Feb 12, 2025

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In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about early modern English nobility. Shakespeare’s history plays are about monarchs and royal lineages, and the world he was...

Jan 29, 2025

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In this week's episode, we are exploring the historical record to better understand the difference between the facts of the historical record and the history-making and...

Jan 15, 2025

To kick off our series on Shakespeare's King Henry V, we are (as always) starting with an overview of basic facts about the play and an introduction to the major themes and motifs of the play. 

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Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp.

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Jan 1, 2025

We are starting off 2025 and Shakespeare Anyone's fifth year with our first History (and also a play with the number five in its title): King Henry V. In this episode, we will provide a detailed summary of the plot, breaking down the action of the play scene by scene. To quote this play, "once more unto the breach, dear...

Dec 18, 2024

Over this past year, we quietly went back to where we began this podcast and worked on revising our Intro Series, "Stuff You Should Know." We updated the original episodes quietly in September. When we started thinking about what we wanted to release for the end of 2024, we feel like nothing encapsulates how we've grown...