Episode 261: Shakespeare’s Boy Player Alexander Cooke
Episode 260: King Lear and Mao’s China, with Nan Z. Da
Episode 259: Top Pop Songs of the 1600s
Episode 258: The Yorkist Pretender, with Jo Harkin
Episode 257: Surekha Davies on the Making of Monsters
Episode 256: Reimagining Judith Shakespeare with Grace Tiffany
Episode 255: Julia Armfield Reimagines King Lear in a Drowning World
Episode 254: Lauren Gunderson on the Women of Hamlet
Episode 253: Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems
Episode 252: Nisha Sharman on Adapting Shakespeare for Modern Romances
Episode 251: Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones
Episode 250: Directing Romeo and Juliet, with Sam Gold
Episode 249: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV, with Helen Castor
Episode 248: Studying Shakespeare Now
Episode 247: How Shakespeare Revolutionized Tragedy, with Rhodri Lewis
Episode 246: Tabitha Stanmore on Practical Magic in Shakespeare’s England
Episode 245: Will Tosh on the Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
Episode 244: Throughlines, with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa
Episode 243: Juliet, Then and Now, with Sophie Duncan
Episode 242: Completing the Canon: Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe’s Henry 6
Episode 241: Colman Domingo on Sing Sing and the Power of Theater
Episode 240: The Brief Life and Big Impact of the Federal Theatre Project, with James Shapiro
Episode 239: A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 2: Research at the Folger
Episode 238: A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 1
Episode 237: Fred Wilson on His New Work for the Folger
Episode 236: Second Chances, Shakespeare, and Freud, with Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt
Episode 235: Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
Episode 234: Dame Judi Dench on Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
Episode 233: Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
Episode 232: Ramie Targoff on Shakespeare’s Sisters: Women Writers of the English Renaissance
Episode 230: Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
Episode 229: Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
Episode 228: Rita Dove on Shakespeare and Her Poem of Welcome for the Folger
Episode 227: Julia Fox and John Guy on Their Biography of Anne Boleyn
Episode 226: David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotes for Everyday Life
Episode 225: What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley
Episode 224: Will Somer: Peter Andersson on Henry VIII’s Court Fool
Episode 223: Isabelle Schuler’s Queen Hereafter Imagines Lady Macbeth’s Backstory
Episode 222: 400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio, with Emma Smith
Episode 221: Shakespeare and the Bloomsbury Group, with Marjorie Garber
Episode 220: Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare
Episode 219: Michael Patrick Thornton on Learning to Breather Again with Shakespeare
Episode 218: The Many Lives of John Donne, with Katherine Rundell
Episode 217: Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz
Episode 216: Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
Episode 215: Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost
Episode 214: Mat Osman’s The Ghost Theatre Imagines the Lives of Elizabethan London’s Child Actors
Episode 213: Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
Episode 212: Greg Doran on Forty Years of Directing Shakespeare
Episode 211: David West Read on & Juliet
Episode 210: Robert O’Hara on Directing Richard III
Episode 209: Publishing Shakespeare’s First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris
Episode 208: Lolita Chakrabarti on Adapting Hamnet for the Stage
Episode 207: James Ijames on Fat Ham
Episode 206: Marion Turner on The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Episode 205: Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare’s Villains
Episode 203: Margo Hendricks on Shakespeare, Race, and Romance
Episode 202: Lucy Wooding on Tudor England: A History
Episode 201: Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey
Episode 200: Ian Smith on Black Shakespeare
Episode 199: Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger
Episode 198: Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
Episode 197: Billy Collins on Writing Short Poems and Approaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Episode 196: Adrian Noble on How to Direct Shakespeare
Episode 195: Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, and Gandalf
