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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, b…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 y…
2 months, 3 weeks 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…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
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 cul…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
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 tw…
3 months ago
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 the…
3 months ago
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…
3 months ago
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 th…
3 months ago
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…
3 months ago
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…
3 months ago