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Macbeth Is Not Hard
Season 5 Episode 597
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Macbeth is not hard. It’s human.
Here’s the whole play in one simple truth:
Macbeth made Macbeth.
Let me say that again:
The witches temp…
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Macbeth’s Last Days
Season 5 Episode 596
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Macbeth’s tragedy ends when fear disappears—not because he becomes brave, but because he becomes numb and falsely certain.
Now let’s l…
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Hell Is Murky!
Season 5 Episode 595
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HOST (George):
In Macbeth, evil rarely arrives waving a pitchfork; it arrives wearing a suit and offering a reasonable argument that e…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 tw…
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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 the…
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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…
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