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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes some Titus‘ viral video recipe, teaching Macbeth in the digital age, and Kim Kardashian. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links
- In academia, Shakespeare has become a lightning rod — a focus for the culture wars
- Young women ‘should ditch reality star role models in favour of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra
- Here’s why Kentucky Shakespeare’s viral theater promos are a big deal
- Teaching Macbeth in the Digital Age: EdWeek wants to hear from you
- Margaret Atwood remixes Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a prison drama
- ‘Man up, Hamlet, get thyself stuck in’ – Shakespeare digested
- Supernatural Shakespeare exhibit pays tribute To Bard’s work
- 8 new Shakespeare retellings and adaptations that will change the way you see the Bard
- Why Rewrite Shakespeare
- Henry V: Shakespeare used the iambic pentameter “to thrill”
- Macbeth by Northern Stage (review)
- Shotspeare (review)
- Macbeth by Actors Theatre of Louisville (review)
- Twelfth Night by Great Lakes Theater (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.