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Recounting Shakespeare’s Life (Audio)

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, What do we know about Shakespeare’s life? This episode considers not only that question, but two others: During the past four centuries, when and how did...

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Shakespeare’s France and Italy (Audio)

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What did Shakespeare — and his audiences—really know about distant places and people? In this episode Rebecca Sheir poses that question about France and...

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Dedicated Words That Writers Use, The (Audio)

aka: Editing Shakespeare

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In this episode Rebecca Sheir interviews Paul Werstine and Suzanne Gossett about the how and why of editing Shakespeare. Since 1989, Paul Werstine has been the...

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Shakespeare and the Language of Possibility (Audio)

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The 2015 Shakespeare Birthday lecture delivered by Lynne Magnusson, Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Prof. Magnusson shows how a set of small...

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Year of Lear, The (Audio)

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. 1606 was a critical year for Shakespeare’s creative career. It was the year in which he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. It was also a time...

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Music for Shakespeare’s Lyrics (Audio)

aka: Music for Shakespeare’s Lyrics

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama; Music

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The majority of Shakespeare’s plays call for singing — and while the lyrics to the songs appear to have always been a part of the text, the musical notes...

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"O, There Be Players That I Have Seen Play." (Audio)

aka: Great Shakespeare Actors

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare is brought to life by the actors and actresses who speak his lines. Professor Stanley Wells considers the most outstanding Shakespeare performers,...

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Shakespeare in the Caribbean (Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and the Caribbean

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare and his plays are woven deeply into the culture of the Caribbean, both white and black. Even after centuries of British colonial rule came to an end,...

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"Mine Own Library with Volumes That I Prize" (Audio)

aka: Millionaire and the Bard, The

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Henry Clay Folger became the world’s leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. Economist and author Andrea Mays talks with Neva Grant about Folger’s...

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"I Feel Now the Future in the Instant" (Audio)

aka: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

Subject

Drama; Film studies; Literature

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare adaptations are a proud tradition. Prokofiev turned Romeo and Juliet into a ballet. Verdi turned Macbeth and Othello into operas, and The Taming of...

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