The Shakespeare Underground

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What's The Shakespeare Underground about?

The Shakespeare Underground is a podcast series that examines the works and life of William Shakespeare, and explores why there has been doubt about the authorship of the plays, Sonnets, and other poetry.

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The Shakespeare Underground episodes:

01.27.2013
Mysteries of the First Folio
The First Folio has been called “incomparably the most important work in the English language.” Published in 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, and purportedly assembled by members of his theater company, the First Folio is the earliest collection...
12.16.2012
Poet Ape, A Plagiarist Among the Playwrights
Episode 6 with Sabrina Feldman Ben Jonson and other writers of Shakespeare’s time satirized a social-climbing playwright-actor who stole their words and passed them off as his own.In epigrams, stories, and plays they attacked this pretentious plagiarist, who made a lucrative...
09.21.2012
The Comedy of Othello: Commedia dell’Arte and Shakespeare the Genre-Bender
Is Othello a comedy gone wrong? Richard Whalen reveals the surprising connections between Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice and Commedia dell'Arte, the energetic, improvised street theater from 16th century Italy. Stock figures of Commedia dell'Arte bear more than...
08.02.2012
The Apocryphal William Shakespeare: Episode 4 with Sabrina Feldman
What are the Shakespeare Apocrypha? And how do we explain the close ties between some of these plays and the works universally accepted as Shakespeare’s? Dramas like Locrine, The London Prodigall, the superhit Mucedorus, and others were attributed to William Shakespeare during the 17th...
05.07.2012
Midsummer Monsieur - The French Court in Shakespeare
Could A Midsummer Night's Dream contain allegorical references that satirize Queen Elizabeth's long & melodramatic courtship with the Duc of Alencon? Join Earl Showerman as we visit the court of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1570s. Statesmen, nobles, and perhaps even the queen...
12.12.2011
The Law in Hamlet
Themes of law in Hamlet and Shakespeare's other plays and poetry. Can the intricacies of Elizabethan Law shed new light on the tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark? In this fascinating interview with attorney Tom Regnier, we look at how...
10.03.2011
Where There's A Will
A look at William Shakespeare's Last Will & Testament. What what can we learn about what he owned, who he remembered, what he cared about? The most personal document remaining from the life of William Shakespeare is his Last Will & Testament. ...

What's The Shakespeare Underground about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Shakespeare Underground episodes:

Mysteries of the First Folio

Poet Ape, A Plagiarist Among the Playwrights

The Comedy of Othello: Commedia dell’Arte and Shakespeare the Genre-Bender

The Apocryphal William Shakespeare: Episode 4 with Sabrina Feldman

Midsummer Monsieur - The French Court in Shakespeare

The Law in Hamlet

Where There's A Will