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The Eric Metaxas Show
A Little Story About Ajax the Great
"Talking to Spencer clavin, who has written a new book how to save the west ancient wisdom for 5 modern crises. There's only one other book with the plural word crises in it that I can think of written by Richard Nixon. Did you know that? 6 crises. 6 crises written by Nixon. Yeah, I think it was the late 70s, his saddle river period. You mentioned before we're talking about the classics, which inevitably come up when you're talking about the west. We're talking about the ancient Greeks and what does Athens have to do with Jerusalem. And just a fun fact, just because no one else will care about this, but I think you might. You mentioned, first time on this program, anyone has ever mentioned Ajax, telemon, Ajax. There you go. I want to meet them. Beef witted Ajax in the words of Shakespeare. But what I loved is when I realized that Ajax was the anglicization of the Greek ayas, depending on how you pronounce it, right? And then I realized, oh yeah, in the 1920s, whenever they came up with Ajax, the cleanser that people use to clean their sinks and whatever. It's because it's strong. So there was once a culture. In the 1920s and 30s, when people were so literate in the classics, that everyone know Ajax was like Hercules. He's strong. And how depressing. Right? Okay, but it gets weird. Oh, yeah. It gets weirder. I was in Greece because I'm Greek. And I saw a canister of Ajax, and you'd think that what would the Greek version of Ajax, the blue dot cleanser? What would the Greek version be called? Of course, it would be IS, right? Naturally. A zeta alpha Kappa. Wow. And I thought no one in the world cares about this, but me and someday in the future. Maybe I'll have Spencer clavin on. And I'll let him know that I had this crisis.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Dr. Gorka and Mr. Reagan Review Harry Dean Stanton in 'Red Dawn'
"Course. The wolverines of the training defense of the quote unquote re-education camp in red dawn, Swayze talking to his father, Harry dean Stanton, one of the most emotional moments of the movie red dawn. Shouting to his sons as they leave avenge me. Help me out here, Chris. I've never understood that performance was remarkable. But I've never understood the Harry dean Stanton cult. People love Harry dean Stanton. I didn't know there was one. Oh, there is. I mean, amongst a certain group of movie buffs, he's like whether it's in alien is what the engineers or whether it's here. I even milius says, Harry dean Stanton, how can you do any better than Harry? He's a compelling guy. Yeah. You know? I mean, compelling people in film. I mean, it's a thing. It's important to have that and underrated people. People like to support people who are underrated, I think. Okay. That makes sense. That makes sense. And what's interesting about that scene in particular, this is not a dialog heavy film. No. And it's not like esoteric language. It's not sophisticated, you know, reams of dialog. It's not these poetry of Shakespeare. These very simple lines. Yes. But very powerful. And everyone in this film is very sincere.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
A Look Back at Hugh Keays-Byrne's Performance in 'Mad Max'
"You say. Anything I say. What a wonderful philosophy you have. To give away. That is the villain of the piece. A Hughes going to get his name right. Hughes Bern. He has a double barreled name. And if you did any research, Hugh keyes burn. That guy was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. And it shows. Really? Really? Are you really going to say that? I am, I am. I'll tell you what. Because classically trained actors are always overly dramatic. Oh. It's hard. It's hard to bring in an actor, especially like that was trained in musical theater. When I was in film school, we brought in a musical theater actor for like a project we were doing. Good God, it was impossible to stop this guy. Talking like this, you know, and everything was, it was like a nightmare. They do tend to overact a little bit. The guy is bizarrely dramatic. I think it probably worked at the time. It's really dated now. It's really bizarre now. They actually recast him in the last yes, in the last whatever the Mad Max: Fury Road thing. Jory road, it's called, that's right, yeah,
The Eric Metaxas Show
Myra Adams and Eric Discuss the Bible's Cultural Relevancy
"And I both know that it's impossible to live in American culture in English culture in England. Without hearing phrases that are from the Bible. And so if you don't know the Bible, it's a little bit like being utterly ignorant of Shakespeare. You are culturally illiterate because there are so many phrases that come from Shakespeare and from the Bible. And if you don't know about those things, I mean, I'm big on cultural literacy. And you have a chapter in your book, Bible study for those who don't read the Bible, where you talk about some of the sayings that we think of as common sayings, but are rooted in the Bible. You posted it in your town hall column on June 27th, 2021, that was my birthday year and a half ago. Why don't we start there? Okay, well, you bring up a really good point about how cultural literacy is what's really declining. And both the Bible and Shakespeare were two of the works that were really the foundation of education and literacy for centuries in western culture. And both of them seem to be on the decline. Particularly the Bible and I guess probably Shakespeare is probably what he's probably been canceled too by this time. But the Bible can be considered hate speech. So senator Marco Rubio had told me that years ago that he believed that at some point, the Bible, the Bible would be considered hate speech in a year ago, I talked to him and I said, remember when you said that a year ago, Bible would be considered hate speech, and he said, I was right, wasn't I? Right. And that's today's left in the United States of America. But today's left in the United States of America in thinking of the Bible of hate as hate speech. They're in good company because the Taliban, the North Korean regime, they also think of the Bible as hate speech. So if you're on the left and you think the Bible is hate speech, join those clubs. In
Mark Levin
Caller: Shakespeare's Clever Quote About Taking Down Governments
"Hi Mark What you said early on in the show about how they're getting rid of them the prosecutors and the lawyers that is so right on and it just rang a bell with me because when I was growing up my father was a practicing trial attorney here in Houston and he would quote Shakespeare and there's one of Shakespeare's plays that says if you want to take down a government or a nation you have to first get rid of all the lawyers I don't remember which play it was but he would cook that And I just remember that growing up and it's very alarming really because Shakespeare knew what he was talking about His plays are rich with history and common law and common English law and he knew what he was talking about my dad just he thought that was such a great line And he would quote it many times
The Eric Metaxas Show
Newsmax's Greg Kelly Discusses His New Book 'Justice for All'
"Got a book out called justice for all how the left is wrong about law and forcement. We all knew that the left was wrong, but how they are wrong is the subject of Greg Kelly's book justice for all Greg Kelly. Welcome back. So good to be back. Eric and you're amazing and amazingly dressed as usual. Seriously, the best dressed guy around. Even you don't have to wear a tie these needs to be well dressed. I was gonna say we're wearing a tie would be gilding the lily and we know that that's just not worth doing. Gilding lily, by the way, I coined that phrase in one of my early poems. Shakespeare gets credit for it. But I don't care. I'm like Reagan. You know what I mean? I don't care who gets credit. Got it. Greg Kelly, you wrote a book. Now, again, to refresh those in my audience who might have missed your last appearance on the program. You really do have an interesting background. So you are currently really the star of newsmax. And I want to talk about what's going on with newsmax and the censorship. But your book is about law enforcement, tell us a little bit about your background and about your dad, because that's what would give you a particular insight into law enforcement, particularly New York City law enforcement, which is where you and I live. Talk about that just for a bit, so we get a set up to why you wrote this book justice for all. Sure. Well, look, I've been a reporter and a journalist and talk show host for about two decades now. And I feel like you and I are a bit different from a lot of the folks on media. I mean, I sense a new a genuine curiosity about the world. I've always been faking that, to be honest, but if I sold you, I'm good. Eric, Eric. So if you do it very well and it used to be annoying when I was a kid because I would ask so many questions and then I found a way to monetize that I hung around with my dad a lot growing up. He was a police officer. And the greatest influence in my life, the book is dedicated to him. I'm not a law enforcement professional, but I am somewhat observant. I did serve in uniform and in the United States Marine Corps. And this is a book that definitely supports law enforcement. No doubt about it. That's the thrust of it.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Andrew Klavan Discusses 'The Truth and Beauty'
