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Back to Search449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler)
Episode 449
We all talk about actors who use the Method, but do we really understand what that means? And how exactly has the Method changed the way we take in d…
3 years, 7 months ago
448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett)
Episode 448
Although best known for his classic children's books involving Alice and her Wonderland adventures, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was a man of many talen…
3 years, 7 months ago
447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)
Episode 447
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) started a firestorm with his 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was quickly banned around the world. But the novel e…
3 years, 7 months ago
446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
Episode 446
Jacke takes a look at the early years of Percy Bysshe Shelley, from his idyllic childhood, to his rebellious student years, to his experiments in fre…
3 years, 8 months ago
445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
As the author of what is generally considered the first and perhaps greatest novel of the modern era, Miguel de Cervantes and his masterpiece Don Qui…
3 years, 8 months ago
444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan)
Episode 444
The British spy novel was well established long before Ian Fleming's creation of James Bond in the 1950s. And while it came to be identified with the…
3 years, 8 months ago
443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick)
Episode 443
In 1994, Harold Bloom's magnum opus The Western Canon took up the critical cudgels on behalf of 26 writers declared by Bloom to be essential. In this…
3 years, 8 months ago
442 Prince, Emperor, Sage - Bābur and the Bāburnāma (with Anuradha)
Episode 442
The warrior and leader known as Bābur (1483-1530) had the kind of life one might expect from the descendant of Timur (Tamburlaine) on his father's si…
3 years, 8 months ago
441 When Novels Were Novel (with Jason Feifer)
Episode 441
It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when reading novels was not a common activity - and then, suddenly, it was. In this episode, Jacke tal…
3 years, 8 months ago
440 Emma's Pick - "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
Episode 440
Today, Kate Chopin (1851-1904) might be best known for her groundbreaking feminist novel The Awakening (1899). But she was also an accomplished short…
3 years, 8 months ago