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The Shakespop Podcast

Hosted by Koel Chatterjee · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes

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About this podcast

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.

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Koel Chatterjee hosts The Shakespop Podcast, a arts show with 19 episodes published.

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Ep 18: Adapting Shakespeare for a new audience with Samir Bhamra

May 7, 202641mEp. 18S1

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

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Cymbeline as a Manmohan Desai Epic Indian Film

May 7, 20260mEp. 10

Short clip from Epsiode 18: Interview with British Asian Theatremaker Samir Bhamra

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Episode 18: Adapting Shakespeare for a New Audience, with Sameer Bhamra

Apr 28, 202634mEp. 18S1

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

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Episode 17: Inherited Scripts: Who Owns Shakespeare in British Asian Culture?

Apr 14, 202622mEp. 17S1

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

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Episode 16: Blood Will Tell with Jennifer Miller

Apr 1, 202641mEp. 13S1

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

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Episode 15 The Shakespearean Blueprint: When Art Becomes Alibi

Mar 24, 202627mEp. 15S1

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

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Episode 14: Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers with Darren Freebury-Jones

Mar 1, 202640mEp. 14S1

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

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Was Shakespeare a solitary genius?

Feb 5, 20260mEp. 13S1

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

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Episode 13: The Collaborative Bard: Stylometry, Scripts, and Shakespeare

Feb 4, 202627mEp. 13S1

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

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Episode 12: Adapting Love's Labours Lost, with Elizabeth Wright

Jan 27, 202634mEp. 12S1

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

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Episode 11: The Bard and the blogger, Authority, Authorship, and the AO3

Jan 12, 202627mEp. 11S1

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

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Episode 8: Japanese Shakespeare and Osamu Tezuka's Shakespeare Manga Theater

Dec 3, 202518mEp. 8S1

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

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Episode 7: The Bard in the Borderlands: Shakespeare, Graphic Novels, and the New Mythology

Nov 10, 202522mEp. 7S1

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

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Episode 6: Minisode on Shakespeare and the Graphic Novel

Nov 3, 20258mEp. 6S1

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

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Episode 5: Minisode on Changelings in Folklore and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

Oct 1, 20255mEp. 5S1

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

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Episode 4: Minisode on Shakespeare as a Protagonist in fantasy fiction

Oct 1, 20255mEp. 4S1

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

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Episode 3: Shakespeare and the Folktale with John Snodgrass

Sep 16, 202538mEp. 3S1

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

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Episode 2: Spirits of Another Sort: Shakespeare in Gaiman and Hoyt

Sep 7, 202513mEp. 2S1

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

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Episode 1: Shakespeare and the History of Folklore Scholarship

Jul 4, 202517mEp. 3S1

This month is all about Shakespeare and the Folktale. We begin episode 1 with an exploration of the history of Shakespeare and Folklore Scholarship with an examination of the works of Thomas Keightley, Charlotte Artese,

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The Shakespop Podcast Episode 0

Nov 5, 20243m0

Welcome to The Shakespop Podcast, your comprehensive guide to all things Shakespeare and popular culture. I'm your host, Koel Chatterjee, and I'm curious about tracing Shakespeare’s influence on global modern culture. Sh

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