Sheldrake on Shakespeare

Sheldrake on Shakespeare

By James SheldrakePerforming Arts
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Sheldrake on Shakespeare episodes

  • Announcement
    Hello there. The astute among you will have noticed that there has been something of a pause, a hiatus if you will, in the stream of episodes for this podcast. There is no cause for alarm. I am merely taking a short break to engage in some serious research, both for this project and for […]
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  • Announcement
    Hello there. The astute among you will have noticed that there has been something of a pause, a hiatus if you will, in the stream of episodes for this podcast. There is no cause for alarm. I am merely taking a short break to engage in some serious research, both for this project and for […]
    1 min
  • Short SoS – Performance History

    https://sheldrakeonshakespeare.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/short-sos-performance-history.mp3

    We all have an image in our mind’s eye of Shakespearean performance during Shakespeare’s lifetime, but what happened between then and now? Why didn’t the Restoration court like Shakespeare? Who is David Garrick? For answers to all these questions and more, seek no further.

    Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

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  • Short SoS – Performance History
    We all have an image in our mind’s eye of Shakespearean performance during Shakespeare’s lifetime, but what happened between then and now? Why didn’t the Restoration court like Shakespeare? Who is David Garrick? For answers to all these questions and more, seek no further. Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm
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  • Short SoS – Genre

    https://sheldrakeonshakespeare.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/short-sos-genre.mp3

    This is not the first time genre has been used as a critical tool for understanding Shakespeare’s process and plays, but Sheldrake – never one to dismiss an idea merely because it has been heard before – draws together some big ideas about comedy and tragedy and shows the way that Shakespeare messes about with them.

    Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

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  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Reading across plays

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    The Two Gentlemen of Verona is not a play many people have read. Though were they to read it, they might think they have, because it reads like an anthology of Shakespeare in the 1590s. Sheldrake takes the opportunity to hold the mirror up to comedy by reading in parallel with Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It, along the way outlining some rules of the Shakespearean world.

    Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

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  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Reading across plays
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona is not a play many people have read. Though were they to read it, they might think they have, because it reads like an anthology of Shakespeare in the 1590s. Sheldrake takes the opportunity to hold the mirror up to comedy by reading in parallel with Romeo and Juliet, Love’s […]
    18 min
  • Short SoS – Shakespeare the Magpie

    https://sheldrakeonshakespeare.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/short-sos-shakespeare-the-magpie.mp3

    Shakespeare nicked stuff from everywhere; prose narratives, history books, other plays. Sheldrake rattles through a few of the old chestnuts and a few of the lesser-known borrowings, showing Shakespeare as a great adapter of stories.

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