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Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay, following the results of the 2020 US Presidential election, discuss Shakespeare and politics both today and in Elizabethan England.
Mitch Jeserich talks to Christian Smith, the author of the book ‘Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism.'
Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. The panellists discuss the political themes within Shakespeare’s plays and consider how he voiced the political...
Chris Hedges interviews David Herskovits, the founder and artistic director of Target Margin Theatre, and the actor Eunice Wong (Hedges is also her husband). They discuss why Shakespeare is still relevant...
Podcast. Gabriel Geagea and doctoral candidate Nicolas McAfee discuss his doctoral thesis on the depiction of power, the powerful and politics in Shakespeare’s plays. Works discussed include Henry VIII and...
Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition looks at the impact Shakespeare has had, and continues to have, on US Presidents.
Video of the fourth lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines how Shakespeare looked at Roman political models and the...
Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition talks at teenagers who love Shakespeare and even younger autistic children for whom Shakespeare has become a...
Recording of a lecture by Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University) entitled ‘Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and Macbeth.' in which he samines the importance of Shakespeare in the life...
BBC currents affairs series in which parliamentary reports are presented by Andrew Neil and Jenny Scott. This edition reported on the Labour Party Conference, the last conference with Tony Blair as leader....