Shakespeare Anyone?

Let's start diving into a play that is widely considered to be one of Shakespeare's best: King Lear. First up, as always, let's review the plot with a synopsis. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith". Episode written by Elyse Sharp and Kourtney Smith. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone Works referenced: Shakespeare, William, and R. A. Foakes. King Lear: Arden Third Series. Bloomsbury, 2018.

Quick annoucement time! We are launching a Patreon! Patreon patrons will get access to exclusive bonus content throughout the year. The link is also in the episode description. -- Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone

Before we dive into our next play, we are taking the time to revisit both of the plays we covered this year. For this episode, we re-read Twelfth Night and will be discussing what we noticed in the reading and what was different for us after spending six months researching and studying the play. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith". Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night. Arden Shakespeare, 2008.

Before we dive into our next play, we are taking the time to revisit both of the plays we covered this year. For this episode, we re-read Macbeth and will be discussing what we noticed in the reading and what was different for us after spending six months researching and studying the play. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was using the stage name "Korey Leigh Smith". Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Arden Shakespeare, 2015.

In recognition of the National Day of Mourning/Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, we are exploring how the "Age of Exploration" and Colonial Imagination in Early Modern England influenced Shakespeare's works--specifically The Tempest. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith". Episode written and researched by Kourtney Smith. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Singh, Jyotsna G. "Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imagination." Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory, The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020, pp. 23–39.

To wrap up our deep dive into Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, we are bringing things full circle by examining the 00's teen classic movie that introduced both of us (and many others) to the plot of Twelfth Night: She's the Man, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was using the stage name "Korey Leigh Smith". Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Klett, Elizabeth. "Reviving Viola: Comic and Tragic Teen Film Adaptations of 'Twelfth Night.'" Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 26, no. 2, 2008, pp. 69–87. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26347691. Accessed 11 Sept. 2021. Pittman, L. Monique. "Dressing the Girl / Playing the Boy: 'Twelfth Night' Learns Soccer on the Set of 'She's The Man.'" Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2, 2008, pp. 122–136. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43797455. Accessed 11 Sept. 2021. Shuler-Donner, Lauren, et al. She's the Man. Prime Video (Streaming Online Video), DreamWorks Distribution LLC, 2006, https://www.amazon.com/Shes-Man-Amanda-Bynes/dp/B015O3MV5O/. Accessed 9 Nov. 2021.

In today's mini-episode, we are talking all about Christopher Marlowe, one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. We'll talk about what is known about this mysterious playwright's life as well as the legends that surround him! Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith". Episode written and researched by Kourtney Smith. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: "Christopher Marlowe". Wikipedia, Wikipedia Foundation, 26 September 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe. Accessed 24 September 2021. "Marlowe" In Our Time: Science, performance by Melvyn Bragg, et al., season 7, episode 40, BBC 4 Radio, 7 July. 2005. Accessed 26 September 2021.

In today's episode, we are exploring the character of Malvolio by diving into the history of the Puritan Movement in Early Modern England. Because Malvolio is described throughout the play as a Puritan, we will examine what a contemporary understanding of Puritanism would have added to the play (and especially that letter scene) for Shakespeare's audiences. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was using the stage name "Korey Leigh Smith". Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Simmons, J. L. "A Source for Shakespeare's Malvolio: The Elizabethan Controversy with the Puritans." Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, University of California Press, 1973, pp. 181–201, https://doi.org/10.2307/3816599. Accessed 3 Sept. 2021 Thompson, James Westfall. "Shakespeare and Puritanism." The North American Review, vol. 212, no. 777, 1920, pp. 228–237. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25120573. Accessed 30 Aug. 2021. Winship, Michael P. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. Yale University Press, 2018. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbnm3ss. Accessed 4 Sept. 2021.

In today's episode, we are talking about what might be the most famous theatre in the English-speaking world: The Globe Theatre, and what we know about what it would be like to be an audience member seeing a Shakespeare play at The Globe. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith". Episode written and researched by Kourtney Smith. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Alchin, L.K. "Globe Theatre Interior." Elizabethan Era, Siteseen Ltd., Accessed on 16 May 2012 from http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/globe-theatre-interior.htm. Bryson, Bill. "Ch. 6 Years of Fame 1596-1603." Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Atlas Books, New York, 2016, pp. 124–127. "Globe Theatre." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 Aug. 2021, Accessed on 25 Aug. 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre. Henslowe, Philip. The diary of Philip Henslowe, from 1591 to 1609. Printed from the original manuscript preserved at Dulwich college. London, Shakespeare Society, 1845. No Sweat Shakespeare. Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men Company Member Timeline. Instagram, 29 August 2021, https://www.instagram.com/p/CTKPYXxr7Y6/?utm_medium=copy_link. "Who Were These People? Audiences in Shakespeare's Day." Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company, 23 Jan. 2018, Accessed on 27 Aug. 2021 from https://www.seattleshakespeare.org/who-were-these-people/.

Where did Shakespeare get his jokes? In today's episode, we dive into the comedic tropes Shakespeare uses in the plot of Twelfth Night and where they came from. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Note: When this episode was recorded, Kourtney Smith was "Korey Leigh Smith". Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Commedia dell'arte". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Nov. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/art/commedia-dellarte. Accessed 21 August 2021. Felver, Charles S. "Robert Armin, Shakespeare's Source for Touchstone." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 1956, pp. 135–137. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2866142. Accessed 21 Aug. 2021. Gray, Austin K. "Robert Armine, the Foole." PMLA, vol. 42, no. 3, 1927, pp. 673–685. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/457397. Accessed 17 Aug. 2021. Hobgood, Allison P. "'Twelfth Night's' 'Notorious Abuse' of Malvolio: Shame, Humorality, and Early Modern Spectatorship." Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 24, no. 3, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, pp. 1–22, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26347474. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021. G. Salingar. "The Design of Twelfth Night." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 1958, pp. 117–139. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2867233. Accessed 21 Aug. 2021. "La Commedia Dell'arte." La Commedia Dell'Arte, sites.google.com/site/italiancommedia/home?authuser=0. Accessed 21 Aug. 2021 Penuel, Suzanne. "Missing Fathers: Twelfth Night and the Reformation of Mourning." Studies in Philology, vol. 107, no. 1, 2010, pp. 74–96. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25656037. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021. "Twelfth Night (Theatre)." TV Tropes, tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/TwelfthNight. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021.