Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

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Home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. Advancing knowledge and the arts. Discover it all at www.folger.edu. Shakespeare turns up in the most interesting places—not just literature and the stage, but science and social history as well. Our "Shakespeare Unlimited" podcast explores the fascinating and varied connections between Shakespeare, his works, and the world around us.

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  • King Lear and Mao’s China, with Nan Z. Da
    May 19, 2025 – 00:31:15
  • Top Pop Songs of the 1600s
    May 6, 2025 – 00:39:52
  • The Yorkist Pretender, with Jo Harkin
    Apr 22, 2025 – 00:35:39
  • Surekha Davies on the Making of Monsters
    Apr 7, 2025 – 00:33:22
  • Reimagining Judith Shakespeare with Grace Tiffany
    Mar 25, 2025 – 00:35:08
  • Julia Armfield Reimagines King Lear in a Drowning World
    Mar 11, 2025 – 00:29:32
  • Lauren Gunderson on the Women of Hamlet
    Feb 24, 2025 – 00:34:49
  • Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems
    Feb 6, 2025 – 00:33:10
  • Nisha Sharma on Adapting Shakespeare for Modern Romances
    Jan 23, 2025 – 00:31:10
  • Olivia Hussey: The Girl on the Balcony (Rebroadcast)
    Jan 8, 2025 – 00:33:41
  • Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones
    Dec 19, 2024 – 00:33:43
  • Directing Romeo and Juliet, with Sam Gold
    Dec 13, 2024 – 00:35:22
  • The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV, with Helen Castor
    Nov 26, 2024 – 00:44:56
  • Studying Shakespeare Now
    Nov 20, 2024 – 00:36:35
  • Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard (Rebroadcast)
    Nov 5, 2024 – 00:32:03
  • How Shakespeare Revolutionized Tragedy, with Rhodri Lewis
    Oct 22, 2024 – 00:33:16
  • Tabitha Stanmore on Practical Magic in Shakespeare’s England
    Oct 8, 2024 – 00:30:41
  • Will Tosh on the Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
    Sep 24, 2024 – 00:35:10
  • Throughlines, with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa
    Sep 10, 2024 – 00:32:52
  • Juliet, Then and Now, with Sophie Duncan
    Aug 27, 2024 – 00:37:23
  • Completing the Canon: Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe's Henry 6
    Aug 14, 2024 – 00:37:34
  • Colman Domingo on Sing Sing and the Power of Theater
    Jul 30, 2024 – 00:30:10
  • The Brief Life and Big Impact of the Federal Theatre Project, with James Shapiro
    Jul 16, 2024 – 00:36:36
  • A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 2: Research at the Folger
    Jul 2, 2024 – 00:31:13
  • A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 1
    Jun 18, 2024 – 00:34:04
  • Fred Wilson on his New, Othello-Inspired Work for the Folger
    Jun 4, 2024 – 00:33:45
  • Second Chances, Shakespeare, and Freud, with Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt
    May 21, 2024 – 00:35:45
  • Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
    May 7, 2024 – 00:32:21
  • Judi Dench On Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
    Apr 23, 2024 – 00:40:56
  • Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
    Apr 9, 2024 – 00:33:47
  • Ramie Targoff on Women Writers of the English Renaissance
    Mar 26, 2024 – 00:37:32
  • Green World: Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
    Mar 12, 2024 – 00:33:22
  • Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
    Feb 27, 2024 – 00:32:11
  • Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
    Feb 13, 2024 – 00:34:30
  • Rita Dove on Shakespeare and Her Poem of Welcome for the Folger
    Jan 30, 2024 – 00:37:06
  • John Guy And Julia Fox on Their New Biography of Anne Boleyn
    Jan 16, 2024 – 00:33:44
  • David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotations for Your Everyday Life
    Jan 2, 2024 – 00:35:13
  • What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley
    Dec 19, 2023 – 00:33:25
  • Will Somer: Peter K. Andersson on Henry VIII's Court Fool
    Dec 5, 2023 – 00:31:20
  • Isabelle Schuler on Lady Macbeth and Queen Hereafter
    Nov 21, 2023 – 00:30:58
  • 400 Years of Shakespeare's First Folio, with Emma Smith
    Nov 7, 2023 – 00:29:22
  • The Bloomsbury Group and Shakespeare, with Marjorie Garber
    Oct 24, 2023 – 00:31:05
  • Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare
    Oct 10, 2023 – 00:31:34
  • Michael Patrick Thornton on Learning to Breathe Again with Shakespeare
    Sep 26, 2023 – 00:29:58
  • The Many Lives of John Donne with Katherine Rundell
    Sep 12, 2023 – 00:34:28
  • Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz
    Aug 29, 2023 – 00:33:18
  • Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
    Aug 15, 2023 – 00:32:18
  • Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost
    Aug 1, 2023 – 00:32:39
  • Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre Imagines the Lives of Elizabethan London's Child Actors
    Jul 18, 2023 – 00:31:37
  • Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
    Jul 4, 2023 – 00:36:55
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