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Jay Michaels talks to Rodney Hakim about supernatural themes in Shakespeare’s plays and how this reflected the attitudes and beliefs of the Elizabethan era.
Dr. Marion Smith, Brock University, explores the stylised love of the Elizabethan era. She draws extensive comparisons between the love story of Romeo and Juliet, and the ancient love myth, as seen in the...
Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition speculates on Shakespeare’s own sexuality and examines LGBTQ+...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition he talks to Lucy Munro (King’s College, London) abut her new book, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. If you were ill in Shakespeare’s time you might be told to drink liquid gold or syrup of violets. You might undergo a violent purgation to take the bad...
Video recording of a stage play, the first to be presented on the stage of the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. The players are from the Amherst College Drama Department under the direction of Curtis...
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
Kenneth Branagh’s production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost filmed as a classic 1930s’ musical.