Beverlee and Allison discuss exactly what is rotten in the state of Denmark

Modern adaptations:
The Lion King: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/
Branagh Hamlet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/
RSC Hamlet starring David Tennant: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449175/
True Romance: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108399/
To Be or Not To Be that is the Adventure: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17938417-to-be-or-not-to-be
Further analysis:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/21/the-death-of-hamnet-and-the-making-of-hamlet/
Camille Schüler's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1fPKUoirE



Episode 2: Hamlet

Beverlee and Allison hang out with guest Paulette Zubata to discuss the play and the play within the play. So press play!
The Beatles do Midsummer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxXkdYr5JYg

Info on actors back in the day: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/files/2014/01/actors.pdf

Episode 3: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Featuring Paulette Zubata)

Beverlee and Allison discuss the play most heavily steeped in superstition along with guests Elise Dubois and Alexia Dox of the Real Housewives of Shakespeare!

First episode of Real Housewives of Shakespeare: https://youtu.be/Pz11ZGEXOVo
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/realhousewivesofshakespeare

Macbeth (2015): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2884018/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Hamilton/Hamlet tweet: https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/568243453206913024
Clip from Globe Production of Macbeth 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuGTaHpozog


Episode 4: The Scottish Play AKA Macbeth (Featuring Elise Dubois and Alexia Dox)

Beverlee and Allison discuss betrayal, politics, and power with Portia from the play herself!

You can find Jessica Winward on instagram and twitter @jessicawinward
http://www.folger.edu/publishing-shakespeare
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/shakespeareinprint.html

Episode 5: Julius Caesar with guest Portia (Feat. Jessica Winward)

Beverlee and Allison discuss men playing women playing men who fall in love with men who think they are men while they are really women. Luckily Viola is here to help clear up exactly what that means...

You can find Isabelle Nicole on instagram @isabellenicoles
More information on cross dressing roles in Shakespeare: http://www.academia.edu/331492/Sexuality_and_the_Cross-dressing_Heroines_in_Shakespeare

Episode 6: Twelfth Night with guest Viola (Feat. Isabelle Nicole)

Join Beverlee Jean, a Shakespeare super-fan, and Allison Powell, a bard beginner, as they go through Shakespeare's works along with special guests from the plays themselves!

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