Announcing "Appreciating Shakespeare" Podcasts
I have begun uploading a podcast series called Appreciating Shakespeare.
Please check it out either here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1484137
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHcMjB0o8Vo&list=PLVt55QUfNLZbC4hX9bXAKCTmhj5G-zySn&index=1
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I am doing these podcasts in two series. Here’s the plan:
Series I: Background Knowledge—31 numbered podcasts (about 20 minutes each):
1–3: What’s so great about Shakespeare?
4: Who was Shakespeare the man?
5: What was the state of the art in Shakespeare’s theater?
6–9: Did people really talk like that?—Shakespeare’s language
10: Foiled again?—Shakespeare’s characters
11–13: Why the play’s the thing—unity in variety
14–18: Why all the footnotes?—Shakespeare’s mental furniture
19: Whose interpretation is right?
20: Is this what Shakespeare actually wrote?—Shakespeare’s
texts
21–22: What kind of thing is it?—categories of plays
23: What is a sonnet for?
24: Did Shakespeare write more than plays and sonnets?—the
poems
25: Did Shakespeare collaborate?—possibly, probably,
definitely
26: Hypothetical, spurious, and false Shakespeare
27–29: The nature of art
30: To the student actor—with guest
31: To the director of student actors—with guest
Series II: The Plays and Sonnets—26 lettered podcasts (longer):
Comedies
A: The Taming of the Shrew
B: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
C: The Merchant of Venice
D: Much Ado about Nothing
E: As You Like It
F: Twelfth Night
G: Measure for Measure
Tragedies
H: Romeo and Juliet
I: Julius Caesar
J: Hamlet
K: Othello
L: King Lear
M: Macbeth
N: Antony and Cleopatra
Histories
O: Introduction to the Histories and Genealogy
P: Richard III
Q: Richard II
R: Henry IV, Part 1
S: Henry IV, Part 2
T: Henry V
Satire
U: Troilus and Cressida
Romances
V: The Winter’s Tale
W: The Tempest
Selected Sonnets
X: Selected Sonnets 1–65
Y: Selected Sonnets 73–116
Z: Selected Sonnets 129–146
Questions about specifics or about the overall plan are welcome at
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