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Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātra aktieris Maksims Busels Kultūras rondo stāsta par savu iestudējumu "Idiota valsis" un nepieciešamību radīt  muzikāli literāru kompozīciju, kurā ir arī paša aktiera dienasgrāmatas ieraksti, iespaidi un pārdomas. 2. jūnijā Mihaila Čehova Rīgas krievu tēatra aktieris Maksims Busels saņems Harija Liepiņa balvu. Viņš jau bijis Hamlets un Tartifs, uzvarējis muzikālajā televīzijas šovā ”Pārdziedi mani”, par Eižena Finka lomu nominēts „Spēlmaņu naktij”, bet nupat radījis savu muzikālo refleksiju „Idiota valsis”. Vai jūs savai pirmajai mīlestībai pateicāt, ka taisāt šādu izrādi? Maksims Busels: Ziniet, kas bija skaisti, viņa atlidoja uz pirmizrādi. Kas izrādās bija visefektīvais, kad beidzās tieši pirmizrāde, es pēc aplausiem teicu visiem paldies no skatuves un saku, ka šodien izrāde ir īpaša ne tikai tāpēc, ka tā ir pirmizrāde, arī tāpēc, ka no Amsterdamas atlidoja šī Aņa, par kuru tas stāsts. Es viņu aicināju uz skatuves, un viņa kāpa uz skatuves, visa zāle noelsās. Man pēc tam teātra pārstāvji stāstīja, ka skatītājiem izejot bijis jautājums - šis stāsts ir taisnība? Cilvēki bija pārsteigti, tikai tad, kad Aņa kāpa uz skatuves, viņi saprata, ka šis stāsts nav izdomāts un ka tas patiešām bija noticis.  Aktierim ir dīvaina lieta: no vienas puses, jo tālāk no sevis, jo savā veidā vienkāršāk veikt lomu. Jo tas ir vairāk tavs, jo tas ir sarežģītāk, tāpēc, ka tev jāatkailinās tā... Atis Rozentāls arī pēc pirmizrādes teica - jābūt ļoti drosmīgam, lai tā atkailinātos.  Kad sāku taisīt šo izrādi, nezināju, kādas man sajūtas pēc tam būs, ka ir jābūt drosmīgam, lai to veiktu un tā ir taisnība, jo tas nav viegli. (..) Jūs uzaugāt uzreiz ar šīm divām valodām - latviešu un krievu? Maksims Busels: Nē, nē, tieši tāpēc es īpaši priecājos, ka es jūtos savā sabiedrībā kā savā sabiedrībā. Tā ir bijis, ka pēc padomju laikiem manā ģimenē visi krievvalodīgie un arī bija krievvalodīga skola, apkārtne, un es būtībā normāli kaut kā atvēru sev sabiedrību tikai, kad sāku mācīties Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijā. Tajā brīdī es saprotu - opā, kā tā var būt? Tagad es jau apzinos, ir konkrēti vārdi integrācija un tas viss, un tieši pateicoties cilvēkiem, man nebija grūti integrēties. Arī ņemot vērā manus mērķus. Latviešu valoda arī skolā nebija tik laba, es atceros, vienmēr bija sarežģīti. Es tagad domāju - tik dīvaini, it ka nebija tas viss tik sen, bet man tagad tas šķiet tik dīvaini, ka es biju Latvijā, bet krieviski viss bija apkārt man. Tas nav pareizi tajā nozīmē, ka tas tikai apgrūtina vēl vairāk. Es vismaz sajūtu uz sevis, ka tas man tikai apgrūtina šo visu ceļu. Bet pateicos, kā galu galā viss sanāca. Es nejūtos... Man žēl dzirdēt no dažiem krievvalodīgiem, ka viņi šeit nejūtas kā mājās. Bet šeit ir viens jautājums viņiem pašiem - ja tu gribi, ja tu esi šeit, nav nekādu problēmu. (..) Pirms Krievijas pilna mēroga kara sākuma Ukrainā Maksims Busels filmējās arī Krievijā, bija aktieris Nāciju teātrī, bet visu sadarbību pārtraucis, lai arī tieši tajā brīdī karjera attīstījusies Maksims Busels: Es sapratu, ka es nevarēšu, negribu un nevaru to vispār nekādā veidā pieņemt, tāpēc tā arī viss beidzās. Mani tur arī apstiprinājums uz kādu lomu vēsturiskā drāmā, bet tam jau tam jau vairs nebija nozīmes. Tajā brīdī kad sākās karš Ukrainā, faktiski jebkuram vajadzēja pieņemt lēmumu. Maksims Busels: Jā. Dienā kad sākās karš, es bija Samārā, filmējos īsfilmā, kura, es biju pārsteigts, ir iznākusi Krievija. Es domāju, ka es filmējos, nekas nenotiks, bet pēc tam es uzzināju, ka viņi neierakstīja manu vārdu titros. Nu labi.  Pirmajā nedēļā es neticēju. Kad viss sākās, liekās - nē, kas tas par murgu. Pēc tam biju vēl Maskavā un kad sapratu, ka jābrauc prom, es skatos mana lidmašīnas biļete bija jau atcelta, naudu man joprojām, protams, neatgrieza. Es atvēru internetu, lai meklētu biļetes uz autobusu, tikai autobusi bija. Es redzu, ka atveru un mēģinu izvēlēties tuvāko datumu un manā acu priekšā pazūd datumi. Es nopirku uz marta sākumu, kas bija tuvākais un gaidīju. Tā es atbraucu. Bet tās dienas, es atceros, es jau zināju, ka es nebūšu izrādē, bet tā kā es saprotu, es nevaru vienkārši sēdēt tur, jo man "brauc jumts" no tā, kas notiek, un es gāju uz mēģinājumiem, jo tas bija, kā vienmēr darbs bija vienīgais, kas man palīdz domāt par kaut ko citu.          

Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātra aktieris Maksims Busels Kultūras rondo stāsta par savu iestudējumu "Idiota valsis" un nepieciešamību radīt  muzikāli literāru kompozīciju, kurā ir arī paša aktiera dienasgrāmatas ieraksti, iespaidi un pārdomas. 2. jūnijā Mihaila Čehova Rīgas krievu tēatra aktieris Maksims Busels saņems Harija Liepiņa balvu. Viņš jau bijis Hamlets un Tartifs, uzvarējis muzikālajā televīzijas šovā ”Pārdziedi mani”, par Eižena Finka lomu nominēts „Spēlmaņu naktij”, bet nupat radījis savu muzikālo refleksiju „Idiota valsis”.

Lads lads lads! Nicola's off to Japan, so Running Is BS's Stewart Harding fills in. There's Map Men, a brief overview of a couple of weekend things, phallic things, Stewart dared to go to Aberdare parkrun and Danny just couldn't face touring for once.

