New Shakes Podcasts

Rich: The Podcast

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago
In 2005, Margaret Anjou made that fatal phone call, bringing the police a tale of corporate downfall, satanic murder, and two young children bundled away in the night never to be seen again. Nothin...

Teacakes & Tarot: Conversations with Queer Futurists

23 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Join host Will Wilhelm (they/them) for an intimate chat and a tarot reading with America’s coolest and queerest theatre creators. Each episode, Will and their special guest create space to summon a...

Willy Shakers

19 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago
A Podcast where I talk about how much I love Willy. I hope if you listen you will love Willy too. No, Please get your mind out of the gutter, I mean William Shakespeare. So put the kettle on, grab ...

Shakespeare's Pants

16 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
A Shakespeare scholar talks to actual clever people about what normal domestic activity was like during the life and times of William Shakespeare. Partly informative, and mostly fun, the series ai...

History Film Club

36 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Award-winning screenwriters, consultants, and historians Alex von Tunzelmann and Hannah Grieg are delving deep into historical films. In each episode they talk to an expert about their loves, their...

Shakespeare Alive

41 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Theatre professionals, artists, vloggers and other guests from around the world join resident Shakespeare Birthplace Trust experts Paul and Anjna to discuss Shakespeare's place in the 21st century....

Eternal Lines

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A podcast project by the Shakespeare Company at UCLA. Our goal is provide thought-provoking conversations about Shakespeare in a way that doesn't feel stuffy or intimidating; just people getting do...

Hamlet in Exile Podcast

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
A reading from the new book, Hamlet in Exile, by Ulf Kirchdorfer. Hamlet in Exile is a collection of poems in which Ulf Kirchdorfer imagines the Hamlet from Shakespeare's play to travel to other pa...

Kansas Theatre Works

40 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Audio storytelling from the Kansas State University Theatre program. From Shakespeare to alumni-written audio plays and musicals, K-State Theatre innovates during a changing landscape for live thea...

Monteverdi and his constellation

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
John Eliot Gardiner, Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, presents eight podcasts that explore Monteverdi’s role at the centre of seismic shifts and tumultuous advanc...

Shakespeare@ Home Podcast

17 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
Shakespeare@ Home is our new ongoing project of classic drama in ‘radio’ format. Conceived as an homage to the heyday of serialized radio drama of the 1930s and 40s, Shakespeare@ Home delivers our ...

Free Shakespeare on the Radio: Richard II

10 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago
FROM OPEN AIR TO ON THE AIR! Join WNYC and The Public Theater as we bring Free Shakespeare in the Park to the airwaves with William Shakespeare’s RICHARD II. Brought to you in a serialized radio br...

Shakespeare Is My Home Slice

24 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago
Getting bawdy with the Bard! Shakespeare was gangsta, so let's take a look at the down and dirty side of one of the world's greatest writers. [Theme, background and exit music used with permission ...

Quarantine Genius

8 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago
How did Shakespeare cope when theatres shut for plague? How were Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot affected by the Spanish flu? How did Frida Kahlo's experience of polio trigger her artistic relationship...

Sour Beer and Shakespeare

41 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Our hosts explore their lives as actors, twenty-somethings, Shakespeare lovers, and sour beer drinkers. Every week Juliet Wolfe and Olivia Rose Nathan bring their hot take on a different Shakespear...

The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
William Shakespeare’s most well-known play is more than most people realize. While it is the story of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, it is also the story of two families in the middle of a...

King Richard II by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of ...

King Lear by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 8 ratings
Considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, the tragedy King Lear portrays some of the darkest aspects of human nature that can be found in literature. The helplessness of the human condi...

King Henry IV by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingb...

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In a tiny French dukedom, a younger brother usurps his elder brother's throne. Duke Senior is banished to the Forest of Arden along with his faithful retainers, leaving his lovely daughter Rosalind...

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. T...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Written around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratings
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's po...

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Right from its famous opening scene which begins, “Thunder and lightning. Enter Three Witches” The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare holds the reader fast in a stirring, monumental experien...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Though it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that he still remains ...

Othello by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares his grief and rage...

Shakespeare Monologues by William Shakespeare

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is truly a delightful compilation of some of the best known and loved passages from William Shakespeare's plays. Most readers would be familiar with all or at least some of them. If you've stu...

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit

21 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Opening with an introduction to the life of the most famous Englishman of all, William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit captures the reader's imagination in her inimitable way. Beautiful Stories from Shak...

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

21 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This little gem of a book was probably the first introduction to Shakespeare that most readers have had as children. Tales from Shakespeare was written in 1807 by a young clerk called Charles Lam...