Political Shakespeare

Hosted by Production Manager, Adrian Churchill, this episode explores the diverse ways that Shakespeare’s plays can be explored politically. Featured guests, Maryam Baig, Whitney Holotik, and Dennis Raveneau, discuss the numerous styles of political action and role evident in a variety of Shakespeare’s works, from statesmanship and the competition for state office or for sovereignty, to the everyday relations of kinship and friendship, to the individuals’ struggles against politically established power – patriarchy, class, law – that constrains or oppresses them. They also discuss the politics of their own Shakespearean careers.