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Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University) discusses recent initiatives exploring whiteness and modern racial...
Tape-slide. Shows the period of history which Shakespeare wrote about in his chronicle plays and his major source of material, what each play is about, and who the major characters are. Educational...
The second programme in the series on life in Elizabethan England. David Stafford discusses fashion arguing that it was an extension of the class system where elaborate sumptuary laws defined what you could...
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Sarah A. Bendall, material culture and dress historian at the Institute for Humanities and...
Tape-slide. Shows the Globe’s early history, the names, location, shape, and uses of the stage areas, how the structure of the theatre directly affected Shakespeare’s plays, and the differences between...
By showing Londoners of various occupations visiting the Globe theatre during Elizabethan times, the film reveals the social life of the age, which is then related to the writings of Sir Thomas More, Richard...
Recording of a live webinar, the first in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, Professor Aldo Billingslea and Dr Vanessa I. Corredera discuss...
An acclaimed playwright, novelist, dissident and social activist; Ng g Wa Thiong’o is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He joins University of...
American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...
Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...