Dani Bedau, Associate Professor of Theater at SDSU, and Amelia Simpson, an SDSU Theatre Design and Technology Major, discuss student leadership and responsibilities in SDSU theatre productions; the SDSU production of Hamlet, led by a cast of eight female-identifying Hamlets; and SDSU's history of providing Shakespeare programming free of charge to local schools.About Spotlight and Cloudcast Media "Spotlight On The Community" is the longest running community podcast in the country, continuously hosted by Drew Schlosberg for 19 years.  "Spotlight" is part of Cloudcast Media's line-up of powerful local podcasts, telling the stories, highlighting the people, and celebrating the gravitational power of local.  For more information on Cloudcast and its shows and cities served, please visit www.cloudcastmedia.us. Cloudcast Media | the national leader in local podcasting.   About Mission Fed Credit Union A community champion for over 60 years, Mission Fed Credit Union with over $6 billion in member assets, is the Sponsor of Spotlight On The Community, helping to curate connectivity, collaboration, and catalytic conversations.  For more information on the many services for San Diego residents, be sure to visit them at https://www.missionfed.com/

COVERING THE HAMLETS OF Harbor Isle, Hewlett, Inwood, Lakeview, LevittownPICTURE: By AITFFan1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121513492

A LOOK AT  East Atlantic Beach, East Garden City, East Meadow, Elmont, Franklin Square, Garden City South,PICTURE: By Antony-22 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106469429

WE START OFF THIS EPISODE GIVING YOU THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A VILLAGE AND HAMLET, THEN DIVE INTO THE 37 HAMLETS OF HEMPSTEAD.PICTURE: By Sullynyflhi - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2183898

It's been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven't fully abandoned you -- at least not without a goodbye! In the grand final episode of the show, Steff, Syl, and Syp gather together one last time to share memories of the show, the reason behind the decision to end it, and a few of our favorite MMO music tracks. Enjoy -- and from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for listening these past 12 years. We had a blast doing it. Episode 234 show notes Songs featured in this episode: "Hamlets of Aquilonia" from Age of Conan "Silus Mountain" from Aion "Fly into the Sky" from Blade & Soul "Freedom Theme" from City of Heroes "Hills of the Shire" from Lord of the Rings Online "Townston Theme" from Dungeon Runners "Below the Asteroids" from EVE Online "Main Theme" from EverQuest II "The Republic of Bastok" from Final Fantasy XI "Tidecaller" from League of Legends "Home Sweet Home" from RuneScape "Alsalvara Light" from Lime Odyssey "Island Village" from Lineage II "Silverwood" from RIFT "Invincible" from World of Warcraft "Traveling Tale" from Runes of Magic "A Golden Field" from WildStar "Lana, The Advisor" from Star Wars: The Old Republic "World Map 2" from The Sims Online "Stones" from Ultima Online "Seascape" from Anarchy Online "Townlife" from Ultima X Odyssey "Bamboo Forest" from Vanguard Outro (feat. "Elwynn Forest" from World of Warcraft) Talk to the Battle Bards on Twitter! Follow Battle Bards on iTunes, Stitcher, Player.FM, Google Play, iHeartRadio, and Pocket Casts! This podcast is produced using copyrighted material according to Fair Use practices as stated under Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act.

Det er klart for Dagsorden kl. 20.00 med Merete Skar og Christian Skaug direkte fra studio.Shakespeare "avkoloniseres" etter at forskere har konkludert at dramatikeren fremmer "hvitt overherredømme". Samtidig velger England en islamsk fundamentalist som ny tilsynssjef for utdanning og barnevern. Europa er i endring, og USAs visepresident J.D. Vance advarer om at Europa risikerer å begå et "sivilisasjonsmessig selvord".Europa står ovenfor Hamlets dilemma: Å være eller ikke være. Å resignere eller yte motstand.Du kan følge oss på YouTube, X eller Rumble.Vi oppfordrer folk til å ta del i kommentarfeltet underveis!Velkommen til sending!

Stāsta horeogrāfe, dejotāja, baleta pedagoģe, Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijas profesore Gunta Bāliņa. No 38 Viljama Šekspīra (1564–1616) lugām dažādos laika posmos ir iestudēti vairāk nekā 20 baleti un citu dejas žanru skatuves darbi: “Antonijs un Kleopatra”, “Hamlets”, “Makbets”, “Romeo un Džuljeta”, “Otello”, “Sapnis vasaras naktī”, “Spītnieces savaldīšana” un citi. Sākotnēji arī paša Šekspīra lugās tikušas izmantotas dažādas tā laika galma dejas: burē, čakona, gavote un citas. Kopš 18. gadsimta horeogrāfi jau veidoja baletus, iedvesmojoties  no Šekspīra lugām. Vairāki avoti apstiprina, ka šī ideja pieder franču horeogrāfam un dejas teorētiķim Žanam Žakam Novēram (Jean-Georges Noverre). 1761. gadā viņš  Francijas galmā iestudēja baletu “Antonijs un Kleopatra”. Mūzikas autors bija Versaļā dzimušais vācu izcelsmes komponists Rūdolfs Kreicers (Rodolphe Kreutzer). Savukārt itāļu komponistu un horeogrāfu Frančesko Kleriko (Clerico) bija iedvesmojusi traģēdija “Hamlets”. Līdz pat mūsu dienām šis caururbjošais atriebības stāsts (Hamlets) ir ieintriģējis un izaicinājis māksliniekus, tostarp horeogrāfus. Savas versijas īstenojuši tādi pasaulslaveni horeogrāfi kā Džons Noimeiers (John Noimayer), Kenets Makmilans (Keneth McMillan), Deivids Niksons (David Nixon), Radu Poklitaru un citi. Šekspīra lugai “Otello, Venēcijas moris” pievērsies viens no modernās dejas ietekmīgākajiem pamatlicējiem, meksikāņu horeogrāfs Hosē Limons (José Arcadio Limón). Viņš radīja 20 minūšu garu izrādi „Mora pavana” ar Henrija Pērsela mūziku. Pēc paša Hosē Limona, kurš dejoja oriģinālversijā, viens no nozīmīgākajiem Otello lomas interpretiem bijis Rūdolfs Nurijevs. Neapšaubāmi viens no populārākajiem sava žanra paraugiem ir balets „Romeo un Džuljeta” pēc Šekspīra ģeniālās traģēdijas motīviem, kas daudzkārt izmantoti arī  citos mākslas žanros. Pats pirmais šī stāsta horeogrāfiskās partitūras izveidotājs bija itālis Eusebio Luci (Eusebio Luzzi), kurš 1785. gadā Venēcijā  iestudēja baletu ar Luidži Mareskalki (Luigi Marescalchi) mūziku. Turpmāko versiju vidū jāmin 19. gadsimta sākumā tolaik slavenā horeogrāfa  Vinčenco Galeoti (Vincenzo Galeotti) iestudējumu Dānijas Karaliskajā teātrī. Tam mūziku radīja Klauss Nīlsens Šalls (Claus Nielsen Schall), kurš darbojās gan kā vijolnieks, gan dejotājs un baletmūzikas autors. Savu “Romeo un Džuljetas” versiju 1833. gadā Kopenhāgenā uzveda Galeoti audzēknis Augusts Burnonvils (August Bournonville). Starp citu Burnonvila slavenāko baletu vidū ir arī mūsu baleta repertuārā izrāde “Silfīdas”. Intriģējoši pavērsieni saistīti ar Sergeja Prokofjeva 1934. gada ieceri. Sākotnējais “Romeo un Džuljetas” librets paredzēja mainīt stāsta beigas, ļaujot jaunajiem mīlētājiem laimīgi turpināt dzīvi. Taču padomju laika represiju gaisotnē tomēr tika nolemts pieturēties pie traģiskā noslēguma. Kad Lielā teātra direkcija pasludināja šo mūziku par nedejisku un nepiemērotu, komponists izveidoja vairākas simfoniskās svītas, kas turpina savu patstāvīgo skatuves dzīvi līdz pat mūsdienām. Prokofjeva baleta pirmizrāde, gan nepilnā versijā, notika 1938. gadā Brno. Horeogrāfs bija tā laika starptautiski atzītā čehu slavenība, Ivo Psota. Krievijas pirmizrāde jau pilnā apjomā Leonīda Lavrovska iestudējumā notika Sanktpēterburgā 1940. gadā. Tā filmas versija (1955) tika godalgota ar Kannu kinofestivāla Zelta palmas zaru. Gan Eiropā, gan aiz okeāna vēl aizvien tiek uzvesta Prokofjeva mūzikā balstītā horeogrāfa Džona Kranko “Romeo un Džuljeta”. Vēl aizvien Anglijas Nacionālā baleta repertuārā ir Rūdolfa Nurijeva 1977. gada versija, izveidota par godu Karalienes Elizabetes Otrās valdīšanas Sudraba jubilejai. Bet baleta sākotnējo, laimīgo beigu versiju, 2008. gadā, balstoties uz  Prinstonas Universitātes profesora Saimona Morisona (Simon Morrison) pētījumiem, iestudēja amerikāņu horeogrāfs Marks Moriss (Mark William Morris). Viljama Šekspīra literāro darbu dramaturģija, tēlu daudzveidība, to psiholoģiskā sarežģītība un daudzpusība, kā arī filozofiskais dziļums turpina piesaistīt komponistus un horeogrāfus arī mūsdienās. Latvijas Nacionālajā Operas un  baleta teātrī  iestudēti seši Šekspīra literārajos  darbos balstītie  baleti: Aleksandra Lemberga “Antonijs un Kleopatra” (1972), Lāslo Šeregi “Spītnieces savaldīšana” (2001), Jurija Vamoša “Sapnis vasaras naktī”(2010), Allas Sigalovas “Otello” (2012), Antona Freimana “Hamlets”(2019), bet “Romeo un Džuljeta” pat vairākkārt: Jevgēņija Čangas inscenējumā ar Annu Priedi un Haraldu Ritenbergu, kā arī Aleksandra Lemberga, Vladimira Vasiļjeva un Valentīnas Turku oriģinālajās versijās.   Baleta viencēliens “Hamlets” ar Rahmaņinova un Lindas Leimanes mūziku aicina skatītājus arī šodien.

