Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
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Jun 9, 2020
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Home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. Advancing knowledge and the arts. Discover it all at www.folger.edu. Shakespeare turns up in the most interesting places—not just literature and the stage, but science and social history as well. Our "Shakespeare Unlimited" podcast explores the fascinating and varied connections between Shakespeare, his works, and the world around us.
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Judi Dench On Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Ramie Targoff on Women Writers of the English Renaissance
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Green World: Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Rita Dove on Shakespeare and Her Poem of Welcome for the Folger
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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John Guy And Julia Fox on Their New Biography of Anne Boleyn
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotations for Your Everyday Life
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Will Somer: Peter K. Andersson on Henry VIII's Court Fool
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Isabelle Schuler on Lady Macbeth and Queen Hereafter
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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400 Years of Shakespeare's First Folio, with Emma Smith
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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The Bloomsbury Group and Shakespeare, with Marjorie Garber
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Michael Patrick Thornton on Learning to Breathe Again with Shakespeare
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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The Many Lives of John Donne with Katherine Rundell
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre Imagines the Lives of Elizabethan London's Child Actors
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Greg Doran on Forty Years of Directing Shakespeare
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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David West Read on & Juliet
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Robert O'Hara on Directing Richard III
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May 23, 2023 |
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Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris
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May 09, 2023 |
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Lolita Chakrabarti on Adapting Hamnet for the Stage
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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James Ijames on Fat Ham
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Marion Turner on The Wife of Bath: A Biography
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Artificial Intelligence Goes to English Class, with Jennifer Black, John Ladd, and Laura Turchi
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Lucy Wooding on Tudor England: A History
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello: A Black Girl's Journey
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Ian Smith on Black Shakespeare
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Billy Collins on Writing Short Poems and Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Adrian Noble on How to Direct Shakespeare
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, and Gandalf
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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What Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Shakespeare, Chaucer, and the Tabard Inn, with Martha Carlin (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The Robben Island Shakespeare, with David Schalkwyk (Rebroadcast)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Peter Brook (Rebroadcast)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard (Rebroadcast)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Joe Papp and Shakespeare in the Park, with Kenneth Turan (Rebroadcast)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn on Their Hamlet Opera
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May 24, 2022 |
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Shakespeare and Ukraine, with Irena Makaryk
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May 10, 2022 |
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Leonard Barkan on Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Pamela Hutchinson on Asta Nielsen's Hamlet
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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How the Commedia Dell'Arte's Actresses Changed the Shakespearean Stage, with Pamela Allen Brown
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Matías Piñeiro on His Shakespeare-Adjacent Films
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Molly Yarn on Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors'
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Stephen Marche on How Shakespeare Changed Everything
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Black Women Shakespeareans, 1821 – 1960, with Joyce Green MacDonald
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Cutting Plays for Performance, with Aili Huber
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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J.R. Thorp on Learwife
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Lena Cowen Orlin on The Private Life of William Shakespeare
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Sir Antony Sher (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Holidays in Shakespeare's England, with Erika T. Lin
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Bringing Latinx Voices to Shakespeare, with Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Shakespeare's Language and Race, with Patricia Akhimie and Carol Mejia LaPerle
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Shakespeare in Latinx Communities, with José Cruz González and David Lozano
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Shakespeare and the British Royal Family, with Gordon McMullan
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Mike Lew on Teenage Dick
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Mona Awad on All's Well
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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How We Hear Shakespeare's Plays, with Carla Della Gatta
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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The Restoration Reinvention of Shakespeare
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Geoffrey Marsh on Shakespeare's Neighbors
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Race and Blackness in Elizabethan England
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May 25, 2021 |
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
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May 11, 2021 |
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"Richard III" in Prison
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Simon Godwin on "Romeo and Juliet"
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Shakespeare and Lost Plays
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Stephen Hopkins and "Stephano"
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Meme García on "house of sueños"
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Shakespeare in the Harlem Renaissance
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Naomi Miller on Mary Sidney Herbert and "Imperfect Alchemist"
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Shakespeare and "Game of Thrones"
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Shakespeare, Science, and Art
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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"Fat Rascals": In the Kitchen with John Tufts
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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The Victorian Cult Of Shakespeare
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Black Lives Matter in "Titus Andronicus"
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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The Show Must Go Online
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Writing About the Plague in Shakespeare’s England
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Lady Romeo
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Richard II on the Radio
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Shakespeare in Black and White (rebroadcast)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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African Americans and Shakespeare (rebroadcast)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Maggie O'Farrell on "Hamnet"
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Directing Shakespeare
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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The Booksellers
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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The King's Men
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Jonathan Bate on the Classics and Shakespeare
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Sandra Newman on "The Heavens"
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May 26, 2020 |
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Kathryn Harkup on "Death by Shakespeare"
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May 12, 2020 |
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Shakespeare and Solace
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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The Long Life of Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Emma Smith on "This Is Shakespeare"
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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James Shapiro on "Shakespeare in a Divided America"
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Abraham Lincoln and Shakespeare
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Shakespeare and Folktales
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Books and Reading in Shakespeare's England
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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The History of Shakespeare in American Schools
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Peter Brook
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Kenny Leon on his "Much Ado About Nothing"
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Women Performers in Shakespeare's Time
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Mark Haddon on The Porpoise
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Shakespeare in Immigrant New York
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Groundbreaking Discovery: John Milton's Copy of Shakespeare
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Iqbal Khan
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Shakespeare and Opera, with Colleen Fay
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Othello and Blackface (rebroadcast)
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Charlotte Cushman: When Romeo Was A Woman (rebroadcast)
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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If Shakespeare Wrote "Mean Girls"
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Andrew McConnell Stott on the Shakespeare Jubilee
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Lisa Klein on "Ophelia"
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Casey Wilder Mott and Fran Kranz on their LA "Midsummer"
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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The Gender Politics of "Kiss Me, Kate"
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May 28, 2019 |
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Glenda Jackson
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May 14, 2019 |
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Michael Kahn
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Hamlet 360: Virtual Reality Shakespeare
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Harriet Walter
