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Ep 17: What Your Favorite Shakespeare Play Says About You
Do you have a favorite Shakespeare play? Do you consider
your favorite to be on brand for you? And does anyone else feel extreme pressure when asked what their favorite book is to give a perfect answer even though such a thing isn’t possible?
In this episode, we’ll be having a little fun, looking at a selection of Shakespeare plays and determining what kind of person you are if, say, Hamlet is your favorite. (Spoiler alert: you might be a depressed Millennial.)
My own guesses will be accompanied by responses from my family and friends on social as to why they picked certain plays as their favorite.
I’m hoping that this episode can also serve as a sort of exploration of some of the different kinds of stories Shakespeare tells and the characters that populate them so you that you can determine if maybe it’s time to revisit a play you didn’t get the last time you read or watched it or if maybe it’s time to give a play a chance at all.
There’s a little something for everyone here, but we’ll have
to come back for a part two to cover the rest of the spread.
Further Reading
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (I first read this book at the suggestion of a librarian, who completely nailed my interests. It's set right before Elizabeth becomes queen, so in the same general time period as Shakespeare!)
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (The first book in the Broken Earth trilogy. These books are so good and have nothing to do with Shakespeare.)
Credit where credit is due
Podcast art by Halie Branson
Music recording by josdvg
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By Something Shakespeare This Way ComesDo you have a favorite Shakespeare play? Do you consider
your favorite to be on brand for you? And does anyone else feel extreme pressure when asked what their favorite book is to give a perfect answer even though such a thing isn’t possible?
In this episode, we’ll be having a little fun, looking at a selection of Shakespeare plays and determining what kind of person you are if, say, Hamlet is your favorite. (Spoiler alert: you might be a depressed Millennial.)
My own guesses will be accompanied by responses from my family and friends on social as to why they picked certain plays as their favorite.
I’m hoping that this episode can also serve as a sort of exploration of some of the different kinds of stories Shakespeare tells and the characters that populate them so you that you can determine if maybe it’s time to revisit a play you didn’t get the last time you read or watched it or if maybe it’s time to give a play a chance at all.
There’s a little something for everyone here, but we’ll have
to come back for a part two to cover the rest of the spread.
Further Reading
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (I first read this book at the suggestion of a librarian, who completely nailed my interests. It's set right before Elizabeth becomes queen, so in the same general time period as Shakespeare!)
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (The first book in the Broken Earth trilogy. These books are so good and have nothing to do with Shakespeare.)
Credit where credit is due
Podcast art by Halie Branson
Music recording by josdvg