"Things that I just loved about this book, and there's so many things. But you bring these figures to life. When you describe coleridge and keats and all of them. And I realized that's something that also had fallen out of fashion by the time that I was in college. In the 80s, where we didn't seem to care about these figures as figures. And you sort of you bring them to life. So in some ways, it's not a novel, but there are a lot of fun stories in this book about amazing, crazy, brilliant people trying to work these things out in their lives and in their art. But if you think about it, Britain is an island the size of Oregon. And on it in this one generation, or it's two generations of the same time, is coleridge, wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, keats and Byron. The 6th greatest poets in the English language besides Shakespeare and Milton are all living together on this island. And so they're all nuts because they're poets. They're wild men. They're falling apart half the time. Coleridge is an absolute ruin of a human being. Byron has screwing everybody male or female, he can get his hands on. Shelly wants to be doing that. But isn't quite. And then, and one of the people that I deal with is Mary Shelley, one of my favorite chapters in the book is on Frankenstein because Mary Shelley adores Shelley. She adores this man she's run off with his left his wife and she's run off with them. And she adored and worshiped her father and now she adores and worship Shelley. And he's basically treating her as Byron and Shelley treated all the women they came in. He was basically like crap. And he believes in free love and he doesn't know why she's so depressed when her children die. He's depressed. She's not paying attention to him. And she writes this book, Frankenstein, where she says it's about a man who tries to steal God's thunder by creating life. But I point out that we all create people create life. We create life of the things that we have. What Frankenstein, what doctor Frankenstein does is increase life without a woman. And her nightmare is essentially the nightmare of femininity, the female aspect of life and femininity and womanhood, becoming obsolete.
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Socrates in the City Event Featuring Andrew Klavan
"Are airing my conversation from Socrates in the city with the extraordinary Andrew clavin. One of the best ever, if you want more information, go to Socrates in the city dot com. And now, here is that event. But in Paradise lost, Milton is trying to show that there's a difference between rebelling against a king, which he had done. He had endorsed the beheading of Charles the first and had to run for his life after Charles the second came in, and he was trying to show the Paradise lost as his attempt to show the difference between that and rebelling against God, which is rebelling against goodness and creation. And so that idea, how do we now rebel against kings and rebel against the church and yet not rebel against God was where wordsworth and coleridge kind of started without even knowing it. They didn't know they were doing this. He was so brilliant. But they wrote this book called lyrical ballads, which transformed English poetry. And it's a book in which they sort of say, we're going to show how the imagination in collaboration with reality transforms and enchants reality and how it brings even the smallest of people, nobility. And they basically reinvented this Christian ethos through nature through looking at nature, which they didn't, like I said, Colbert knew he was doing it, but words were, I'm not sure actually understood words with ended his life as a Christian. But it took him a long time to come there. And they sort of passed this journey on to John Keats, who was the greatest English poets and Shakespeare. He lived 25 years, he had about one month about 6 weeks of writing some of the greatest poetry that has ever been written and then got tuberculosis and died. And this period of great creativity. I just want to say there's one thing because it's so fascinating to me. His brother had died of tuberculosis, his poetry was getting terrible reviews. He was poor. He had a coffee. He started to think, oh my God, I'm getting tuberculosis. He's absolutely depressed. He can't write. He's taking a walk in Hampton heath, and he looks up and who's coming toward him coleridge.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Importance of Honoring the Sabbath
"Good afternoon. I've heard you talk about the Bible and God in your clips from conferences during breaks while listening. I've never heard you speak on these things live. Well, you got to listen more. As a new listener, starting the weeks leading up to that election, I heard very refreshing to hear the word of God mixed into your commentary as a fellow Christian and the me you, that's a fun word of current events, the word of God balanced all things and helps mentally, as you know, thanks for bringing the word today, unexpected to be a pastoral figure, but glad to hear your heart on this. Yeah, look, I'm not a pastor, I just, I love the Bible. And even if you don't believe the Bible is the word of God. It is unmistakably a beautiful text. And if you don't love beautiful things, then you're really misguided. There is so much complexity. There is so much to be discovered and just if you just study genesis one through 11. It will be infinitely interesting, the profundity, the fascination of it. It pale, it makes Shakespeare see like child's play and Shakespeare is probably the most beautiful, the most beautiful plays and works of art written in the English language. So I encourage you to have an open mind and to learn as much as you can and we'll share the wisdom that we learn here. Email us freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Someone says Charlie, I love the Bible lesson. Are you starting to write a book about the Sabbath? You know what? I promised I would. And I've made no progress on it, except I have really hard, I've clarified my thoughts on a lot of this on the Sabbath and the more I think about it and the more I actually practice the Sabbath, the more I recognize how beautiful and important it is and what a disservice it is to yourself and to your relationship with the lord, not onto the Sabbath if you're a Christian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Airs His Grievances About the GOP
"Charlie, I see a sincerity and heartfelt pain, not many people are conveying right now, but probably very much show our feeling. Thank you for your vulnerability and honest portrayal of pain and hurt and disappointment. It's true. I'm so hurt by the Senate Republicans in the midterms, it's not a fulfilling feeling. To feel as if the people that you work for hate you. I know that's a very logical and simple truth claim. But when the people that you are trying to rally support for have disdain for you. We've talked about Dante's inferno or Dante's divine comedy. Not an easy read, but I encourage you guys to attempt to either read it or to read an analysis of it. For example, you know, someone asked me the day said Charlie did read Shakespeare. He said, no. I read commentaries on Shakespeare. I mean, I couldn't understand the deeper, beautiful meaning of most Shakespeare plays. So I need an expert who has studied at his whole life or her life to tell me whether or not Shakespeare, not whether or not, but what is the beauty in this in this play mech bath, a Romeo and Juliet. I'm just not going to pick it up. I haven't committed my life. Nor do what I have the talent to be able to understand it. So anyway, in Dante's divine comedy, he says the worst thing you could do or the 9th circle of hell is betrayal. It's deceit. Treachery. And the three examples he used is cassius Brutus and, of course, Judas iscariot. No, I'm not going to say that all these Republicans are moral equivalents of Judas. You might say that. I love your thoughts freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. But it's a very similar moral behavior, isn't it? Which is I'm going to tell you one thing and I'm going to do the exact opposite.
