Category: Adaptations
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Episode 40: Is 2025 the Year of Hamlet Core?
The vibes are off in 2025, and many of us are staring down the barrel of 2026 with a lot of negativity. What about this mood has inspired so many recent adaptations of Hamlet?
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Episode 32: Just One of the Guys (1985), Teen Comedies and Shakespeare
An episode in which we learn that the teen comedy Just One of the Guys is not as concretely adapted from Twelfth Night as people claim.
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Shorts 3: The Book of Will and the First Folio
Sometimes you just want to get your Shakespeare in his native format: the theater. This episode covers The Book of Will, a play about the human efforts and dreams behind the printing of the First Folio.
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Shorts 2: My Own Private Idaho (1991) and the Henriad
This movie feels like a fever dream while you watch it and also while you explain it: an early 90s indie film starring Keanu Reeves but also it’s Shakespeare but it’s really more about teenage hustlers? Yes, it exists, and yes, it’s worth a watch.
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Shorts 1: Ghostlight (2024) with guest Amanda Bain-Wysocki
What do you think when you think about Romeo and Juliet? Small indie films about families processing their grief? Then Ghostlight is gonna be the movie for you.
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Episode 26: Anonymous (2011) with guest Ben Roman
I forced my brother to watch the Shakespeare conspiracy movie Anonymous and then made him talk to me about it for the podcast. Enjoy!
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Episode 25: Shakespeare in Adaptation
Let’s look at Shakespeare adaptation. What is it, what themes do we see, and what makes an adaptation good? We’ll be covering a range of movies, books, and plays to think a little more about the appeal of claiming you’re based on Shakespeare and what makes it worthwhile.
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Episode 24: Judi Dench on Shakespeare
Judi Dench has a lot of Shakespeare experience and her memory of her roles is as sharp as ever. In this episode, I talk Dench’s latest book on Shakespeare’s plays, characters, and an actor’s most important job.
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Episode 13: Saltburn (2023) and Dead Poets Society (1989)
Our definition of what counts as a Shakespeare adaptation has grown more expansive around here. This episode we are talking two movies that relate to Shakespeare but don’t mean to portray him directly.
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Episode 8: Romeo + Juliet (1996) with guest Amanda Bain Wysocki
IN FAIR VERONA where we set our scene, Amanda and I discuss the classic 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. The editing is frenetic, the energy is chaotic, and the line deliveries are at times hilarious.
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