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Season 6 Episode 607
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Part 1 — Polonius coaches surveillance (Polonius + Reynaldo)
Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris with money and messages for Laertes.
But …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Ghost Speaks
Season 6 Episode 606
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Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5 — the scene where the ghost finally speaks.
And I want to emphasize something from the start:
The…
7 months ago
Follow It!
Season 6 Episode 605
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Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4.
Act 1, Scene 2 gave us the court saying, “Get over it.”
Act 1, Scene 3 gave us family advice tha…
7 months ago
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…
7 months 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 …
7 months 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…
7 months 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…
7 months 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…
7 months ago
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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 1 week ago