Tyler and I spoke about view quakes from fiction, Proust, Bleak House, the uses of fiction for economists, the problems with historical fiction, about about drama in interviews, which classics are less read, why Jane Austen is so interesting today, Patrick Collison, Lord of the Rings… but mostly we talked about Shakespeare. We talked about Shakespeare as a thinker, how Romeo doesn't love Juliet, Girard, the development of individualism, the importance and interest of the seventeenth century, Trump and Shakespeare's fools, why Julius Cesar is over rated, the most under rated Shakespeare play, prejudice in The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare as an economic thinker. We covered a lot of ground and it was interesting for me throughout. Here are some excerpts. Full transcript below.Henry Some of the people around Trump now, they're trying to do DOGE and deregulation and other things. Are there Shakespearean lessons that they should be bearing in mind? Should we send them to see the Henriad before they get started?Tyler Send them to read the Henriad before they get started. The complicated nature of power: that the king never has the power that he needs to claim he does is quite significant. The ways in which power cannot be delegated, Shakespeare is extremely wise on. And yes, the DOGE people absolutely need to learn those lessons.Henry The other thing I'd take from the Henriad is time moves way quicker than anyone thinks it does. Even the people who are trying to move quite quickly in the play, they get taken over very rapidly by just changing-Tyler Yes. Once things start, it's like, oh my goodness, they just keep on running and no one's really in control. And that's a Shakespearean point as well.And.Henry Let's say we read Shakespeare in a modern English version, how much are we getting?Tyler It'll be terrible. It'll be a negative. It will poison your brain. So this, to me, will be highly unfortunate. Better to learn German and read the Schlegel than to read someone turning Shakespeare into current English. The only people who could do it maybe would be like the Trinidadians, who still have a marvelous English, and it would be a completely different work. But at least it might be something you could be proud of.Transcript (prepared by AI)Henry Today, I am talking to Tyler Cowen, the economist, blogger, columnist, and author. Tyler works at George Mason University. He writes Marginal Revolution. He is a columnist at Bloomberg, and he has written books like In Praise of Commercial Culture and The Age of the Infovore. We are going to talk about literature and Shakespeare. Tyler, welcome.Tyler Good to chat with you, Henry.Henry So have you ever had a view quake from reading fiction?Tyler Reading fiction has an impact on you that accumulates over time. It's not the same as reading economics or philosophy, where there's a single, discrete idea that changes how you view the world. So I think reading the great classics in its entirety has been a view quake for me. But it's not that you wake up one morning and say, oh, I turned to page 74 in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, and now I realize that, dot, dot, dot. That's a yes and a no for an answer.Henry So you've never read Bleak House and thought, actually, I do see things slightly differently about Victorian London or the history of the –?Tyler Well, that's not a view quake. Certainly, that happens all the time, right? Slightly differently how you see Victorian London. But your overall vision of the world, maybe fiction is one of the three or four most important inputs. And again, I think it's more about the entirety of it and the diversity of perspectives. I think reading Proust maybe had the single biggest impact on me of any single work of fiction if I had to select one. And then when I was younger, science fiction had a quite significant impact on me. But I don't think it was the fictional side of science fiction that mattered, if that makes sense to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the models embodied in the stories, like, oh, the three laws of robotics. Well, I thought, well, what should those laws be like? I thought about that a good deal. So that would be another part of the qualified answer.Henry And what was it with Proust? The idea that people only care about what other people think or sexuality or consciousness?Tyler The richness of the internal life, the importance of both expectation and memory, the evanescence of actual events, a sense of humor.Henry It showed you just how significant these things are.Tyler And how deeply they can be felt and expressed. That's right. And there were specific pages early on in Swan's Way where it just hit me. So that's what I would say. Bleak House, I don't think, changed my views at all. It's one of my three or four favorite novels. I think it's one of the great, great, greats, as you have written yourself. But the notion that, well, the law is highly complex and reality is murky and there are all these deep mysteries, that all felt very familiar to me. And I had already read some number of newer sort of pseudo-Victorian novels that maybe do those themes in a more superficial way, but they introduce those themes to you. So you read Bleak House and you just say, well, I've imbibed this already, but here's the much better version of it.Henry One of the things I got from Bleak House, which it took me a couple of reads to get to, was how comfortable Dickens was with being quite a rational critic of the legal system and quite a credulous believer in spontaneous combustion and other things.Tyler Did Dickens actually believe in spontaneous combustion or is that a plot device? Like Gene Roddenberry doesn't actually believe in the transporter or didn't, as far as weHenry know. No, I think he believed. Yeah. Yeah. He defends it in the preface. Yeah.Tyler So it's not so confusing that there's not going to be a single behavioral model that captures deviations from rationality. So you end up thinking you ought to travel more, you ought to take in a lot of diverse different sources about our human beings behave, including from sociology, from anthropology. That makes it harder to be an economist, I would say it scatters your attention. You probably end up with a richer understanding of reality, but I'm not sure it's good for your research. It's probably bad for it.Henry It's not a good career move.Tyler It's not good for focus, but focus maybe can be a bit overrated.Henry Why are you more interested in fiction than other sort of people of a broadly rational disposition?Tyler Well, I might challenge the view that I'm of a broadly rational disposition. It's possible that all humans are roughly equally irrational, madmen aside, but if you mean the rationality community as one finds it in San Francisco, I think they're very mono in their approach to reasoning and that tends to limit the interests of many of them, not all, in fiction and travel. People are regional thinkers and in that region, San Francisco, there is incredible talent. It's maybe the most talented place in the world, but there's not the same kind of diversity of talents that you would find in London or New York and that somehow spreads to the broader ethos and it doesn't get people interested in fiction or for that matter, the visual arts very much.Henry But even in London, if I meet someone who's an economist or has an economics degree or whatever, the odds that they've read Bleak House or something are just so small.Tyler Bleak House is not that well read anymore, but I think an economist in London is likely to be much more well read than an economist in the Bay Area. That would be my prediction. You would know better than I would.Henry How important has imaginative literature been to you relative to other significant writers like philosophers or theoretical economists or something?Tyler Well, I'm not sure what you mean by imaginative literature. I think when I was 17, I read Olaf Stapleton, a great British author and Hegelian philosopher, and he was the first and first man and star maker, and that had a significant impact on me. Just how many visions you could put into a single book and have at least most of them cohere and make sense and inspire. That's one of the most imaginative works I've ever read, but people mean different things by that term.Henry How objectively can we talk about art?Tyler I think that becomes a discussion about words rather than about art. I would say I believe in the objective when it comes to aesthetics, but simply because we have no real choice not to. People actually, to some extent, trust their aesthetic judgments, so why not admit that you do and then fight about them? Trying to interject some form of extreme relativism, I think it's just playing a game. It's not really useful. Now, is art truly objective in the final metaphysical sense, in the final theory of the universe? I'm not sure that question has an answer