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The Mouse Trap
Season 6 Episode 610
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Up to now, Hamlet has lived inside questions.
“Did my uncle really do it?”
“Can I trust the Ghost?”
“Am I being manipulated?”
“Am I losing my …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Get Thee to a Notary!
Season 6 Episode 609
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Master Shakespeare, are you ready?
SHAKESPEARE:
As ready as any man may be, entering a room where love is examined like evidence.
GEORGE:
That…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Spies and Players
Season 6 Episode 608
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GEORGE:
So right away: the scene begins with the king and queen acting like concerned parents. But it feels… staged.
SHAKESPEARE:
Because it…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Short But Loaded
Season 6 Episode 607
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Part 1 — Polonius coaches surveillance (Polonius + Reynaldo)
Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris with money and messages for Laertes.
But Polon…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Ghost Speaks
Season 6 Episode 606
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Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5 — the scene where the ghost finally speaks.
And I want to emphasize something from the start:
The ghos…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Follow It!
Season 6 Episode 605
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Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4.
Act 1, Scene 2 gave us the court saying, “Get over it.”
Act 1, Scene 3 gave us family advice that’s r…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Advice That’s Really Control
Season 6 Episode 604
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GEORGE:
Master Shakespeare, why do we go from the public court scene into this private household scene?
SHAKESPEARE:
Because the disease is n…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Get Over It!
Season 6 Episode 603
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The scene begins with the king saying -
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Ghost Arrives
Season 6 Episode 602
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MASTER SHAKESPEARE:
Good even, sir. I come where questions are sharp and nights are sharper.
MR. BARTLEY:
And the first question is simple:
Wh…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Rhetoric as Wildfire
Season 6 Episode 601
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Tonight is Antony— the man who takes grief, wraps it in poetry, and lights Rome on fire.
And the terrifying part is that he does it while s…
3 weeks, 1 day ago