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Shakespeare Unlimited podcast

Shakespeare Unlimited podcast

William Shakespeare and his works are woven throughout our global culture, from theater, music, and films to new scholarship, education, amazing discoveries, and more. In our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, Shakespeare opens a window into topics ranging from the American West, to the real history of Elizabethan street fighting, to interviews with Shakespearean stars. As you’ll hear, he turns up in surprising places, too—including outer space. Join us for a “no limits” tour of the connections between Shakespeare, his works, and our world.

Lolita Chakrabarti on Adapting Hamnet for the Stage
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Lolita Chakrabarti on Adapting Hamnet for the Stage

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Lolita Chakrabarti on writing the Shakespeare family, puppet kestrels, Ira Aldridgeand adapting Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet for the stage.

James Ijames on Fat Ham
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James Ijames on Fat Ham

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright tells us about his hilarious adaptation of Hamlet.

Marion Turner on The Wife of Bath: A Biography
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Marion Turner on The Wife of Bath: A Biography

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Marion Turner’s new book is a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous character.

Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains
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Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains

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Patrick Page tells us how he gets inside the mind of Lear in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2023 production.

Artificial Intelligence Goes to English Class
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Artificial Intelligence Goes to English Class

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Our panelists talk us through the challenges and opportunities that AI tools like ChatGPT present when it comes to teaching Shakespeare.

Margo Hendricks on Shakespeare, Race, and Romance
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Margo Hendricks on Shakespeare, Race, and Romance

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Margo Hendricks joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about her research in pre-modern race studies and her romance and mystery novels.

Lucy Wooding on Tudor England: A History
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Lucy Wooding on Tudor England: A History

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In her book Tudor England: A History, Lucy Wooding argues that to really know the Tudors, we must look past the famous names and racy plotlines.

Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello
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Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello

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Theater-maker and past Folger Fellow Debra Ann Byrd tells us about her solo show.

Ian Smith on Black Shakespeare
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Ian Smith on Black Shakespeare

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Ian Smith returns to Shakespeare Unlimited and talks with Barbara Bogaev about how we can develop our “racial literacy” and read race in plays like Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet.

Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger
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Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger

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Talene Monahon’s play Jane Anger was inspired by the pandemic and a radical 16th-century proto-feminist pamphlet.

Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
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Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble

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We talk to scholar Fiona Ritchie, whose new book, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble, details their rise to fame.

Billy Collins on Writing Short Poems and Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Billy Collins on Writing Short Poems and Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Poet Billy Collins talks about humanizing Shakespeare and other literary titans, delves into his own work and inspirations, and reads from his new collection, Musical Tables.

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