{"podcast":{"title":"Shakespeare Anyone?","slug":"shakespeare-anyone-2709617","podcast_index_feed_id":2709617,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/314081/rss","website_url":"http://www.shakespeareanyone.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/0/0/3/300359073e5f977288c4a68c3ddbc4f2/2024_Podcast_Cover.png","author":"Kourtney Smith & Elyse Sharp","episode_count":154,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T16:17:05.854676+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617"},"episode":{"title":"The Tempest: Caliban's Legacy of Race, Class, and Colonialism","slug":"the-tempest-caliban-s-legacy-of-race-class-and-colonialism","published_at":"2025-09-10T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617/the-tempest-caliban-s-legacy-of-race-class-and-colonialism","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617","url":"https://shakespeareanyone.libsyn.com/the-tempest-calibans-legacy-of-race-class-and-colonialism","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shakespeareanyone/SA_Tempest_Caliban_Final_Cut_with_Bells_and_Whistles.mp3?dest-id=2528357","summary":"Want to support the podcast? Join our Patreon or buy us a coffee. As an independent podcast, Shakespeare Anyone? is supported by listeners like you. This episode explores Caliban's role in The Tempest and the ways his character has been shaped by and interpreted through race, class, and colonialism. We begin with a close look at \"the pinch\" and unpack how Shakespeare's audience would have understood its connections to resource scarcity and punishment. We then chart Caliban's performance history from the 19th century to the early 1980s, revealing how shifting portrayals reflected cultural attitudes. We end with a discussion of how the play's deep entanglement with colonial discourse has led to it being banned in some U.S. classrooms. Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is \"Neverending Minute\" by Sounds Like Sander. For updates: join our email list , follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone , buying us coffee , or by shopping our bookshelves at bookshop.org/shop/shakespeareanyonepod (we earn a small commission when you use our link and shop bookshop.org). Find additional links mentioned in the episode in our Linktree . Works referenced: Akhimie, Patricia. \"Pinching caliban: Race, husbandry, and the working body in the Tempest.\" Shakespeare/Sense , 2020, pp. 269–290, https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474273268.ch-012. Griffiths, Trevor R. \"'This Island's Mine': Caliban and Colonialism.\" The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 13, 1983, pp. 159–80. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3508119. Accessed 1 Sept. 2025. Espinosa, R. (2017). Beyond The Tempest: Language, Legitimacy, and La Frontera . In: Fazel,…","meta_description":"Want to support the podcast? Join our Patreon or buy us a coffee. As an independent podcast, Shakespeare Anyone? is supported by listeners like you. This…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3279,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/shakespeare-anyone-2709617/episodes/the-tempest-caliban-s-legacy-of-race-class-and-colonialism/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shakespeare-anyone-2709617/the-tempest-caliban-s-legacy-of-race-class-and-colonialism.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}