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 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. Esther Ferington, who writes for Folger Magazine and has developed online, print, and other projects for the Folger and other institutions, and Gail Kern Paster, consulting editor of Shakespeare Quarterly and director emerita of the Folger, edit the series. The team first worked together on the Folger’s three-part documentary for public radio, Shakespeare in American Life. Esther French is the web producer. Shakespeare Unlimited hosts include Barbara Bogaev, Neva Grant, and Rebecca Sheir, with introductions by Folger Director Michael Witmore.
