Shakespeare Anyone?

By Kourtney Smith & Elyse Sharp

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 Apr 20, 2022

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Shakespeare Anyone? is co-hosted by Elyse Sharp and Kourtney Smith, two professional actors and hobbyist Shakespeare scholars. Join us as we explore Shakepeare's plays through as many lenses as we can by looking at the text and how the text is viewed through modern lenses of feminism, racism, classism, colonialism, nationalism… all the-isms. We will discuss how his plays shaped both the past and present, and look at how his work was performed throughout various periods of time–all while trying our best to approach his works without giving in to bardolatry. We examine one play at a time for an extended window of time, interspersed with mini-episodes about Shakespeare's time for context. Episodes are released every other week.

Episode Date
Mini: Shakespeare and Stephen King with Caroline Bicks, author of Monsters in the Archives
May 06, 2026
Julius Caesar: How Often Did Shakespeare Think About the Roman Empire?
Apr 22, 2026
Mini: Ecological Shakespeare with Katherine Steele Brokaw
Apr 08, 2026
Julius Caesar: A People's History Meets Shakespeare's Play
Mar 25, 2026
Mini: Essex's Rebellion: The Plot Against Elizabeth I
Mar 11, 2026
Julius Caesar: The "Falling Sickness" and Shakespeare's Understanding of Epilepsy
Feb 25, 2026
Mini: Astrology in Shakespeare's Time
Feb 11, 2026
Julius Caesar: Honor and Virtue of Brutus & Portia in Shakespeare's Play
Jan 28, 2026
Julius Caesar: Stuff to Chew On
Jan 14, 2026
Julius Caesar: Synopsis
Dec 31, 2025
Bonus: Twelfth Night Wrap-up Redux
Dec 17, 2025
Bonus: Revisiting Henry V and The Tempest
Dec 03, 2025
Mini: Shakespeare in the Borderlands with Dr. Katherine Gillen and Ruben Ramirez of Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva
Nov 19, 2025
The Tempest: Wrap-Up
Nov 05, 2025
Mini: Interview with Ana Davis on My Keen Knife, a Young Adult Dark Fantasy Retelling of Macbeth
Oct 22, 2025
The Tempest: Grimoires, Alchemy, and the Making of Prospero's Art
Oct 08, 2025
Mini: Shakespeare for Young Audiences with ML Roberts, Sean Patrick Nill, and Elyse Sharp of B Street Theatre's NEVER FEAR, SHAKESPEARE
Sep 24, 2025
The Tempest: Caliban's Legacy of Race, Class, and Colonialism
Sep 10, 2025
Mini: Court Masques and How They Shaped Shakespeare's Plays
Aug 27, 2025
The Tempest: Patriarchy, Gender, and Power in Shakespeare's Play
Aug 13, 2025
Mini: Making Shakespeare Accessible with Mike and Steph Crugnola of Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project
Jul 30, 2025
The Tempest: Travel Narratives, Cultural Encounters, and Shakespeare's Inspirations
Jul 16, 2025
The Tempest: Stuff to Chew On
Jul 02, 2025
The Tempest: Synopsis
Jun 18, 2025
Bonus Episode: Interview with Kent Lehnhof on Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays
Jun 04, 2025
King Henry V: Wrap Up
May 21, 2025
Mini: Interview with Julie Hammonds on Blue Mountain Rose—A Shakespearean Tale of Theater, Family, and Resilience
May 07, 2025
King Henry V: European Foreigners and Immigrants in Shakespeare's Time
Apr 23, 2025
Mini: Shakespeare in Love [Unlocked from the Patreon Vault]
Apr 09, 2025
King Henry V: The Common and Working People of Shakespeare's Time
Mar 26, 2025
Mini: Henry and Emily Folger and the Search for Shakespeare's First Folio
Mar 12, 2025
King Henry V: Military Life in Shakespeare's England
Feb 26, 2025
Mini: English Nobility and Titles in Shakespeare's Time
Feb 12, 2025
King Henry V: Historical Figures vs Shakespeare's Fictional Characters
Jan 29, 2025
King Henry V: Stuff to Chew On
Jan 15, 2025
King Henry V: Synopsis
Jan 01, 2025
[Re-issue] Stuff You Should Know Part 3: William Shakespeare (Revised)
Dec 18, 2024
[Re-issue] Stuff You Should Know Part 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean England & Theatre (Revised)
