101. Ask a Shakespeare Professor

Welcome to Shakespeare 101! It’s a perfectly fitting episode number for today as we invite a Shakespeare professor to answer YOUR questions about the Bard’s staying power, how to read his works, and how to interpret Lady Macbeth. We always say we won’t get TOO academic here, but we’re getting pretty academic thanks to Chelsey’s former Shakespeare professor. Professor Doug Green taught at Augsburg University, including Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, writing, drama, and film. He also helped develop and taught Augsburg’s first course in queer studies. He has an abundance of knowledge and advice to share with us as we read Macbeth together this month, so jump in and travel back to the college classroom with us today.    Books, authors, and resources mentioned: Paradise Lost by John Milton Samson Agonistes by John Milton The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan  The Bacchae of Euripedes  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Ben Jonson Beaumont & Fletcher John Dryden Alexander Pope Theater Mu Penumbra Theater Ovid Plutarch Holinshed’s Chronicles Chaucer The Guthrie Theater Classical Actor’s Ensemble 10,000 Things Barbarian Tony Kushner  Colson Whitehead James McBride Toni Morrison Louise Erdrich Margaret Atwood Robert Frost Mary Oliver Lucille Clifton Ross Gay Richard Blanco Elizabeth Alexander   Shakespeare Supplements: The Oxford English Dictionary Folio Facsimile The Folger Library MIT Global Shakespeare Norton Shakespeare   Macbeth on Film: Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, stream on Apple TV) Polanski’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (1970, stream on Amazon Prime) Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (1957, stream on HBO Max or Amazon Prime) Find Doug’s work: Jumping the Median with Doug Green