Liberty Station
Pastor Rob McCoy: The Bible Has Been Foundational to Our Language
"Did you know that less than 3% of Americans read their Bible daily? It's just dropped precipitously. Since the founding of our nation, all of our founders were very biblically proficient. They actually understood Greek and Hebrew. They studied Latin as well. A kids raised in America were first taught with a New England primer up until the 1930s, which was all scripture. Second graders would memorize the entirety of the book of John, yeah. We're like, well, I don't think I've even memorized John three 16. The word had an enormous God's word had an enormous influence in our culture. There's idioms that saturate our language, the English language, the Oxford English dictionary, credits the wycliffe Bible, the 14th century middle English translation of the Bible with more early citations of English words than the works of Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas hardy, Samuel pepys, John Milton combined, the Bible, even outright outranks William Shakespeare with evidence of a grand total of 1547 new words compared to Shakespeare's 1524 words. It doesn't stop there. The numerous English translations in additions of the Bible produced over the centuries have likewise given us countless proverbs and sayings, an expressions, many of which have been dropped into everyday use, a lot of us use them day in and day out. Like OE of little faith and the biblical origins of many of these are interesting to say the least,
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Unpacks Aristotle's Magnanimity
"If we go to ancient Greece and Rome before Christianity, there was a certain ideal of doing good, which I would describe not as compassion, but as magnanimity. So what is magnanimity? Well, Aristotle speaks about what he calls the great souled man. And the great salt man actually helps people. And he also does all kinds of things. What we would today called social service for the community for the polis. But why does he do it? He does it because he's great. He does it to express his greatness or his superiority. Aristocrats and ancient Greece and Rome would fund bats and statues and parks and board their names of Caesar famously in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar goes I'm going to give all the land this side of the tiber to the Roman citizens, but this is magnanimity. This is not the same thing as compassion. Compassion is fellow feeling. It means really, well, the actual word means suffering along with other people. And so we help people in Haiti and Rwanda, not because we're better than them, but because we're like them. Because we are all in the same human predicament. We're all as we say in the same boat.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Relevance of Religion in Society
"So give me an example of a wisdom lesson you got from what Dickens and they could Dickens is great. I just like to know what it is. By the way, you can get a BA in English at UCLA without reading Shakespeare. Oh, God. It's a worse example. There's actually a worse. Oh, yes. You can now get a BA in classics. Oh, without you. Without knowing Greek or Latin. Yes. See, I think that, I mean, I love that line that God created doubt. Because I think that having the doubt makes us into stronger people, and one of the things about religion that I like is that it forces you to reconcile contradictions in your mind or be okay with contradictions. What that statement of my friends reveals is that they don't want to have to wrestle with uncertainty. They don't want to have to wrestle with contradictions. And religious people have to do that all the time. Look at look at the essence of Christianity. It's that God came into human form and suffered in order to save us from our sins. That's a contradiction. Wait, so God, as you like to say, what's the word incorporeal? Incorporeal. Yeah, that's what I said. You just heard me wrong. I pronounced it, right? Sean edited it out, edited out. She is messing with me. And I'm totally okay with it. Edit it out. Oh, he's not gonna end it out. Okay, that word, yes. So the contradiction is God doesn't exist in human form. Became physical. Or also, you know, why is God a good God, but yet he allows suffering. Even in the Bible, you see, there's contradiction in the first two or three stories. Noah is a righteous man and yet he has that terrible son lot.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Liz Wheeler and Eric Discuss Marxist Ideologies
"Race theory is not just a poisonous ideology in and of itself, telling white children their racist because they're white, black children, they're oppressed because they're black. It's a grandchild of critical theory, which is a Frankfurt school. Marxist theory that is cultural Marxism, essentially. And it's just the outgrowth of critical theory. And we've seen in our nation that when people, parents, especially, are shown what their children are being taught, they're shown that their children are being indoctrinated with critical race theory. They don't want that, regardless of whether they're Republican parents, Democrat parents, Christian parents, non Christian parents, people don't want that. So what did the left do? They didn't make an argument for a critical race. They tried to obscure it. They tried to silence those of us who were who were who understood the reality of the political enemy that we're facing. And the same thing with queer theory, which is the underpinning of the transgender ideology, they don't want people to be able. It's not that they're trying to silence you, Eric. It's not that they're trying to silence me, Liz, even if they censor us, it's that they're trying to prevent everyone who listens and watches from being able to have access to that information. That's much scarier than the idea of some personal government vendetta against us because they know that information is a fundamental threat to their ideology. Well, and it's funny because speaking as Christians, we understand God stacked the deck folks. He created the universe and this thing we call reality. And there is no way ultimately to subvert it. You can subvert it in the short term. But in the long term, the truth will always out to quote Shakespeare. There is no way that that doesn't happen. Sometimes it takes decades, but it eventually comes out. And they are trying to pull a power play in the short term and saying shut up, shut up, everybody just agree with us agree with us agree with us. And if you don't, we're going to cancel, we're going to do what we can. Because if you have any kind of fair conversation, anyone who can understand it would understand that critical race theory, queer theory. All this stuff is from the pit of hell. It's pure nonsense. It's based on things that most people know are wrong. And so you're quite right. They do not want people to really understand this. So it's just shut up and go along with it, or you'll get in trouble.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Why Professors Are Destructive Fools
"Now do you know why it is in no way an exaggeration to say if I hear that I am about to meet or just hear that somebody is a professor in the humanities, the liberal arts called it what you want, I assume the person is a fool. I know that some professors aren't. We have probably about 40 professors who give PragerU courses. There are, of course, exceptions. People who love learning who love educating. However, the overwhelming majority of professors are destructive fools. The Princeton, I want you to understand what is happening. This is Princeton, which is just become a wasteland with the rapidity of a supersonic airliner. You don't have to take a semester of Latin or Greek to get a degree. In the classics, how about this? At UCLA, you can get a degree in English and never have once taken a course on Shakespeare or read a Shakespeare play.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak: As Flies to Wanton Boys, Are We to the Left
"A lot of pieces that stream dot org. And talk about the one where you quote Shakespeare, if you don't mind. It's called as flies to wanton boys. Are we to the left? They kill us for their sport. That is a paraphrase from king Lear, the actual line is as flies to wanton boys. Are we to the gods? They kill us for their sport. If the character of Gloucester, he's a loyal courtier, he's blinded and thrown the wilderness to starve to death by the villains of the play goneril and Cornwall. He's speaking about the gods, again, it's a pagan world in king year, are elites are pagans, and they think of themselves as gods. And they treat us the way the Greek and Roman gods treated ordinary people. They descend from Olympus, they rape, they kill, they rob, they tyrannize, and they go back to Olympus, and they expect not to face any consequences. And I don't care if they go to church and screen Jesus the way rainfield Warnock does or Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi do. These people are pagans who think of themselves as gods. They need to be set apart from the rest of us with blue checks on Twitter with the freedom to riot mostly peacefully and burn down cities when they want and face no legal consequences to nullify elections, the tariff, the social contract, spit on our constitution, do fake impeachments of presidents, commit perjury, lie on television, face absolutely no consequences. They opted the left is occupied the U.S. capitol. They never went to prison for two years without trial. They were never put in solitary confinement. The people who took over the Wisconsin state capitol when Scott walker was governor, the number of leftists who were punished for their terrorist crimes is zero.
