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A ten-part podcast series, presented by Jennifer Reid, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, exploring some of the most frequently asked questions about Shakespeare’s life. This episode look at three...
Recording of a conversation between the novelists Nicole Galland and Maggie O’Farrell about the latter’s Hamnet, a fictional look at William Shakespeare’s family and the life and death of his son, Hamnet.
An interview with author Dennis Abrams, who discusses his new YA novel, I Was Cleopatra, a fictional look at the life of actor John Rice, who played many of Shakespeare’s important female roles, including...
A collection of films made by the University of Warwick in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust about the life and times of William Shakespeare. In this film Paul Edmondson, Director of Learning...
The most personal document relating to the life of William Shakespeare that remains is his last will and testament. Researcher Bonner Miller Cutting looked at some 3,000 wills from Shakespeare’s day, and...
Podcast. Leonard Barkan (Princeton University) talks to Barbara Bogaev about his new book, Reading Shakespeare Reading Me, a personal look at how ten of Shakespeare’s plays connect with his own life and...
Audio podcast. Peter Graystone tries to answer the question, ‘What could Shakespeare’s plays and poems teach me about the Christian faith and the God who loves me?' He focuses on The Winter’s Tale and...
What did everyday life look like for women throughout Tudor society? A new social history, The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton, introduces us not only to the restrictions, but also to some of...
Video recording of Vern Thiessen’s play directed by Miles Potter. The author imagines Anne Hathaway just having returned home from her husband’s funeral. She is haunted by a remark that Shakespeare’s...
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