or is even well-formulated, but I would just say let's just be objectivists when it comes to art. Why not?Henry What is wrong with historical fiction?Tyler Most of it bores me. For instance, I don't love Hilary Mantel and many very intelligent people think it's wonderful. I would just rather read the history. It feels like an in-between thing to me. It's not quite history. It's not quite fiction. I don't like biopics either when I go to the cinema. Yeah, I think you can build your own combination of extremes from history and fiction and get something better.Henry You don't have any historical fiction that you like, Penelope Fitzgerald, Tolstoy?Tyler Any is a strong word. I don't consider Tolstoy historical fiction. There's a historical element in it, as there is with say Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate or actually Dickens for that matter, but it's not driven by the history. I think it's driven by the characters and the story. Grossman comes somewhat closer to being historical fiction, but even there, I wouldn't say that it is.Henry It was written so close to the events though, right?Tyler Sure. It's about how people deal with things and what humanity means in extreme circumstances and the situations. I mean, while they're more than just a trapping, I never feel one is plodding through what happened in the Battle of Stalingrad when I read Grossman, say.Henry Yeah. Are there diminishing returns to reading fiction or what are the diminishing returns?Tyler It depends what you're doing in life. There's diminishing returns to most things in the sense that what you imbibe from your teen years through, say, your 30s will have a bigger impact on you than most of what you do later. I think that's very, very hard to avoid, unless you're an extreme late bloomer, to borrow a concept from you. As you get older, rereading gets better, I would say much better. You learn there are more things you want to read and you fill in the nooks and crannies of your understanding. That's highly rewarding in a way where what you read when you were 23 could not have been. I'm okay with that bargain. I wouldn't say it's diminishing returns. I would say it's altering returns. I think also when you're in very strange historical periods, reading fiction is more valuable. During the Obama years, it felt to me that reading fiction was somewhat less interesting. During what you might call the Trump years, and many other strange things are going on with AI, people trying to strive for immortality, reading fiction is much more valuable because it's more limited what nonfiction can tell you or teach you. I think right now we're in a time where the returns to reading more fiction are rapidly rising in a good way. I'm not saying it's good for the world, but it's good for reading fiction.Henry Do you cluster read your fiction?Tyler Sometimes, but not in general. If I'm cluster reading my fiction, it might be because I'm cluster reading my nonfiction and the fiction is an accompaniment to that. Say, Soviet Russia, I did some reading when I was prepping for Stephen Kotkin and for Russ Roberts and Vasili Grossman, but I don't, when it comes to fiction per se, cluster read it. No, I don't think you need to.Henry You're not going to do like, I'm reading Bleak House, so I'll do three other 1852 novels or three other Dickens novels or something like that.Tyler I don't do it, but I suspect it's counterproductive. The other Dickens novels will bore you more and they'll seem worse, is my intuition. I think the question is how you sequence works of very, very high quality. Say you just finished Bleak House, what do you pick up next? It should be a work of nonfiction, but I think you've got to wait a while or maybe something quite different, sort of in a way not different, like a detective story or something that won't challenge what has been cemented into your mind from Bleak House.Henry Has there been a decline of reading the classics?Tyler What I observe is a big superstar effect. I think a few authors, such as Jane Austen and Shakespeare, are more popular. I'm not completely sure they're more read, but they're more focal and more vivid. There are more adaptations of them. Maybe people ask GPT about them more. Really quite a few other works are much less read than would have been the case, say as recently as the 1970s or 1980s. My guess is, on the whole, the great works of fiction are much less read, but a few of them achieve this oversized reputation.Henry Why do you think that is?Tyler Attention is more scarce, perhaps, and social clustering effects are stronger through the internet. That would just be a guess.Henry It's not that we're all much more Jane Austen than we used to be?Tyler No, if anything, the contrary. Maybe because we're less Jane Austen, it's more interesting, because in, say, a Jane Austen novel, there will be sources of romantic tension not available to us through contemporary TV shows. The question, why don't they just sleep together, well, there's a potential answer in a Jane Austen story. In the Israeli TV show, Srugim, which is about modern Orthodox Jews, there's also an answer, but in most Hollywood TV, there's no answer. They're just going to sleep together, and it can become very boring quite rapidly.Henry Here's a reader question. Why is the market for classics so good, but nobody reads them? I think what they're saying is a lot of people aren't actually reading Shakespeare, but they still agree he's the best, so how can that be?Tyler A lot of that is just social conformity bias, but I see more and more people, and I mean intellectuals here, challenging the quality of Shakespeare. On the internet, every possible opinion will be expressed, is one way to put it. I think the market for classics is highly efficient in the following sense, that if you asked, say, GPT or Claude, which are the most important classics to read, that literally everything listed would be a great book. You could have it select 500 works, and every one of them would really be very good and interesting. If you look at Harold Bloom's list at the back of the Western canon, I think really just about every one of those is quite worthwhile, and that we got to that point is, to me, one of the great achievements of the contemporary world, and it's somewhat under-praised, because you go back in earlier points of time, and I think it's much less efficient, the market for criticism, if you would call it that.Henry Someone was WhatsAppping me the other day that GPT's list of 50 best English poets was just awful, and I said, well, you're using GPT4, o1 gives you the right list.Tyler Yeah, and o1 Pro may give you a slightly better list yet, or maybe the prompt has to be better, but it's interesting to me how many people, they love to attack literary criticism as the greatest of all villains, oh, they're all frustrated writers, they're all post-modernists, they're all extreme left-wingers. All those things might even be true to some extent, but the system as a whole, I would say completely has delivered, and especially people on the political and intellectual right, they often don't realize that. Just any work you want to read, if you put in a wee bit of time and go to a shelf of a good academic library, you can read fantastic criticism of it that will make your understanding of the work much better.Henry I used to believe, when I was young, I did sort of believe that the whole thing, oh, the Western canon's dying and everyone's given up on it, and I'm just so amazed now that the opposite has happened. It's very, very strong.Tyler I'm not sure how strong it is. I agree its force in discourse is strong, so something like, well, how often is it mentioned in my group chats? That's strongly rising, and that delights me, but that's a little different from it being strong, and I'm not sure how strong it is.Henry In an interview about your book Talent, you said this, “just get people talking about drama. I feel you learn a lot. It's not something they can prepare for. They can't really fake it. If they don't understand the topic, you can just switch to something else.”Tyler Yeah, that's great advice. You see how they think about how people relate to each other. It doesn't have to be fiction. I ask people a lot about Star Wars, Star Trek, whatever it is they might know that I have some familiarity with. Who makes the best decisions in Star Wars? Who gives the best advice? Yoda, Obi-Wan, Luke, Darth Vader, the Emperor?Henry It's a tough question.Tyler Yeah, yeah.Henry I don't know Star Wars, so I couldn't even answer that.Tyler You understand that you can't fake it. You can't prepare for it. It does show how the person thinks about advice and also drama.Henry Right. Now, you're a Shakespeare fan.Tyler Well, fan is maybe an understatement. He's better. He deserves better than fans.Henry How much of time, how much of your life have you spent reading and watching this work?Tyler I would say most of the