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A Conversation with Romeo
Season 5 Episode 589
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Welcome back. But first, If you’re joining us now for the first time, here is what you must know.
Verona is split by a feud between two hou…
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Story of Woe
Season 5 Episode 590
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JULIET (calm, surprising firmness):
They call me a child because I am young.
But children don’t usually bury their own futures with their ow…
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Romeo, Romeo
Season 5 Episode 588
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A large National Council of Teachers of English teacher survey reported by Education Week lists Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet amon…
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Shakespeare 3
Season 5 Episode 587
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Mr. Shakespeare, in our previous episode, you were talking about your life and your literary career. Could you briefly remark on the uni…
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Shakespeare 2
Season 5 Episode 586
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You see, by 1582, when I was only eighteen, I married a lady by the name of Anne Hathaway, Some scholars Believe that my wive's name was …
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Shakespeare 1
Season 5 Episode 585
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Greetings Mr. Bartley. Let me begin by saying that if you visit the city of Stratford-upon-Avon in England today, the first thing you’ll p…
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A Working Paywright
Season 5 Episode 584
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Now when I started this podcast I knew that I wanted to use a somewhat similar device WHERE I interviewed THE characters in Shakespeare's …
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Shoreditch
Season 5 Episode 583
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Last episode we placed you in the Bishopsgate area by documentary footprints.
Now we move a short distance to the engine room: Shoreditch—w…
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First Footsteps in London
Season 5 Episode 582
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GEORGE:
Before we start, I want to be fair to the truth.
We do not have a neat, signed lease saying:
“William Shakespeare, here is your first…
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What We Owe the Dead
Season 5 Episode 581
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GEORGE:
The Bills of Mortality—weekly printed tallies—turned death into public information, something people watched like weather. (pmc.ncb…
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