The Hamlet Podcast
Conor Hanratty
A weekly podcast now exploring Shakespeare's Macbeth. Every episode covers approximately 30 lines of the play - week by week, until we finish sometime in 2023!
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 2, 2025 • 13min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Ladies Dancing
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via nine Shakespearean ladies and - hurrah - nine Shakespearean dances. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Jan 1, 2025 • 12min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Maids-a-milking
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via maids and maidservants, Verdi and new-year gifts. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 31, 2024 • 14min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Swans-a-swimming
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via swans, music, Coole Park and Ben Jonson. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 30, 2024 • 9min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Geese-a-laying
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via geese, grease, barnacles and poetry. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 29, 2024 • 8min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Gold Rings
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via pheasants, Magi, French Kings and murder. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 28, 2024 • 9min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Colly or Calling Birds?
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via Hamlet, Herod, Coventry and Glendalough. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 27, 2024 • 11min
Twelve Days of Christmas - French Hens
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via history, anonymous interludes and the Boar's Head Tavern. Seasons greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 26, 2024 • 12min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Partridges and Turtle Doves
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via comedy, history, metamorphosis and myth. Seasons greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 22, 2024 • 12min
King Lear | Episode 49 - Thou Shalt Never Have My Curse
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Lear continues to shout at Regan and Cornwall and fixate on Kent's having been put in the stocks.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Dec 15, 2024 • 13min
King Lear | Episode 48 - You Are Old
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Regan and Cornwall appear at last. Regan gives Lear a very surprising command.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
