Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard (Rebroadcast)
Can you love Shakespeare and be an antiracist? Farah Karim-Cooper’s book The Great White Bard explores the language of race and difference in Shakespeare’s plays. Dr. Karim-Cooper also looks at the wa...
5 Nov 202432min
How Shakespeare Revolutionized Tragedy, with Rhodri Lewis
Shakespeare is often associated with tragedy, but did you know that he changed the genre? In this episode, Rhodri Lewis, professor of English at Princeton University and author of Shakespeare’s Tragic...
22 Okt 202433min
Tabitha Stanmore on Practical Magic in Shakespeare’s England
Forget witches, broomsticks, and cauldrons bubbling over—when it came to real magic in Shakespeare’s time, most people turned to their local cunning folk. These magical practitioners wielded spells to...
8 Okt 202430min
Will Tosh on the Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
How did Shakespeare engage with the complexities of gender and sexuality in his time? Was his portrayal of cross-dressing and same-sex attraction simply for comedic effect, or did it reflect a deeper ...
24 Sep 202435min
Throughlines, with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa
How can educators effectively incorporate discussions about race into the study of Shakespeare and other premodern texts in the college classroom? Barbara Bogaev speaks with scholars Ayanna Thompson a...
10 Sep 202432min
Juliet, Then and Now, with Sophie Duncan
Was Romeo and Juliet your first brush with Shakespeare? Whether it was on stage, on screen in films by Franco Zeffirelli or Baz Luhrmann or Shonda Rhimes' Still Star-Crossed, or in the pages of the Fo...
27 Aug 202437min
Completing the Canon: Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe's Henry 6
This summer San Diego’s Old Globe became one of only 10 theaters in America who have produced all of Shakespeare’s plays (or 11, depending on how you count it) with their production of Henry VI, parts...
14 Aug 202437min
Colman Domingo on Sing Sing and the Power of Theater
Can a musical comedy featuring Hamlet and Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger change lives? Actor, playwright, and director Colman Domingo thinks so. In Sing Sing, a new film from A24, Domingo ...
30 Jul 202430min
