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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…
2 months, 1 week 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 …
2 months, 1 week 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 simp…
2 months, 1 week 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 wh…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
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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 wel…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 becom…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 temp…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 l…
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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 e…
2 months, 3 weeks ago