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Podcast hosted by Greg LaBlanc. When we read fiction, our brains are able to suspend our awareness of the fiction so we can fully immerse ourselves in the story we’re reading. When this happens, we are...
Tape-slide. Illustrates Shakespeare’s personal and political environments, how they may have influenced his work, and some of the major events during his years as an actor, poet, and playwright....
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...
A recording of Simon Callow’s one-man show about the life and work of Shakespeare.
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...
Images of manuscripts and printed documents from the 16th and early 17th centuries among which are books and plays used as background material by Shakespeare. Includes sources of Shakespeare’s plays,...
A personal view of the play presented by Sir Peter Parker. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
The first of two programmes in which two directors from both sides of the Atlantic (Adrian Noble and Peter Sellars) use workshops to explore their personal visions of Shakespeare’s plays. In part 1 Adrian...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare is brought to life by the actors and actresses who speak his lines. Professor Stanley Wells considers the most outstanding Shakespeare performers,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 20 in series. The podcast" examines some of the many ways including, but not limited to, performance that black Americans have encountered, responded...
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