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 the Folger's 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.
- 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: Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Episode 135: The History of Shakespeare in American Schools
- Episode 134: Peter Brook
- 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 128: Iqbal Khan
- 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 121: Glenda Jackson
- Episode 120: Michael Kahn
- Episode 119: Hamlet 360: Virtual Reality Shakespeare
- Episode 118: Harriet Walter
- Episode 117: Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
- Episode 116: Acting, Emotion, and Science on Shakespeare's Stage
- Episode 115: Simon Mayo: Mad Blood Stirring
- Episode 114: The Actor and the Assassin: Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
- Episode 113: Olivia Hussey: 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 96: Astor Place Riot
- Episode 95: How Shakespeare Changed My Life
- Episode 94: Antony Sher
- 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: 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 74: Tracy Chevalier
- Episode 73: The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour
- Episode 72: Adapting Shakespeare
- Episode 71: Shakespeare 400 Chicago
- Episode 70: The Book of Will
- Episode 69: How 'King Lear' Inspired 'Empire'
- Episode 68: Something Rotten
- Episode 67: Shakespeare and Marlowe
- Episode 66: Juliet's Answer
- Episode 65: Shakespeare in California
- Episode 64: Q Brothers
- 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 54: American Moor
- Episode 53: The Food of Shakespeare's World
- Episode 52: Recreating the Boydell Gallery
- Episode 51: Worlds Elsewhere
- 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 41: Pop Sonnets
- 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 32: The Year of Lear
- 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 7: Shakespeare LOL
- Episode 6: Shakespeare in Translation
- Episode 5: Punk Rock Shakespeare
- Episode 4: Shakespeare Outdoors
- Episode 3: In Search of the Real Richard III
- Episode 2: Actresses on Shakespeare
- Episode 1: The Robben Island Shakespeare
Shakespeare Unlimited is produced for the Folger by Richard Paul, an award-winning public radio documentary producer and author. Garland Scott, who heads up communications and marketing for the Folger, is the associate producer. Gail Kern Paster, consulting editor of Shakespeare Quarterly and director emerita of the Folger, edits the series. For many episodes, Esther Ferington, who writes for Folger Magazine and has developed online, print, and other projects for the Folger and other institutions, also edited the series. The team first worked together on the Folger’s three-part documentary for public radio, Shakespeare in American Life. Ben Lauer is the web producer, with Esther French before him. Shakespeare Unlimited hosts include Barbara Bogaev, Neva Grant, and Rebecca Sheir, with introductions by Folger Director Michael Witmore.
