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Raoul Bhaneja The SyFy Sistas sit down with Raoul Bhaneja, who plays Chancellor Kelric on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. We first met Raoul on the Starfleet Academy red carpet, and this conversation gave us the chance to talk about his journey into the Star Trek universe. A Shakespearean actor with a 20-year relationship with Hamlet, Raoul joins the long tradition of stage actors who have brought classical theater roots into Star Trek. We also explore another side of his career — leading his Maple Blues Award-winning blues band. From Shakespeare to Starfleet, it's a conversation about storytelling, music, performance, and the many paths that lead artists into the Star Trek universe.
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Many readers turn to Shakespeare for the beauty of his language or the power of his stories. But in Thinking Through Shakespeare, Oxford scholar David Womersley suggests that the plays offer something else as well: a way of exploring some of the deepest questions about human life. Womersley looks at tragedies like Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear to show how Shakespeare places audiences inside difficult moral and philosophical problems. The plays raise questions about identity, power, and the tension between doing what is right and doing what is personally advantageous. Rather than presenting clear answers, Shakespeare lets these ideas collide on stage. In this episode, Womersley explains how Shakespeare's plays become what he calls “crucibles” for thinking. As characters struggle with competing values and impossible choices, audiences go on that journey with them—testing ideas, reconsidering assumptions, and confronting the same enduring dilemmas that have shaped human thought for centuries.
When Riz Ahmed feels lost in his creative endeavors, he asks two questions: Does it stretch me? Does it stretch culture? Those questions have guided Ahmed to an Oscar- and Emmy-winning acting career (The Long Goodbye and The Night Of, respectively), a boundary-pushing music catalog, and stories that have redefined who gets to be seen at the center of the frame. And now, in the latest chapter of his career as WePresent's guest curator, he's posing those two questions to all creatives. In this episode of Creative Control, we explore how Ahmed is utilizing his role as WePresent's guest curator (a role previously held by the likes of Marina Abramović, Solange Knowles, and Olafur Eliasson) and how his upcoming version of Shakespeare's Hamlet ties directly into his vision of stretching culture—particularly at a time when it needs it most. For more of the latest business and innovation news, go to https://www.fastcompany.com/news To listen to the latest episodes of Creative Control on Fast Company:https://www.fastcompany.com/podcasts/creative-control
Let's set the scene - you are the epic warrior of the Mahabharata, Arjuna, distraught on the battlefield. Unable to decide- to fight or not to fight? The classic Hamlet: to be or not to be? What is the right side? In our own day-to-day lives, we experience similar hurdles of the right thing to do vs the thing you wanna do. Or sometimes what is expected of you vs the right thing to do? How do we navigate these hurdles of passion, duty and desire. How do we dissect our intentions on our paths towards spiritual development. In this sanctuary of The Philosophy of Now, we are all seekers. And as we reflect together, we certainly want to go on this narrative journey of asking this deeply introspective question.To kick off Season 5 of The Philosophy of Now, we speak with the renowned speaker, Sanskrit scholar and bestselling author of The Mahabharata Unravelled 1 and 2, Ami Ganatra.She helps us break down this very question - how do we know our intentions are righteous, or on the side of Dharma? How do we know we are acting out of duty and not desire? Through her expertise and analysis of The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, Ami Ganatra guides us through our own story and a reflective journey to finding our own answers - Together. Listen to the full episode!Ami Ganatra's latest book, Why Are We This Way: A Guide to Hindu Shastras is available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fluent Fiction - Danish: The Mystery of Hamlet's Missing Sword at Kronborg Slot Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/da/episode/2026-03-10-22-34-01-da Story Transcript:Da: Kronborg Slot stod stolt mod den klare forårshimmel.En: Kronborg Slot stood proudly against the clear spring sky.Da: Flokke strømmede ind til den kulturelle festival, hvor Hamlets legende blev fejret.En: Crowds streamed into the cultural festival celebrating Hamlet's legend.Da: Banderne blafrede i vinden, og duften af friske blomster blandede sig med historiens vingesus.En: Banners fluttered in the wind, and the scent of fresh flowers mixed with the echoes of history.Da: Freja gik gennem slotgården med store øjne.En: Freja walked through the castle courtyard with wide eyes.Da: Hun elskede historie og havde set frem til denne festival i ugevis.En: She loved history and had been looking forward to this festival for weeks.Da: Hun ville forstå mere om dansk folklore, og der var ingen bedre måde end gennem levende historie.En: She wanted to understand more about Danish folklore, and there was no better way than through living history.Da: Lukas, en lokal skuespiller, gjorde sig klar til at spille Hamlet.En: Lukas, a local actor, was getting ready to play Hamlet.Da: Hans hjerte bankede af spænding hver gang han trådte ind i rollen.En: His heart pounded with excitement every time he stepped into the role.Da: Han elskede teateret og det at kunne bringe gamle historier til live.En: He loved the theater and bringing old stories to life.Da: Samtidig bevægede Mikkel sig rundt med sit kamera.En: Meanwhile, Mikkel moved around with his camera.Da: Han håbede at fange sjælen af festivalen i sine billeder.En: He hoped to capture the soul of the festival in his pictures.Da: Han fokuserede på alt omkring sig, fra de dansende skygger på slotstensgulvene til de levende karakterer, der spillede deres roller.En: He focused on everything around him, from the dancing shadows on the cobblestones of the courtyard to the lively characters playing their roles.Da: Midt i al denne aktivitet opstod der en misforståelse.En: In the midst of all this activity, a misunderstanding arose.Da: En vigtig rekvisit, Hamlets sværd, var forsvundet.En: An important prop, Hamlet's sword, had disappeared.Da: Snakken gik gennem mængden, og fingrene begyndte at pege på Freja, da nogen mente, de havde set hende rundt rekvisitbordene.En: The talk spread through the crowd, and fingers began pointing at Freja, as someone claimed to have seen her around the prop tables.Da: Freja nægtede forvirret beskyldningerne og besluttede at finde sværdet selv.En: Freja confusedly denied the accusations and decided to find the sword herself.Da: Hun kunne ikke tåle tanken om at blive betragtet som en tyv, og hendes nysgerrighed og kærlighed til mysterier sejrede.En: She couldn't bear the thought of being regarded as a thief, and her curiosity and love for mysteries prevailed.Da: Hun begyndte at stille spørgsmål.En: She began asking questions.Da: Hun talte med skuespillerne og fotograferne, satte brikkerne sammen af, hvad hun vidste.En: She spoke with the actors and photographers, piecing together what she knew.Da: Mikkel bemærkede hende og huskede, at han havde set noget glimtende i græsset tidligere under sin fotosession.En: Mikkel noticed her and remembered that he had seen something glinting in the grass earlier during his photo session.Da: I en dramatisk scene, mens Lukas som Hamlet svang en midlertidig erstatning af et sværd, fandt Freja endelig svaret.En: In a dramatic scene, while Lukas as Hamlet swung a temporary replacement of