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Cassius the Manipulator
Season 6 Episode 600
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The audience sees this manipulation in terms of Cassius’s treatment of Brutus and his use of flattery and reassurance to bring Brutus into…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Falling Sickness?
Season 5 Episode 599
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What we honestly have is ancient testimony, not “medical proof.
What the ancient sources actually say
Two major biographers written well aft…
1 month ago
Man, Myth, and Problem
Season 5 Episode 598
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The Caesar Shakespeare gives us is not a cardboard tyrant. That’s important. If Caesar were obviously monstrous, the play would become an …
1 month ago
Macbeth Is Not Hard
Season 5 Episode 597
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Macbeth is not hard. It’s human.
Here’s the whole play in one simple truth:
Macbeth made Macbeth.
Let me say that again:
The witches tempt. La…
1 month ago
Macbeth’s Last Days
Season 5 Episode 596
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Macbeth’s tragedy ends when fear disappears—not because he becomes brave, but because he becomes numb and falsely certain.
Now let’s locate…
1 month ago
Hell Is Murky!
Season 5 Episode 595
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HOST (George):
In Macbeth, evil rarely arrives waving a pitchfork; it arrives wearing a suit and offering a reasonable argument that electi…
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Macbeth's Morality
Season 5 Episode 594
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Macbeth does not become evil because he’s confused. He becomes evil because he learns to call evil “reasonable.”
Let me repeat that, becaus…
1 month ago
Macbeth and the Witches
Season 5 Episode 593
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People call Macbeth a monster. But Shakespeare’s trick is sharper than that: he shows you a man who can still choose—and then shows you th…
1 month, 1 week ago
Romeo and Juliet in New York
Season 5 Episode 592
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Today I’m taking that same Shakespearean blueprint and placing it in a new world: the 1961 film West Side Story. I’m going to do this in t…
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The Accelerants
Season 5 Episode 591
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Welcome back. Verona is split by a feud. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love, marry in secret, and attempt to outrun a culture …
1 month, 1 week ago