Everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about Shakespeare and more. Each episode is entertaining, insightful and thought provoking. This is a thoroughly enjoyable podcast.

Approaches Shakespeare study from every possible angle. I sometimes think I won't be interested in a particular episode, and am always wrong! Episodes are not so long that I lose interest, and it's easy to binge. Very glad to have found this!

Wished I found this during the pandemic. I would have survived it better. Love every episodes. Richard II and Henry IV episode is so informative and really added to my understanding and enjoyment of these two plays I recently read.

Love this show. Good variety of topics and guests. Really interesting conversations.

I want this to be my favorite podcast, yet it will never achieve “favorite” status as long as Barbara B remains the host. She is less interested in what the fascinating, expert guests have to share and asking effective follow up questions than she is in shoe horning in her sometimes unrelated questions. She does not sound at all curious about the topic at hand; rather, she sounds pumped up to be the host of a podcast. She ruins what otherwise would be a must-listen experience.

I’m not an English teacher or professor, but I have always loved watching Shakespeare’s play. This podcast is akin to an exegesis of Shakespeare’s world and interpretation. I am never bored and learn from every episode. I’m looking forward to seeing my next play with all this knowledge to inform my experience. I will definitely visit the Folger when I am next in Washington, DC!

As an Artistic Director of a classical theatre, I listen to all these podcasts. They are thrilling, inspiring, and educational. Barbara Bogaev is an amazing interviewer!

Inspiring ! Going out now to hopefully find the book and buy it ! Thank you ! Some of My students are tackling their first Shakespeare production ! Will share the book with them in class during this semester of my class, Voice for the Stage!

Great podcast.

and love it! (Oct 2023)

Always a pleasure to hear artiss sharing their Shakespeare experiences. As other actors know It turns out that the most celebrated names in the Theatre are just real people like everyone else. The behind the scenes sharing of how specific moments onstage were achieved as well as antics offstage are worth a close listen.

As varied and intriguing as the bard himself, the Folger Shakespeare Podcast present wide-ranging, accessible, interviews with all manner of professionals and experts in the field of Shakespeareiana and environs. I never leave an episode without a fresh perspective and appreciation for literature as a whole and Shakespeare in particular. Barbara Bogave has the grace and mien of Terry Gross at her best.

I have been listening to Shakespeare Unlimited for a few years now and Barbara Bogaev is the best interviewer I have ever heard, bar none. Thank you for all the hours of pleasure.

As a student of Shakespeare since my childhood, your podcast has reinvigorated my curiosity to find ongoing influences of Shakespeare in our daily lives. Please continue to offer your beautiful podcasts to Bard lovers around the world! If podcasts be the food of love for Shakespeare, play on!

I love this podcast because it interviews genuine scholars and fascinating people who add to my understanding of the plays and the time in which Shakespeare lived. There are always new insights and points of view.

I look forward to every new episode of this podcast. Each time I learn more than I could’ve imagined and it sets me on the trail of many other fascinating subjects.

Never rote or derivative. Well worth your while.

Great insight into far more tjan Shakespeare.

The shows don’t disappoint.

Excellent series of podcasts. My only problem with them is also my only problem with the Folger Library itself—it is not truly scholarly. Instead, it’s part of a faith-based cult that refuses to look objectively at the historical question of who wrote Shakespeare. During the last decade, they have gone from being neutral on this question to ignoring it and censoring those who try to introduce relevant evidence.

This is an excellent, wide ranging podcast for all lovers of Shakespeare. Barbara Bogaev is an exceptional interviewer. She has a deep knowledge of Shakespeare, which informs her wonderful questions. She makes the interviews into conversations. I would love to have more episodes with actors and directors. And I’d love to have some exploration of the authorship question, but maybe that is a verboten topic for the Folger.

This Podcast is fun, informative, professional & timely. Very much worth the time. Thank you for being there!

I love this podcast! Barbara Bogaev is a thoughtful, engaging interviewer and the podcast always informs, uplifts, and entertains.

This is such a wonderful podcast from the Folger Library. Such a wide and fascinating variety of topics are covered and such distinguished guests!! If you’re a Shakespeare fan, you have to listen to this show. 100/10 stars. Well done!

Love this podcast

Barbara Bogaev is such a skilled, entertaining, and thoughtful interviewer.

I love the variety of topics and perspectives Shakespeare Unlimited covers. They are always fun and thought-provoking.

I love teaching Shakespeare in the classroom and this podcast keeps me up to date with what is happening with Shakespeare around the world. I always look forward to the next episode

I love hearing the wide range of writers, artists and scholars that Shakespeare Unlimited brings to the table. Always a new perspective to consider that deepens my connection to the texts!