plays from, say, like 1598 or 99 and after, I've read four to five times on average, some a bit more, some like maybe only three times. There's quite a few I've only read once and didn't like. Those typically are the earlier ones. When it comes to watching Shakespeare, I have to confess, I don't and can't understand it, so I'm really not able to watch it either on the stage or in a movie and profit from it. I think I partially have an auditory processing disorder that if I hear Shakespeare, you know, say at Folger in DC, I just literally cannot understand the words. It's like listening to Estonian, so I've gone some number of times. I cannot enjoy what you would call classic Shakespeare movies like Kenneth Branagh, Henry V, which gets great reviews, intelligent people love it. It doesn't click for me at all. I can't understand what's going on. The amount of time I've put into listening to it, watching it is very low and it will stay low. The only Shakespeare movies I like are the weird ones like Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight or Baz Luhrmann's Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I think they're fantastic, but they're not obsessed with reciting the text.Henry So, you're reading with notes and you're piecing it together as you go.Tyler I feel the versions in my head are better than anything I see on the screen also, so that's another reason. I just think they're to be read. I fully understand that's not how Shakespeare seemed to view them, but that's a way in which we readers, in a funny way, can improve on Shakespeare's time.Henry No, I agree with you. The thing I get the most pushback about with Shakespeare is when I say that he was a great thinker.Tyler He's maybe the best thinker.Henry Right. But tell us what you mean by that.Tyler I don't feel I can articulate it. It's a bit like when o3 Pro gives you an answer so good you don't quite appreciate it yourself. Shakespeare is like o7 Pro or something. But the best of the plays seem to communicate the entirety of human existence in a way that I feel I can barely comprehend and I find in very, very little else. Even looking at other very great works such as Bleak House, I don't find it. Not all of the plays. There's very, very good plays that don't do that. Just say Macbeth and Othello. I don't feel do that at all. Not a complaint, but something like Hamlet or King Lear or Tempest or some of the comedies. It's just somehow all laid out there and all inside it at the same time. I don't know any other way of putting it.Henry A lot of people think that Shakespeare is overrated. We only read him because it's a status game. We've internalized these snobbish values. We see this stated a lot. What's your response to these people?Tyler Well, I feel sorry for them. But look, there's plenty of things I can't understand. I just told you if I go to see the plays, I'm completely lost. I know the fault is mine, so to speak. I don't blame Shakespeare or the production, at least not necessarily. Those are people who are in a similar position, but somehow don't have enough metarationality to realize the fault is on them. I think that's sad. But there's other great stuff they can do and probably they're doing it. That's fine.Henry Should everyone read Shakespeare at school?Tyler If you say everyone, I resist. But it certainly should be in the curriculum. But the real question is who can teach it? But yeah, it's better than not doing it. When I was in high school, we did Taming of the Shrew, which I actually don't like very much, and it put me off a bit. We did Macbeth, which is a much better play. But in a way, it's easy to teach. Macbeth, to me, is like a perfect two-minute punk rock song. It does something. It delivers. But it's not the Shakespeare that puts everything on the table, and the plot is easy to follow. You can imagine even a mediocre teacher leading students through it. It's to me still a little underwhelming if that's what we teach them. Then finally, my last year, we did Hamlet, and I'm like, whoa, okay, now I get it. Probably we do it wrong in a lot of cases, would be my guess. What's wrong with the Taming of the Shrew? It's a lot of yelling and screaming and ordinary. To me, it's not that witty. There's different views, like is it offensive to women, offensive to men? That's not my main worry. But those questions, I feel, also don't help the play, and I just don't think Shakespeare was fully mature when he wrote it. What was the year on that? Do you know offhand?Henry It's very early.Tyler It's very early. Very early, yeah. So if you look at the other plays that surround it, they're also not as top works. So why should we expect that one to be?Henry What can arts funding learn from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres?Tyler Current arts funding? I don't think that much. I think the situation right now is so different, and what we should do so depends on the country, the state, the province, the region. Elizabethan times do show that market support at art can be truly wonderful. We have plenty of that today. But if you're just, say, appointed to be chair of the NEA and you've got to make decisions, I'm not sure how knowing about Elizabethan theatre would help you in any direct way.Henry What do you think of the idea that the long history of arts funding is a move away from a small group, an individual patronage where taste was very important, towards a kind of institutional patronage, which became much more bureaucratic? And so one reason why we keep arguing about arts funding now is that a lot of it exhibits bad taste because the committee has to sort of agree on various things. And if we could reallocate somewhat towards individual patronage, we'd do better.Tyler I would agree with the latter two-thirds of that. How you describe earlier arts funding I think is more complicated than what you said. A lot of it is just people doing things voluntarily at zero pecuniary cost, like singing songs, songs around the campfire, or hymns in church, rather than it being part of a patronage model. But I think it's way overly bureaucratized. The early National Endowment for the Arts in the 1960s just let smart people make decisions with a minimum of fuss. And of course we should go back to that. Of course we won't. We send half the money to the state's arts agencies, which can be mediocre or just interested in economic development and a new arts center, as opposed to actually stimulating creativity per se. More over time is spent on staff. There are all these pressures from Congress, things you can't fund. It's just become far less effective, even though it spends somewhat more money. So that's a problem in many, many countries.Henry What Shakespeare critics do you like reading?Tyler For all his flaws, I still think Harold Bloom is worthwhile. I know he's gotten worse and worse as a critic and as a Shakespeare critic. Especially if you're younger, you need to put aside the Harold Bloom you might think you know and just go to some earlier Bloom. Those short little books he edited, where for a given Shakespeare play he'll collect maybe a dozen essays and write eight or ten pages at the front, those are wonderful. But Bradley, William Hazlitt, the two Goddard volumes, older works, I think are excellent. But again, if you just go, if you can, to a university library, go to the part on the shelf where there's criticism on a particular play and just pull down five to ten titles and don't even select for them and just bring those home. I think you'll learn a lot.Henry So you don't like The Invention of the Human by Bloom?Tyler Its peaks are very good, but there's a lot in it that's embarrassing. I definitely recommend it, but you need to recommend it with the caveat that a lot of it is over the top or bad. It doesn't bother me. But if someone professional or academic tells me they're totally put off by the book, I don't try to talk them out of that impression. I just figure they're a bit hopelessly stuck on judging works by their worst qualities.Henry In 2018, you wrote this, “Shakespeare, by the way, is Girard's most important precursor. Also throw in the New Testament, Hobbes, Tocqueville, and maybe Montaigne.” Tell us what you mean by that.Tyler That was pretty good for me to have written that. Well, in Shakespeare, you have rivalrous behavior. You have mimetic desire. You have the importance of twinning. There's ritual sacrifice in so many of the plays, including the political ones. Girard's title, Violence and the Sacred, also comes from Shakespeare. As you well know, the best Gerard book, Theater of Envy, is fully about Shakespeare. All of Girard is drenched with Shakespeare.Henry I actually only find Girard persuasive on Shakespeare. The further I get away from that, the more I'm like, this is super overstated. I just don't think this is how humans ... I think this is too mono-explanation of humans. When I read the Shakespeare book, I think, wow, I never