"The West Yet Glimmers with Some Streaks of Day"

Alternative title

Shakespeare in California

Synopsis

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 and the Americans who brought Shakespeare with them when they moved westward. The guest is Stephen Dickey, a senior lecturer in the English Department at UCLA and co-curator (with Georgianna Ziegler from the Folger) of America’s ‘Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West’, a Folger exhibition with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Public Library, Stephen Dickey is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Audio

Notes

Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-65 (accessed 02/2017).

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

California; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); United States of America

Online availability

URI

http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/california

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed

Credits

Contributor

Barbara Bogaev; Stephen Dickey

Production Company

Name

R.L. Paul Productions