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Professor James Shapiro discusses his upbringing and his passion for Shakespeare.
American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Lawson interviews James Shapiro, whose book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010) looks at the various conspiracy theories surrounding the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. 1606 was a critical year for Shakespeare’s creative career. It was the year in which he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. It was also a time...
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Presenter Matthew Sweet talks to Shakespeare scholars James Shapiro and Stanley Wells, asking to what extent Shakespeare’s plays can be taken as autobiographical confession,...
Three-part documentary series. James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote at the beginning of James I’s reign, including King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens. There are scenes from...
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