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
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
Jan 06, 2021
Stuff You Should Know Part 2: Elizabethan England & Theatre
Jan 06, 2021
Stuff You Should Know Part 1: The Monarchy & British Renaissance
Jan 06, 2021
Shakespeare Anyone? Trailer
Dec 30, 2020