Shakespeare Anyone?
Hosted by Elyse Sharp and Kourtney Smith · Kourtney Smith & Elyse Sharp
4.7from 127 ratings
- 203
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 127
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 8K
- YouTube views
About Shakespeare Anyone?
Shakespeare Anyone? is co-hosted by Elyse Sharp and Kourtney Smith, two professional actors and hobbyist Shakespeare scholars. Join us as we explore Shakepeare's plays through as many lenses as we can by looking at the text and how the text is viewed through modern lenses of feminism, racism, classism, colonialism, nationalism… all the-isms. We will discuss how his plays shaped both the past and present, and look at how his work was performed throughout various periods of time–all while trying our best to approach his works without giving in to bardolatry. We examine one play at a time for an extended window of time, interspersed with mini-episodes about Shakespeare's time for context. Episodes are released every other week.
- Publisher
- Kourtney Smith & Elyse Sharp
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 203 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
As You Like It: Women and Boys on Shakespeare's Stage
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mini: Text Coaching Shakespeare with Emily Jenkins
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
As You Like It: The Ecology of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden
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As You Like It: Women and Boys on Shakespeare's Stage
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They couldn't be on the public stages. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and we know that they did and we know that they were. And yeah, it is revolutionary to go from the like Snapple bottle cap fact of women couldn't perform in Shakespeare's plays when they were originally produced and expanded out and go, well, Yes, but that was unique to England, and women did perform, just not in these same spaces. Right, totally. And what this means, too, is that in England, there was what Alan Brown refers to as an actress gap. There was this more center stage, more complex women characters being written and performed and dramatized, but there weren't actresses to play those parts. […]
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- Emily Jenkins
- Mya Lixian Gosling
- Kent Lehnhof
- Dr. Tanya Cooper
- Dr. James Fox
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- YouTube views
- 7,963
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 46 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 81 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 51
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