bring Shakespeare into the 21st century. Rebecca Sheir talks with Taffety Punk founding member and...

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"Though This Be Madness, Yet There Be Method In’t": Shakespeare and Insane Asylums (2014 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and Insane Asylums

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Benjamin Reiss, a professor in the English department at Emory University and the author of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and...

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Shakespeare: Biography and Anti-Biography (2014 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...

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"That Old and Antique Song we Heard Last Night": Music in Shakespeare (2014 Audio)

aka: Music in Shakespeare

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Ross W. Duffin, professor at Case Western University. Duffin includes the songs performed within Shakespeare’s plays—but also those...

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What’s Past is Prologue: Artistic Directors Talk Shakespeare (2014 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. How do you stage Shakespeare’s plays for a modern American audience? The podcast looks at some of the approaches directors have taken as well as the thinking...

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Cinematic Translation of Shakespearean Tragedies, A (2008 Film)

Director

Liz Tabish

Experimental short. A series of six short films based on Shakespeare’s tragedies conceptualised by a variety of film genres: Othello (silent film), Romeo and Juliet (film noir), Hamlet (classic Hollywood...

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