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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...
Recording of a live online discussion on the importance and influence of Shakespeare’s work on the US President, Abraham Lincoln. James Shapiro’s books include ‘Shakespeare in a Divided America: What...
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,...
Podcast. What scant documentary evidence exists paints Shakespeare as a litigious and pecuniary figure, These issues, among others, have prompted readers of Shakespeare to doubt that the man from Stratford...
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...
Three-part documentary series. In the final episode James Shapiro analyses The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, plays which are often seen as swansongs. Professor Shapiro offers a different Shakespeare - a...
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