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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare’s time, only men appeared on stage, with teenage boys playing the women’s parts. Today, women play women and sometimes menand vice-versa. In...
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...
Feature film. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...
Video recording of the Shakespeare GlobeTheatre’s modern-dress production of the play directed by Jack Shepherd.
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...
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...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with theatre scholars and artists about how Romeo and Juliet has been cut and moulded to fit certain cultural expectations in different...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Members of Taffety Punk, a Washington, DC, theatre company, bring Shakespeare into the 21st century. Rebecca Sheir talks with Taffety Punk founding member and...
Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...
A modern television version of Shakespeare’s play with contemporary dialogue. The comedy is transferred to the Dream Park holiday centre where Theo and Polly have come to celebrate their daughter’s...
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