101. Ask a Shakespeare Professor
Episode description
Welcome to Shakespeare 101! It's a perfectly fitting episode number for today as we invite a Shakespeare professor to answer YOUR questions about the Bard's staying power, how to read his works, and how to interpret Lady Macbeth. We always say we won't get TOO academic here, but we're getting pretty academic thanks to Chelsey's former Shakespeare professor.
Professor Doug Green taught at Augsburg University, including Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, writing, drama, and film. He also helped develop and taught Augsburg's first course in queer studies. He has an abundance of knowledge and advice to share with us as we read Macbeth together this month, so jump in and travel back to the college classroom with us today.
Books, authors, and resources mentioned:
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Samson Agonistes by John Milton
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ben Jonson
Beaumont & Fletcher
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
Theater Mu
Penumbra Theater
Ovid
Plutarch
Holinshed's Chronicles
Chaucer
The Guthrie Theater
Classical Actor's Ensemble
10,000 Things
Tony Kushner
Colson Whitehead
James McBride
Toni Morrison
Louise Erdrich
Margaret Atwood
Robert Frost
Mary Oliver
Lucille Clifton
Ross Gay
Richard Blanco
Elizabeth Alexander
Shakespeare Supplements:
Macbeth on Film:
Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, stream on Apple TV)
Polanski's The Tragedy of Macbeth (1970, stream on Amazon Prime)
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957, stream on HBO Max or Amazon Prime)
Find Doug's work: Jumping the Median with Doug Green