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Episode 39 - Othello by William Shakespeare, Act 3, "Oppressions and how we've caused them."


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Join Nathan and Adrian as we carry on into Act 3 of Othello. Continuing the discussions of oppression, poetry v prose, and the differences between our time and Shakespeare's.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1531/1531-h/1531-h.htm

00:00-Introduction

08:24-Our mistakes as men and trying to do better

13:00-Performance of Othello, Act 3, Scene 3

28:31-Discussion of scene start

35:36-Linguistic discussion of Othello's "Farewell" speech

39:30-Rhyming vs non rhyming poetry, free verse and blank verse

42:29-East Cost Canadians; the Maritimes

44:53-The internal linguistic rhythm of Othello's speech

46:59-The downsides of plays when they are poems too

51:43-Nathan being a history nerd

53:05-Today's audiences

54:11-Othello and racial literary criticism

56:16-Closing thoughts

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