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In a wide-ranging interview, the distinguished author,Margaret Atwood expands on Shakespeare’s influence on her writing and the presence of the Bard in contemporary media platforms. Topics include...
Recording of a lecture by Dr. Elliot Engel that looks at how plays were staged in Elizabethan times and what audience expectations might have been.
Recording of an audio visual presentation by American linguist Dr Richard Lederer on Shakespeare’s contributions to the English language.
In this video, four actors from the Shakespeare Project of Chicago ‘spin the wheel’ and get assigned a sonnet to perform, with only a minute to prepare, After there is a discussion of the actors’...
Video lecture by Peter Garino (Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Project of Chicago) including film clips from various adaptations of the play featuring Christopher Plummer, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth...
The second session from the Imagining Shakespeare in 2050: Performance and Archives conference. Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) moderates the conversation between the panellists Michelle M. Dowd...
Three-part radio documentary series, narrated by Sam Waterston, made to mark the 75th anniversary, in 2007, of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The series explores the influence of Shakespeare on American...
The Hogarth Shakespeare series is a project that invites the world’s leading writers to adapt one of Shakespeare’s plays into a novel. The author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring", Tracy Chevalier uses a...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When we think of Shakespeare in the American West, Hollywood immediately comes to mind, but this podcast episode also takes us back to the California Gold Rush...
Barbara Bogaev interviews director Kenny Leon about his contemporary all-black production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ starring Danielle Brooks. First performed at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in...
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