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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes exotic locales, Gary Soto, the American Frontier, and a torrent of twisted fantasies. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links
- Shakespeare’s distributed personality
- Dominic Dromgoole on the extraordinary power of Shakespeare’s exotic locations
- Do you have a favorite Shakespeare sonnet?
- Gary Soto and Will Shakespeare become co-authors
- Check out Transport for London’s Shakespeare Tube Map
- West side story: how Shakespeare stormed America’s frontier
- Which is Shakespeare’s greatest play? Cast your vote
- Minnesota native takes fictional look at Shakespeare’s ‘Dark Lady’
- Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world
- Shakespeare’s last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies
- Is it fair for Shakespeare to overshadow Cervantes?
- Shakespeare Live!, special RSC gala performance, will feature all-star lineup
- Cymbeline by Fiasco Theater for NapaShakes
- Richard III by St. Louis Shakespeare (reviews: River Front Times | St. Louis Today)
- King and Country by Royal Shakespeare Company (reviews: Entertainment Weekly | TheaterMania)
- Macbeth by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (review)
- The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood by Joel Altman (review)
- don’t forget this weekend’s big bash in my neck of the woods
Errata
2:45 – should be “one day apart” not “one year apart”
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.
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