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Shakespeare Anyone? — 152 episodes
As You Like It: Stuff to Chew On
As You Like It: Synopsis
Bonus Episode: Interview with Mya Gosling, author and artist of Good Tickle Brain
Julius Caesar: Wrap Up
Mini: Shakespeare and Stephen King with Caroline Bicks, author of Monsters in the Archives
Julius Caesar: How Often Did Shakespeare Think About the Roman Empire?
Mini: Ecological Shakespeare with Katherine Steele Brokaw
Julius Caesar: A People's History Meets Shakespeare's Play
Mini: Essex's Rebellion: The Plot Against Elizabeth I
Julius Caesar: The "Falling Sickness" and Shakespeare's Understanding of Epilepsy
Mini: Astrology in Shakespeare's Time
Julius Caesar: Honor and Virtue of Brutus & Portia in Shakespeare's Play
Julius Caesar: Stuff to Chew On
Julius Caesar: Synopsis
Bonus: Twelfth Night Wrap-up Redux
Bonus: Revisiting Henry V and The Tempest
Mini: Shakespeare in the Borderlands with Dr. Katherine Gillen and Ruben Ramirez of Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva
The Tempest: Wrap-Up
Mini: Interview with Ana Davis on My Keen Knife, a Young Adult Dark Fantasy Retelling of Macbeth
The Tempest: Grimoires, Alchemy, and the Making of Prospero's Art
Mini: Shakespeare for Young Audiences with ML Roberts, Sean Patrick Nill, and Elyse Sharp of B Street Theatre's NEVER FEAR, SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest: Caliban's Legacy of Race, Class, and Colonialism
Mini: Court Masques and How They Shaped Shakespeare's Plays
The Tempest: Patriarchy, Gender, and Power in Shakespeare's Play
Mini: Making Shakespeare Accessible with Mike and Steph Crugnola of Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project
The Tempest: Travel Narratives, Cultural Encounters, and Shakespeare's Inspirations
The Tempest: Stuff to Chew On
The Tempest: Synopsis
Bonus Episode: Interview with Kent Lehnhof on Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays
King Henry V: Wrap Up
Mini: Interview with Julie Hammonds on Blue Mountain Rose—A Shakespearean Tale of Theater, Family, and Resilience
King Henry V: European Foreigners and Immigrants in Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Shakespeare in Love [Unlocked from the Patreon Vault]
King Henry V: The Common and Working People of Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Henry and Emily Folger and the Search for Shakespeare's First Folio
King Henry V: Military Life in Shakespeare's England
Mini: English Nobility and Titles in Shakespeare's Time
King Henry V: Historical Figures vs Shakespeare's Fictional Characters
King Henry V: Stuff to Chew On
King Henry V: Synopsis
[Re-issue] Stuff You Should Know Part 3: William Shakespeare (Revised)
[Re-issue] Stuff You Should Know Part 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean England & Theatre (Revised)
[Re-issue] Stuff You Should Know Part 1: The Monarchy & English Renaissance (Revised)
Bonus: Revisiting Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing
Mini: Intercultural and Global Shakespeare in a Postcolonial World
Much Ado About Nothing: Wrap Up
Mini: Aemilia Bassano Lanyer, the Proto-Feminist Poet of Shakespeare's Time
Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare's Bastards and Illegitimacy in Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers with Darren Freebury-Jones
Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare and The Book of the Courtier
Mini: Shakespeare's Language Framework: Malapropisms
Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare and the Comic Constable, or, Dogberry: Fact vs Fiction
Mini: Theatres of Value with Dr. Danielle Rosvally
Much Ado About Nothing: Gender Roles and Norms in Shakespeare's Time
Much Ado About Nothing: Stuff to Chew On
Much Ado About Nothing: Synopsis
Bonus: Interview with Ricky Dukes, Artistic Director of Lazarus Theatre Company
Romeo and Juliet: Wrap Up
Mini: Shakespeare for Autistic Individuals: The Flute Theatre with Kelly Hunter, MBE
Romeo and Juliet: Feuds, Vendettas, and Duels
Mini: Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's Colleague and Competitor
Romeo & Juliet: Teenagerdom in Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Staging Violence in Shakespeare with Dr. Danielle Rosvally and Sydney Schwindt
Romeo and Juliet: Courtship and Marriage in Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Shakespeare and Petrarch
Romeo and Juliet: Patriarchy, Masculinity, and Honor