Episode 194: Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet
Episode 193: How Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett
Episode 192: John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
Episode 191: Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn on Their Hamlet Opera
Episode 190: Shakespeare and Ukraine, with Irena Makaryk
Episode 189: Leonard Barkan on Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
Episode 188: Pamela Hutchinson on Asta Nielsen’s Hamlet
Episode 186: Matías Piñeiro on His Shakespeare-Adjacent Films
Episode 185: Molly Yarn on Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’
Episode 184: Stephen Marche on How Shakespeare Changed Everything
Episode 183: Black Women Shakespeareans, 1821 – 1960, with Joyce Green MacDonald
Episode 182: Cutting Plays for Performance, with Aili Huber
Episode 181: J.R. Thorp on Learwife
Episode 180: Lena Cowen Orlin on The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Episode 179: Holidays in Shakespeare’s England, with Erika T. Lin
Episode 178: Bringing Latinx Voices to Shakespeare, with Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa
Episode 177: Shakespeare’s Language and Race, with Patricia Akhimie and Carol Mejia LaPerle
Episode 176: Shakespeare in Latinx Communities, with José Cruz González and David Lozano
Episode 175: Shakespeare and the British Royal Family, with Gordon McMullan
Episode 174: Mike Lew on Teenage Dick
Episode 173: Mona Awad on All’s Well
Episode 172: How We Hear Shakespeare’s Plays, with Carla Della Gatta
Episode 171: Richard Schoch on the Restoration Reinvention of Shakespeare
Episode 170: Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong
Episode 169: Geoffrey Marsh on Shakespeare’s Neighbors
Episode 168: Ambereen Dadabhoy on Race and Blackness in Elizabethan England
Episode 167: Paul Edmondson, All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
Episode 166: Richard III in Prison
Episode 165: Simon Godwin on Romeo & Juliet
Episode 164: David McInnis, Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Episode 163: Stephen Hopkins and Stephano
Episode 162: Meme García on house of sueños
Episode 161: Shakespeare in the Harlem Renaissance
Episode 160: Naomi Miller on Mary Sidney and Imperfect Alchemist
Episode 159: Shakespeare and Game of Thrones, with Jeffrey R. Wilson
Episode 158: Shakespeare, Science, and Art
Episode 157: Fat Rascals: In the Kitchen with John Tufts
Episode 156: The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
Episode 155: Black Lives Matter in Titus Andronicus
Episode 154: The Show Must Go Online
Episode 153: Writing About the Plague in Shakespeare’s England
Episode 151: Richard II on the Radio
Episode 150: Maggie O’Farrell on Hamnet
Episode 149: Directing Shakespeare
Episode 147: Lucy Munro on The King’s Men
Episode 146: Jonathan Bate on the Classics and Shakespeare
Episode 145: Sandra Newman on The Heavens
Episode 144: Kathryn Harkup on Death by Shakespeare
Episode 143: Shakespeare and Solace
Episode 142: The Long Life of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (18th century – today)
Episode 141: Emma Smith on This Is Shakespeare
Episode 140: James Shapiro on Shakespeare in a Divided America
Episode 139: Abraham Lincoln and Shakespeare
Episode 138: Shakespeare and Folktales
Episode 137: Books and Reading in Shakespeare’s England
Episode 136: The Early Years of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (16th and 17th centuries)
Episode 135: The History of Shakespeare in American Schools
Episode 133: Kenny Leon on Much Ado About Nothing
Episode 132: Women Performers in Shakespeare’s Time
Episode 131: Pericles and Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise
Episode 130: Shakespeare in Immigrant New York
Episode 129: Milton’s Copy of Shakespeare
Episode 127: Shakespeare and Opera
Episode 126: If Shakespeare Wrote Mean Girls
Episode 125: Andrew McConnell Stott on the Shakespeare Jubilee
Episode 124: Lisa Klein on Ophelia
Episode 123: Casey Wilder Mott and Fran Kranz on their LA Midsummer
Episode 122: The Gender Politics of Kiss Me, Kate
Episode 119: Hamlet 360: Virtual Reality Shakespeare
Episode 117: Deborah Harkness on A Discovery of Witches
Episode 116: Acting, Emotion, and Science on Shakespeare’s Stage
Episode 115: Simon Mayo on Mad Blood Stirring
Episode 114: The Actor and the Assassin: Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
Episode 113: Olivia Hussey on Her Memoir, The Girl on the Balcony
Episode 112: Duke Ellington, Shakespeare, and Such Sweet Thunder
Episode 111: The ABCs of Performing Hamlet
