Have you ever thought about who your favorite Shakespeare couple of all time is? I have! Probably too often. In this episode, I finally let that aspect of my nerd flag fly and we get into where I’d rank some of Shakespeare’s most iconic couples.
Who wants to relive what they had to read in English class in high school? I guess I do! In this episode, we are talking Shakespeare and high school sprinkled with a little bit of memoir.
There’s a lot when it comes to Twelfth Night, and we’re not just talking about cross the dressing. Come for a conversation about Viola and stay for conversations about sex and gender in the sixteenth century.
Everyone has an idea in their mind of who Shakespeare is and biographers have been trying for years to find ways to support their own preferred portrayals of the Bard.
It’s only been a few months, but I’ve already learned a lot and have taken a little time to reflect on what I know now (or don’t) and how that can help the show moving forward.
IN FAIR VERONA where we set our scene, Amanda and I discuss the classic 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. The editing is frenetic, the energy is chaotic, and the line deliveries are at times hilarious.
We’re back for part two in our discussion of Shakespearean genre. This time covering tragedies and whether everyone has to die for it work and also histories and why maybe they’re not so boring after all.
What are the genres of Shakespeare’s plays an why is the First Folio to blame? It’s time to dive into genre, specifically what constitutes a comedy or a tragicomedy and the ways those definitions can be infinitely complicated.