HeyJaredShakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard
Three Shakespeare enthusiasts go through and comment on Shakespeare’s plays in the order he wrote them. And we often take detours into other great writers of Shakespeare’s time.
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054 The Problem(atic) Play: Measure for Measure (1604) (opens the original)
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What price would you pay for your brother's life? Your life? Your body? The Duke's left town, leaving the puritanical Angelo in charge. Suddenly, pre-marital intercourse will get you the death penalty. After a night with his girl, Claudio gets locked up, and he begs his sister Isabella to beg Angelo for mercy. Angelo says he will let Claudio go... if she gives Angelo her body! What will she do? How does Shakespeare tackle this moral dilemna? Join Michael and Sophie to find out! Make sure to subs
053 Renaissance Reddit Tales: The Decameron and The Heptameron (opens the original)
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Shakespeare needed to steal his stories from somewhere. We just did All's Well That Ends Well, but did you know Shakespeare nicked the plot from Boccaccio's Decameron? The Decameron is foundational work of Italian and Renaissance literature. A set of short stories by turns savage, funny, and bawdy. But it's not just men writing short stories in the Renaissance. Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, gave it a go with the Heptameron. And would you believe her tales are punchier, bloodier, and darker than
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