a sword, Freja finally found the answer.Da: Hun opdagede sværdet, som Mikkel ved et uheld havde flyttet for at få det perfekte billede.En: She discovered the sword, which Mikkel had accidentally moved to get the perfect picture.Da: "Det var ikke med vilje," sagde Mikkel forlegen, da Freja konfronterede ham med fundet.En: "It wasn't on purpose," Mikkel said embarrassed, when Freja confronted him with the find.Da: Han undskyldte, og Freja tilgav.En: He apologized, and Freja forgave him.Da: Snart blev de gode venner og startede en samtale om historie og billeder, mens Lukas løftede det genfundne sværd i triumf.En: Soon, they became good friends and started a conversation about history and pictures, while Lukas lifted the recovered sword in triumph.Da: Freja nød resten af festivalen uden skyggens mistanke hængende over sig.En: Freja enjoyed the rest of the festival without the shadow of suspicion hanging over her.Da: Med nyvunden selvtillid åbnede hun sig op til nye venskaber og muligheder.En: With newfound confidence, she opened herself up to new friendships and opportunities.Da: I sit hjerte bar hun en kær erindring om dagen og det, hun havde opnået.En: In her heart, she carried a cherished memory of the day and what she had achieved.Da: Og således fortsatte festivalen med glæde, mens Kronborg Slot igen blev et sted, hvor både fortid og nutid smeltede sammen.En: And so the festival continued with joy, while Kronborg Slot once again became a place where both past and present merged. 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A Truant Dispostion: Hamlet and HoratioMarch 4, 2025 Is Horatio the villain? A literary stand-in for the murderously opportunistic “friends” who stalked the halls of power in Elizabethan England? Carol Grieb imagines a Hamlet in which Hamlet's so-called best friend is anything but. Click here to go to the book website. Click here to purchase the book.
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Hamnet, el único hijo varón de William Shakespeare, murió a los 11 años. Desde entonces, el dramaturgo nunca volvió a pronunciar su nombre. Esta pérdida silenciosa marcó su vida y, según diversas interpretaciones, influyó profundamente en su obra. Te contamos cómo el duelo, el amor y la ausencia se entrelazan en esta historia real que revela una faceta íntima y casi desconocida del genio de Stratford, y cómo Hamnet resuena en la sombra de Hamlet. Y descubre más historias curiosas en el canal National Geographic y en Disney +. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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For Episode 481, Amy Kim, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and Ben Langford join me for a jam-packed episode two weeks before the 98th Academy Awards. We discuss the fallout from the BAFTA Awards, including the John Davidson controversy, the seismic news of Paramount purchasing Warner Bros. Discovery, the Producers Guild of America (PGA) winners, along with the American Cinema Editors (ACE), Art Directors Guild (ADG), and Visual Effects Society (VES) award winners this week. We also give our predictions for what we feel will win tonight's Actor Awards and reveal the winners for our 2025 NBP Film Awards (You can see the Community Winners here). For the Actor Awards, in last week's poll, we asked everyone, "Which Was Your Favorite Oscar-Nominated Acting Performance Of 2025?" and now, for this week's poll, with our final Oscar winner predictions episode approaching next week, we're asking, "Which Film Do You Think Should Be The Next Best Picture Oscar Winner?" We also give our reactions to the trailers for "The Christophers," "Hamlet" (Yes, another one), "Mortal Kombat II," answer your fan-submitted questions, and more. Thank you all for listening, supporting, and subscribing. Enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 146 - Suicide and the Communion of Saints. In this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew is joined by wife Sarah to talk with priest and author Rhonda Mawhood Lee. She writes compassionately about suicide in her book, Suicide and the Communion of Saints see the show notes for further information, where there are additional mental health and suicide resources.If you wish to send feedback on this collaboration contact us at reasonpress@gmail.com.1) Suicide and the Communion of Saintshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Suicide-Communion-Saints-Rhonda-Mawhood/dp/0802884717https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/theology-books/liberation-theology/suicide-and-the-communion-of-saints/2) more about Rhondahttps://faithandleadership.com/authors/rhonda-mawhood-leehttps://www.eerdmans.com/author/rhonda-mawhood-lee/https://thrivinginministry.org/authors/3) Alexander Murray - Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murderhttps://books.google.co.uk/books?id=trene_8DY10C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttps://academic.oup.com/book/17114) the catholic view on suicide and why it changedhttps://christianfaithguide.com/what-is-the-catholic-churchs-view-on-suicide-the-catholic-position-on-suicide/5) suicide by proxyhttps://daily.jstor.org/suicide-by-proxy/6) Elizabeth Antushttps://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/003Hp00002jNaqrIAC/elizabeth-antushttps://www.ncpd.org/events/where-god-when-somebody-dies-suicide-updated-consideration-divine-mercy-and-justicehttps://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/boisi-center/events/archive/spring-2019/Elizabeth-Antus.htmlhttps://theologicalstudies.net/articles/the-silence-of-the-dead-remembering-suicide-victims-and-reimagining-the-communion-of-saints/https://philpapers.org/s/Elizabeth%20L.%20Antus7) biblical references and thoughtsAhithophel's suicide - 2 Samuel 17:23.Samson's death - Judges 16:30Hagar going into the wilderness known death would come - Genesis 21:16did Paul consider suicide?8) Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1 — Laertes at Ophelia's funeralhttps://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/hamlet/read/5/1/9) suicide and mental health resourcesUK:Samaritans- 24/7 phone: 116 123- Email: jo@samaritans.orgNHS 111 (Option 2 in some regions)- Phone: 111Shout Crisis Text Line- Text: “SHOUT” to 85258Childline- Phone: 0800 1111- Website: childline.org.ukYoungMinds Crisis Messenger- Text: “YM” to 85258Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline- Phone: 0300 330 0630Papyrus (for under 35s)- HOPELINE247: 0800 068 4141- Text: 07860 039967USA:988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline- Call: 988- Text: 988- Chat: 988lifeline.orgCrisis Text Line- Text: “HOME” to 741741The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ Youth)- Call: 1‑866‑488‑7386- Text: “START” to 678678- Chat: thetrevorproject.orgTrans Lifeline- US: 877‑565‑8860Mental Health America- Website: mhanational.orgCanada:988 Suicide Crisis Helpline (Canada)- Call or Text: 988Talk Suicide Canada- Call: 1‑833‑456‑4566- Text: 45645 (evenings)Kids Help Phone- Call: 1‑800‑668‑6868- Text: “CONNECT” to 686868Trans Lifeline (Canada)- Canada: 877‑330‑6366Australia:Lifeline Australia- Call: 13 11 14- Text: 0477 13 11 14- Chat: lifeline.org.auSuicide Call Back Service- Call: 1300 659 46713YARN (for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples)- Call: 13 92 76Kids Helpline- Call: 1800 55 1800- Chat: kidshelpline.com.auQLife- Call: 1800 184 527- Chat: qlife.org.auStill Unbelievable! book: https://amzn.eu/d/fmsN1CwApostate book: https://amzn.eu/d/9RIUZYxTo contact us, email: reasonpress@gmail.comour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonpress2901Our Theme Music was written for us by Holly, to support her and to purchase her music use the links below:https://hollykirstensongs.com/https://hollykirsten.bandcamp.com/
Juanma González analiza los estrenos de la semana como: Scream 7, Los miserables: el origen y Scarlet. ¡No te lo pierdas!
Hear ye, hear ye! Gather around for ye olde podcaste! Forsooth, we gather here today to discuss the tragedy of "Hamnet," the 2025 film by Chloe Zhao. Open your heart and prepare for a real witchy movie about some guy named William Shakespeare and some play called Hamlet. Plus, a special guest tells us about her experience at the LA premiere for this movie, Chloe Zhao's breathing exercises, and almost fainting during this movie. And the rest is silence!
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Photo: Teresa Castracane KPFA Theatre Critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Paranormal Activity” at ACT Toni Rembe (Geary) Theatre through March 22, 2026. TEXT OF REVIEW In real life, we hate being scared, but in a theatre or on TV, there's nothing quite like it. The slow burn of suspense, the shock of horror. Ghosts, demons, and the old cliché, things that go bump in the night. On television and film, there's Amityville, The Exorcist, Stranger Things, a long list of Stephen King adaptations, and they date back to the earliest days of the silents. And CGI makes everything real. It's a bit different live on a stage. We suspend our disbelief, but we're in a community with the actors, we're seeing effects live as they happen, all with the question, How exactly did they do THAT? Which is a question asked multiple times in the entertaining if often incoherent and vapid play, Paranormal Activity, now at ACT's Toni Rembe Theatre through March 22nd. The curtain rises on a two-tiered set. Downstairs, the kitchen, dining and living room areas, with a staircase that takes us to a bedroom on one side, a bathroom on the other, and a third door to an unseen room. We're in England, near London perhaps, A young couple, Louise and James, have recently moved overseas from Chicago. He has a tight relationship with his mother, with whom his closeness is revealed in the opening moments via a phone call. Mom is religious, he's now an atheist. Lou seems okay, now that she's on anti-depressants. She does believe in ghosts, though and we will shortly find out why. Horror has a long history in theatre, the modern era peaking with The Cat and the Canary in 1927 and Dracula shortly after. Then there's the old days, Hamlet's ghost, and MacBeth's three witches. More recently, we have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Conor McPherson's Shining City. Paranormal Activity exploits all that, switching gears from laughter to horror, from sudden shocks to dawning awareness, augmented by a sound design that soothes, relaxes and suddenly startles. There's also the chemistry between the very good Cher Alvarez and Travis A. Knight as the young couple, we fear for them, and us. If one isn't drawn into the couple's issues, the slow build can become too slow, and the shocks too infrequent.. But should you buy into it, and can handle the sound and lighting, not to mention the story's senselessness or massive plot holes. Paranormal Activity is a fun night in the theatre, certainly more fun than the real horrors going on in Washington, Gaza, and elsewhere. Paranormal Activity plays at ACT's Toni Rembe Theatre through March 22nd. For more information you can go to act-sf.org. I'm Richard Wolinsky on Bay Area Theatre for KPFA. The post Review: “Paranormal Activity” at ACT Toni Rembe Theatre appeared first on KPFA.
Pete and Joseph get sad together this week as they review another Best Picture nominee, Hamnet (2025). Chloe Zhao's follow up to Marvel's Eternals shows that she did not fall completely into the studio system, as she brings the viewer on a tale of how William Shakespeare may have written Hamlet. What points in his life led him to pen his classic play? Tune in, then watch for yourselfVisit the YouTube channel Saturdays @ 12:30 PM Pacific to get in on the live stream, or just watch this episode rather than just listen!Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1lVsk1xjMSBgZK82uAzgQThis Episode:https://youtu.be/DR93uBACh0khttp://www.MCFCpodcast.comhttps://www.twitch.tv/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.facebook.com/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.twitter.com/podcastMCFChttp://www.tiktok.com/middleclassfilmclasshttp://www.instagram.com/middleclassfilmclass Email: MCFCpodcast@gmail.comMerch store - https://middle-class-film-class.creator-spring.com/ Join the Patreon:www.patreon.con/middleclassfilmclass Patrons:JavierJoel ShinnemanLinda McCalisterHeather Sachs https://twitter.com/DorkOfAllDorksChris GeigerDylanMitch Burns Robert Stewart JasonAndrew Martin Dallas Terry Jack Fitzpatrick Mackenzie MinerAngry Otter (Michael)Joseph Navarro Pete Abeyta and Tyler Noe
Send a textUp to now, Hamlet has lived inside questions.“Did my uncle really do it?”“Can I trust the Ghost?”“Am I being manipulated?”“Am I losing my mind—or pretending to?”Act 3 Scene 2 is the moment Hamlet says, in effect:“I'm done being uncertain. I'm going to test the truth.”In other words, Hamlet creates a situation where Claudius either sits calmly… or cracks.What makes this scene so powerful is that Hamlet is doing two things at once.One: He wants evidence.Two: He wants to feel power again.Because Hamlet has been watched, managed, and fenced in.So now he decides to flip the arrangement.Now he watches.Now he controls the room.Now he designs the moment.And that leads us to one of the best surprises in the play:Hamlet suddenly becomes a director.He lectures the actors about how to perform—not too big, not too fake, not too showy.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
Send a textMaster Shakespeare, are you ready?SHAKESPEARE:As ready as any man may be, entering a room where love is examined like evidence.GEORGE:That's exactly it. Because what happens here is not romance. It's a controlled experiment—and Ophelia is the instrument.GEORGE:Let's start with the setup. Claudius and Polonius plan to spy. They stage-manage Ophelia. They put a book in her hands. They position her.What's the moral temperature of this plan?SHAKESPEARE:Cold. And convenient.They call it “care for her.” They call it “care for the prince.”But the act is simple: they use her presence to harvest Hamlet's secrets.GEORGE:And what's chilling is how normal it seems to them. “We'll just hide over here.”It's like a household trick.SHAKESPEARE:Power always wishes to be ordinary.If it feels ordinary, it feels permissible.GEORGE:So right away, Ophelia enters a room where her feelings aren't the point. Her feelings are the bait.GEORGE:Now—Ophelia. I want to underline something for listeners: she's not “weak.” She's trained.She has been coached to obey father, brother, court—every authority that tells her what “good” looks like.SHAKESPEARE:A young woman in that world is praised for being governable.They call it virtue.But it is also control.GEORGE:So when Polonius gives her instructions, it isn't just advice. It's a system:“Speak when told. Hold this. Stand here. Offer the tokens.”FourSupport the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
Professor Ronan Hatfull literally wrote the book on the Reduced Shakespeare Company. His new book from Bloomsbury/Arden – Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company – is the very first full-length study to be published about the RSC. Focusing specifically on our Shakespearean reduction and adaptation, Ronan's book examines the origins and evolution of the company through the creation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show, William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged), and The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel). Ronan shares his methodology; how he wanted to make his book accessible to the general reader; how he learned that the RSC carries on the 17th-century tradition of “drolls”; how the RSC injected a bit of danger and the unexpected into Shakespeare and influenced various folks like the Q Brothers and Potted Potter creator Daniel Clarkson; and how for a limited time, Arden Shakespeare is offering to RSC fans a 35% discount on the hardcover edition of the book! (Length 24:54) The post Reduced Shakespeare Book appeared first on Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Recorded - 2/22/2026 On Episode 360 of the Almost Sideways Movie Podcast, we review the latest Glen Powell project before diving into a musical classic from 25 years ago. Does Moulin Rouge! hold up today? Should it have received its Best Picture nomination? Why does Todd hate Ewan McGregor? Here are the highlights:(5:00) "A Hero" - Adam Top 10 Blindspot Review(8:30) "Left-Handed Girl" - Zach Pinot Nominee Review(13:30) "After Dark, My Sweet" - Todd Director Blindspot Review(17:00) "Hamlet" & "Crime 101" - Terry Reviews(23:10) "How to Make a Killing" - Featured ReviewMOULIN ROUGE! 25TH ANNIVERSARY DEEP DIVE(39:00) "Moulin Rouge!" Trivia(57:40) First Impressions(1:28:30) Mt. Rushmore: Imaginary Characters(1:39:30) Recasting "Moulin Rouge!"(2:01:00) Highest WAR, Worst Performance, Minor Character Triumvirate(2:23:00) Tripod of Depravity, Best Scene, Gripes and Conspiracies(2:42:40) LVP, MVP, Quote of the DayFind AlmostSideways everywhere!almostsideways.comhttps://www.facebook.com/AlmostSidewayscom-130953353614569/AlmostSideways Twitter: @almostsidewaysTerry's Twitter: @almostsideterryZach's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/pro_zach36/Todd: Too Cool for TwitterAdam's Twitter: @adamsidewaysApple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almostsideways-podcast/id1270959022Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7oVcx7Y9U2Bj2dhTECzZ4m YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfEoLqGyjn9M5Mr8umWiktA/featured?view_as=subscriber
We continue with The HAMLET Project, where we explore one scene (or section) of Shakespeare's Hamlet - one month at a time. To our knowledge, this is the first long-form, open rehearsal of this play available online! So yes, something new with Shakespeare.
Send a textGEORGE:So right away: the scene begins with the king and queen acting like concerned parents. But it feels… staged. SHAKESPEARE:Because it is staged.Mark their language: they crave a cause, a label, a tidy diagnosis — “What ails him?”Yet their hands are already in the plot. They have hired watchers.Concern and control wear the same cloak here.GEORGE:And the watchers are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — Hamlet's old friends.Let me ask bluntly: are they villains?SHAKESPEARE:They are instruments.Not grand villains with black banners — rather men who wish to please authority and keep their place.In a court like this, friendship becomes employment.And employment demands a report.GEORGE:So Claudius says, “Spend time with Hamlet, figure out what's wrong,” but the real job is: Find what he knows. Find what he intends.SHAKESPEARE:Aye.And I make it plain: they are sent for.They are not there by chance. They are summoned, instructed, rewarded.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
This one has had a chance to mature as I got my act together, but it's a real gem as Liv and I cover Grand Theft Hamlet, a truly wonderful exploration of theater, COVID, sociality, and community. Genuinely an amazing piece and I hope you enjoy our conversation about it -- you can watch it on mubi! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Suzy Eddie Izzard is a Tony-nominated actor, stand-up comedian, multi-marathon runner and one-time political candidate. Now, she's performing a solo adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the CAA Theatre in Toronto, in which she plays all 23 characters. Suzy joins guest host Garvia Bailey to tell us about the challenges of doing Hamlet solo, why she was especially keen to breathe new life into Shakespeare's female characters, and why conventional beauty is like winning the acting lottery.
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Welcome back to the 270th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 270th episode we have an episode of “The Cup: Editorial” in which Co-Artistic Producers Ryan Borochovitz and Mackenzie Horner pull together various threads that have been on our mind around the topic of Shakespeare on film prompted in part by the Oscar buzz around Chloé Zhao's Hamnet. What does it mean for a movie to be (or not to be) Hamlet? Is Disney's The Lion King really as Hamlet-ish as your cool English teacher would have you believe? What are some pitches for new Shakespearean film adaptations we'd like to see? Join Ryan Borochovitz and Mackenzie Horner, as they discuss everything from Hamnet to Hamlet, Burton to Branagh, and Pride Rock to pumpkin pants. Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner – Instagram: (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: @BeforetheDownbeatApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeNSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAuRyan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!]; if you enjoy his theatre thoughts, more can be found at https://nextmag.ca/search/borochovitz Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @cohtheatreIf you'd like us to review your upcoming show in Toronto, please send press invites/inquiries to coh.theatre.MM@gmail.comCHAPTERS: 0:00 – Intro: no hat upon his head (2.1.89)2:36 – The Topic at Hand9:14 – To be (or not to be) Definitive 19:59 – Hamnet (Non-Spoilers) 24:45 – Weird Hamlets & Classic Hamlets 31:19 – Hakuna Matata 50:17 – To be (or not to be) Hamlet 1:11:42 – The Northman 1:17:22 – End of Act 1 1:21:40 – Let's Do Some Fun Buzzfeed 1:22:30 – M1: Merry Wives of Windsor (dir. Paul Feig) 1:26:38 – R1: Bikebeth (dir. Robert Lepage) 1:32:52 – M2: Bike-us Andronicus 1:38:24 – R2: Denzel's Othello 1:41:05 – M3: Richard II 1:47:04 – R3: Comedy of Error (dir. NOT Joss Whedon) 1:51:30 – M4: A Claymation Night's Dream 1:53:40 – Conclusion: What Can You Do Differently? 1:57:36 – Sign Off
Send a textToday we're in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4.Act 1, Scene 2 gave us the court saying, “Get over it.”Act 1, Scene 3 gave us family advice that's really control.Now Scene 4 takes us back to the battlements — the cold night air — where the play asks a different question:When truth appears in an unsettling form…Do you follow it?GEORGE:Master Shakespeare, we've moved from court politics and family warnings back to the night watch. Why return to the battlements now?SHAKESPEARE:Because the day has done its work.Now the night may speak.GEORGE:Let me paraphrase that for listeners:Daytime Denmark is where people control the story.Nighttime Denmark is where the story refuses to be controlled.And Hamlet arrives here already loaded.He's grieving. He's disgusted. He's isolated.And now he's standing in a place where the living expect the dead.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
Send a textToday we're in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5 — the scene where the ghost finally speaks.And I want to emphasize something from the start:The ghost's message doesn't just give Hamlet information.It changes Hamlet's operating system.It changes what Hamlet thinks the world is.It changes what Hamlet thinks he must do.And it changes what kind of person Hamlet is allowed to be from this moment on.[Music sting]Segment 1 — What happens in the scene (plot, slowly and clearly)GEORGE:Master Shakespeare, let's begin with the basic plot of Act 1, Scene 5. Hamlet has followed the ghost away from Horatio and Marcellus. What happens next?SHAKESPEARE:The dead speaks.The son listens.And the world is no longer the same.GEORGE:Here's the plot in plain language:Hamlet is alone with the ghost.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
Nick Jeffery read Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, a Victorian epic poem about a murder mystery in 17th Century Italy, to test a theory. John Granger's best guess after surveying the chapter headings of Hallmarked Man last September was that, of all 77 sources for the 139 epigraphs in Strike8, Browning's poem was the most likely to hold a secret message or special meaning inside it. John had said something similar about another Browning poem and Ink Black Heart, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and Nick had confirmed that through his own reading and confirmation by Rowling herself. He thought John's track record of spotting important epigraph sources merited a test reading.He published his findings on Friday in a post titled ‘The Ring and The Book – A Rowling Reading.' In brief, the murder in Browning's poem is a point-to-point model for the Ironbridge murder mystery in Hallmarked Man with characters in Rowling-Galbraith's book — most notably, Chloe Griffiths, Tyler Powell, and Ian Griffiths — having their astonishing equivalents in Ring. The less obvious but more important links between the two are in their implicit feminism and other messages: Both works critique abusive relationships and patriarchal power: Guido's control of Pompilia and Dino Longcaster's control of Decima Mullins. The legal system (Books 8–9 especially) is satirized as formalistic, pedantic, and often blind to moral reality. True justice requires personal moral intuition beyond mere evidence or procedure. The Pope's monologue (Book 10) weighs this tension most profoundly. In The Hallmarked Man the police are slow to act on new information gained by Strike and Robin and Farah Navabi manages to hoodwink the courts into escaping punishment for her part in Patterson's crimes.The Ring and The Book dramatizes the eternal struggle between good and evil. Pompilia embodies instinctive purity, sacrificial love, and spiritual insight despite her suffering. Guido represents sophisticated, calculating evil that twists morality to justify cruelty. Browning affirms that evil exists but that good can somehow arise from or shine through evil's consequences. In The Hallmarked Man evil is real, monstrous, and often cloaked in normalcy or power structures, but it can be exposed and defeated through persistence, intuition, and moral courage.Nick also discusses in this article the chiastic structure of Ring (!) and the ‘conversation' he heard between Robert Browning in this poem with Aurora Leigh, the masterpiece by his late wife. His ‘Rowling Reading' of Ring and the Book, consequently, will soon be a touchstone piece not only in Rowling Studies but Browning Studies as well (#ArmstrongBrowningLibraryAndMuseum @ Baylor). As they have done before with Nick's ‘Rowling Reading' articles. the Hogwarts Professor team recorded their conversation about the piece (listen to their discussions of I Capture the Castle and Aurora Leigh). Seven High Points of that Ring and the Book epigraph conversation include:* Nick's review of why Serious Strikers and Rowling Readers should read The Ring and the Book along with the story of his immersion in it;* John's explanation of why he was so confident that Browning's poem was a template of some kind for Hallmarked Man even though only six of Strike8's 139 epigraphs were taken from it;* Their survey of Rowling's previous work with epigraphs — Deathly Hallows and Casual Vacancy all the way to Running Grave and Hallmarked Man — for works with similar embedded-in-the-epigraph texts and those without one (or in which it hasn't yet been discovered);* Nick's discussion of Rowling's previous comments about epigraphs and her answer to the question, ‘Which Came First, the Epigraph or the Story?';* John's best guess pre-publication about the text that will be the epigraph source in Sleep Tight, Evangeline and which Strike text it will most resemble with its Whiskey Shambles title;* Nick's commitment to exploring Blue Oyster Cult epigraphs in Career of Evil to see if one of that band's albums, all of which supposedly had sci-fi themes and story continuity, served as a text-within-the-text for Strike3; and* John's suggestion that the relationship of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, a great love with a shared vocation, might be a point of reflection for Serious Strikers as a template for understanding the Strike-Ellacott partnership.Nick and John will be recording their group charting of Hallmarked Man's Part Eight this week with Sandy Hope and Ed Shardlow (and Presvytera Lois?), a survey of readers is in the works, and the long-awaited close look at the Strike series in light of the Cupid and Psyche myth draws ever nearer. Stay tuned!The Ten Questions, Epigraph Charting, and Links to Previous Epigraph Discussions Here and Elsewhere:The Ring and The Book – A Rowling Reading, Nick Jeffery, February 2026Intro to Epigraphs 101, John Granger, September 2022The Heart is Not About Emotions and Affection but the Human Spiritual Center, John Granger, October 2022A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh, Nick Jeffery, November 2025Beatrice Grove's Pillar Post Page at HogwartsProfessor.com* Scroll down for Prof Groves' posts about epigraphs and literary allusion in Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Troubled Blood, and Ink Black HeartLethal White: Ibsen's ‘Rosmersholm', John Granger, December 2018Rowling, Dylan Thomas, and the I Ching: Three Thoughts on Strike7's Epigraphs, John Granger, April 2023‘Deathly Hallows' and Penn's ‘Fruits of Solitude,' John Granger, October 2008The Aeschylus Epigraph in ‘Deathly Hallows,' John Granger, October 2008Maid of the Silver Sea Epigraphs: Louise Freeman Davis' Collected Posts, 2025The Faerie Queene Epigraphs in Troubled Blood* Scroll down the Troubled Blood Pillar Post for the Faerie Queene commentary by Beatrice Groves, Elizabeth Baird-Hardy and John GrangerRobert-Galbraith.com Posts about the Epigraphs in Each Book* Hallmarked Man's Epigraphs: The Poetry* Hallmarked Man's Epigraphs: The Prose* Scroll Down the site's ‘Features' Page for all the other Epigraph PostsAgents of Fortune: The Blue Oyster Cult Story, Martin Popoff, May 2016Pompilia: A Feminist Reading Of Robert Browning'S The Ring And The Book, Anne Brady, May 1988Roman Murder Mystery: The True Story of Pompilia, Derek Parker, January 2001Sleep Tight, Evangeline: Nick Jeffery and John Granger talk with Dimitra FimiHallmarked Man Epigraphs: The Tally SheetMatthew Arnold: 17 poems, 25 epigraphs, 6 from Merope: A Tragedy* 3, 17, 52, 103, 108, 110 (Merope), 21, 33, 68, 38, 97, 41, 45, 59, 58, 69, 73, 76, 80, 86, 96, 106, 119, 122, 124Robert Browning: 26 poems, 38 epigraphs including frontispiece, 6 from The Ring and the Book* 44, 75, 62, 64, 102, 118 (Ring and Book), frontispiece, 2, 9, 11, 107, 13, 16, 20, 26, 28, 32, 35, 37, 114, 39, 42, 93, 44, 75, 47, 51, 62, 64, 67, 116, 71, 77, 79, 84, 87, 120, 90, 91, 100, 102, 109, 118, 126A. E. Housman: 5 works, 25 poems, 28 epigraphs, 10 from Last Poems* 1, 5, 7, 53, 19, 92, 56, 65, 74, 105 (Last Poems), 23, 30, 34, 36, 40, 43, 46, 49, 57, 63, 78, 82, 89, 94, 98, 112, 115, 125John Oxenham: 1 work, 26 epigraphs* Parts 1-10, Epilogue, 15, 18, 22, 25, 27, 55, 60, 66, 83, 85, 88, 95, 111, 113, 127 (Maid of the Silver Sea)Albert Pike: 3 works (?), 22 epigraphs, 16 from Morals and Dogma* 4, 16, 12, 121 (Liturgy), 8, 10, 14, 29, 31, 48, 50, 54, 61, 70, 81, 99, 101 (Morals and Dogma), 24, 72 (Ancient and Accepted Rite?)Most epigraphs: Robert BrowningFrontispiece: Robert BrowningMost from one poem: Tie, Robert Browning 6 Ring and Book, Matthew Arnold 6 Merope: A TragedyMost from one novel: John Oxenham 26 Maid of the Silver SeaMost from one didactic or discursive argument: Albert Pike 22 (24?) Morals and DogmaConclusions: Ring and Book your best bet as template, Re-read Maid of the Silver Sea, read Merope: A TragedyTally Sheet of Epigraphs for Ink Black Heart:Poet: epigraph numbers, (total)* Christina Rossetti: 8, 14, 22, 24, 25, 35, 38, 50, 52, 54, 56, 84, 86, 90, 98, 103, 105, 107 (18)* Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 12, 21, 33, 39, 42, 45, 47, 58, 67, 71, 72, 82, 96, 101, 102, 104 (16; all but #s 21 and 58 from ‘Aurora Leigh')* Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: Book, 1, 18, 20, 49, 79, 81, 91, 93, 94, 106 (11)* Emily Dickinson: 11, 31, 53, 58, 59, 65, 70, 76, 99 (8)* Charlotte Mew: 16, 17, 40, 55, 66, 92, 95 (7)* Felicia Hemans: 6, 10, 15, 63, 100 (5)* Amy Levy: 7, 23, 32, 80, 85 (5)* Jean Ingelow: 9, 27, 29, 37, 64 (5)* LEL!: 62, 68, 69, 83 (4); see also Rossetti 52 ‘LEL')* Mary Tighe: 36 (Psyche), 43, 60, 88 (4)* Helen Hunt Jackson: 4, 87, 89 (3)* Joanna Baillie: 13, 21, 34 (3)* Augusta Webster: 44, 48, 51 (3)* Emily Pfeiffer: 3, 75 (2)* Charlotte Bronte: 19, 74 (2)* Adah Isaacs Menken: 30, 57 (2)* Constance Naden: 41, 46 (2)* Mathilda Blind: 61, 97 (2)* Mary Kendall: 73, 77 (2)* Martha Jane Jewsbury: 2 (‘To My Own Heart')* Anne Evans: 28* ‘Michael Field' (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper): 78The Heart and Vision epigraphs in Ink Black Heart by chapter number:* Heart: 20, 106 (MEC); 21, 67; 52, 107; 68, 85; 2; 63, 80, 85; 17, 40, 55, 95 (Mew); 19, 74; 27; 30; 36, 60; 87 (23)* Vision: Frontispiece, 1, 49, 81 (MEC); 22, 25, 38, 90, 98 (CR); 59; 3; 34; 95; 57; 88; 48; 46 (17)Tally Sheet of Epigraphs for Cuckoo's Calling:* Frontispiece: Rossetti -- A Dirge* Prologue: Lucius Accius, Telephus* Part One: Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy* Part Two: Virgil, Aeneid* Part Three: Virgil, Aeneid* Part Four: Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis* Part Five: Virgil, Georgics* Epilogue: Horace, Odes* [Closing Poem: Tennyson, Ulysses]Brackets/Latch: 19th Century English poets (see Groves)Most epigraphs: Virgil (3); no other author has more than oneMost frequently referenced work: Aeneid (2), shades in UlyssesCenter of Chiasmus: Aeneid (true if ring has 5, 8, or 9 parts)Turtleback lines: Not evident in authors list, perhaps in meanings of specific epigraphsConclusions:* Read Aeneid to look for Cuckoo's parallels;* Study epigraphs to look for parallelsOnline Literature Review for ‘Epigraphs of Cuckoo's Calling:‘https://robert-galbraith.com/epigraphs-of-the-cuckoos-calling/* 2025 connecting the dots between epigraphs and chapter set to follow (generic)* No mention of Strike as Aeneashttps://strikefans.com/the-cuckoos-calling-epigraphs/* Reprinting of epigraphs without commentary* No mention of Strike as Aeneashttps://thesefilespod.com/blog/the-cuckoos-calling-epigraphs/* Includes a very helpful link to The Rowling Library and an article there about the ‘real world' crime serving as a template for the Landry murder* No mention of Strike as Aeneashttps://mugglenet.wpenginepowered.com/2017/09/literary-allusion-cuckoos-calling-part-1-christina-rossettis-dirge/* Brilliant discussion of the Rossetti poem but curiously without reference to resurrection meaning* No mention of Strike as Aeneashttps://mugglenet.wpenginepowered.com/2017/09/literary-allusion-cuckoos-calling-part-2-tennysons-ulysses/* Brilliant discussion of Strike as Ulysses* No mention of Strike as Aeneas, curious becauseh Virgil models Aeneas on UlyssesThe Ten Questions of This Conversation (Sort Of!)1, (Nick) So, John, I finally wrote up my findings about The Ring and the Book as the story template for Hallmarked Man's murder mystery and, as we did with my posts about Aurora Leigh and I Capture the Castle, let's talk about it, expanding on the correspondences between the Browning poem and Strike 8. The natural place to begin is with your guess about Ring and the Book being a template based on your tally of the Hallmarked Man epigraphs, a theory you shared on our first show post-publication. Can you explain your process and what made you so confident about Ring and the Book?2. (John) Looking at that tally, then, Arnold's Merope and Oxenham's Maid of the Silver Sea are quantitatively more likely equivalents to Aurora Leigh in Ink Black Heart, but the Browning frontispiece, number of his epigraphs, the hidden quality of the Ring and Book poem titles, and the relationship with Barrett Browning made it seem the most likely. That the poem is considered one of the great feminist tracts written by a man didn't hurt. I still want to go back to the Arnold poem, though, because of the centrality of his epigraphs in the center Parts and Oxenham deserves a re-read, too, or just a trip to Louise Freeman Davis site, the home of Oxenham Studies online. What struck me while reading your post, Nick, was in the correspondences you found between Ring and the Book and Hallmarked Man. Can you give us the highlights of that?3. (Nick) The Ironbridge murder mystery, then, is largely lifted from the death of Pompilia. Which is unusual isn't it? Has Rowling-Galbraith ever used her epigraphs to point to the template of her story?4. (John) I think, then, that at least four of the previous Strike novels give us the embedded template, per Beatrice Groves The White Divel and The Revenger's Tragedy (and even Hamlet) gives us important clues about The Silkworm crime, Rosmersholm and its incestuous backdrop inform the murder of Lethal White, the Janus deceiver in Faerie Queene should have been a give-away about the poisoner in Troubled Blood, and, as Rowling confirmed and you demonstrated Nick, Aurora Leigh is the working model for Ink Black Heart. I think the closest Rowling epigraph suggestions to story template was in the Rossetti poem that opens Cuckoo's Calling and the Aeschylus epigraph in Deathly Hallows. What has Rowling said, though, about her epigraph sources? Do they precede the novels or follow the writing?5. (Nick) So it's not one or the other, I think, that is, she has a template in mind and if the source doesn't have sufficient quotable pieces to serve a epigraphs for the whole book, she uses other sources from the genre in play or that highlight her central theme (cf., the Gray's Anatomy heart epigraphs in tandem with the hearty women Victorian poets in Ink Black). What I'm struck by here, though, is the shift in importance of epigraphs to Rowling-Galbraith. The numbers are startling, no, between Cuckoo and Hallmarked?6. (John) Not only do we see a jump from eight or nine epigraphs in Strike1 to 139 in Stike8, but Team Rowling is pushing readers to think more seriously about them by posting reviews of the epigraphs in each book, drawing the dot-to-dot correspondences. I confess the Strike novel whose epigraphs are not like the others, Nick, is Career of Evil and its Blue Oyster Cult lyrics. You've been reading a book about Blue Oyster Cult so I'll defer to you in this despite my great fondness for heavy metal groups with sci-fi themed lyrics...7. (Nick) What about the book we haven't got in hand, John: Sleep Tight, Evangeline? We have been told -- sort of! -- the title is from a 2014 song from an American blues band called ‘The Whiskey Shambles.' Which of the previous epigraph models Rowling has used, from Deathly Hallows to Hallmarked Man, do you think we'll be seeing in Strike9? What are your thoughts on that, especially as the best link we have for Sleep Tight, Evangeline is from a rock and blues band?8. (John) So I hope that we're going to see another Running Grave type epigraph experience in Evangeline, though Grave was unique among Rowling novels and their epigraphs in not having a story-book, poem, or play as its primary source. The I Ching, cannot be a story-template per se because it is a divination tool or means to reflection. Unless you think Pike's Morals and Dogmas Freemasonry encyclopedia qualifies as an equivalent of sorts to the I Ching? That's another outlier, isn't it?9. (Nick) To put a Fourth Generation focus on this, John, we should be looking for a technique that Serious Readers can use for Sleep Tight, Evangeline to hunt for the embedded source if its hidden as were Aurora Leigh and The Ring and the Book. You've found the ones no one else noticed in Ink Black Heart and Hallmarked Man, how did you do that and do you think the same method will work for Cuckoo and Career as well as Evangeline?10. (John) So, yes, I found them but you had the first confirmed by Mrs Murray and then connected the dots between the Browning poems and Rowling's work. If this method is going to work on Cuckoo, Career, and Evangeline it will have to involve a spotter and a shooter, though they can be the same person. The spotter technique is nothing but grunt work; chart the epigraphs used and spot the author most frequently referenced and the work of theirs most frequently cited. The shooter work is actually a lot more involved and interesting; tell us about your experiences with the two Browning's' epic poems, that thrill of discovering correspondences. Do you think that excitement is something Rowling is offering her readers a a treasure hunt or as a point of reflection in terms of meaning? 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Send a textThe scene begins with the king saying - Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green, and that it us befittedTo bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdomTo be contracted in one brow of woe,Yet so far hath discretion fought with natureThat we with wisest sorrow think on himTogether with remembrance of ourselves.Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,Now If Act 1, Scene 1 is Denmark at night — cold, nervous, haunted — then Act 1, Scene 2 is Denmark in daylight — warm, ceremonial, confident, and polished.And here's the spine of this scene and the simple phrase that keeps coming back:The court is telling Hamlet, with polite smiles and royal authority, “Get over it.”And Hamlet is thinking, “I can't. And I won't. Because something is wrong.”GEORGE:Master Shakespeare, we begin with a ghost on the battlements — and then we jump into court ceremony and speeches. Master Shakespeare - how does the ghost begin speaking.Ah, Mr. Bartley - My hour is almost comeWhen I to sulf'rous and tormenting flamesMust render up myself.Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearingTo what I shall unfold.Well Master Shakespeare, why place these scenes back-to-back?SHAKESPEARE:Because the world is split, Mr. Bartley.Night shows what day denies.GEORGE:Let me say that again in modern terms:Scene 1 shows you the secret weather of Denmark.Scene 2 shows you the official forecast of Denmark.SHAKESPEARE:Aye.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