understood Midsummer Night's Dream until I read Girard.Tyler I think it's a bit like Harold Bloom. There's plenty in Girard you can point to as over the top. I think also for understanding Christianity, he has something quite unique and special and mostly correct. Then on other topics, it's anthropologically very questionable, but still quite stimulating. I would defend it on that basis, as I would Harold Girard.Henry No, I like Gerard, but I feel like the Shakespeare book gets less attention than the others.Tyler That's right. It's the best one and it's also the soundest one. It's the truly essential one.Henry How important was Shakespeare in the development of individualism?Tyler Probably not at all, is my sense. Others know more about the history than I do, but if I think of 17th century England, where some strands of individualist thought come from, well, part of it is coming from the French Huguenots and not from Shakespeare. A lot of it is coming from the Bible and not from Shakespeare. The levelers, John Locke, some of that is coming from English common law and not from Shakespeare. Then there's the ancient world. I don't quite see a strong connection to Shakespeare, but I'd love it if you could talk me into one.Henry My feeling is that the 1570s are the time when diaries begin to become personal records rather than professional records. What you get is a kind of Puritan self-examination. They'll write down, I said this, I did this, and then in the margin they'll put, come back and look at this and make sure you don't do this again. This new process of overhearing yourself is a central part of what Shakespeare's doing in his drawing. I think this is the thing that Bloom gets right, is that as you go through the plays in order, you see the very strong development of the idea that a stock character or someone who's drawing on a tradition of stock characters will suddenly say, oh, I just heard myself say that I'm a villain. Am I a villain? I'm sort of a villain. Maybe I'm not a villain. He develops this great art of self-referential self-development. I think that's one of the reasons why Shakespeare became so important to being a well-educated English person, is that you couldn't really get that in imaginative literature.Tyler I agree with all that, but I'm not sure the 17th century would have been all that different without Shakespeare, in literary terms, yes, but it seemed to me the currents of individualism were well underway. Other forces sweeping down from Europe, from the further north, competition across nations requiring individualism as a way of getting more wealth, the beginnings of economic thought which became individualistic and gave people a different kind of individualistic way of viewing the world. It seems so over-determined. Causally, I wouldn't ascribe much of a role to Shakespeare, but I agree with every sentence you said and what you said.Henry Sure, but you don't think the role of imaginative literature is somehow a fundamental transmission mechanism for all of this?Tyler Well, the Bible, I think, was quite fundamental as literature, not just as theology. So I would claim that, but keep in mind the publication and folio history of Shakespeare, which you probably know better than I do, it's not always well-known at every point in time by everyone.Henry I think it's always well-known by the English.Tyler I don't know, but I don't think it's dominant in the way that, say, Pilgrim's Progress was dominant for a long time.Henry Sure, sure, sure. And you wouldn't then, what would you say about later on, that modern European liberalism is basically the culture of novel reading and that we live in a society that's shaped by that? Do you have the same thing, like it's not causal?Tyler I don't know. That's a tricky question. The true 19th century novel I think of as somewhat historicist, often nationalist, slightly collectivist, certainly not Marxist, but in some ways illiberal. And so many of the truly great novel writers were not so liberal. And the real liberal novels, like Mancini's The Betrothed, which I quite enjoy, but it's somewhat of a slight work, right? And it might be a slight work because it is happy and liberal and open-minded. There's something about the greatest of creators, they tend to be pessimistic or a bit nasty or there's some John Lennon in them, there's Jonathan Swift, Swift, it's complicated. In some ways he's illiberal, but he's considered a Tory and in many ways he's quite an extreme reactionary. And the great age of the novel I don't think of is so closely tied to liberalism.Henry One of the arguments that gets made is like, you only end up with modern European liberalism through a culture where people are just spending a lot of time reading novels and imagining what it is like to be someone else, seeing from multiple different perspectives. And therefore it's less about what is the quote unquote message of the story and more about the habitual practice of thinking pluralistically.Tyler I think I would be much more inclined to ascribe that to reading newspapers and pamphlets than novels. I think of novels as modestly reactionary in their net impact, at least in the 19th century. I think another case in point, not just Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, one of the great novelists, had bad politics, right, was through Germany in the first world war. So if you look at the very greatest novels, there's something a bit problematic about many of their creators. They're not Nazis, they're not Stalinists, but they're not where I'm at either.Henry Now in 2017, a lot of people were complaining about Donald Trump as Julius Caesar and there was some farce about a production, I think it was put on in New York or DC maybe. And you said, no, no, no, he's not Caesar. He's more like a Shakespearean fool because he's the truth teller. What do you think of that view now?Tyler That was a Bloomberg column I wrote, I think in 2017. And I think that's held up quite well. So there's many criticisms of Trump that he's some kind of fascist. I don't think those have held up very well. He is a remarkable orator, coiner of phrase, coiner of insults, teller of truths, combined with a lot of nonsense and just nonsense talk, like the Covfefe tweet or whatever it was. And there's something tragic about Trump that he may well fail even by his own standards. He has a phenomenal sense of humor. I think people have realized that more and more. The fact that his popularity has persisted has forced a lot of people to reexamine just Trump as an individual and to see what a truly unique talent he is, whether you like him as your president or not. And that, I think, is all Shakespearean.Henry Some of the people around Trump now, they're trying to do DOGE and deregulation and other things. Are there Shakespearean lessons that they should be bearing in mind? Should we send them to see the Henriad before they get started?Tyler Send them to read the Henriad before they get started. The complicated nature of power: that the king never has the power that he needs to claim he does is quite significant. The ways in which power cannot be delegated, Shakespeare is extremely wise on. And yes, the DOGE people absolutely need to learn those lessons.Henry The other thing I'd take from the Henriad is time moves way quicker than anyone thinks it does. Even the people who are trying to move quite quickly in the play, they get taken over very rapidly by just changing-Tyler Yes. Once things start, it's like, oh my goodness, they just keep on running and no one's really in control. And that's a Shakespearean point as well.Henry Yeah. Here's another quote from the Bloomberg column, “given Shakespeare's brilliance in dramatizing the irrational, one of my biggest fears is that Shakespeare is indeed still a thinker for our times.” Has that come more true in recent years?Tyler I think more true. So from my point of view, the world is getting weirder in some very good ways and in some very bad ways. The arbitrary exercise of power has become more thinkable. You see this from Putin. We may see it from China. In the Middle East, it's happened as well. So the notion also that rulers can be their own worst enemies or human beings can be their own worst enemies. I think we see more when the world is volatile than when the world is stable, almost definitionally.Henry You once said Julius Caesar was an overrated play. Tell us why.Tyler You know, I read it again after I wrote that and it went up in my eyes. But I suppose I still think it's a bit overrated by people who love it. It's one of these mono plays like Macbeth or Othello. It does one thing very, very well. I think the mystical elements in it I had underappreciated on earlier readings and the complexity of the characters I had underappreciated. So I feel I was a little harsh on it. But I just wouldn't put it in the underrated category. Julius Caesar is such a well-known historical figure. It's so easy for