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'Now Thrive the Armorers’: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare (Audio)

aka: Arms and Armour in Shakespeare

Director

Richard Paul

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast derived from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2008 exhibition on Arms and Armor in Shakespeare. Curator Jeffrey Forgeng of the Higgins Armory Museum with Folger Director of Research Barbara Mowat...

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David Schalkwyk on the Robben Island Shakespeare (Audio)

aka: Cowards die Many Times Before Their Deaths, The Valiant Never Taste of Death but Once

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...

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Women Merely Players: Actresses on Shakespeare (Audio)

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare’s time, only men appeared on stage, with teenage boys playing the women’s parts. Today, women play women and sometimes men—and vice-versa. In...

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"Bless Thee! Thou Art Translated": Shakespeare in Translation (Audio)

aka: Shakespeare in Translation

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What happens when Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages? Scholars and theatre artists, with Rebecca Sheir, look at what constitutes the...

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Let the Sounds of Music/Creep in Our Wars: Punk Rock Shakespeare (Audio)

aka: Punk Rock Shakespeare

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama; Music

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Members of Taffety Punk, a Washington, DC, theatre company, bring Shakespeare into the 21st century. Rebecca Sheir talks with Taffety Punk founding member and...

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Shakespeare Outdoors (Audio)

aka: Shakespeare Outdoors

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with scholars and theatre artists about the social and cultural forces that came together to create outdoor Shakepeare festivals. Contributors...

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"I, That Am Rudely Stamped": In Search of the Real Richard III (Audio)

aka: In Search of the Real Richard III

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A body was found in a Leicester, England, parking lot. Many believe it to be that of King Richard III. Among the many issues raised, along with that body, are...

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"All Mirth and No Matter": Shakespeare Lol (Audio)

aka: Shakespeare Lol

Producer

Richard Paul

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Theatre artists and scholars, with narrator Rebecca Sheir, examine why things that were funny in Shakespeare’s time are not so much now — as well as...

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"Speak to Me As to Thy Thinkings": Why Shakespeare’s Stories Still Resonate (Audio)

Subject

Drama

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with scholars Gail Kern Paster and Jeremy Lopez about why we continue to learn something new from Shakespeare’s plays more than four...

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"Though This Be Madness, Yet There Be Method In’t": Shakespeare and Insane Asylums (Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and Insane Asylums

Subject

Drama; Psychiatry

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Benjamin Reiss, a professor in the English department at Emory University and the author of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and...

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