This podcast has so many interesting guests. It is engaging and informative. I learn something new about Shakespeare, looking at his works from unique perspectives, and get ideas for books to read.

The best part of this rare and erudite podcast is its subject, of course, but that is closely followed by the impeccable attention paid to the production of the shows. They are such a treat because they are tightly edited and have the benefit of an interesting and articulate introduction followed by one of the most talented, smart and natural interviewers working today. The shows do justice to the subject, no easy feat.

I love this podcast. Great interviews - very interesting topics and guests!

A great podcast for any fan of Shakespeare — whether a professional, student, or just an admirer. Every episode is so entertaining and educational. Interviews are conducted brilliantly and the range of topics is astounding. I learn something new every time!

If you even just know of Shakespeare’s plays, this podcast is entertaining. Interesting guests, lively interviews and a whole lot more you didn’t know about the plays, directing them and the period they were written.

Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast is a series of lively and engaging conversations. Each episode is a scholarly and astute exploration of some aspect of the bard's life or rworks. I absolutely love listening to this podcast!

Unparalleled. Up to date, open to new perspectives, admirable.

A lot of really interesting guests but the host is a horrific human being. Listening to an episode about teaching Richard III in prisons and she challenged the guest for using No Fear Shakespeare because it dumbs down the poetry.

This podcast is exceptionally well done. The interviewer is excellent: knowledgeable, clear and blessed with an infectious sense of delight. These interviews touch on acting, language, history, scholarship- you name it. Richard Paul is a gifted audio producer. Thank you for this reliably engaging podcast, Folger folks!

I listened today to the interview with Carla Della Gatta. It was interesting and informative but I thought, on at least two occasions, I heard a singular subject and the plural pronoun “their,” in the same sentence, referring to the same person. I hope and trust that the Folger is not succumbing to the progressive wokeism that is so harmful to good English grammar.

I think the topics are great, but I often feel that the interviewer isn’t listening to the expert and hasn’t done her homework, which is kinda awkward. It sounds like the interviewer is trying to snow off how much she knows, whether it pertains to what the expert is talking about or not.

When the podcast talks about Shakespeare it was okay, not great, but okay. The cloying interviewer was something to work around but they would usually get some interesting guests. But then they got into the woke thing and became obsessed with race and gender. Critical Theory and its recent spin off, CRT, are, in fact, obsessed doctrinaire formulations that force everything to be about race and naturally its all about victim vs oppressors. 1) Thats very bad history, 2) Well, duh, that’s marxist, and 3) It’s boring. Moreover, since the ultimate goal of CRT is to package racial animus for political gain in the present, then it simply becomes indoctrination. Like, who the heck would ever listen to a podcast about Shakespeare and want to be indoctrinated by lefty loons who in the quest to wash their liberal guilt end up advancing an ideology that hides the fact that “anti-racism” as practiced IS in fact racism? I, and many others, don’t listen to Leftist racists. This podcast is canceled.

Great podcast. Allows an investigation of Shakespeare from multiple different dimensions. Great combination of academic discipline and fun.

I can’t say enough about this podcast. It is so I formative on so many levels. Time and again I am enlightened and heartened by the interviews and unending i formation I receive fro Hearing this podcast. It i simply I credible and a God send.

I first discovered Shakespeare Unlimited a few years ago (through the mind blowing Robben Island Shakespeare episode), and I have been absolutely in love with it ever since. It is my go-to. The Folger Library is a global treasure, and Barbara Bogaev who hosts most episodes asks the most brilliant, informed, inclusive dialogues. To Shakespeare lovers, or anyone even remotely interested in storytelling, I cannot recommend this podcast enough!

Greenblatt , O’Farrell, etc. So good.

I learn so much about Shakespeare from this podcast – but I also learn a lot about the world today. This podcast shows why studying old literature is interesting and still worth our time.

Shakespeare in Harlem Renaissance was wonderful! I knew a tiny bit about black theatre in the US so I found the interview fascinating. Two brilliant women discussing the history and answering my questions as I listened. I found Shakespeare Unlimited via the Folger Library book group, Words, Words, Words.

Found this podcast while looking for discussions about Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. I visited the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago and have dreamed of returning since—this podcast makes me feel like I’m studying there. Such a joy to hear these fascinating conversations. They’ve really given me something to look forward to in quarantine!

The podcast covers a wide range of topics because Shakespeare touches so many aspects of our lives and culture. The interviewer, usually Barbara Bogaev, is very good and brings out the best in the people she’s talking to. Worth a listen by anyone, not just Shakespeare fans.

...so varied and intriguing.