that play to become focal. And Brutus and, you know, the stabbing, the betrayal, it's a little too easy for it to become famous. And I guess that's why I think within the world of Shakespeare fans, it still might be a little overrated.Henry It's written at a similar time to Hamlet and Twelfth Night, and I think it gets caught up in the idea that this was a great pivotal moment for Shakespeare. But actually I agree, over the years I've come to think it's really just not the equal of the other plays it's surrounded by.Tyler Yeah, that's still my view. Absolutely. Not the equal of those two, certainly.Henry What is the most underrated play?Tyler I'm not sure how they're all rated. So I used to think Winter's Tale, clearly. But I've heard so many people say it's the most underrated, including you, I think. I don't know if I can believe that anymore. So I think I have to go with The Henriad, because to me that's the greatest thing Shakespeare ever did. And I don't think it's commonly recognized as such. I mean, Hamlet or King Lear would typically be nominated. And those are top, top, top, top. But I'll still go with The Henriad.Henry You are saying Henriad above Hamlet, above Lear, above Twelfth Night.Tyler Maybe it's not fair because you have multiple plays, right? What if, you know, there were three Hamlets? Maybe that would be better. But still, if I have to pick, no one of The Henriad comes close to Hamlet. But if you can consider it as a whole in the evolution of the story, for me it's a clear winner. And it's what I've learned the most from. And a problem with Hamlet, not Shakespeare's fault, but Hamlet became so popular you hear lesser versions of themes and ideas from Hamlet your whole life. It's a bit like seeing Mondrian on the shopping bag. That does not happen, really, with The Henriad. So that has hurt Hamlet, but without meaning it's, you know, a lesser play. King Lear, you have less of that. It's so bleak and tragic. It's harder to put on the shopping bag, so to speak. In that sense, King Lear has held up a bit better than Hamlet has.Henry Why do you admire The Winter's Tale so much? What do you like about it?Tyler There's some mysterious sense of beauty in it that even in other Shakespearean plays I don't feel. And a sense of miracle and wonder, also betrayal and how that is mixed in with the miracle and wonder. Somehow he makes it work. It's quite an unlikely play. And the jealousy and the charge of infidelity I take much more seriously than other readers of the play do. I don't think you can say there's a Straussian reading where she clearly fooled around on the king. But he's not just crazy, either. And there are plenty of hints that something might have happened. It's still probably better to infer it didn't happen. But it's a more ambiguous play than it is typically read as.Henry Yes, someone said to me, ask if he thinks Hermione has an affair. And you're saying maybe.Tyler Again, in a prediction market, I'll bet no, but we're supposed to wonder. We're not supposed to just think the king is crazy.Henry I know you don't like to see it, but my view is that because we believe in this sudden jealousy theory, it's often not staged very well. And that's one reason why it's less popular than it ought to be.Tyler I've only seen it once. I suspect that was true. I saw it, in fact, last year. And the second half of the play was just awful. The first half, you could question. But it was a painful experience. It was just offensively stupid. One of the great regrets of my life is I did not drive up to New York City to see Bergman present his version of Winter's Tale in Swedish. And I'm quite sure that would have been magnificent and that he would have understood it very deeply and very well. That was just stupid of me. This was, I think, in the early 90s. I forget exactly when.Henry I think that's right. And there's a theater library where if you want to go and sit in the archive, you can see it.Tyler I will do that at some point. Part of my worry is I don't believe their promise. I know you can read that promise on the internet, but when you actually try to find the person who can track it down for you and give you access, I have my doubts. If I knew I could do it, I would have done it by now.Henry I'll give you the email because I think I actually found that person. Does Romeo actually love Juliet?Tyler Of course not. It's a play about perversion and obsession and family obligation and rebellion. And there's no love between the two at all. And if you read it with that in mind, once you see that, you can't unsee it. So that's an underrated play. People think, oh, star-crossed teen romance, tragic ending, boo-hoo. That's a terrible reading. It's just a superficial work of art if that's what you think it is.Henry I agree with you, but there are eminent Shakespeare professors who take that opinion.Tyler Well maybe we're smarter than they are. Maybe we know more about other things. You shouldn't let yourself be intimidated by critics. They're highly useful. We shouldn't trash them. We shouldn't think they're all crummy left-wing post-modernists. But at the end of the day, I don't think you should defer to them that much either.Henry Sure. So you're saying Juliet doesn't love Romeo?Tyler Neither loves the other.Henry Okay. Because my reading is that Romeo has a very strong death drive or dark side or whatever.Tyler That's the strong motive in the play is the death drive, yeah.Henry And what that means is that it's not his tragedy, it's her tragedy. She actually is an innocent young girl. Okay, maybe she doesn't love him, it's a crush or it's whatever, but she actually is swept up in the idea of this handsome stranger. She can get out of her family. She's super rebellious. There's that wonderful scene where she plays all sweetness and light to her nurse and then she says, I'm just lying to you all and I'm going to get out of here. Whereas he actually is, he doesn't have any romantic feeling for her. He's really quite a sinister guy.Tyler Those are good points. I fully agree. I still would interpret that as she not loving him, but I think those are all good insights.Henry You've never seen it staged in this way? You've never seen any one?Tyler The best staging is that Baz Luhrmann movie I mentioned, which has an intense set of references to Haitian voodoo in Romeo and Juliet when you watch the movie. The death drive is quite clear. That's the best staging I know of, but I've never seen it on the stage ever. I've seen the Zeffirelli movie, I think another film instance of it, but no, it's the Haitian voodoo version that I like.Henry He makes it seem like they love each other, right?Tyler In a teenage way. I don't feel that he gets it right, but I feel he creates a convincing universe through which the play usefully can be viewed.Henry The Mercutio death, I think, is never going to be better than in that film. What do you like about Antonin Cleopatra?Tyler It's been a long time since I've read that. What a strong character she is. The sway people can exercise over each other. The lines are very good. It's not a top Shakespeare favorite of mine, but again, if anyone else had done it, you would just say this is one of the greatest plays ever, and it is.Henry I think it's going to be much more of a play for our times because many people in the Trump administration are going to have that. They're torn between Rome and Egypt, as it were, and the personal conflicts are going to start getting serious for them, if you like.Tyler There's no better writer or thinker on personal conflict than Shakespeare, right?Henry Yes. Now, you do like Measure for Measure, but you're less keen on All's Well That Ends Well. Is that right?Tyler I love Measure for Measure. To me, it's still somewhat underrated. I think it's risen in status. All's Well That Ends Well, I suspect you need to be good at listening to Shakespeare, which as I've already said, I'm not. It's probably much better than I realize it is for that reason. I'm not sure on the printed page it works all that well.Henry Yeah. That's right. I think it's one of the most important plays. Why? Because I think there are two or three basic factors about Shakespeare's drama, which is like the story could often branch off in different directions. You often get the sense that he could swerve into a different genre. The point Samuel Johnson made about whenever someone's running off to the tavern, someone else is being buried, right? And a lot of the time he comes again and again to the same types of situations, the same types of characters, the same types of family set up. And he ends the plays in different ways and he makes it fall out differently. And I think Helena is very representative of a lot of these facets. Everyone thinks she's dead, but she's not dead. Sometimes it looks like it's going badly for her when actually it's going well. No one in the play ever really has an honest insight into her motives. And there