The Many Lives of John Donne with Katherine Rundell

The Many Lives of John Donne with Katherine Rundell

We talk with author Katherine Rundell about the extraordinary life —or should we say lives? — of John Donne, who wrote some of the 17th century’s most complex and intellectually dazzling poetry. Rundell, a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and the author of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne takes us through Donne’s evolution from hotshot poet to penniless prisoner to rock star preacher. Rundell has also written six novels for children, a book for adults about children’s books, and a nonfiction book about the wonder of animals called The Golden Mole. Her latest fantasy novel, Impossible Creatures, comes out in September 2023.

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Bernstein, Shakespeare, and West Side Story

Bernstein, Shakespeare, and West Side Story

Next year, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. To honor him, we’re taking a look at the creation of "West Side Story," Bernstein’s most significant contribution to the world o...

22 Elo 201731min

Shakespeare's Kitchen

Shakespeare's Kitchen

How and what did the Elizabethans eat? The kitchens of Shakespeare’s time looked very different from our kitchens today, and that’s not all that has changed when it comes to habits of diet, food prepa...

8 Elo 201732min

Akala and Hip-Hop Shakespeare

Akala and Hip-Hop Shakespeare

“Is it Shakespeare, or is it hip-hop?” British poet, rapper, and educator Kingslee James Daley, who goes by the stage name Akala, likes to recite a passage and then challenge his audience with this qu...

25 Heinä 201733min

Creating TNT's ‘Will:’ Craig Pearce and Shekhar Kapur

Creating TNT's ‘Will:’ Craig Pearce and Shekhar Kapur

'Will,' the new series on TNT, tells stories derived from what we often call Shakespeare’s “lost years”—the time before he made a name for himself as a writer. The series takes advantage of that gapin...

11 Heinä 201736min

Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare

Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare

In 2012, the Donmar Warehouse presented an all-female production of "Julius Caesar," directed by Tony Award nominated director Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter. The production was set in a w...

27 Kesä 201733min

RSC's Digital Tempest

RSC's Digital Tempest

Twenty-first-century wizardry meets the seventeenth-century kind in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "The Tempest" with digital effects created by The Imaginarium, a performance-capture compa...

13 Kesä 201731min

Tracy Chevalier: New Boy

Tracy Chevalier: New Boy

Tracy Chevalier, author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," takes on the tragedy of "Othello" in her latest novel, part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. But in a twist, she moves the action to a public ...

31 Touko 201728min

The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour

The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour

In 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe in London sent a group of actors on a two-year tour to perform "Hamlet" all around the world. They finished on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, after ...

16 Touko 201729min

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