The Eric Metaxas Show
David Berlinski on Remarkable Figures and the Miracle of Thought
"We're talking about Newton, Newton, Einstein, Maxwell, it seems to me the greatest argument for the uniqueness of humanity is figures like these. I think it's an important fact these figures are remarkable, and we don't find comparable figures among the dogs. Who is the Shakespeare of the orangutans? Well, it's a good question. It sounds frivolous. I know, when I say it, I hear the no, no, it's funny. It's not frivolous. It's funny, but it's not frivolous. But I think even more important than the Shakespeare, the newtons, the great figures in science or literature or music. Every human being has very similar properties. Look, the fact that every single human being pathologies aside is capable of acquiring and using a natural language is a miracle of creation for which we do not have a good explanation. What is Noam Chomsky say about this? Exactly what I just said. I lifted that from Noam Chomsky. Chomsky believes that language correctly is the key to thought that language is articulated thought. And he certainly has an elaborate scheme to explain the grammatical properties of language in terms of a very formal system of explanation. But the creation of thought and our ability to take thought and bear in mind that thoughts are not under our control. Our thoughts just arrived and somehow or other pertinent to circumstances and make sense. The creation of thought is a complete mystery, and it only takes place in one species, and that's an extremely important fact.
AP News Radio
Opening statements to begin in Weinstein trial
"Opening statements will begin Monday in Los Angeles in the sexual misconduct trial of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein I'm Marty Zara led with the latest Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles to four counts of rape and 7 other counts of sexual assault that involve 5 women He's already serving a 23 year sentence for rape and sexual assault for a conviction in 2020 in New York The jury for his Los Angeles trial consists of 9 men and three women little is known about them because their questionnaires have remained sealed Weinstein was once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood He ran miramax with his brother and produced Oscar winning films like Shakespeare in love and the artist
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"shakespeare" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"Which of course is one of the big themes of this play right like the king is literally god's anointed on earth and we have to respect the king as if he's actual jesus and gone in the scene is really buying into that whereas the dutch saying like even selfishly. She sang to gone linked to safeguard line on life. The best way is to to venture gloucester's death the best way to get revenge and gaunt replies to her. Gods is the quarrel for god's substitute his deputy anointed in his sight hath caused his death. The which if wrongfully let heaven revenge. So he's very very dismissive of the duchess and also very reluctant kind of challenge. Richard which of course changes later on. Because it's a soap opera. Nobody's loyal for long. Yes and. I think that it's really important. That that got speak those words and that his so he like represents kind of old order that is not going to stand against god's anointed and like his death than will inaugurate this new order with his son bolingbrook positioning himself as being forced to stand against richard but really taking advantage of an opportunity that is being presented to him. And then rate way to bloomberg's cheeky. He was my favorite character for a long time from for several years. And then i kind of switched. Where like richard is now. Maybe maybe gaining on him or like equally like them both. Which is a real problem. Because this asks you choose. Yeah the play doesn't really let you like both of them. But richard get such nice speeches he does and bolingbrook speeches are very efficient. And so in. That way. I think perhaps shakespeare really is putting his finger on the scale a little bit by. Let giving the language to richard but the power to bowling broke great. so we're in another seventeen dudes to women situation as as prior very wives of windsor. But this one. I guess at least in the title isn't promising. Us women had very strong feelings about the title of mary. Wives of windsor dude. Yeah gets a bit of a bait and switch what we're seeing here. We know what we're getting here. I'm using okay. So the duchess and john of gaunt do not agree about how to deal with the dead gloucester situation and then then we have the actual fight right where we are. We're we've been promised this dual and so now we're going to get to the dual and then at the last minute. Richard intervenes in display of his power. And he exiles both of them he exiles mowbray for life. Of course he has to do that. Because mowbray can implicate him in this murder and mowbray even says something like you know. I had looked for better treatment from your highness for killing your uncle. He leaves that part out but we to understand why he looked for better treatment and then bolingbrook exiles for ten years but then seeing kind of his uncle god's reaction he shaves off for years of that exile and then we get a great line from bolingbrook which is something like such. Is the breath of kings right. That kings have this kind of power over your life where they can determine what is going to happen to you and your utterly powerless to do anything about it and you know when asked students to think about like when did bolingbrook come up with the idea of a. He wants that kind of power. That richard has or he wants. Richard's position you know they always wanna say that. It's later in the play. But i really think it comes very early and so shakespeare's already establishing us bullying brooks desire here. So everybody's exiled and then. We have one of my favorite scenes in the play..
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"shakespeare" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"Because it's going to be like you know people have kind of get it. Yeah and it also. It creates the sense of like. Oh it's historical. Oh it's so precious and important. And i think for an actor like you you might learn something about how an early modern actor moved in those clothes by wearing course it wearing hose. Whatever but also. That was that person's everyday clothing dude. i mean. of course somebody who wears a corset. Every day is much more comfortable in it than you are somebody who wears it for six weeks once a year. You know. it's like when you're young well not you but i'm talking talk. You know when people who wear bras when you when you start wearing a bra you wear a training bra. And that's not to train your body to do anything to train you to get used to wearing that garment right. So there's a a sense of like is it more accurate actually to stage these plays enclosed. That are comfortable in contemporary to us and to rewrite the jokes so that their current for us. Because that's more the feeling that shakespeare's actors in shakespeare's audiences would have had originally. maybe right. is it actually more authentic to try and recreate the experience rather than recreate the conditions. Who knows who does know nobody. That's why lion house. No one will ever ask him so names that that's our season wrapup. Have i missed anything. Everything excellent there's nothing else to say. There's nothing else to say about shakespeare done. Doug we've cracked it. We don't even need to do season to just these days. You've been listening to not another shakespeare podcast. And this is our prerecorded out tro. If you like this episode please review. 'em subscribe if you hated this episode may share it with a nemesis. You can follow us on social media at an shacks podcast or check out our website. An eight shakespeare podcast dot com. Thanks for listening and see the next time the..