Romeo and Juliet: Stuff to Chew On
Romeo and Juliet: Synopsis
Bonus: Shakespeare and Social Media
Bonus: Revisiting A Midsummer Night's Dream and Titus Andronicus
Mini: "Decolonize the Mind" through Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus: Wrap Up
Mini: Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's Wife
Titus Andronicus: Cannibalism and the Dangers of Hospitality in Early Modern England with Carson Brakke
Mini: Shakespeare's Sources: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Titus Andronicus: Aaron and Race in Shakespeare with Dr. Mia Escott
Mini: Shakespearean Vengeance: Exploring Revenge Tragedies in Early Modern England
Introducing...Play On! Podcasts: Love's Labour's Lost -- All Kinds of Women
Titus Andronicus: Femininity and Girlhood in Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Romeo & Juliet Reimagined: THE HUNDRED LOVES OF JULIET by Evelyn Skye
Titus Andronicus: Trauma in Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre
Titus Andronicus: Stuff to Chew On
Titus Andronicus: Synopsis
Bonus: Yassified Shakespeare with Dr. Trevor Boffone and Dr. Danielle Rosvally
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wrap Up, or Elyse's Lament
Mini: Commerce and Trade in Shakespeare's Time
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare & Climate Change with Sydney Schwindt
Mini: Shakespeare's Changeling Children
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Political Satire in a Pastoral Comedy
Mini: Writing Poetry Inspired by Shakespeare, an Interview with Elizabeth Sylvia
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Classic Myth in Shakespeare
Mini: Plague, Quarantine, & Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Sex and Sexuality...or, Shakespeare's Horny Play
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Stuff to Chew On
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Synopsis
Bonus: Revisiting King Lear and Hamlet
Bonus: Interview with Arthur W. Frank, author of King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations
Mini: Shakespeare's World: Immigrants, Others, and Foreign Commodities
Introducing Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
Hamlet: Wrap-up
Mini: Shakespeare's Soliloquies and Asides
Hamlet: Succession and Geopolitics
Mini: Traveling Theatre Companies
Hamlet: Ghosts and the Afterlife
Mini: Shakespearean Woodcuts
Hamlet: Ophelia, Gertrude, and Female Agency
Mini: Writing Fiction Based on Shakespeare with Carly Stevens
Hamlet: Antic Disposition
Hamlet: Stuff to Chew On
Hamlet: Synopsis
Bonus: RSC's Complete Works Second Edition with Sir Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
King Lear: Wrap Up
Mini: Food and Cooking in Early Modern England
King Lear: Aging and Old Age
Mini: Not Shakespeare! Gallatea & Early Modern Trans Studies with Dr. Simone Chess
King Lear: Shakespeare's Influence on Early Psychiatry
Mini: Shakespeare's Sonnets
King Lear: Mental Health and Disability in Shakespeare's Time
Mini: Shakespeare's Folios and Quartos
King Lear: Patriarchy, Patrilineage, and Sexist Representations
King Lear: Stuff to Chew On
King Lear: Synopsis
Annoucement: We're launching a Patreon!
Bonus: Revisiting Twelfth Night
Bonus: Revisiting Macbeth
Mini: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imagination
Twelfth Night: Wrap Up, or She's the Man
Mini-Episode: Christopher Marlowe
Twelfth Night: Puritanism and Malvolio
Mini-Episode: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's Comedic Tropes
Mini-Episode: Shakespeare & Cross-dressing
Twelfth Night: Gender and Queer Theory
Mini-Episode: Shakespeare's Prose and Verse
Twelfth Night: Plays for the Court
Twelfth Night: Stuff to Chew On
Twelfth Night: Synopsis
Macbeth: Wrap Up
Mini-Episode: Holinshed's Chronicles
Macbeth: King James's Play
Mini-Episode: The Four Humours
Macbeth: Tyranny and Treason
Mini-Episode: The Gunpowder Plot
Macbeth: Gender Politics
Macbeth: King James I's Demonology, a Summary (Oof!)
Macbeth: King James I's Obsession with Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland and the North Berwick Witch Trials
Macbeth: Stuff to Chew On
Macbeth: Synopsis
Stuff You Should Know Part 3: William Shakespeare (Revised)
Stuff You Should Know Part 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean England & Theatre (Revised)
Stuff You Should Know Part 1: The Monarchy & English Renaissance (Revised)
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