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Tue. 12/06 - Gory, Graphic Shakespeare & Those Who Tried to Erase Him in the 1800s


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Candles will play stunt double for actors in a new staging of Shakespeare’s most violent play. Plus, we take a detour down the path of Shakespearean conspiracies. And, in other news, the moon just got its own infrastructure package.

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