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"shakespeare" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"Like. Oh that prick. Maybe teams up with the wrestler. And they're like yeah. Let's down your favorite scenes the lion and the rest. Yeah maybe will on those putting all those love nights he could have been putting up in the lions forest and the line that may be is why the them in the first place because lyon was like this poetry shit sober out of this littering. My my lovely forest. If it was good poetry i could let it slide. Yeah i mean. I think lines probably have a fair appreciation. Approach lines are known to be poetic Okay so so charles. In the lion comeback and murder orlando y- one all. Yeah rosalyn better off without him. We've established this. Yeah renews kind sucks. Anyway she does kind of suck anyway. Like i feel like the lion doesn't suck. It's just being the lion. I covered with the lion touchstone. Yeah they can hang out. Okay so andrea touchstone. Keep the lion as a pet before charles can come in. Yeah think he comes back for rematch. He gets really like whilst thorough frolicking around in the forest. Charles is like training. Montage roy style. And he's like comes back and he's like a rematch. Okay i could see that and then that's kind of like you know we'll go again. That expendable theory. That's that's where that's having and then it kicks off the expendable style sequel. Yeah yeah we also had the idea that like maybe jake duke senior together at the end. Yeah yeah. I think that'd be nice. Yeah i mean it's throwing a a non hetero relationship already having four weddings. What's one more. Oh someone should die. Then if four weddings thought we sandwich. The orlando was dying. Oh yeah they get four weddings and funeral boom amazing see shakespeare. We fixed it for. You made it better. What do you think about macbeth. Alternate ending for macbeth. Macbeth did i. I mentioned something about the trees you did. You said it would like have this tendency to pick up the nonsense characters you said it would be cool if the trees actually moved and it was a metaphor for like nature. I i stopped by that comment. Yeah i feel like said he macbeth of mysticism of geist..
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"Three is of new taha looking for every louis arrives and they're like they get patted daniels in the background. Like what when do i start zero. What is my cue dragged adder. Really oh my gosh okay. Wow well today. I learned that there are the muppets already up. It's make everything better. Yes really do sorry. Test my sister. You're wrong you're wrong about the mopeds. I don't know what to tell you. Sorry test of the title of the episode bonus episode. Sorry to on that note we will cut to our prerecorded out. I think thank you kristen so much for coming on the show and for sharing your absolutely brilliant. Muppets as you like it cast with us. Thank you much for having me. Sorry i interrupted. You know it was just continuing to thank you. No thank you very much. This is so fun. And i love hearing both of your casts so very great hanging out with both on a lovely sunday afternoon evening. Nice hanging out with you. Choose you've been listening to not another shakespeare podcast. And this is our prerecorded out tro. If you like this episode please review. 'em subscribe if you hated this episode may share it with a nemesis. You can follow us on social media at an shacks podcast or check out our website. An eight shakespeare podcast dot com for listening and see the next time on further..
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"I feel like i feel like ralph could really bring some some papers to nurture And then i've gone for quite a good sort of obvious in some ways cast and of having kermit banquo and then robin plants so you get that kind of double frog thing because they related. Can we have double frog thing on. T. shirt i'll say it's just a double frog guys. It's a it's a double frog thank. You wouldn't get. I wouldn't get it but i also feel like come. It's quite e. Can't be quite naive as well. So i think he's sort of be a banquo. Wouldn't he be you know going along with daniel lewis very good. Just imagine the brutal scene between the two great. Can you picture the ghost of kermit. The frog scaring to agile with wavy arms mercer picturing like the when they make sam the eagle the ghost in In muppet treasure island. Bogey bogey any bougie. Im the ghost. That's how it goes down. Excellent for this is bit of around one but for dunkin. I went with the swedish chef. Yes he's sort of. I suppose feels like you just need to be whole thing. And he can be sort of silly and then Again i like the idea. Daniel day lewis killing the swedish chef. Yeah i think that's very good. Lots of rumors. And you just wanna watch the swedish chef die. Very good kill him. Vegetables flying everywhere. And then maybe like heightened cut over to tomato. Who's like i thought. I had it bad or something. You could have a shot like him. getting killed. Three sort of frosted window and there's like vegetables spider. That's very good and then i've gone with reseau food. Donald bain and of course double thing here with gaza malcolm given gordon so a kind of a good part because guns as a good muppet shit my biscuit ship parts could my pets get good parts have a role from say bias. But they're often guns. Oh look his name is gonzo the great. How are you gonna argue with it. Yeah exactly and then the witches. I've gone for the electric mayhem. Yeah so with genesis haggerty and then you talk to animal floyd zoo as all the other which is great and they can even after like music when they come in maybe or they better today the the which do have songs. Oh brilliant yet. The songs are from middleton's play the witch so shakespeare didn't write them but they're in it. Well maybe They even sneak in a cheeky. Like season of the witch cover. Ooh yeah or something like monster. Mash like law tecate living better even better with on screen. He's seizing because no one seriously. They make him do the dance but the and the thing that he's so method that he can't stop to complain about what's going on just to do. It has to be has to stay in character at all costs so good. That would be great. That's what methods methodist. Yeah no prophesied. So that you do the monster mash. The mash he did the mash bash. Daniel day lewis makes every single one of these other choices better. Exactly you can't go wrong anyway. It's already perfect.
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"I'm not second guessing it now. A cast is locked in. And i have fuzzy bear as laureus. Who's the guy that kidnapped the babies. Sure i think like it's one of those things like on the service. I'm not sure it makes sense. But it's also think fosse would feel a real sense of betrayal if he felt that like he had served the king really faithfully and then the king was like thinking that he was a traitor Which is what happens in the play. So i felt like okay fawzy and i also feel like fuzzy would be a great dad. Yeah who doesn't want to be raised by fauzi bear i can i can see that. James's skeptical skeptical. I don't think he could successfully like do a lot of grown up things. Maybe where. I'm not sure your fair but i feel like if you're gonna if you're gonna kill babies and live in a cave who better than a bear. Hey you that's right. That should be a t-shirt kidnap babies and living in cave. You better be better. Who better than a bear better than a bear. Who better and the as the brothers i have cast. That immortal duo robin and scooter. Yeah robin's the little frog right. Yes kermit's nephew i think. Yeah yeah which again probably should've just made kermit cymbeline no reno. I'm in the camp of resist the urge to put kermit piggy as like the two biggest parts or whatever again. I don't know this play to while or well at all but I it's a weird one. Honestly i just remember very entertaining lectures about it in university and grab chris matuzek. Yeah yeah there was. I think that's exactly what i'm thinking of. I think it must be 'cause that's the first time i read. It was in his class. And i remember thinking how did i not know about this place is. This is so much cooler than most of shakespeare. yeah for listeners. Who are not aware Kristen i went to university together in toronto. Which is where we met. So that's that's why we were both cymbeline by the same person right so i have a one. Last role to cast a night is the role of jupiter. Who descends on an eagle. Yes this is he who arrives mostly because there are ghosts being whiny i haven't cast the ghosts. Maybe i should have but anyway I thought wins the penguins. Yes the penguin orchestra the ghosts. So thank you james. Good one so. Jupiter shows up because the ghosts are being whiny and asking for his help and they won't shut up and he descends on eagle. So obviously sam. The eagle has a secondary cameo as the eagle. Sure i feel like you have to. But jupiter king of the gods is played by king of the muppets in my opinion. obviously sweetjames. yeah yeah also. Because he's got the booming voice of god. You know you need you. Need jupiter to have a big voice in sweden's has a big voice not curve it now. He just comes down. Specs wisdom beaker delivering a prophecy. That's funny so did you forgive me if i missed it did you do. Human part did imaging that was old. Jesse may lee old right. That's right. I'm sorry that's okay i know i. Apparently she's more niche than i thought. I thought she's on a netflix show. Everyone's gonna though her. I've seen the trailer scene dealer and i like her hair. See james. that's all you need. Yeah good her permission. I mean that is ninety percent of the appeal of ben. Barnes not going.
