Category: Timon of Athens

Thank you to Emma Smith for returning to introduce to Timon of Athens.

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford. Her podcast lectures “Approaching Shakespeare”—including on All’s Well that Ends Well—are available at podcasts.ox.ac.uk. Her most recent book is This Is Shakespeare, now out in the U.S. and in paperback in the U.K.

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into Timon of Athens:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• Find good resources on Timon of Athens from the Royal Shakespeare Company and No Sweat Shakespeare.
• View a synopsis of the play from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
• Hear a full audio production of Timon of Athens from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
• See The Show Must Go Online’s Zoom performance of Timon of Athens, starring Ben Crystal and introduced by Simon Russell Beale.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of Timon of Athens from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.