Shakespeare and Brecht: A Conversation with Stephen Unwin

Episode 200 For today’s guest episode it is a welcome return to the podcast for Stephen Unwin. I spoke to Stephen earlier in this Shakespeare and Jonson season to discuss his book ‘Poor Naked Wretches’ which examines the way Shakespeare portrayed working people and their significance in the plays. For his next published work Stephen has produced a work that examines Berthold Brecht’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare and which makes the case for reading the two playwrights together. This is part of the Arden Performance Companion series so is slanted towards practical suggestions about how performance of Shakespeare can be achieved through Brechtian techniques. Link to Stephen’s website: Link to online retailers for ‘Shakespeare and Brecht’: Bloomsbury UK: Bloomsbury US: Amazon UK: Amazon US: Support the podcast at: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Shakespeare and Brecht: A Conversation with Stephen Unwin is an episode from The History Of European Theatre by Philip Rowe.

This episode is 43:16 long.

This episode was published on Jan 12, 2026.

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