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"Shakespeare and you kind of new to know right. It's like it's like the people who live in fingering ho. They have to know how the name of their towns zones yet last night watching. It was just daniel and trying to come up with as many puns on the title as you as possible as you liked it. I disliked it or as i like it out. I don't. I don't don't know really bad as you puns. The entire night through amazing. I can see james doing that. In fact i'm sure he has. I think i just went straight to ask you like it. That's how lazy we definitely hadn't asked you. Show is the first one or like ask with the capital. A and then colin asked colon. You like it didn't want to be in sure we do. I know what i said. Everything i do is deliberate here. That was a well crafted joke. Well there you go to come up with. I really glad that you got into it. And i genuinely think camilla as rosalind is a is a stroke of genius thank you. That was my favorite part. I have to say because gonzo and camilla are really. They're like the they're the real muppets. Power couple to me. Like i get bored. Kermit piggy get bored of bunsen and beaker couple. I you can't tell me they're not telling me sounded love. They have that energy. They're always together long hours at the lab. Come on Happens but yeah. I'm really more about camillon gonzo. I'm fascinated and i think every reveal makes him love her even more. Yes and actually i love reseau as oliver because he does have that kind of dirtbags. I'd yeah that plays really well into that character. Yeah well that's a very like. I know oliver isn't your typical like i'm thinking about operas where there's two sets of lovers and one sets one set is always like defending clever couple and then there's the sincere naive couple..
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"I don't know it. Choices were made choices happened. I'm trying to think. Kevin klein is my imaginary best friend and i will go through a lot for that man. I adore him. But i hate jake so that was a bit of a bit of a problem. And he didn't save it. Like i think that he had either given up or he's like this character is sad and just learning. He's even checked out literally at the end when they're like we're going to sing for and he's like i'm going to go die. That's that's all of us right now. It's that's how we all feel. All are i think if kevin kline can't save character character worth that's exactly right. I mean kevin kline can't make this fellow interesting and kevin kline is objectively the most interesting man in the world right. I think or got for you. Of course james. Yeah kevin kline and james. That's it those are the two most interesting men in the world. But you know what my favorite and this didn't save it either. Alfred molina and janet mcteer as touchstone and audrey were great because janet mcteer is one of my favorite people in the world and she did a great job but again even them and i don't even think this was the direction or anything or the interpretation. I was just like these scenes. Are bad good guys. Is it possible that like shakespeare's not as good as we've been led to believe i mean maybe it's just me and this play who knows i don't know i i couldn't i i..
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"Eight. Why did he like before when they didn't have curtains why it was the theatre court theatre fills administrative and shakespeare's as great as everyone says he is couldn't have suggested a better name. This is the man who refused to put a lion on stage. So you know yet. Missing whereas dismissing lion he puts a barren. That's just prejudice against the law. Say to be fair. There is sort of a lion in midsummer night's dream. How much of a lion actor dressed up as a lion apologizes for being so scary to the audience. So he's a lion. He's the lauren community. Badly been referenced in as you like it and then when the line community are involved in midsummer night's dream. They're apologizing for being lions. Are you done. What was his favourite doublet. Did you have a collection of hats. And if not why not sure he did have a collection of. Why don't we know about these hats. I i don't know. I couldn't tell you they're not in his will y like place in italy. What's the what's the deal with. That is it because of the remain an easter on a get on the back of trend or is he just like i want to go to and if i write so many paid by italy someone from italy my actually like give me a freebie trip is actually a good question. I wouldn't. I wouldn't go so far as to say that. Most of his pleasers in italy like more than like more wives than there are in windsor. Well he's plays in denmark. Spain and scotland and then he's got like a lawyer to the mentally so like proportionately as saying that's there are proportionate In italy trip. That name probably yeah. He was trying to get sponsorship for his italian his next italian project. Why are the new. Shakespeare play set in portugal. It's a really good question. why are there. No shakespeare plays in northern ireland. There wasn't no it's existed to the pace yes. He's been referred to as northern ireland. There are no shakespeare place in ireland. General there's nothing in ireland. Donald and ghost ireland in macbeth. This law all ever go. Yeah i actually have to investigate. I don't i don't know how many characters reference or go to ireland in shakespeare amer with no schemer shoutout to immer mchugh walls shakespeare. Well traveled man. No.
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"Unstressed syllable and i've done multiple choice years. You've got some options. These are all real things but only one of them is correct so the first option a is cadillac. Lexus second option axis lexus. So brand of lexus. The new cadillacs is coming isn't alexis carter. Probably it would probably be lexus. Cata coming twenty twenty two cadillacs feminine ending got lucky from a feminine ending. Like think actually makes me feel more kindly towards this phrase in general because a minute. Oh it's week table exactly yes and properly divine to covenant finish. The job masculine patry ends on a stressed syllable. What you've just answered the question. Actually but the other options were a headless line. It is feminism. Look through this before in incorrect. You were incorrect. Yes correct redemption. Well if think about it makes sense right if we're in this kind of patriarchal model where femininity is weak. And masculinity is strong which i want to refute by the way but the the term feminine ending comes from as you were saying this idea that it's a week ending it's kind of broken ending. It doesn't have the strength of a of a stressed syllable. Ending headline a headline is line. That's missing the syllable start so it starts on a stressed syllable and then it's four times the rest of the way through. I mean it could. If it's not ambig- contender could start with other stresses. But in i am bec- been tender. Line it would start on a stress and blank. Verse is option d which we already know what that is. Okay next question. Now this one you found tricky which of these words is a tricky and you can choose all the apply. There are four words listed. They are afternoon morning evening and night. So i'm going to be honest. I'm gonna choose all of the answers. That i may get one at least one right and that's a trick question. None of them are true. Well i would have given you a none of these option. Okay on choosing issues in all of them. yeah well. they're all times day on. They are all times of day. It's a bit of a hard question if you don't know what a tricky is which you do not but i think you could guess it if you About the way that the question is structured where it falls in the quiz. If you kind of step back from it a little bit you could probably figure out which of these words have a rhythm in common three. I didn't give you an answer to that is.
