HeyJaredThe Shakespeare Mindset
Stuck in a rut? Scared of change? Stressed about the world? Anxious for yourself and your loved ones? Know what, more than 400 years ago everyone felt the same way only without the comfort of light bulbs, central heating and sticky toffee pudding.
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Get Off Your Backsides And Say The Words (opens the original)
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"My love is thine to teach; teach it but how" Top podcaster Tim McIntosh, host of The Play's The Thing, talks about how we can all learn to love Shakespeare, especially after bad experiences at school. We both admit we initially found Shakespeare dull and inaccessible when taught as literature in classrooms. Our lightbulb moments came through performance. Tim says watching film versions such as Hamlet and Othello first showed him Shakespeare’s energy, but acting scenes himself truly transformed
It’s Okay To Disagree (opens the original)
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“O I have suffered with those that I saw suffer.’ We’re all only trying to be reasonable aren’t we, and yet the whole direction of discourse over the last decade has been steered by half a dozen social media dudes and their platforms towards certainty about our own beliefs and hostility towards anyone who disagrees with us. In this episode I'm looking at empathy. What is it? Should we have more? Or is there already too much? Shakespeare was brilliant at showing both sides of every argument, and
How to Tame The Green Eyed Monster of Jealousy (opens the original)
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"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt." Jealousy can take many different forms, nearly all of which can be found in a single Shakespeare play, how we can spot it in others and heaven forbid, even in ourselves - and together we’re going to come clean about our resentful feelings in this department, and see if we can find a way, if not to avoid it completely at least to share space with it like the uncle who annoys you at Christmas but who you can cope with
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