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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes exotic locales, a cool flowchart from GoodTickleBrain, 50 shades of Shakespeare, deadly potions, and the RSC’s Shakespeare Live! PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links
- Which Shakespeare play should I see? An illustrated flowchart
- How to teach … Shakespeare
- In Shakespeare’s plays, mealtimes were a recipe for drama
- Bed tricks and broken women: Shakespeare’s guide to love
- Shakespeare more popular abroad than in Britain, study finds
- Fifty Shades of Shakespeare
- Bernie Sanders, the modern-day Mark Antony
- Shakespeare: who put those thoughts in his head?
- Was there a cover-up over Shakespeare’s death?
- 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he’s still required reading (even for Econ majors)
- ” celebration of Shakespeare’s meditations on mortality
- Snacking in Shakespeare’s time: what theatregoers ate at the Bard’s plays
- Poison Pen: deadly potions in Shakespeare’s plays
- Shakespeare the high culture cash cow
- Why some people think Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare, explained
- What are the best Shakespeare movies?
- Three cheers for Hamlet, the greatest Shakespeare play of all time
- Shakespeare Live! was a bold and innovative tribute
- Shakespeare Live! sent shivers down the spine – review
- Fury as the Bard is dragged into refugee row: BBC accused of using Shakespeare celebrations to push ‘Left-wing, pro-immigration agenda’
Errata
2:45 – should be “As Edward turned 18…” not “As Edward turned 13…”
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Podcast Credits
This podcast was recorded with the built-in microphone on an Acer Chromebook C720, using AudioRecorder from gideon.weissman (webaudiodemos.appspot.com). It was then edited in Adobe Audition Creative Cloud on a Dell Inspiron 3847 computer.
The bumper music (Blue Nuke) and the segue music (Sonic Chaos) are courtesy of Royalty Free Music.com, which offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download.