A Minute with Shakespeare

"A Minute with Shakespeare" with WKMS

Each year, festival organizers and community Shakespeare enthusiasts team up with local NPR member station WKMS to produce a series of segments called "A Minute with Shakespeare." You'll find no stodgy professor-speak here. These gems pack the fun and wonder of Shakespeare's memorable characters in 60-second punches. They laugh that win!

Festival 2014

The Merry Wives of Windsor

• Herne the Hunter
• Jealousy
• Queen Elizabeth
• The Hottest Thing

Othello

• Desdemona's Mistake
• Emilia
• Jealousy
• The Kiss
• The Villain Iago

Henry IV, Part 1 

• Bildungsroman
• Falstaff
• Henry's Wish
• Hotspur
• Impromptu Play

Festival 2013

Twelfth Night

• Listen to ‘You go, girl! Viola’s disguise in Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘Comedy isn’t pretty: tricked by a false letter in Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘Music, the food of love, Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘The mysterious message in the love letter, Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘Malvolio, the guy we love to hate in Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘What’s in a name? A reversal of social order in Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘Twins reunited in Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘What women want, Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘What more could she want? Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘Who’s the fool? Twelfth Night’ on Audioboo

The Duchess of Malfi

• Listen to ‘The unique character of Daniel de Bosola’ on Audioboo.
• Listen to ‘Pithy aphorisms’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘Social value in the Duchess of Malfi’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘A deadly accent in The Duchess of Malfi’ on Audioboo
• Listen to ‘The duke becomes the wolf in The Duchess of Malfi’ on Audioboo

From Years Past

• Nick Bottom and his donkey head in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Doggerel in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The disobedient daughter in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The hounds of Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Imagination and love in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Just who, or what, is Puck? A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Autolycus, lone wolf of The Winter's Tale
• Mythology in The Winter's Tale
• Perdita, the little lost one in The Winter's Tale
• Exit—pursued by a bear in The Winter's Tale

Produced by WKMS-FM, 91.3 FM in collaboration with Murray State University's Department of English and Philosophy. 

Festival Contact

Dr. William "Rusty" Jones
Department of English and Philosophy
7C Faculty Hall
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341
270-809-2397 phone
270-809-4545 fax
wjones1@murraystate.edu