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The Social Contract
Season 5 Episode 575
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GEORGE:
Today: the social contract.
Who bears the risk, who gets protected, who gets blamed, and who gets forgotten—
in plague-time Engl…
3 months ago
Numbers and Narratives
Season 5 Episode 574
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GEORGE:
Today: Bills of Mortality in plague London—
and COVID dashboards in our century.
How counting the dead can help a society tell t…
3 months ago
Cures, Quacks, and Miracles
Season 5 Episode 573
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GEORGE (quiet):
Now When people get scared, they don’t only ask, “What is happening?”
They ask, “What can I do?”
And if the honest answe…
3 months, 1 week ago
Shut Up, Shut In
Season 5 Episode 572
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GEORGE:
Today is Episode Three of our plague-and-COVID series:
Quarantine. Blame. Meaning.
Not the medicine—
the human weather.
GEORGE:
Qui…
3 months, 1 week ago
In a Time of Contagion
Season 5 Episode 571
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GEORGE:
This is Episode Two of our plague-and-COVID series.
Last time we met two invisible enemies and noticed how history doesn’t repe…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Air Has Teeth
Season 5 Episode 570
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Before we start, a rule for anyone joining us:
In my podcast, Shakespeare—the character—has the ability to look back from our present …
3 months, 1 week ago
Here Begins the Plague
Season 5 Episode 568
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In the second half of 1564, more than 200 inhabitants of Stratford are buried—about one-seventh of the town.
MASTER SHAKESPEARE:
One-se…
3 months, 1 week ago
Hamnet and Stratford
Season 5 Episode 569
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In the previous episode, I mentioned that I was going to talk briefly about Hamnet, Shakespeare's son. Hamnet was a twin, and his si…
3 months, 1 week ago
A Day in Stratford
Season 5 Episode 567
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GEORGE:
Close your eyes and stand with me in Stratford-upon-Avon—an English market town of roughly fifteen hundred souls, ringed by fi…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rhetorical Triangle, Part 2
Season 5 Episode 566
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Welcome to celebrate creativity - and this series is Conversations with Shakespeare. Rhetorical triangle - part two
In the previous p…
3 months, 2 weeks ago