"Some Are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness and Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon ‘Em"

Alternative title: Great Shakespeareans, The
Synopsis: Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 29 in the series. If you were to make a list of the people who have left an enduring imprint on how the world interprets, understands, and receives Shakespeare, whom would you choose? About a decade ago, Peter Holland, the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Notre Dame, and Adrian Poole, the former Chair in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, set out to create a compendium that summed up the work of these influential people. They chose performers, scholars, writers, critics, theatre directors, and others. The final set of books in their opus, an 18-volume reference work called The Great Shakespeareans, was released in 2013. In this podcast Peter Holland talks to Rebecca Sheir and explains the rationale he and Adrian Poole used to decide who got to be listed as the world’s great Shakespeareans.
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 29 Jul 2015
Duration: 22 mins