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"In ambika fant timberline and each foot has a rhythm of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. So it sounds like dumb. Did them vodka heartbeat like a heartbeat. Exactly there are people who claim that Blank verse is is the most natural rhythm for english speakers to speak because it matches the rhythm of our hearts. I don't know if other languages heart speed differently. I kind of doesn't make a lot of sense on a large scale because other languages don't can't really do. I am country you're differently. Apparent science apparently just to stop us from fox. So yeah there's a. There's a little bit of an english imperialism or a bit english imperialism in that kind of statement that shakespeare writes in the most natural rhythm for the for people to speak because it's the rhythm of our heartbeat. It is the rhythm of our heartbeat. But i don't think we should read too much into that person like nobody just thought this sounds good. This sounds nice. This is good and actually often he. He's messing with it as well and all all the players in this period are kind of stretching and expanding and compressing and doing different things with that rhythm in their place. So yeah that's that's kind of the defining feature is is sort of goes dumb Them that's an iambic pentameter line. I will have my next reading. Yes well you're about to have one having just established that we have ten syllables five. Am's in a typical line throwing a curveball here. And i'm asking you. How many syllables are there in the line to be or not to be that. Is the question okay to be or not to be. That is the christine. Are we credit. Yom on young selene. Dion getting in on our on our mash up here. This could be. Yeah boys to men williams leaned. Yeah that's a. that's a killer lineup. Yeah festival that's great. We've got a. We've got a shakespeare festival right here coming for you. Stratford is eleven. i counted twelve. Which was wrong levin's correct. James had a little bit of help because this is a multiple choice in twelve is not one of the choices but got it right. So eleven is the correct answer. There's an extra unstressed syllable on the end of that. Very famous line to be or not to be. That is the question. Interestingly there's version of hamlet often called the bad quarto where this line is different and it is a perfect line. so it doesn't have that extra unstressed syllable at the end. That version goes to be or not to be. I bears the point. Catchy catching didn't catch on it's more It's a more certain. Hamlet isn't it. He's he's kind of more confident of of where he's going with it. Whereas this one ending on a question and that unstressed syllable question. That is the question. It kind of gives us a bit of a bit more uncertainty a bit more a bit more of that. Dithering equivocating hamlet. We all know and love. You love hamlet. I really don't all right so the next question. Predictably asks us. What is it called. When a poetic line ends with an extra.
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"You know all right all right. We're getting into more than nitty gritty. Now some of the details. James the poetic meter that shakespeare writes in most often is called. I think i know this one. I am bic pentameter. Yes that is correct now. Some hadn't might jump in the comments fully anticipating this. Actually it's blink verse and are also correct. I think there's a there is a distinction between blank. I and i am a contender. And blank. Verse is defined as on rhymed iambic pentameter so you know i'm not gonna split hairs on this one. Either answer would be correct as far as i'm concerned with the quiz. And but yes. I am a contender. The next question helpfully asks you what. The key features of that poetic meter are five five. What five the number. The number. Five five rhythms. I actually think you can figure this out if you look at the word right. Where are you getting. Five from in terminator meters is five. What's what's the other piece of the of the name of the meter iambic. Pentameter pentameter tells us there's five what does iambic telus does. I am bags. Yes five iams in line. See you figured it out. Related to william waco's name. Yes like will i am. Yeah in fact. The black-eyed peas were regularly featured on the globe. Stage in boy event with boys in the fifteen ninety with the support act to what. They were an epic nineties. New century crossover act. It was really really beautiful to see entering. Though i am great i love it i will. I am cost. You can get involved with his boys to men. Complete works we. We will be very happy to put you on our very tiny podcast and produce that for you okay. So yes the. the main. The main feature of arabic pedometer line is that it has five iams any idea what i am is a declaration of existence. Yes kogo awesome. I thought five philosophy degrees in the context of poetry. I am be an. Im is a foot. So it's a unit of measurement in a line. We have five of them..
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"Circle in the square. Not so much. You'll do playhouse. I got is where the od play. They were new at the time. Give it to us yield. Yes i suppose to us yield so the globe was one. He also worked at the theater. Aptly named i guess you could but you did that with donaldson office. It was hindsight. It was the london stage. It was the curtain. Oh yeah. The recently dug up london discovered to be rectangular massively up ends everything. We thought we knew about early modern. Playhouses i vaguely familiar with the with the curtain. Are you from the archaeological. I think i just know the word. The word curtis we have some in our house. Yes you could have just looked around the room accurate answer. What's in a theater. Well there is a theater one point. They have curtains two points. Interestingly they probably didn't have curtains at the way that we would think of them like a kind of the end the show then they just did a jig. And then jake jake kicked off the stage. Pretty much go now. We've joked they beg for applause. Jig another one is the blackfriars which is the indoor. That one's a little more. It's not like a around the house so far. I mean we could have black friday in the neighborhood but we take we could. I don't think they're any. Ferraris near us in bristol and the blackfriars is like an indoor theater and that the company kind of moved to in the later part of shakespeare's career so they had the globe in the blackfriars running simultaneously. Kind of the main ones. He did also perform other places. The company went on tour sometimes So if you were in a city besides london you might be performing in the guildhall things like that. So there there are like a lot of answers but those are the main ones All right one point one point for you number eight true or false actors. In shakespeare's time didn't get a full copy of the play to rehearse from true. That's correct just seems like it would be. They always yeah because books are expensive. Describes are expensive. If you have a company of. I don't know twelve to fifteen people you're not going to produce a whole book for each of them. They just had their parts nowadays. We call those cue scripts because what they would get was their own cues. So the couple of words before their lines and then their lines entrances exits stage directions. Things like that Fights would be marked out that sort of thing but you didn't get a full copy of the play to work from about as we've seen and learn about in the last gio episodes. Would they include those mysterious important but not actually in the play. Events like lions lion fights and beth dying and such as being the script. I mean they would be in the either the dialogue. The way that they are in the plays or in the states shrank. Yeah okay good job. You fought that line things like that yes. That's pretty much pretty much the scene where we learned about the lion as you like it. Which james was very disappointed. By if you've heard that episode it's all over reporting what happened with the lions so his speech is about the lion but if you are playing orlando who gets attacked by the lion but doesn't get a speech about how he got attacked by the lion..
