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Episode 40: Is 2025 the Year of Hamlet Core?
The vibes are off in 2025, and many of us are staring down the barrel of 2026 with a lot of negativity. What about this mood has inspired so many recent adaptations of Hamlet?
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Episode 35: The Taming of the Shrew, Context and Confusion
It’s time to talk The Taming of the Shrew and what the heck is going in this farcical, and sometimes confusing, play that serves as a template for a number of modern romantic comedies.
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Bonus Episode 6: How Shakespeare Is It? Conclave
Have you seen Conclave yet? How Shakespeare would you guess it is? (It’s about electing the pope, if that helps.) Join me for a short discussion on Conclave and how closely its vibes align with Shakespeare.
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Episode 34: Interiority, Art, Narrative, and Shakespeare
What does it look like to try to show interiority on the stage and how does that differ from what you see on the stage? Let’s think a little bit about point of view, Shakespeare’s characters, and what theatrical methods you can use to feel like you know a character.
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Episode 33: Beware the Inspirational Shakespeare Quote
Have you seen an inspirational quote out in the world that’s attribute to William Shakespeare? Probably. Did Shakespeare say that thing? Probably not! Let’s talk about where these quotes come from, who should get attribution, the proliferation of fake Shakespeare quotes out there.
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Episode 32: Just One of the Guys (1985), Teen Comedies and Shakespeare
An episode in which we learn that the teen comedy Just One of the Guys is not as concretely adapted from Twelfth Night as people claim.
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Episode 31: T.S. Eliot on Shakespeare
It’s time to learn more about why T.S. Eliot decided to diss Hamlet so many years ago. Gotta admit, literary criticism from 100 years ago can be fun.
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Episode 30: Shakespeare Myths, Gossip, and Anecdotes
Want to hear some hot four-hundred-year-old gossip? You’re in the right place! Listen to some stories about Shakespeare of dubious veracity and some thoughts about the kind of person he could have been.
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Episode 29: Shakespeare’s Contemporary, Ben Jonson, part 2
It’s part two of talking about Ben Jonson! In this episode, I look more closely at what Jonson wrote and how that worked out for him. I also consider how he and Shakespeare differed in their relationship with the theater.
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Episode 28: Shakespeare’s Contemporary, Ben Jonson, part 1
We’re kicking off season two with a discussion of Ben Jonson, a fellow playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare and a man renowned for his big personality and strong opinions.
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