The Science of Shakespeare - Science Weekly podcast
This week on Science Weekly we delve into a world not commonly ventured into by us scientists... Shakespeare
To commemorate the 400th year of Shakespeare’s death Science Weekly has found scientists from around the UK and Ireland who can reveal the science of Shakespeare. Everything from hurricanes and crowd manipulations, to ghosts and even the biology of fairies
- Macbeth: Hallucinations - Dr Sabina Brennan
- The Tempest: Tempests - Chloe Moore
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream: Fairies - Professor Roger Wotton
- Hamlet: Ghosts - Dr Caroline Watt
- Julius Caesar: Crowd manipulation - Professor Stephen Reicher
- Othello: Betrayal - Dr Robin Dunbar
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