Unabridged: Shakespeare in The Stacks with Ayanna Thompson
We're back with another installment of The Stacks Pack exclusive show, The Stacks: Unabridged. Today we are finally talking all things Shakespeare with scholar, author, and dramaturg, Ayanna Thompson. Ayanna's work focuses on Shakespeare, race, and performance, and she is the author of many books including Blackface and Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America. She shares with us why some plays are her favorite to teach but not to see, which adaptations are particularly good, and the Shakespeare plays she thinks we should be teaching. We also talk about Traci's favorites after her 37 month read through of all of Shakespeare's plays.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.
Blackface by Ayanna Thompson
Passing Strange by Ayanna Thompson
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1986)
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
New York University (New York, NY)
King John by William Shakespeare
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Cats (Trevor Nunn, 1981)
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Macbeth (Sam Gold, 2022)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021)
The Music Man (Jerry Zaks, 2022)
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Free Shakespeare on the Radio: Richard II (WNYC and The Public Theatre)
Richard II (Classic Stage Company)
"Let's face it: Shakespeare had help" (Mark Lawson, The Guardian)
"Was Shakespeare a woman?" (Elizabeth Winkler, The Atlantic)
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Henry VI Part 3 by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Desdemona by Toni Morrison
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
"Ep. 10 New Boy by Tracy Chevalier -- The Stacks Book Club (Vella Lovell)" (The Stacks)
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare (Ayanna Thompson's Arden Edition)
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Pericles by William Shakespeare
Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
Scotland, PA (Billy Morrissette, 2001)
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins and Rober Wise, 1961)
West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)
(O) Othello (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)
She's the Man (Andy Fickman, 2006)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespare
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Donmar Warehouse (London, England)
"How Outrage Built Over a Shakespearean Depiction of Trump" (Michael Paulson and Sopan Deb, The New York Times)
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
The Trees by Percival Everett
Caucassia by Danzy Senna
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