Dec 18, 2024
[Re-issue] Stuff You Should Know Part 1: The Monarchy & English Renaissance (Revised)
Dec 18, 2024
Bonus: Revisiting Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing
Dec 04, 2024
Mini: Intercultural and Global Shakespeare in a Postcolonial World
Nov 20, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Wrap Up
Nov 06, 2024
Mini: Aemilia Bassano Lanyer, the Proto-Feminist Poet of Shakespeare's Time
Oct 23, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare's Bastards and Illegitimacy in Shakespeare's Time
Oct 09, 2024
Mini: Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers with Darren Freebury-Jones
Sep 25, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare and The Book of the Courtier
Sep 11, 2024
Mini: Shakespeare's Language Framework: Malapropisms
Aug 28, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare and the Comic Constable, or, Dogberry: Fact vs Fiction
Aug 14, 2024
Mini: Theatres of Value with Dr. Danielle Rosvally
Jul 31, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Gender Roles and Norms in Shakespeare's Time
Jul 17, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Stuff to Chew On
Jul 03, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Synopsis
Jun 19, 2024
Bonus: Interview with Ricky Dukes, Artistic Director of Lazarus Theatre Company
Jun 05, 2024
Romeo and Juliet: Wrap Up
May 22, 2024
Mini: Shakespeare for Autistic Individuals: The Flute Theatre with Kelly Hunter, MBE
May 08, 2024
Romeo and Juliet: Feuds, Vendettas, and Duels
Apr 24, 2024
Mini: Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's Colleague and Competitor
Apr 10, 2024
Romeo & Juliet: Teenagerdom in Shakespeare's Time
Mar 27, 2024
Mini: Staging Violence in Shakespeare with Dr. Danielle Rosvally and Sydney Schwindt
Mar 13, 2024
Romeo and Juliet: Courtship and Marriage in Shakespeare's Time
Feb 28, 2024
Mini: Shakespeare and Petrarch
Feb 14, 2024
Romeo and Juliet: Patriarchy, Masculinity, and Honor
Jan 31, 2024
Romeo and Juliet: Stuff to Chew On
Jan 17, 2024
Romeo and Juliet: Synopsis
Jan 03, 2024
Bonus: Shakespeare and Social Media
Dec 20, 2023
Bonus: Revisiting A Midsummer Night's Dream and Titus Andronicus
Dec 06, 2023
Mini: "Decolonize the Mind" through Shakespeare
Nov 22, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Wrap Up
Nov 08, 2023
Mini: Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's Wife
Oct 25, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Cannibalism and the Dangers of Hospitality in Early Modern England with Carson Brakke
Oct 11, 2023
Mini: Shakespeare's Sources: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Sep 27, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Aaron and Race in Shakespeare with Dr. Mia Escott
Sep 13, 2023
Mini: Shakespearean Vengeance: Exploring Revenge Tragedies in Early Modern England
Aug 30, 2023
Introducing...Play On! Podcasts: Love's Labour's Lost -- All Kinds of Women
Aug 16, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Femininity and Girlhood in Shakespeare's Time
Aug 16, 2023
Mini: Romeo & Juliet Reimagined: THE HUNDRED LOVES OF JULIET by Evelyn Skye
Aug 02, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Trauma in Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre
Jul 19, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Stuff to Chew On
Jul 05, 2023
Titus Andronicus: Synopsis
Jun 21, 2023
Bonus: Yassified Shakespeare with Dr. Trevor Boffone and Dr. Danielle Rosvally
Jun 07, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wrap Up, or Elyse's Lament
May 24, 2023
Mini: Commerce and Trade in Shakespeare's Time
May 10, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare & Climate Change with Sydney Schwindt
Apr 26, 2023
Mini: Shakespeare's Changeling Children
Apr 12, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Political Satire in a Pastoral Comedy
