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Romeo and Juliet: Is Shakespeare’s famous love story actually a play about violence?
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Romeo and Juliet: Is Shakespeare’s famous love story actually a play about violence?

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Tybalt (Rex Daugherty) duels Mercutio (Brad Koed), with Benvolio (Aaron Bliden) looking on. Romeo and Juliet, Folger Theatre, 2013. Casey Kaleba was the fight director. Photo by Teresa Wood. Is Romeo and Juliet a play about love? Well yes, but…

The madness of Hamlet and King Lear: When psychiatrists used Shakespeare to argue legal definitions of insanity in the courtroom
King Lear, III, 2. Johann Heinrich Ramberg. 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The madness of Hamlet and King Lear: When psychiatrists used Shakespeare to argue legal definitions of insanity in the courtroom

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King Lear, III, 2. Johann Heinrich Ramberg. 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library. Well-known Shakespeare characters such as King Lear and Hamlet suffer (or appear to suffer) from madness — and early American psychiatrists took note. Observations drawn from literature began…

10 acclaimed directors on Shakespeare and their work
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10 acclaimed directors on Shakespeare and their work

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A few of favorite quotes from some of the directors we’ve had on the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast since 2014.

Top 10 Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes of 2019
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Top 10 Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes of 2019

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Our top Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes from 2019 feature interviews with authors, directors, actors, and scholars. Happy listening! 1. Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches In 1994, Deborah Harkness was doing research at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library when she stumbled…

Revisit the top five Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes of 2018
The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, home to The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park
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Revisit the top five Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes of 2018

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Revisit some of our most popular 2018 Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes, from Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway to a conversation with actor Derek Jacobi to the tyrants in Shakespeare’s plays.

Excerpt - 'How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England' by Ruth Goodman
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Excerpt - 'How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England' by Ruth Goodman

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From rudeness to gross behavior, Ruth Goodman’s book “How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England” sheds some surprising light on what bad behavior really meant, including the reason that Shakespeare had Sampson threaten to “bite my thumb” at another character…

Shakespeare Uncovered debuts its third season
F. Murray Abraham in Shakespeare Uncovered. Photo: Rory Mulvey
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Shakespeare Uncovered debuts its third season

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The TV series “Shakespeare Uncovered” returns this Friday, October 12, with richly visual episodes. Watch video previews of Helen Hunt on “Much Ado About Nothing” and F. Murray Abraham on “The Merchant of Venice.”

Excerpt - 'The Shakespeare Requirement' by Julie Schumacher
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Excerpt - 'The Shakespeare Requirement' by Julie Schumacher

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In her new novel “The Shakespeare Requirement,” Julie Schumacher continues her satirical commentary on the humanities in academia.

Mary Baker and the legacy of Anne Hathaway's Cottage
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Mary Baker and the legacy of Anne Hathaway's Cottage

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This excerpt from a new book by Katherine West Scheil explores the 19th-century transformation of the Anne Hathaway Cottage into a tourist destination.

Shakespeare Unlimited: Hearing the voices of discovery
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Shakespeare Unlimited: Hearing the voices of discovery

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Esther Ferington

In our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, now celebrating its 100th episode, you can hear so many surprising and often first-person stories by scholars, musicians, authors, actors, and others on all manner of Shakespearean topics.

Celebrating 100 episodes of Shakespeare Unlimited
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Celebrating 100 episodes of Shakespeare Unlimited

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Today, we’re releasing the 100th episode of our podcast, Shakespeare Unlimited. Since 2015, when we kicked things off with an episode about Nelson Mandela and the Robben Island Shakespeare, we’ve met the people who answer letters to Juliet, chatted with rappers (on more…

Excerpt - Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars
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Excerpt - Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars

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This excerpt from Ayanna Thompson’s book explores Peter Sellars’s “uniquely American take on William Shakespeare” and his 1980 production of King Lear.

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