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Andrew McConnell Stott is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev to discuss his new book, What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee that Made Shakespeare, looking at David Garrick’s 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee in...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When the British came to colonise the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought Shakespeare with them. But after the British left power, it was...
Barbara Bogaev interviews Stuart Kells (author of Shakespeare’s Library) and Jason Scott-Warren (author of Shakespeare’s First Reader) to discuss how people read, acquired, and collected books in...
In the second of two interviews about his career and Shakespeare, Sir Derek Jacobi talks about the highs and lows from collaborating with Kenneth Branagh and performing alongside Laurence Olivier to being...
Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson talks to Barbara Bogaev about the life and career of actress Asta Nielsen and her 1921 film version of Hamlet (qv), which depicted the title character as a princess.
Barbara Bogaev interviews Mark Haddon about his novel The Porpoise, which reinterprets Shakespeare’s Pericles. Haddon discusses what drew him to the play, including the fact that he felt less intimidated...
Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. She talks to Professor James Shapiro about the current rifts in American society as explored in his new book, ‘Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us...
A specialist in performance and motion capture, the Imaginarium Studios has used it’s expertise to craft digital effects for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production "The Tempest" by Williams Shakespeare.
Best-selling writer, Bernard Cornwell discusses his new book "Fools and Mortals". In the novel, Corwell imagines the very first production of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".
Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev in which she interviews Sandra Newman about her new novel, The Heavens, a time travel fantasy about Emilia Bassano, the woman some believe may have been the ‘Dark Lady’...
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