Shakespeare and Stephen King, with Caroline Bicks
Imagine being able to dig through Shakespeare’s manuscripts and ask him about his writing process. Did King Lear survive in the first draft? What if Hamlet originally said, “To live or not to live?” ...
28 Jul 37min
Shakespeare's Margaret, with Charles O'Malley and Scott W. Stern
It’s been more than 400 years since she first appeared on stage, and she’s still controversial. Margaret of Anjou appears in not one, not two, but four of Shakespeare’s plays—Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and ...
14 Jul 35min
Scholars in Shakespeare, with Sean Keilen
Shakespeare famously never attended university. But not only has his work inspired generations of scholarship, his plays, too, are filled with scholarly characters. Shakespeare, it seems, took an inte...
30 Jun 35min
The Six Loves of James I, with Gareth Russell
“Elizabeth was king, now James is queen.” So went the joke circulating around London in the 17th century. While Elizabeth I became an icon for transgressing traditional gender roles, her successor is ...
16 Jun 40min
Shakespeare and the Red Scare, with Marjorie Garber
“Is he a Communist?” During a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing in 1938, Congressman Joe Starnes probed into the politics of a writer produced by the Federal Theatre Project. The playwrig...
2 Jun 32min
Jacob Ming-Trent on How Shakespeare Saved My Life
One small step into the wrong classroom becomes a giant leap into a new life as a Shakespearean actor. That’s how Jacob Ming-Trent tells it in his remarkable one-man tour-de-force, How Shakespeare Sav...
19 Mai 31min
The Shakespeare Ladies Club
A century after Shakespeare’s death, his words were in danger of being forgotten. While plays like King Lear and Othello still played to packed houses across England, audiences saw only the bowdlerize...
5 Mai 27min
The Translator's Art and Shakespeare, with Daniel Hahn
Is Shakespeare still Shakespeare even if every word is changed? While Shakespeare’s work is often hailed for its universality, its meter, metaphor, and wordplay pose special challenges for translators...
21 Apr 33min