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Acting, Emotion, and Science on Shakespeare's Stage
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Simon Mayo: "Mad Blood Stirring"
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Olivia Hussey: The Girl on the Balcony
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Duke Ellington, Shakespeare, and "Such Sweet Thunder"
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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The ABCs of Performing Hamlet
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Pop Culture Shakespeare with Stefanie Jochman
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Julie Schumacher on The Shakespeare Requirement
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Shakespeare Uncovered
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Understanding Peter Sellars
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Imagining Shakespeare's Wife
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Steven Berkoff: Shakespeare's Heroes and Villains
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Pop Sonnets (rebroadcast)
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Joe Papp and Shakespeare in the Park
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Still Dreaming: Shakespeare with Seniors
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Elizabeth Norton: The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare's Tyrants
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Antioch Shakespeare Festival: John Lithgow, Robin Lithgow, and Tony Dallas
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me
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May 29, 2018 |
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Stephen Alford: London's Triumph
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May 15, 2018 |
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Astor Place Riot
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May 01, 2018 |
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How Shakespeare Changed My Life
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Antony Sher
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter on the George North Manuscript
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Derek Jacobi: Acting Shakespeare
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Derek Jacobi: Playing Hamlet
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Bernard Cornwell: Fools and Mortals
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Orson Welles
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Marketing Shakespeare
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan Theater
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in China
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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Shakespeare and Science Fiction
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Edward St. Aubyn on Dunbar
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Myths About Shakespeare (rebroadcast)
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Shakespeare in Swahililand
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Barry Edelstein: Thinking Shakespeare
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Shakespeare and War
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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Bernstein, Shakespeare, and West Side Story
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Shakespeare's Kitchen
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Akala and Hip-Hop Shakespeare
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Creating TNT's ‘Will:’ Craig Pearce and Shekhar Kapur
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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RSC's Digital Tempest
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Tracy Chevalier: New Boy
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May 31, 2017 |
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The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour
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May 16, 2017 |
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Adapting Shakespeare
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May 03, 2017 |
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Shakespeare 400 Chicago
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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The Book of Will
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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How 'King Lear' Inspired 'Empire'
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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Something Rotten
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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Shakespeare and Marlowe
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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Juliet's Answer
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Shakespeare in California
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Q Brothers
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Uncovering Shakespeare's House
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and YA Novels
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare's Life Stories
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and Girlhood
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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Shakespeare in Sign Language
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Shakespeare in Solitary
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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Anecdotal Shakespeare
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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How Shakespeare's First Folio Became a Star
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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Elizabethan Medicine
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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American Moor
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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The Food of Shakespeare's World
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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Recreating the Boydell Gallery
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Worlds Elsewhere
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Jun 29, 2016 |
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Othello and Blackface
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and Religion
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May 31, 2016 |
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Shakespeare in Africa
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May 17, 2016 |
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Creation of the First Folio
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May 03, 2016 |
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Kill Shakespeare Comics
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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Reduced Shakespeare Company
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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Inside the Folger Conservation Lab
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and Magic
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and World Cinema
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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Pop Sonnets
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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Shakespeare In India
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Jan 27, 2016 |
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Auditioning for Shakespeare
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Jan 12, 2016 |
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Shakespeare Portraits
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Dec 15, 2015 |
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Shakespeare's Star Wars
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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Andrea Mays: The Millionaire and the Bard
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Nov 18, 2015 |
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Shakespeare in the Caribbean
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Nov 04, 2015 |
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Stanley Wells on Great Shakespeare Actors
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Oct 21, 2015 |
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Music for Shakespeare's Lyrics
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Oct 07, 2015 |
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The Year of Lear
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Sep 23, 2015 |
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Editing Shakespeare
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Sep 09, 2015 |
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Shakespeare Not Stirred
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Aug 26, 2015 |
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Great Shakespeareans
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Jul 29, 2015 |
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Shakespeare and The Tabard Inn
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Shakespeare in Hong Kong
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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Shakespeare on Film
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Jun 17, 2015 |
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Shakespeare's France and Italy
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May 20, 2015 |
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Elizabethan Street Fighting
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May 05, 2015 |
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Myths About Shakespeare
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Apr 22, 2015 |
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Recounting Shakespeare's Life
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Apr 08, 2015 |
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Shakespeare in Black and White
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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The Rarely Performed Shakespeare Plays
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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A New First Folio Discovery
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Pronouncing English as Shakespeare Did
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Brave New Worlds: The Shakespearean Moons of Uranus
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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When Romeo Was a Woman
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Romeo and Juliet Through the Ages
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Music in Shakespeare
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Artistic Directors Talk Shakespeare
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Shakespeare and Insane Asylums
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Why Shakespeare's Stories Still Resonate
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Shakespeare LOL: All Mirth and No Matter
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Shakespeare in Translation
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Punk Rock Shakespeare
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Shakespeare Outdoors
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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In Search of the Real Richard III
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Actresses on Shakespeare
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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The Robben Island Shakespeare
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Designing Shakespeare
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Feb 25, 2015 |
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African Americans and Shakespeare
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Feb 25, 2015 |