Episode 110: Pop Culture Shakespeare with Stefanie Jochman
Episode 109: Julie Schumacher on The Shakespeare Requirement
Episode 108: How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
Episode 107: Shakespeare Uncovered
Episode 106: Understanding Peter Sellars
Episode 105: Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife
Episode 104: Steven Berkoff: Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains
Episode 103: Kenneth Turan: Joe Papp and Shakespeare in the Park
Episode 102: Still Dreaming: Shakespeare with Seniors
Episode 101: Elizabeth Norton: The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
Episode 100: Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s Tyrants
Episode 99: Antioch Shakespeare Festival: John Lithgow, Robin Lithgow, and Tony Dallas
Episode 98: Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me
Episode 97: Stephen Alford: London’s Triumph
Episode 95: How Shakespeare Changed My Life
Episode 93: Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter on the George North Manuscript
Episode 92: Derek Jacobi: Acting Shakespeare
Episode 91: Derek Jacobi: Playing Hamlet
Episode 90: Bernard Cornwell on Fools and Mortals
Episode 89: Orson Welles and Shakespeare
Episode 88: Marketing Shakespeare
Episode 87: Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan Theater
Episode 86: Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in China
Episode 85: Shakespeare and Science Fiction
Episode 84: Edward St. Aubyn on Dunbar
Episode 83: Shakespeare in Swahililand
Episode 82: Barry Edelstein: Thinking Shakespeare
Episode 81: Shakespeare and War
Episode 80: Leonard Bernstein and West Side Story
Episode 79: Shakespeare’s Kitchen
Episode 78: Akala and Hip-Hop Shakespeare
Episode 77: Creating TNT’s Will
Episode 76: Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare
Episode 75: The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Digital Tempest
Episode 73: The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour
Episode 72: Adapting Shakespeare
Episode 71: Shakespeare 400 Chicago
Episode 70: Lauren Gunderson on The Book of Will
Episode 69: How King Lear Inspired Empire
Episode 67: Shakespeare and Marlowe
Episode 65: Shakespeare in California
Episode 63: Uncovering Shakespeare’s House
Episode 62: Shakespeare and YA Novels
Episode 61: Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s Life Stories
Episode 60: Shakespeare and Girlhood
Episode 59: Shakespeare in Sign Language
Episode 58: Shakespeare in Solitary
Episode 57: Anecdotal Shakespeare
Episode 56: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Became a Star
Episode 55: Elizabethan Medicine
Episode 53: The Food of Shakespeare’s World
Episode 52: Recreating the Boydell Gallery
Episode 50: Othello and Blackface
Episode 49: Shakespeare and Religion
Episode 48: Shakespeare in Africa
Episode 47: Creating Shakespeare’s First Folio
Episode 46: Kill Shakespeare Comics
Episode 45: Reduced Shakespeare Company
Episode 44: Inside the Folger Conservation Lab
Episode 43: Shakespeare and Magic
Episode 42: Shakespeare and World Cinema
Episode 40: Shakespeare in India
Episode 39: Auditioning for Shakespeare
Episode 38: Portraits of Shakespeare
Episode 37: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
Episode 36: The Millionaire and the Bard
Episode 35: Shakespeare in the Caribbean
Episode 34: Great Shakespeare Actors
Episode 33: Music for Shakespeare’s Lyrics
Episode 31: Editing Shakespeare
Episode 30: Shakespeare Not Stirred
Episode 29: Great Shakespeareans
Episode 28: Shakespeare and The Tabard Inn
Episode 27: Shakespeare in Hong Kong
Episode 26: Shakespeare on Film
Episode 25: Shakespeare’s France and Italy
Episode 24: Elizabethan Street Fighting
Episode 23: Myths About Shakespeare
Episode 22: Recounting Shakespeare’s Life
Episode 21: Designing Shakespeare
Episode 20: African Americans and Shakespeare
Episode 19: Shakespeare in Black and White
Episode 18: Rarely Performed Shakespeare
Episode 17: A New First Folio Discovery
Episode 16: Pronouncing English as Shakespeare Did
Episode 15: The Shakespearean Moons of Uranus
Episode 14: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today
Episode 13: When Romeo Was a Woman
Episode 12: Romeo and Juliet through the Ages
Episode 11: Music in Shakespeare
Episode 10: Artistic Directors Talk Shakespeare
Episode 9: Shakespeare and Insane Asylums
Episode 8: Why Shakespeare’s Stories Still Resonate
Episode 6: Shakespeare in Translation
Episode 5: Punk Rock Shakespeare
Episode 4: Shakespeare Outdoors
Episode 3: In Search of the Real Richard III