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Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited — 196 episodes
The Shakespeare Ladies Club
The Translator's Art and Shakespeare, with Daniel Hahn
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Adjoa Andoh on Shakespeare
Thinking Through Shakespeare, with David Womersley
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
Whitney White and Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Mathematics
Spain's Golden Age of Theater
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
Celebrating Elizabethan Cooking, with Sam Bilton
Hamnet, with Chloe Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell
London's First Playhouse and Shakespeare
Mary, Queen of Scots, with Jade Scott
Richard Burbage and the Shakespearean Stage
Harriet Walter: New Words for Shakespeare's Women
Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe
Al Letson on his play Julius X
Director Rosa Joshi on Julius Caesar Today
Reading Jane Austen in the 21st Century with Patricia A. Matthew
Inside Hamlet’s Head with Jeremy McCarter
Shakespeare, Money, and Meaning-Making
Staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto
Simon Russell Beale on Shakespeare, from Hamlet to Titus
Shakespeare’s Boy Player Alexander Cooke
King Lear and Mao’s China, with Nan Z. Da
Top Pop Songs of the 1600s
The Yorkist Pretender, with Jo Harkin
Surekha Davies on the Making of Monsters
Reimagining Judith Shakespeare with Grace Tiffany
Julia Armfield Reimagines King Lear in a Drowning World
Lauren Gunderson on the Women of Hamlet
Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems
Nisha Sharma on Adapting Shakespeare for Modern Romances
Olivia Hussey: The Girl on the Balcony (Rebroadcast)
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones
Directing Romeo and Juliet, with Sam Gold
The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV, with Helen Castor
Studying Shakespeare Now
Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard (Rebroadcast)
How Shakespeare Revolutionized Tragedy, with Rhodri Lewis
Tabitha Stanmore on Practical Magic in Shakespeare’s England
Will Tosh on the Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
Throughlines, with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa
Juliet, Then and Now, with Sophie Duncan
Completing the Canon: Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe's Henry 6
Colman Domingo on Sing Sing and the Power of Theater
The Brief Life and Big Impact of the Federal Theatre Project, with James Shapiro
A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 2: Research at the Folger
A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 1
Fred Wilson on his New, Othello-Inspired Work for the Folger
Second Chances, Shakespeare, and Freud, with Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt
Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
Judi Dench On Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
Ramie Targoff on Women Writers of the English Renaissance
Green World: Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
Rita Dove on Shakespeare and Her Poem of Welcome for the Folger
John Guy And Julia Fox on Their New Biography of Anne Boleyn
David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotations for Your Everyday Life
What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley
Will Somer: Peter K. Andersson on Henry VIII's Court Fool
Isabelle Schuler on Lady Macbeth and Queen Hereafter
400 Years of Shakespeare's First Folio, with Emma Smith
The Bloomsbury Group and Shakespeare, with Marjorie Garber
Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare
Michael Patrick Thornton on Learning to Breathe Again with Shakespeare
The Many Lives of John Donne with Katherine Rundell
Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz
Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost
Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre Imagines the Lives of Elizabethan London's Child Actors
Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
Greg Doran on Forty Years of Directing Shakespeare
David West Read on & Juliet
Robert O'Hara on Directing Richard III
Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris
Lolita Chakrabarti on Adapting Hamnet for the Stage
James Ijames on Fat Ham
Marion Turner on The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains
Artificial Intelligence Goes to English Class, with Jennifer Black, John Ladd, and Laura Turchi
Lucy Wooding on Tudor England: A History
Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello: A Black Girl's Journey
Ian Smith on Black Shakespeare
Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger
Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
