Jason King Jones
Feature HostJason King Jones is the host of Shakespearean Insights on WDIY. He is the Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
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Jason King Jones discusses an incident during one of Shakespeare's plays which caused a legendary theater to burn to the ground. -
Jason King Jones discusses this truly unique Shakespearean play — and how it is a prototype of the modern sitcom. -
Jason King Jones discusses stage directions — or the lack there of — in the plays of William Shakespeare. -
Jason King Jones talks about how Shakespeare was not only an actor and a playwright, but also a shareholder in his theater company — the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. -
Jason King Jones talks about the plays of William Shakespeare that do not easily fit into the traditional categories of comedies, histories, and tragedies. -
Jason King Jones talks about the music inspired by William Shakespeare that permeates our culture, like the wedding march that is played at nearly every nuptial courtesy of Felix Mendelssohn. -
Jason King Jones talks about how live music was a prominent part of many of William Shakespeare's plays, including The Merry Wives of Windsors, which will be part of the 2024 Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. -
Jason King Jones discusses how William Shakespeare was a source of inspiration for Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment on South Africa's Robben Island. -
Jason King Jones discusses the many kinds of jobs required to produce one of Shakespeare's plays back in Elizabethan England. -
Jason King Jones talks about the praise William Shakespeare received from one of his fellow playwrights who was also producing work in the 1590s and early 1600s.
