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Podcast in which hosts Professor Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts) and Professor Caroline Bicks (University of Maine) discuss everyday issues through a Shakespearean lens. In...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...
Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh talks to James Shapiro about his book, Shakespeare in a Divided America. They discuss how Shakespeare’s work has been both a common ground but also used as a political tool as...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition James Shapiro (Columbia University) talks about his recent book, Shakespeare in a Divided America, and looks at the...
Feature film set in 1950s America. An unconventional teacher inspires his pupils, one of whom (Neil Perry) is seen as Puck in a school production a A Midsummer Night’s Dream, parts of which are shown...
Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this fourth...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When we think of Shakespeare in the American West, Hollywood immediately comes to mind, but this podcast episode also takes us back to the California Gold Rush...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Matthew Sweet presents a special edition examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Americans. Discusses the Californian goldrush and Alexis De Toqueville’s claim that...
Radio broadcast. First of a two-part educational language learning programmes focusing on Shakespeare as the world’s greatest poet and playwright.