Second Chances, Shakespeare, and Freud, with Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt
The desire for a second chance provides the engine for many of Shakespeare’s plays. In their new book, Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and psychologist Ad...
21 Maj 202435min
Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
When Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was on Broadway in 2002, it won a host of awards, including the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel awards for best play. Zimmerman to...
7 Maj 202432min
Judi Dench On Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
In her new book, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, Dame Judi Dench and actor/director Brendan O'Hea chat about her long history with the Bard. On this episode, Dench and O'Hea join host Barbara...
23 Apr 202440min
Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
Land enclosure. Wildlife management. Erosion. Pollution. Mining practices. Today, we’d call these environmental issues. But, hundreds of years before the modern environmental movement coalesced, these...
9 Apr 202433min
Ramie Targoff on Women Writers of the English Renaissance
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf famously imagined what might have happened if Shakespeare had a sister who was as gifted a writer as he was. She invents “Judith” Shakespeare, and concludes that...
26 Mars 202437min
Green World: Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
In her new memoir, "Green World," Shakespeare scholar Michelle Ephraim tells the story of how she came to Shakespeare relatively late in her education. Although she didn’t grow up with Shakespeare, Ep...
12 Mars 202433min
Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
Eddie Izzard has a long record of dramatic roles. But it’s her decades of experience as a stand-up comedian that prepared Izzard for her recent solo shows—first Great Expectations, and now Hamlet at N...
27 Feb 202432min
Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
Maybe there really was something rotten in Denmark. On this episode, we talk with Bradley J. Irish about disgust in Shakespeare. In his new book, Irish identifies the emotion, which combines physical ...
13 Feb 202434min
