The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, June 15th, 2015

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes steampunk, Trevor Nunn, EMOJI, and a teacher who wants Shakespeare removed, plus a boatload of productions. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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Podcast 105: Troilus and Cressida: Plot synopsis and introduction

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This week’s podcast kicks off our two month-long discussion of Troilus and Cressida with a plot synopsis and a quick introduction.

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, June 8th, 2015

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Clerks 3 is like King Lear, a Macbeth trailer, plus a boatload of preview/reviews of productions. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, June 1st, 2015

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Sam Waterston, Shakespeare “unfriend”-ed, The Essential Secrets For Surviving the Shakespeare in the Park Line, a boatload of previews and reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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Podcast 104: Hamlet: A Concept, a Cast, and the Wrap-Up

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This week’s podcast concludes (finally) our three month-long discussion of Hamlet with a look back at the play, wrapping up with some opinion, a concept and a casting.

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, May 25th, 2015

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes a new image of Shakespeare, Fassbender’s Macbeth slays ’em at Cannes, and a boatload of reviews of the new production of As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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Podcast 103: Hamlet: O, Ophelia…

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This week’s podcast continues our three month-long discussion of Hamlet with with a look at Ophelia, botanicals, abortion, and suicide (possibly even assisted)…

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, May 18th, 2015

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Shakespeare at West Point, digging up Shakespeare’s corpse, removing Shakespeare’s duds from the Canon, and Henry Folger. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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Podcast 102: Amir Khan interview

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This week’s podcast continues our three month-long discussion of Hamlet with an interview with Amir Khan, who has written a book, Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy, due out later this year from Edinburgh University Press. A chapter of that book has been printed in the current issue of Shakespeare Quarterly, under the title “My Kingdom for a Ghost: Counterfactual Thinking and Hamlet.”

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, May 11th, 2015

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes J. Caesar, Ugly Shakespeare Company, a bawdy French song in Love’s Labor’s Lost, plus Helen Mirren, Lily Rabe and Matt LeBlanc(?). PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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