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The Black Cat

Season 2 Episode 136

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This episode has the ghost of Mr. Poe reading the complete version of the story, The Black Cat - setting the story up for a comparison of guilt and madness with The Tale Heart (in the f…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Poe's Halloween Poems

Season 2 Episode 135

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This episode delves into what are arguable the most famous Halloween poems of Edgar Allan Poe. While the word Halloween was not used in the poems “Spirits of the Dead,” “The Raven,” and…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

A Brief History of Halloween

Season 2 Episode 134

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This episode is a brief look at the development of what is now known as Halloween - starting with Samhain.  The episode begins with a passage that Poe wrote about Stonehenge.  …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Rot, Riot, and Rebellion, Part Two

Season 2 Episode 133

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This episode is the second part of a look at the book “Rot, Riot, and Rebellion” about the initial years of the University of Virginia.  The focus is on (naturally) Edgar Allan Poe’s tu…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Rot and Riot, Part One

Season 2 Episode 122

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This episode is the first part of an two episodes dealing with the book Rot, Riot, abnd Rebellion Mr. Jefferson’s Struggle to Save the UniversityThat Changed America.  This books not on…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Poe's Two Universities

Season 2 Episode 131

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This episode continues looking at Poe’s time at the University of Virginia and compares that period with his time at Fordham University.  This episode concentrates on  Poe’s final days …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

The Real Thing

Season 2 Episode 130

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Episode 130  The Real Thing

This episode deals with the actual experience of interpreting for an epic Shakespearean play - a combination of Richard III and hip-hop music in a fantastic p…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Advil Can Be Deadly!

Season 2 Episode 129

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Episode 129 Advil Can Be Deadly

This episode deals with what can be described as two detective stories - the first a true story that happened last month that could best be described as a…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Despair and Die!

Season 2 Episode 128

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This episode deals with the three main dreams in Shakespeare’s Richard III - culminating with a “nightmare” the Richard experiences with the characters of twelve people who had killed w…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Hearing with the Eyes

Season 2 Episode 127

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Episode 127

This episode examines the process of interpreting a play by Shakespeare, using Richard III (and other plays) as examples.   George talks about such areas as the positioning o…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago