Well well well , I am in great hopes of reading the tempest and Auden in the Cathrine project. I look very forward to Rhodri on his views , it sounds like a solid read. I rather love Richard II and Richard III I agree on Ian McClellan in R3, I actually like a lot of movies , it also helps me introduce people to Shakespeare, also Verdi Opera are quite true to the plays. I think as readers that we forget many want an introduction before diving in and movie help. That said I got the book coming. And this was a riveting discussion!
I’m sorry but Rhodri Lewis’s comments—hardly ideas, let alone arguments—were infuriatingly vague, bland, and falsely humble. He doesn’t seem to have any aesthetic convictions. If he’s what Princeton is offering these days, god help them.
Frustrating to listen to. For a self-proclaimed free speech fundamentalist, he comes off like an evasive politician determined to avoid a straight answer. “Does WS deserve his place in the curriculum? That’d be moralising”. Etc. No, that’d just be giving your opinion. It’s just a friendly podcast, not an interrogation! Contrast with Henry’s excellent and informative Shakespeare pod a few months back with (another academic) Tyler Cowen.
Well well well , I am in great hopes of reading the tempest and Auden in the Cathrine project. I look very forward to Rhodri on his views , it sounds like a solid read. I rather love Richard II and Richard III I agree on Ian McClellan in R3, I actually like a lot of movies , it also helps me introduce people to Shakespeare, also Verdi Opera are quite true to the plays. I think as readers that we forget many want an introduction before diving in and movie help. That said I got the book coming. And this was a riveting discussion!
I’m sorry but Rhodri Lewis’s comments—hardly ideas, let alone arguments—were infuriatingly vague, bland, and falsely humble. He doesn’t seem to have any aesthetic convictions. If he’s what Princeton is offering these days, god help them.
Frustrating to listen to. For a self-proclaimed free speech fundamentalist, he comes off like an evasive politician determined to avoid a straight answer. “Does WS deserve his place in the curriculum? That’d be moralising”. Etc. No, that’d just be giving your opinion. It’s just a friendly podcast, not an interrogation! Contrast with Henry’s excellent and informative Shakespeare pod a few months back with (another academic) Tyler Cowen.
Hegseth is going to murder us all