Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
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Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
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 exp...
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Harriet Walter: New Words for Shakespeare's Women
Shakespeare’s plays are filled with unforgettable women—but too often, their voices are cut short. Ophelia never gets to defend herself. Gertrude neve...
Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were both born in 1564, rising from working-class origins finding success in the new world of the theater....
Al Letson on his play Julius X
You may know Al Letson as a journalist—he’s the host of the popular investigative podcast Reveal. Before that, he created and hosted the public radio...
Director Rosa Joshi on Julius Caesar Today
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar feels urgently contemporary in Rosa Joshi’s new production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival—one of America’s largest and...
Reading Jane Austen in the 21st Century with Patricia A. Matthew
250 years after her birth, Jane Austen is more popular than ever, with the publication of new editions of her novels and numerous new film adaptations...
Inside Hamlet’s Head with Jeremy McCarter
What if, instead of just watching Hamlet, you could step inside the prince’s mind?
A revelatory new audio production reimagines Shakespea...
Shakespeare, Money, and Meaning-Making
Can reading King Lear help us rethink economic policy? Can Measure for Measure shape how we talk about justice, or Hamlet help us face grief? That’s t...
Staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto
When live performance shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen weren’t sure when—or if—they’d ever be onstage agai...
Simon Russell Beale on Shakespeare, from Hamlet to Titus
Called “the finest actor of his generation,” Sir Simon Russell Beale has played just about everyone in Shakespeare’s canon—Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Fals...
Shakespeare’s Boy Player Alexander Cooke
In Shakespeare’s time, the actresses were boys—and for the most celebrated of them, fame came early but could end abruptly with a voice change. In thi...
King Lear and Mao’s China, with Nan Z. Da
Nan Z. Da, in her book The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear, finds unsettling parallels between Shakespeare’s play and 20th-century China under Mao Zedong...
Top Pop Songs of the 1600s
What were the top musical hits of Shakespeare’s England? What lyrics were stuck in people’s heads? What stories did they sing on repeat?
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The Yorkist Pretender, with Jo Harkin
Who was Lambert Simnel—the boy who nearly claimed the Tudor throne? In late 15th-century England, identity wasn’t just a matter of birth—it could be a...
Surekha Davies on the Making of Monsters
Historian Surekha Davies joins us to explore how ideas of wonder, race, and the monstrous shaped European thought in the age of empire. These weren’t...
Reimagining Judith Shakespeare with Grace Tiffany
Judith Shakespeare’s life is a mystery. While history records her as the younger daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, much of her story...
Julia Armfield Reimagines King Lear in a Drowning World
How does Shakespeare’s King Lear resonate in a world facing climate catastrophe? Novelist Julia Armfield explores this question in Private Rites, a no...
Lauren Gunderson on the Women of Hamlet
What if Gertrude had more power than we thought? What if Ophelia’s fate wasn’t sealed from the start? And what does it really mean to mother a prince...
Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems
How did early modern England understand race and how has that influenced our thinking?
Race is often considered a recent construct, but S...
Nisha Sharma on Adapting Shakespeare for Modern Romances
How do Shakespeare’s timeless themes translate to the South Asian diaspora? Could the man from Stratford himself be reimagined as a meddling auntie? N...
Olivia Hussey: The Girl on the Balcony (Rebroadcast)
Olivia Hussey, whose spirited portrayal of Juliet when she was just a teenager herself became iconic for generations of people watching the 1968 film...
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones
What does it mean to be called an “upstart crow”? In 1592, a pamphlet titled Greene’s groats-worth of witte described William Shakespeare, in the firs...
Directing Romeo and Juliet, with Sam Gold
2024 has been the year of the iconic lovers Romeo and Juliet, and director Sam Gold has brought a bold new production of the timeless tragedy to Broa...
The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV, with Helen Castor
What happens when a king believes he rules by divine right yet loses the trust of his people through his tyrannical actions? In this episode, acclaime...
Studying Shakespeare Now
Forget dusty textbooks and silent classrooms—the Folger Shakespeare Library has released new teaching guides designed to make the Bard’s works more en...
Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard (Rebroadcast)
Can you love Shakespeare and be an antiracist? Farah Karim-Cooper’s book The Great White Bard explores the language of race and difference in Shakespe...
How Shakespeare Revolutionized Tragedy, with Rhodri Lewis
Shakespeare is often associated with tragedy, but did you know that he changed the genre? In this episode, Rhodri Lewis, professor of English at Princ...
Tabitha Stanmore on Practical Magic in Shakespeare’s England
Forget witches, broomsticks, and cauldrons bubbling over—when it came to real magic in Shakespeare’s time, most people turned to their local cunning f...
Will Tosh on the Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
How did Shakespeare engage with the complexities of gender and sexuality in his time? Was his portrayal of cross-dressing and same-sex attraction simp...
Throughlines, with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa
How can educators effectively incorporate discussions about race into the study of Shakespeare and other premodern texts in the college classroom? Bar...
Juliet, Then and Now, with Sophie Duncan
Was Romeo and Juliet your first brush with Shakespeare? Whether it was on stage, on screen in films by Franco Zeffirelli or Baz Luhrmann or Shonda Rhi...
Completing the Canon: Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe's Henry 6
This summer San Diego’s Old Globe became one of only 10 theaters in America who have produced all of Shakespeare’s plays (or 11, depending on how you...
Colman Domingo on Sing Sing and the Power of Theater
Can a musical comedy featuring Hamlet and Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger change lives?
Actor, playwright, and director Colman...
The Brief Life and Big Impact of the Federal Theatre Project, with James Shapiro
Imagine: a fiercely idealistic, politically progressive artist takes the stand at a hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee. The chair o...
A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 2: Research at the Folger
After a four-year renovation, the Folger Shakespeare Library is now open with 12,000 square feet of new public spaces. But behind the scenes, in our o...
A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 1
On June 21, the Folger reopens after a four-year renovation. The reimagined Folger has brand-new public exhibition spaces where we can introduce visit...
Fred Wilson on his New, Othello-Inspired Work for the Folger
Fred Wilson’s artistic output includes painting, sculpture, photography, and collage, among other media. But his 1992 work “Mining the Museum” at the...
Second Chances, Shakespeare, and Freud, with Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt
The desire for a second chance provides the engine for many of Shakespeare’s plays. In their new book, Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, Shakespe...
Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
When Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was on Broadway in 2002, it won a host of awards, including the Drama Desk, Drama League, and...
Judi Dench On Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
In her new book, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, Dame Judi Dench and actor/director Brendan O'Hea chat about her long history with the Bard....
Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
Land enclosure. Wildlife management. Erosion. Pollution. Mining practices. Today, we’d call these environmental issues. But, hundreds of years before...