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This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. In the 1590s, worried about future of his own...
Radio broadcast. Four-part series in which Huw Edwards discovers how some operatic masterpieces reflect the political and social circumstances of their age. In the final edition Edwards talks about Verdi’s...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to author Isabella Hammad and her new novel, Enter Ghost, which looks at the staging of Palestinian production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the West Bank.
American television series about the inner workings of the federal government starring Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet. In this episode President Bartlet issues an illegal order to assassinate a...
The West Indian historian C L R James talks about King Lear and why Shakespeare, ‘the most political writer that Britain has ever seen in regard to the creative arts’, was ‘no racist’. He quotes...
Podcast. Hosted by director Jake Murray, a founder member of the Elysium Theatre Company, this is the first in a series of podcasts made as part of a collaboration between Elysium and Durham University for...
Podcast. An interview with Mike Lew about his play Teenage Dick, which re-imagines Shakespeare’s Richard III as a student with cerebral palsy at an American high school. Lew says, ‘We set out to...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Sonia Massai (King’s College London) about her recent book, Shakespeare’s Accents, and looks at the impact of...
Short video series in which Shakespeare academics and students talk to camera about an aspect of Shakespeare’s work. The aim is to persuade foreign students to study Shakespeare in Britain. Sonia Massai,...
Podcast. An interview with author Jeffrey Wilson about his new new book on Shakespeare and Donald J Trump, with a special emphasis on the depiction of deformity and villainy in Richard III.
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