Episode 834: Shakespeare's Scholars with Sean Keilen

Shakespeare himself didn't attend a university — and yet, for centuries, the world's greatest scholars have studied his works to learn about everything from poetry to politics. But have they missed the lessons that Shakespeare had for them in particular?

In Episode 834, Jacke talks to author Sean Keilen about his book Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts, which examines three plays with scholars as protagonists to see what advice the Bard might have for modern-day academics.

In a related episode, Jacke considers Shakespeare's works in translation. What is it like to translate Shakespeare into another language? How does one attempt to capture that transcendent magic so familiar to English speakers? In Episode 814, Jacke talks to writer, editor, and translator Daniel Hahn (If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation), about his encounters with writers and actors who've engaged with Shakespeare's work in more than a hundred different languages.