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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...
Video. Recording of a conversation hosted by Professor Michael Dobson on non-professional drama groups with Pauline Scott of the Brownsea Island Open Air Theatre and Ian Wainwright of the Royal Shakespeare...
Recording of the inaugural lecture by Professor Tiffany Stern at the University of Birmingham on the mutual and complimentary relationship between plays and broadside ballads in Shakespeare’s theatre....
Jonathan Freedland and Professor Emma Smith discuss the closure of theatres in Shakespeare’s time during an outbreak of the plague in 1603.
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...
Video recording of Ann-Marie Macdonald’s comedic play performed by The Totally Portable Theatre. Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen’s University, goes on a subconscious...
Nicholas Hytner delivers the 2nd annual Stanley Wells Lecture. Hytner talks about the problems of staging and directing Shakespeare using examples from plays he has directed while Artistic Director of...
Podcast. Dee Ryan, adjunct professor at Northwestern University, compares the strengths, weaknesses and differing approaches of various stage productions - including recent productions in productions by the...
Can theatre production and literary education generate virtue and pave the way to true happiness? To celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare, Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton lectures on the capacity of...
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Professor Christopher Highley (Ohio State University) discusses why Shakespeare and...
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