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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Laura Wayth confesses that she’s never read any of Shakespeare’s plays but she has listened to the plays performed over and over, and it’s a keen ear that...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What exactly counts as a Shakespeare adaptation? And why bother in the first place? The podcast talks to three writers who have wrestled with these questions....
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, is the world’s only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf and hard of hearing students. For more than 150...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In the decades after Shakespeare’s death, his works fell out of favour. His renaissance is usually credited to actor-manager David Garrick, who staged a...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. If you were ill in Shakespeare’s time you might be told to drink liquid gold or syrup of violets. You might undergo a violent purgation to take the bad...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When the British came to colonise the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought Shakespeare with them. But after the British left power, it was...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 19 in series. The podcast revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare and his plays are woven deeply into the culture of the Caribbean, both white and black. Even after centuries of British colonial rule came to an end,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Why is it that Shakespeare thrives 400 years after his death in a way that none of his contemporaries can match? It’s not necessarily that Shakespeare was a...
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