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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Stratford’s online toolkit, Trump, Rushdie, and texting like Shakespeare. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
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- Oscar Isaac to swap Star Wars for Shakespeare in Hamlet
- New stamps celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary
- Stratford Festival launches new Shakespeare online toolkit
- Ditch your corporate leadership training program: launch a Shakespeare book club instead
- Donald Trump Performs Shakespeare’s Soliloquies
- Shakespeare First Folio discovered in time for anniversary
- Edinburgh Festival to feature Shakespeare
- He’s the real thing: how Shakespeare influenced the American ad industry
- William Shakespeare: a quintessentially American author
- Secret lives of women who broke taboo to act in Shakespeare
- Speak, master: a text coach on Shakespeare’s way with words
- Salman Rushdie: how Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule book
- This app lets bookworms text like William Shakespeare
- International Shakespeare Center hosts Shakespeare’s birthday party April 23
- Shakespeare’s linguistic legacy
- Spring brings Shakespeare Festival to northwest Houston
- Shakespeare reading to kick off Durham exhibit opening
- Richard II by Portland Shakespeare Company (review)
- King and Country by Royal Shakespeare Company (reviews: Huffington Post | Vulture | NY Times)
- Shakespeare’s Potions at the Currier Museum of Art (review)
- Othello by Independent Shakespeare Company (review)
- Macbeth by Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre (review)
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.