Send a textGEORGE:Master Shakespeare, why do we go from the public court scene into this private household scene?SHAKESPEARE:Because the disease is not only in the crown.It is in the rooms of the home.GEORGE:Let me paraphrase that in three ways so it lands:Paraphrase #1 (simple):You're showing us that Denmark's problems aren't only political. They're personal.Paraphrase #2 (blunt):The same habits that make a court dishonest can show up in a family.Paraphrase #3 (image):We leave the palace stage — but we're still inside the same building of power. Just a different hallway.SHAKESPEARE:Aye.GEORGE:Let's lay out the plot of Scene 3 in plain terms.First: Laertes is preparing to leave for France.He gives his sister Ophelia advice about Hamlet.Second: Polonius enters and gives Laertes a long list of fatherly “rules” for life.Third: After Laertes exits, Polonius turns to Ophelia and questions her about Hamlet — and then he gives her orders.So the scene is built like a sandwich:Brother advises sisterFather advises sonFather controls daughterSHAKESPEARE:A neat division.GEORGE:This scene is about warnings.And the warnings are not only about danger.They are about reputation.And reputation is currency in this world.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
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In which, Stephen proves through algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather.Topics in this episode include Puritanism, whether or not Anne Hathaway became a religious fanatic late in life, Shakespeare's daughter Susanna and her Puritan husband, the squandering of Shakespeare's estate after his death, “Venus and Adonis,” the mystical estate of paternity, Hamlet and paternity, the Sabellian heresy, the authorship question, possible Shakespeare ghost writers, Buck Mulligan's roasts, and James Joyce proves through algebra that he is his own father, just like Jesus and Shakespeare.Support us on Patreon to get episodes early, and to access bonus content and a video version of our podcast. Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | BlueSky | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
Finalmente no ha durado tanto esta historia... ¡Hemos resuelto! A Francesc Miralles lo despertamos para hablar del arte de vivir según Shakespeare. Laura Martínez, como no podía ser de otro modo, hace un repaso por 'Hamnet'y otros 'Hamlet' anteriores. Marta Carillo nos lleva al mundo TikTok para saber más sobre 'Cumbres borrascosas'.
We're diving into “The Fate of Ophelia,” the powerful opening track from The Life of a Showgirl — and there is so much to unpack. In this episode of 13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast, we break down the lyrics, literary references, and hidden layers that make this one of Taylor Swift's strongest album openers yet. This song is layered, intentional, and a twist on a classic story. We discuss: The Shakespeare and Hamlet references woven into the lyrics The music theory detail that mirrors Shakespeare's structure How this track connects to The Tortured Poets Department The double narrative theory: the Travis Kelce love story or masters reclamation? The Ophelia painting vs. the album imagery Records broken by “Fate of Ophelia” on the charts Is this Taylor's most sophisticated pop opener yet? Did she rewrite Ophelia's tragic ending into a modern love story? And what do you think this song is about? We're breaking it all down — line by line! What did we miss? What opening album track is your fav? There are lots of ways to reach us! This is a paid advertisement from BetterHelp. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at http://BetterHelp.com/TAYLORSWIFTFAN. Stay Connected with 13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast Join the conversation in our exclusive Lobster Lounge: station.page/13 Contact the Podcast Voicemail: (689) 214-1313 Email: the13podcast@gmail.com Instagram: @the13podcast TikTok: @the13podcast Twitter/X: @the13TSpodcast YouTube: 13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast Follow the Hosts Ana – @anaszabo13 Lacey – @laceygee13 Amy – @amysnichols Nick – @heynickadams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Scarlet" is a Japanese animated fantasy action film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. Inspired by Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet," the film follows the eponymous princess, who can cross time and space on a quest for vengeance after her father is murdered. The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its scope and scale, animation, and effects. It was nominated for three Annie Awards: Best Feature (Independent), Best Direction, and Best Writing. Hosoda was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, his work being shown in IMAX, the unique animation techniques used in the making of this film, what he sees for the future of anime in the U.S. and worldwide, and more, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Sony Pictures Classics. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this episode of Hyperion to a Satyr, Siskoid and his guest Ryan Blake discuss the 1987 Finnish film Hamlet Goes Business, a modern Noir adaptation by director Aki Kaurismäki set in the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Listen to the episode below or subscribe to Hyperion to a Satyr on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK: Visit the Fire & Water WEBSITE: https://fireandwaterpodcast.com Like our Fire & Water FACEBOOK page – https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Support The Fire & Water Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fwpodcasts Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcasts Credits: Theme: "Fanfare" from 1996 Hamlet, by Patrick Doyle, with clips from that film, starring Ray Fearon; the 2000 Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke; and the 1990 Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson. Bonus clips: Star Trek's "Amok Time", starring Leonard Nimoy. Leave a comment, I love to read!
We continue with The HAMLET Project, where we explore one scene (or section) of Shakespeare's Hamlet - one month at a time. To our knowledge, this is the first long-form, open rehearsal of this play available online! So yes, something new with Shakespeare.
Welcome to the new episode of the Learn Polish Podcast! Have you ever wondered what Hamlet actually meant in his most famous speech? In this episode, I look at the “To be, or not to be” monologue. I explain in simple words what these deep thoughts mean and how we can understand the prince's choices. I speak clearly and slowly to help you improve your listening skills. Premium members can access the full Polish transcript word-for-word at realpolish.pl.The post RP513: Być albo nie być… appeared first on realpolish.pl