89 episodes
Shakespeare Full Circle Classical & Culture
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5.0 • 17 Ratings
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Touchstone Award Winner - Best Podcast 2023, Best Podcast 2022 An award-winning weekly series that explores Shakespeare's dramatically rich sonnets and how they remain relevant today. Shakespeare Full Circle is supported in part by The Cowie Family Charitable Trust.
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Sonnet 75
Today Uncle Will is hungry... and full... and hungry again, so appetites are on the menu.
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Sonnet 91
Today, Uncle Will is setting himself apart, as he puts quill to parchment once again to praise the fair youth.
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Sonnet 84
Today, Uncle Will gives us a bit of a challenge. Or at least I found the language a bit challenging when I first came across his 84th sonnet.
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Sonnet 80
Today, the object of Uncle Will's affections seems to have come to the attention of a rival poet, and William is feeling a tad bit insecure.
Customer Reviews
Clever, engaging and fun
This is a bright set of little nuggets. Each one brings the humor and playful aspects of Shakespeare to the fore, and it makes you feel smart.
Like fingers thumbing back through once-read then forgotten pages
Like fingers thumbing back through once-read then forgotten pages, this series delights, as it brightens a bit or our perspective on modernity. I feel at once wittier than before, having gleaned Qarie Marshalls well-spoken morsels. Never shall the choice to utter “oysters”, “glistering gold” or “green with envy” be considered in quite the same way.
Interesting, concise, approachable, and entertaining.
I always felt a little intimidated by Shakespeare. This podcast is a perfect dose of information presented in a friendly and witty way. It’s neat to hear how something written so long ago has remained a part of our culture and language through the centuries.
It’s a bad day if you don’t learn something new.