Billy Collins on Writing Short Poems and Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
Adrian Noble on How to Direct Shakespeare
Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, and Gandalf
Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet
What Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett
John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me (Rebroadcast)
Shakespeare, Chaucer, and the Tabard Inn, with Martha Carlin (Rebroadcast)
The Robben Island Shakespeare, with David Schalkwyk (Rebroadcast)
Peter Brook (Rebroadcast)
Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard (Rebroadcast)
Joe Papp and Shakespeare in the Park, with Kenneth Turan (Rebroadcast)
Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn on Their Hamlet Opera
Shakespeare and Ukraine, with Irena Makaryk
Leonard Barkan on Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
Pamela Hutchinson on Asta Nielsen's Hamlet
How the Commedia Dell'Arte's Actresses Changed the Shakespearean Stage, with Pamela Allen Brown
Matías Piñeiro on His Shakespeare-Adjacent Films
Molly Yarn on Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors'
Stephen Marche on How Shakespeare Changed Everything
Black Women Shakespeareans, 1821 – 1960, with Joyce Green MacDonald
Cutting Plays for Performance, with Aili Huber
J.R. Thorp on Learwife
Lena Cowen Orlin on The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Sir Antony Sher (Rebroadcast)
Holidays in Shakespeare's England, with Erika T. Lin
Bringing Latinx Voices to Shakespeare, with Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa
Shakespeare's Language and Race, with Patricia Akhimie and Carol Mejia LaPerle
Shakespeare in Latinx Communities, with José Cruz González and David Lozano
Shakespeare and the British Royal Family, with Gordon McMullan
Mike Lew on Teenage Dick
Mona Awad on All's Well
How We Hear Shakespeare's Plays, with Carla Della Gatta
The Restoration Reinvention of Shakespeare
Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong
Geoffrey Marsh on Shakespeare's Neighbors
Race and Blackness in Elizabethan England
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
"Richard III" in Prison
Simon Godwin on "Romeo and Juliet"
Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Stephen Hopkins and "Stephano"
Meme García on "house of sueños"
Shakespeare in the Harlem Renaissance
Naomi Miller on Mary Sidney Herbert and "Imperfect Alchemist"
Shakespeare and "Game of Thrones"
Shakespeare, Science, and Art
"Fat Rascals": In the Kitchen with John Tufts
The Victorian Cult Of Shakespeare
Black Lives Matter in "Titus Andronicus"
The Show Must Go Online
Writing About the Plague in Shakespeare’s England
Lady Romeo
Richard II on the Radio
Shakespeare in Black and White (rebroadcast)
African Americans and Shakespeare (rebroadcast)
Maggie O'Farrell on "Hamnet"
Directing Shakespeare
The Booksellers
The King's Men
Jonathan Bate on the Classics and Shakespeare
Sandra Newman on "The Heavens"
Kathryn Harkup on "Death by Shakespeare"
Shakespeare and Solace
The Long Life of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Emma Smith on "This Is Shakespeare"
James Shapiro on "Shakespeare in a Divided America"
Abraham Lincoln and Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Folktales
Books and Reading in Shakespeare's England
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The History of Shakespeare in American Schools
Peter Brook
Kenny Leon on his "Much Ado About Nothing"
Women Performers in Shakespeare's Time
Mark Haddon on The Porpoise
Shakespeare in Immigrant New York
Groundbreaking Discovery: John Milton's Copy of Shakespeare
Iqbal Khan
Shakespeare and Opera, with Colleen Fay
Othello and Blackface (rebroadcast)
Charlotte Cushman: When Romeo Was A Woman (rebroadcast)
If Shakespeare Wrote "Mean Girls"
Andrew McConnell Stott on the Shakespeare Jubilee
Lisa Klein on "Ophelia"
Casey Wilder Mott and Fran Kranz on their LA "Midsummer"
The Gender Politics of "Kiss Me, Kate"
Glenda Jackson
Michael Kahn
Hamlet 360: Virtual Reality Shakespeare
Harriet Walter
Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
Acting, Emotion, and Science on Shakespeare's Stage
Simon Mayo: "Mad Blood Stirring"
Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
Olivia Hussey: The Girl on the Balcony
Duke Ellington, Shakespeare, and "Such Sweet Thunder"
The ABCs of Performing Hamlet
Pop Culture Shakespeare with Stefanie Jochman
Julie Schumacher on The Shakespeare Requirement
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
Shakespeare Uncovered
Understanding Peter Sellars
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife
Steven Berkoff: Shakespeare's Heroes and Villains
Pop Sonnets (rebroadcast)
Myths About Shakespeare (rebroadcast)