The Restoration Reinvention of Shakespeare
The next time someone complains about a director changing or tampering with Shakespeare… we’ve got an answer for them. The first generation of theater artists after Shakespeare weren’t particularly c...
6 Juli 202131min
Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong
In her play "Where We Belong," Mohegan director playwright, and performer Madeline Sayet recalls her 2015 journey to the UK to pursue the PhD in Shakespeare that she never ended up getting. The play, ...
22 Juni 202133min
Geoffrey Marsh on Shakespeare's Neighbors
What would we find out about you if we got to know your neighbors? What if we took a walk around the neighborhood where you live? That's the way that Geoffrey Marsh hopes to learn more about Shakespe...
8 Juni 202132min
Race and Blackness in Elizabethan England
When did the concept of race develop? How far should we look back to find the attitudes that bolster white supremacy? We ask Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy, an assistant professor of literature at Harvey Mudd ...
25 Maj 202133min
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
Over 400 years after Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published in 1609, what is left to learn? "All the Sonnets of Shakespeare," a new edition of the sonnets published in 2020, takes some bold steps ...
11 Maj 202134min
"Richard III" in Prison
Frannie Shepherd-Bates founded Shakespeare in Prison in 2012. Nine years later, SIP is the signature community program of the Detroit Public Theatre, and has worked on a total of eight plays with a wo...
27 Apr 202132min
Simon Godwin on "Romeo and Juliet"
The National Theatre’s new production of "Romeo and Juliet" was meant to premiere in the summer of 2020. But when the COVID-19 pandemic began, Simon Godwin, the production’s director, was tasked with ...
13 Apr 202135min
Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Today, the texts of roughly three thousand plays from the great age of Elizabethan theater are lost to us. The plays that remain constitute only a sixth of all of the drama produced during that period...
30 Mars 202136min