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"Interesting teach me well. Hey you're definitely of though for me you all right so next question. This one is A little bit of a long one. I've got a long list of rhetorical and literary devices. And i've said tick all of these that you could define without googling them probably easy for me to take say the ones i know. Yes and so the ones that yes. You want me to explain them. You can if you want. I don't know the question doesn't require me to explain. No and it's gonna end up being a long episode if we tried to explain so you can just list them out and if anyone feels the need to explain or wants to google them and learn themselves what they mean that. Okay so i know i know. Abstinence coincidences are new allegory. Is i know what simile and metaphor is a bunch of these ones here than allusion is i do just about enjoy montez. I know what this is and i know what hyperbole is. But i do not know what hadn't diets is cynic to key metonomy madonna mattamy anna fora apostrophe or chasma key asthma. Whatever it's like a chia seed. It's based on based on the greek letter ci which is like an x shape like a two-speed. Yeah yes so those to be fair you named some of the kind of more more commonly known ones the ones that people typically would be taught in school or or might recognize from other areas of their reading And some of the slightly more obscure ones are the ones that you're not as familiar with which is fine. That's what learning is for. As i will say to my students. You definitely don't need to know any or all of these to do well in a performing shakespeare class we will learn them together. Curry wonderful all right. James free answer again always dangerous with you. What is a soliloquy. A soliloquy is a long speech yes is there anything else more specific about it different from other long speeches. You talk into the audience. Yeah and you know winding from from droning on about you seeing imaginary things and touch and your your tiny phallus if you're macbeth yes matt's tiny fallas as lucrative specifically a speech where the character is alone or believes that are alone onstage so it is a long speech that thoughts you do talk. It's not necessarily their inner thoughts. But it's definitely an it's it is direct address so you correctly identified that that it's talking to the audience but it's also about the character being alone with the audience. Great okay so that's a soliloquy number seven free answer again. can you name at least one. The theaters shakespeare worked in and bonus points. If you can name more than one will. I can probably one of gonna tell you some of the ones that may may be true may just not be. Let's start with the one the globe. Yes correct the circle. That's in new york yield playhouse. The london stage trolling performance stages in london. He did perform onstage in london. Yes that's not. What the question asks for the.
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"Hello i'm nora james and this is not another shakespearean podcast the podcast that takes neither itself nor shakespeare very seriously and this is a special bonus. Episode of the podcast. Because i'm getting ready to teach a performing shakespeare class at the university where i work and i created a little questionnaire for my students for the start of term because we start with doing what i call close reading for actors where we look in depth at the text of shakespeare play to make sure that they're conversant with things like scan chin and rhetorical devices. And all the kind of close ridi textual stuff that can be quite helpful for performers of shakespeare and. I wanted to make sure that this questionnaire wasn't too scary that it felt you know not too intimidating for students i wanted to be a kind of just a baseline skills check rather than something that felt high-stakes so i asked a couple of people tested for me including my mom and my beloved james and james had some interesting reactions to this quiz so we thought we would ask him. The questions live on the podcast and and see how he does exciting. It is exciting. Are you ready. I am ready. And i'm ready to be made public fool of the premise of the podcast but generally the premise of the podcast. So no change from the usual but we love it. It's what's great about you. Thank you. I do enjoy being known as a pool. That is my goal in life during the next touchstone. A fool's are often the wisest ones in the shakespeare plays into herbert. Yes that hermit that converts a an evil uncle in as you like it. Yes yes it's something see see someone stuck sticking that in jeff rally york of jeff okay. So we'll jump in. Let's do it all right so james. The first question is about how you feel in relation to reading shakespeare. How confident you are..
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"It makes sense okay. So talk of act five. Yeah komo super guilty about slandering imaging and kind of indirectly leading to her. He thinks getting killed cymbeline gets captured in the battle and is rescued by his long lost sons who he does not recognize and posthumous helps in siblings rescue as also but also nobody recognizes him. How come they don't. He's not wearing his clothes anymore. he's different different clothes. You've got some clients offer giacomo. He's wearing a hat okay. So simply gets rescued by a combination of his sons and posthumous of whom he recognizes. Then in the next scene posthumous changes back to the roman side for reasons. I don't really know he's. I guess he's hoping to get killed. So he sort of bouncing between whichever side he thinks is losing the war. Yes ways to kill yourself yes. There are but we've established. The posthumous is the worst. So it sort of works. Because he gets captured by the brits Like a second later. And he's thrown into jail and he resigns himself to death but then just wait it gets weirder. His family appears as ghosts. Shakespeare was missing some this point here. Throwing everything that's played ghosts. Were really missing in this. Play as ghosts botch it. I did promise you supernatural elements. Yeah like a good supernatural good. We like a ghost. His dead father has dead mother and his dead brothers all up here and they surround him in his sleep and they beg jupiter to help him not harm jupiter. Yeah i'm are you ready for it to get even weirder. Yes shakespeare super fans will know what happens next. Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning sitting upon an eagle coup. Yeah why not. Why not point. So jupiter arrives..
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"Just me this that kevin brasler can offer if you want is rosalind. I can make that happen and i can get her here. Meanwhile 'em she also there's so many antics in the play she also gets the letter from phoebe and silvius. Do you know what's in this letter. And he's like nah just delivered it. She said i should. So i did and roslyn reads it out to him. And it's like look you can do better than this woman. You don't have to be in love with her and he's really want her so rosalind kind of sets it up the okay. She's she's gonna make everything right. She's trying to scheme the ending of the plague. We're heading towards our our climactic final scene but twist ha. She and celia are woods and all of a sudden. This guy comes up to them in his like. Oh are you the shepherd that lives in the cabin and roslyn to disguise his getting me just like yes i am. What's going on turns out orlando has been attacked by a lion new. I told you plot twist twist lots. There are lions in this forest. Apparently orlando has been attacked by lion. He didn't die but he got pretty badly hurt. His his arm got bitten and it turns out that the man who's come to tell them this is oliver his brother with whom he has reconciled just behind the scenes yup whole ballpoint arrived in the forest tried. Some of the mushrooms felt better about himself and in philly this forest and they kinda enter into kind of like a feud either being like really about things or just like falling madly in love with people pretty much. That's an you've kind of nailed one of the big themes as the play. Which is that the forest. Is this sort of topsy. Turvy permissive fantasy world where anything can happen versus the court with all of its sort of strictures and it's paroles. Yes it's sort of kids go live in the forest. Yep just goes mushrooms. Shakespeare experience doses this forest but well shakespeare doesn't totally endorse this for us. Because you'll see at the end. Everybody goes back to court. They have to. You have to work at some point. So crushing depressing. But it's not it's part of life. We must maintain the status quo. Really which is why gin meet in orlando can never be together. She must be rosalind so oliver is turned up. He's turned over a new leaf. He's reconciled with his brother. He saved him from this lion. Very good of him and celia and oliver fall in love immediately again yes is it. Forest is kicking in the mushroom. Yep the mushrooms the forest whatever whatever drugs are in the air they are working their magic on celia and all of these people kind of in the court before. No not as far as i know..