Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Folger Shakespeare Library

Home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. Advancing knowledge and the arts. Discover it all at www.folger.edu. Shakespeare turns up in the most interesting places—not just literature and the stage, but science and social history as well. Our "Shakespeare Unlimited" podcast explores the fascinating and varied connections between Shakespeare, his works, and the world around us.

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Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Episodes (296)

Monday Adjoa Andoh on Shakespeare
Tue Mar 10th Thinking Through Shakespeare, with David Womersley
Feb 24th The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Mar 23, 2026
38 minutes
86 MB

Known to many as Lady Danbury in Netflix’s Bridgerton, Adjoa Andoh, MBE, is also a celebrated Shakespearean actor and director. Across her career, Andoh has returned to Shakespeare not as a fixed canon, but as a space for reimagining power, identity, and belonging. Her landmark Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe, created with the UK’s first all-women-of-color company, reexamined ideas of nationhood and empire following Brexit, asking who gets to claim the story of England and how those stories are constructed. In this episode, Andoh reflects on Shakespeare as a profoundly human writer, exploring how vulnerability, love, and damage...

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Adjoa Andoh on Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library

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