The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare, for the week ending Monday, August 4th, 2014

Summary: This week's news review contains some Shakespeare stage reviews (as the summer season continues), Shakespeare's Globe as a theatrical laboratory, the University of South Dakota's exhibit analyzing the use of Humors (not humor) in Shakespeare, and the internet kerfuffle over a certain public radio host's tweet that Shakespeare sucketh. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Oregon Shakespeare Festival welcomes international scholars tour Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Shakespeare's Globe as Laboratory Old Globe announces "Globe for All" University of South Dakota: And There's the Humor of It Othello by Allentown Shakespeare in the Park The Taming of the Shrew by the Bolshoi Ballet (review) Pericles by Hudson Shakespeare Company The Tempest by Annapolis Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar by Seattle Shakespeare Company Henry IV Part One by Shakespeare with Noodles Titus Andronicus by Puppet Shakespeare Players Joe Papp in Five Acts A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Chamber Play at the Stratford Festival (review) Richard III at Trafalgar Studios (review) Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (reviews) Shakespeare to the Death by Spark Theater (review) Cymbeline by Michigan Shakespeare Festival (review) Twelfth Night by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (review) Cymbeline by Available Light Theater (review) Twelfth Night by New Orleans Shakespeare Festival (review) As You Like It by Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (review) Ira Glass tweets Ira Glass isn't so sure he can defend Washington Post op-ed on the Glass viral tweet Shakespeare sucks: a potted history of Bard-bashing Podcast Credits This podcast was recorded using a Blue Snowball microphone onto an ASUS laptop, using Audacity recording software. It was then edited in Adobe Audition Creative Cloud on a Dell Inspiron 3847 computer. The bumper music (Blue Nuke) and the segue music (Sonic Chaos) are courtesy of Royalty Free Music.com, which offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download.