Mar 29, 2023
Mini: Writing Poetry Inspired by Shakespeare, an Interview with Elizabeth Sylvia
Mar 15, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Classic Myth in Shakespeare
Mar 01, 2023
Mini: Plague, Quarantine, & Shakespeare
Feb 15, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Sex and Sexuality...or, Shakespeare's Horny Play
Feb 01, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Stuff to Chew On
Jan 18, 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Synopsis
Jan 04, 2023
Bonus: Revisiting King Lear and Hamlet
Dec 21, 2022
Bonus: Interview with Arthur W. Frank, author of King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations
Dec 07, 2022
Mini: Shakespeare's World: Immigrants, Others, and Foreign Commodities
Nov 23, 2022
Introducing Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
Nov 17, 2022
Hamlet: Wrap-up
Nov 09, 2022
Mini: Shakespeare's Soliloquies and Asides
Oct 26, 2022
Hamlet: Succession and Geopolitics
Oct 12, 2022
Mini: Traveling Theatre Companies
Sep 28, 2022
Hamlet: Ghosts and the Afterlife
Sep 14, 2022
Mini: Shakespearean Woodcuts
Aug 31, 2022
Hamlet: Ophelia, Gertrude, and Female Agency
Aug 17, 2022
Mini: Writing Fiction Based on Shakespeare with Carly Stevens
Aug 03, 2022
Hamlet: Antic Disposition
Jul 20, 2022
Hamlet: Stuff to Chew On
Jul 06, 2022
Hamlet: Synopsis
Jun 22, 2022
Bonus: RSC's Complete Works Second Edition with Sir Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Jun 08, 2022
King Lear: Wrap Up
May 25, 2022
Mini: Food and Cooking in Early Modern England
May 11, 2022
King Lear: Aging and Old Age
Apr 27, 2022
Mini: Not Shakespeare! Gallatea & Early Modern Trans Studies with Dr. Simone Chess
Apr 13, 2022
King Lear: Shakespeare's Influence on Early Psychiatry
Mar 30, 2022
Mini: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Mar 16, 2022
King Lear: Mental Health and Disability in Shakespeare's Time
Mar 02, 2022
Mini: Shakespeare's Folios and Quartos
Feb 16, 2022
King Lear: Patriarchy, Patrilineage, and Sexist Representations
Feb 02, 2022
King Lear: Stuff to Chew On
Jan 19, 2022
King Lear: Synopsis
Jan 05, 2022
Annoucement: We're launching a Patreon!
Jan 05, 2022
Bonus: Revisiting Twelfth Night
Dec 22, 2021
Bonus: Revisiting Macbeth
Dec 08, 2021
Mini: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imagination
Nov 24, 2021
Twelfth Night: Wrap Up, or She's the Man
Nov 10, 2021
Mini-Episode: Christopher Marlowe
Oct 27, 2021
Twelfth Night: Puritanism and Malvolio
Oct 13, 2021
Mini-Episode: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Sep 29, 2021
Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's Comedic Tropes
Sep 15, 2021
Mini-Episode: Shakespeare & Cross-dressing
Sep 01, 2021
Twelfth Night: Gender and Queer Theory
Aug 18, 2021
Mini-Episode: Shakespeare's Prose and Verse
Aug 04, 2021
Twelfth Night: Plays for the Court
Jul 21, 2021
Twelfth Night: Stuff to Chew On
Jul 07, 2021
Twelfth Night: Synopsis
Jun 23, 2021
Macbeth: Wrap Up
Jun 09, 2021
Mini-Episode: Holinshed's Chronicles
May 26, 2021
Macbeth: King James's Play
May 12, 2021
Mini-Episode: The Four Humours
Apr 28, 2021
Macbeth: Tyranny and Treason
Apr 14, 2021
Mini-Episode: The Gunpowder Plot
Mar 31, 2021
Macbeth: Gender Politics
Mar 17, 2021
Macbeth: King James I's Demonology, a Summary (Oof!)
Mar 03, 2021
Macbeth: King James I's Obsession with Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland and the North Berwick Witch Trials
Feb 17, 2021
Macbeth: Stuff to Chew On
Feb 03, 2021
Macbeth: Synopsis
Jan 20, 2021
Stuff You Should Know Part 3: William Shakespeare (Revised)
Jan 06, 2021
Stuff You Should Know Part 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean England & Theatre (Revised)
Jan 06, 2021
Stuff You Should Know Part 1: The Monarchy & English Renaissance (Revised)
Jan 06, 2021
Shakespeare Anyone? Trailer
Dec 30, 2020