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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Mark Thornton Burnett speaks on foreign-language film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. "To imitate Shakespeare or to use Shakespeare either on stage or in...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with scholars Gail Kern Paster and Jeremy Lopez about why we continue to learn something new from Shakespeare’s plays more than four...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What did Shakespeare and his audiencesreally know about distant places and people? In this episode Rebecca Sheir poses that question about France and...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The podcast deals with race, Othello, and how the Elizabethans portrayed blackness on stage. It also offers a new interpretation of Desdemona’s handkerchief...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks ‘original pronunciation’ (OP) with Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal and his father, linguist David Crystal, one of the world’s...
Actor and US Army veteren, William Wolfert sheds examines the spoken words of soldiers in Shakespeare’s texts in order to shed light on how war affects men and women who serve. This exploration is the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. How the Fox TV television series ‘Empire’ was influenced by King Lear in the story of an ageing ruler - in this case the head of a hip-hop music dynasty - who...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2012, Andrew Dickson watched a Shakespeare play in London that set him off on a quest. When it ended, he had travelled to Poland, Germany, India, China and...
Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev. In an episode created as a response to the Covid-19 lockdown, she speaks with the current Folger Shakespeare Library director, Michael Witmore, and his predecessor, Gail...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Even if you’re not a Shakespeare scholar, there are things you have learned about Shakespeare and his plays throughout your life - that it’s bad luck to say...