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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes some Hag-Seed, the Container Globe, Westworld, and a whole lotta Imogen and Tug of War: Civil Strife. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links
- Using Shakespeare to help children with autism
- This recreation of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre is built with shipping containers
- Texas prisons ban books by Shakespeare and Langston Hughes — but Hitler and David Duke are OK
- Deadpool’s new comic is a hilarious Shakespearean murder mashup
- What Shakespeare would say about this election
- Westworld episode 1 Shakespeare quotes explained
- Richard III opens at Shakespeare Theatre
- Imogen by Shakespeare’s Globe (reviews: What’s On Stage | Broadway World | The Daily Standard | Financial Times)
- Tug of War: Civil Strife by Chicago Shakespeare Theater (reviews: Sun-Times | Daily Herald | Chicago Reader | Wall Street Journal)
- Othello by Chesapeake Shakespeare (reviews: Baltimore Sun | DC Theatre Scene)
- Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood (reivew)
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.