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Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz
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Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz

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Steve Mentz’s books connect literary criticism with marine ecology. He takes us on a deep dive into Shakespeare and the sea.

Stephen Hopkins and Stephano
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Stephen Hopkins and Stephano

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Epsiode 163 He was in a shipwreck. He was at Jamestown. He was on the Mayflower. And maybe, just maybe, he’s in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Stephen Hopkins was the only passenger on the Mayflower who had previously been…

Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare
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Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 76 In 2012, the Donmar Warehouse opened an all-female production of Julius Caesar, directed by Tony Award-nominated director Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter as Brutus. The production was set in a womens’ prison, and would be…

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Digital Tempest
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's Digital Tempest

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 75 Twenty-first-century wizardry meets the seventeenth-century kind in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Tempest with digital effects created by The Imaginarium, a performance-capture company that’s best known for movie and video game animations.  This production…

Shakespeare and Magic
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Shakespeare and Magic

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 43 In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the magician Prospero conjures up a storm, charms his daughter to sleep, and uses his power to control Ariel and other spirits. Is this magic for real, or is Prospero pulling off…

Shakespeare in the Caribbean
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Shakespeare in the Caribbean

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 35 Shakespeare and his plays are woven deeply into the culture of the Caribbean, both white and black. Even after centuries of British colonial rule came to an end, Shakespeare endured.  There’s a long tradition in the…