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Hosted by Koel Chatterjee · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 21 episodes
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This is a podcast about Shakespeare and popular culture where I delve into some serious topics such as identity and postcolonialism, as well as talk about Shakespereana and more 'frivolous' aspects of my life as a Shakespeare Geek. If you're looking for a community of like-minded Shakespeare Geeks join us at shakespop.co.uk on Insta and FB, on @UKShakespop on X, or on @drkoelchatterjee on Tiktok.
Koel Chatterjee hosts The Shakespop Podcast, a arts show with 21 episodes published.
What do Taylor Swift and William Shakespeare have in common? In this interview episode of The Shakespop Podcast , I sit down with Shakespeare scholar and author Dr Elly McCausland to explore the surprising connections be
What do Swifties and Shakespeare audiences have in common? In this month's anchor episode, I explore how Taylor Swift fans decode lyrics, Easter eggs, and hidden meanings, and what that can teach us about the ways audien
In this episode of The Shakespop Podcast, I’m joined by theatre maker, writer, and director Samir Bhamra to discuss adapting Shakespeare through the lens of British Asian identity, language, music, and performance. We ex
Short clip from Epsiode 18: Interview with British Asian Theatremaker Samir Bhamra
In this episode, I’m joined by Sameer Bhamra to explore what it means to adapt Shakespeare through British Asian theatre. We trace Sameer’s journey as a director, writer, and producer, before diving into his Shakespeare
Who owns Shakespeare—and who gets to speak him without explanation? In this episode of The Shakespop Podcast, Dr Koel Chatterjee marks the 10-year anniversary of the 2016 “Indian Shakespeares on Screen” event at BFI Sout
What happens when Shakespeare becomes the framework for telling a true crime story? In this episode of The Shakespop Podcast, I’m joined by journalist and podcaster Jennifer Miller to discuss her limited series Blood Wil
What does Shakespeare have to do with true crime? In this episode, we explore how Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Macbeth continue to shape the way we understand real-world violence — from “star-crossed lovers” to “crimes
Was Shakespeare an original genius—or an expert remixer? In this episode of The Shakespop Podcast, I’m joined by Darren Freebury-Jones to talk about his book Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers, which challenges the myth of
Was Shakespeare the solitary genius he is frequently portrayed to be, or is he more of a showrunner working within a collaborative Early Modern theatre making space? Find out by listening to Episode 13: The Collaborative
We love to imagine Shakespeare as a solitary genius: candlelit desk, quill in hand, inventing English literature by himself. The reality is far messier — and far more interesting. In this episode of Shakespop, I explore
Love's Labours Lost is often treated like a problem child in the Shakespeare canon. It's a comedy with no marriages, a romance that refuses to resolve, and a play so obsessed with language tha the words themselves often
What happens when the emotional intensity of fandom meets the authority of academia? In this episode, I explore the often-unspoken tension - and surprising overlap - between Shakespeare fandom and Shakespeare Studies. Fr
This episode delves into the remarkable creative collision between William Shakespeare, the titan of Western literature, and Osamu Tezuka, the founding "god" of Japanese manga. We explore how Tezuka used the dynamic, acc
We all think we know William Shakespeare. He’s the foundation of the English-speaking canon, the genius whose words define tragedy, romance, and history. But what happens when you take the definitive highbrow text—the so
This 6 Minute Shakespeare Episode introduced by Koel Chatterjee discusses the main themes in Shakespeare Graphic Novels and the difficulty of translating Shakespeare's words into visuals using techniques unique to the ar
Today we're discussing the Changeling in Medieval folklore and how Shakespeare uses and changes the 'fear of others' trope in Midsummer Night's Dream.Scripted by Koel Chatterjee
In this six minute (or less) episode we discuss why Shakespeare biofiction is quite a popular genre within the speculative fiction genre. Scripted by Koel Chatterjee
In this episode I speak to John Snodgrass and his work on Shakespeare's use of fairytales and the Fae people beloved to the English people in Shakespeare's time. John's work invites us to read Shakespeare not just as lit
This episode places Shakespeare biofiction in fantasy fiction and explores Shakespeare the protagonist in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics and Sarah A. Hoyt's Ill Met by Moonlight through the lens Annalisa Castaldo’s argumen
Jennifer Miller
Founder of Bioethics International and Creator of Good Pharma Scorecard · Washington State University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
1 appearance on this show
Darren Freebury-Jones
author of works on early modern theatre
1 appearance on this show
Darren Freebury-Jones
author of works on early modern theatre
1 appearance on this show
William Shakespeare
playwright, poet, actor
1 appearance on this show
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