Excellent look at these key plays and how they remain relevant to our society. I wish Slate would make another season.

Wow—I feel like I can talk about Shakespeare and Politics with confidence now. Entertaining and fascinating podcast—please have another season!

This podcast is so fantastic, please do another season!!

This podcast brought Shakespeare’s work to life by providing context for 6 well selected plays. Isaac Butler was so intellectually stimulating, now that I have finished this limited series, I want more Shakespeare 😉. Thank you-Slate.

In college I once played Iago. I wish I had had the opportunity to hear this podcast. Micah

Great interpretation that brings the historical contexts and the unchanging existential questions together.

Wow! Just wow! This is without question my favorite podcast of all time.

Need more!

It would be terrific if this insightful and provocative series could be revived.

Soo good!!!

I know this is a mini-series but I wish it had more episodes. I’ve listened to every episode at least three times. Really great work, Slate

I’ve enjoyed this very much and hope there’s more to come.

This podcast was a great listen and drew some really interesting connections between the plays and the commentary that they can provide even on our modern day situations (particularly politics). There were occasionally a couple of dry moments for me, hence the 4 stars, but I was overall engaged and learned a lot!

I only hope this series comes back. It was a great listen.

Good stuff for people who like to read the Bard. But Old Bill didn’t write these glorious plays to be read; he wrote these scripts to be performed. So if you really want to know what’s going on with Shakespeare ‘s, get together with friends or like minded people and act out the plays. You will be glad you did.

This show does a fantastic job of analyzing Shakespeare's plays within their own time and also connecting them to our time. This is history and commentary at its best. I wish the creaters were doing all of Shakespeare's plays instead of six of them!

I just finished Othello and it was amazing. Ayana Thompson is brilliant and so dynamic. The whole podcast is a perfect balance of history, culture, drama, and modern relevance

I couldn’t love this more - thank you for keeping this level of reading and insight alive

It's the best podcast ever!!! I love it! 💕

I’ve always been fascinated by Shakespeare but too lazy to actually read any play that wasn’t assigned to me (and even then frequently deferred to the Cliff Notes). This podcast makes me want to revisit - and in the meantime gives FASCINATING insight into the plays, the man, the time and the timelessness- as well as the particular applicability to the turbulent times we’re going through right now. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

This podcast is worth listening to just for the brilliant manner in which it explains Shakespeare’s plays in their original historical context. Then there is the terrific bonus of discovering how relevant the plays are to our current social and political climate.

Have been eagerly consuming each episode immediately upon its release. Especially great for those of us who desperately miss grad school...

I'm not much of an English or Poly-Sci nerd, but I decided to listen to this out of curiousity...and I was VERY pleasantly surprised! This podcast is entertaining, even if you're just listening for a story, and extremely relevant to our times!

This incredible podcast has made Shakespeare even more enjoyable as it delves into various aspects of specific plays, reminding me that he seems more relevant with every passing day.

It is a great podcast. Intelligent that is what I really like about it. Issac Butler is knowledgeable about this subject. Very fascinating.

Great casual listen episodes. Short summary of plots and some insight into interpretations and how that might relate to our current political climate. I really like the lines here and there that are acted out.

Very cool, very interesting so far!!!

For self care it’s difficult for me to listen to the news for extended periods of time right now. I like this podcast because it’s entertaining, keeps me engaged in political questions, but doesn’t fill me with dread and anxiety and anger. I actually feel uplifted and find comfort in thinking through the parallels between the current moment and Shakespeare’s plays.

Thank you for this podcast. I love it. 🌹

I love Shakespeare. I love politics. Ergo, i love this podcast! 👏

What we have here is a show that looks at Shakespeare's plays through the lens of modern politics. Yet it also looks at the plays through the lens of politics during Shakespeare's times. This is a really interesting take on the bard's work. But what if you don't knoow his plays that well? That's okay, I listened to their episode on Richard II having never read nor watched the play, and I didn't feel lost. They have excerpts to provide context when it's needed.

Anyone interested in Shalespeare will love this in depth analysis that makes his plays relevant. If not interested in Shakespeare you will become in treated—and a fan.

I liked the first podcast but really found the second episode dull and not insightful.

There is a LOT of hard work put into this podcast. It is easy to listen to and full of great information. But I can tell it work done with love of Shakespeare and our country. I can't wait to hear the next one! Maybe Taming of The Shrew and the #metoo movement??

I’m very excited for this podcast. So far, very accessible and on-point. Can’t wait to hear more!

Julius Caesar episode was very interesting. Looking forward to rest of series.

You know who you are and you know you will love this! Informative, entertaining, intelligent. Timeless. Timely. Ugh. Listen and find the silver lining in our times.

The first episode was incredibly interesting, especially since I just worked through Roman Civ with my students.

The eloquent and articulate Isaac Butler does a phenomenal job taking a deep dive into shakespeare’s plays and making real world sense of their message. I can’t wait for the next one. Great brain food.

I need more Shakespeare in my podcast feed!!

This is a pretty incredible show. It takes a Shakespeare play, talks about its political themes, situates then in the politics of today and Shakespeare’s day, and includes performances of speeches as well as analysis of them. It’s the humanities at its bests, and it’s a high production narrative show! Slate is getting into some seriously heady territory!

Exciting concept!