comes a point, I think, when just the overall message of Shakespeare's work collectively is things go very wrong very quickly. And if you can get to some sort of happy ending, you should take it. You should be pragmatic and say, OK, this isn't the perfect marriage. This isn't the perfect king. But you know what? We could be in a civil war. Everyone could be dead. All's well that ends well. That's good advice. Let's take it.Tyler I should reread it. Number one in my reread pile right now is Richard II, which I haven't read in a long time. And there's a new biography out about Richard II. And I'm going to read the play and the biography more or less in conjunction. And there's a filming of Richard II that I probably won't enjoy, but I'll try. And I'm just going to do that all together, probably sometime over this break. But I'll have all's well that ends well is next on my reread list. You should always have a Shakespeare to reread list, right?Henry Always. Oh, of course. Is Shakespeare a good economic thinker?Tyler Well, he's a great thinker. I would say he's better than a good economic thinker. He understands the motive of money, but it's never just the motive of money. And Shakespeare lowers the status of economic thinking, I would say, overall, in a good way. He's better than us.Henry What are your thoughts on The Merchant of Venice?Tyler Quite underrated. People have trouble with it because it is very plausibly anti-Semitic. And everyone has to preface any praise they give it with some kind of disavowal or whatever. The way I read the play, which could be wrong, but it's actually more anti-anti-Semitic than it is anti-Semitic. So the real cruel mean people are those who torment the Jew. I'm not saying Shakespeare was not in some ways prejudiced against Jews and maybe other groups, but actually reading it properly should make people more tolerant, not because they're reacting against Shakespeare's anti-Semitism, but because the proper message of the play understood at a deeper level is toleration.Henry You teach a law and literature class, I think.Tyler Well, I did for 20 years, but I don't anymore.Henry Did you teach Merchant of Venice?Tyler I taught it two or three times, yes.Henry How did your students react to it?Tyler Whenever I taught them Shakespeare, which was actually not that much, they always liked it, but they didn't love it. And there's some version of Shakespeare you see on the screen when it's a decent but not great filmed adaptation where there's the mechanics of the plot and you're held in suspense and then there's an ending. And I found many of them read Shakespeare in those terms and they quite enjoyed it, but somehow they didn't get it. And I think that was true for Merchant of Venice as well. I didn't feel people got hung up on the anti-Semitism point. They could put that aside and just treat it as a play, but still I didn't feel that people got it.Henry Should we read Shakespeare in translation?Tyler Well, many people have to. I've read some of the Schlegel translations. I think they're amazing. My wife, Natasha, who grew up in the Soviet Union, tells me there are very good Russian language translations, which I certainly believe her. The Schlegels are different works. They're more German romantic, as you might expect, but that's fine, especially if you know the original. My guess is there are some other very good translations. So in that qualified way, the translations, a few of them can be quite valuable. I worry that at some point we'll all need to read it in some sort of translation, as Chaucer is mostly already true for Chaucer. You probably don't have to read Chaucer in translation, but I do.Henry I feel like I shouldn't read it in translation, I think.Tyler But you do, right? Or you don't?Henry No, I read the original. I make myself do the original.Tyler I just can't understand the original well enough.Henry But I put the time in when I was young, and I think you retain a sense of it. Do you think, though, if we read, let's say we read Shakespeare in a modern English version, how much are we getting?Tyler It'll be terrible. It'll be a negative. It will poison your brain. So this, to me, will be highly unfortunate. Better to learn German and read the Schlegel than to read someone turning Shakespeare into current English. The only people who could do it maybe would be like the Trinidadians, who still have a marvelous English, and it would be a completely different work. But at least it might be something you could be proud of.Henry I'd like to read some of that. That would be quite an exciting project.Tyler Maybe it's been done. I don't know. But just an Americanized Hollywood version, like, no, that's just a negative. It's destructive.Henry Now, you're very interested in the 17th century, which I think is when we first get steady economic growth, East India Company, England is settling in America.Tyler Political parties. Some notion of the rule of law. A certain theory of property rights. Very explicit individualism. Social contract theories. You get Hobbes, Isaac Newton, calculus. We could go on. Some people would say, well, Westphalia, you get the modern nation state. That to me is a vaguer date to pin that on. But again, it's a claim you can make of a phenomenal century. People aren't that interested in it anymore, I think.Henry How does Shakespeare fit into this picture?Tyler Well, if you think of the years, if you think of the best ones, they start, like what, 1598, 1599. And then by 1600, they're almost all just wonderful. He's a herald. I don't think he's that causal. But he's a sign, the first totally clear sign that all the pieces have fallen into place. And we know the 17th century gave us our greatest thinker. And in terms of birth, not composition, it gave us our greatest composer, Bach.Henry So we can't have Shakespeare without all of this economic and philosophic and political activity. He's sort of, those things are necessary conditions for what he's doing.Tyler He needed the 16th century, and there's some very good recent books on how important the 16th century was for the 17th century. So I think more and more, as I read more, I'll come to see the roots of the 17th and the 16th century. And Shakespeare is reflecting that by bridging the two.Henry What are the recent books that you recommend about the 16th century?Tyler Oh, I forget the title, but there's this book about Elizabethan England, came out maybe three or four years ago, written by a woman. And it just talks about markets and commerce and creativity, surging during that time. In a way, obvious points, but she put them together better than anyone else had. And there's this other new German book about the 16th century. It's in my best of the year list that I put up on Marginal Revolution, and I forget the exact title, but I've been reading that slowly. And that's very good. So I expect to make further intellectual moves in that direction.Henry Was Shakespeare anti-woke?Tyler I don't know what that means in his context. He certainly understands the real truths are deeper, but to pin the word anti on him is to make him smaller. And like Harold Bloom, I will refuse to do that.Henry You don't see some sense in which ... A lot of people have compared wokeness to the Reformation, right? I mean, it's a kind of weak comparison.Tyler Yes, but only some strands of it. You wouldn't say Luther was woke, right?Henry But you don't see some way in which Shakespeare is, not in an anti way, in a complicated way, but like a reaction against some of these forces in the way that Swift would be a reaction against certain forces in his time.Tyler Well I'm not even sure what Shakespeare's religion was. Some people claim he was Catholic. To me that's plausible, but I don't know of any clear evidence. He does not strike me as very religious. He might be a lapsed Catholic if I had to say. I think he simply was always concerned with trying to view and present things in a deeper manner and there were so many forces he could have been reacting against with that one. I don't know exactly what it was in the England of his time that specifically he was reacting against. If someone says, oh, it was the strand of Protestant thought, I would say fine, it might have been that. A la Peter Thiel, couldn't you say it's over determined and name 47 other different things as well?Henry Now, if you were talking to rationalists, effective altruists, people from Silicon Valley, all these kinds of groups, would you say to them, you should read Shakespeare, you should read fiction, or would you just say, you're doing great, don't worry that you're missing out on this?Tyler Well, I'm a little reluctant to just tell people you should do X. I think what I've tried to do is to be an example of doing X and hope that example is somewhat contagious. Other people are contagious on me, as for instance, you have been. That's what I like to do. Now, it's a question, if someone needs a particular contagion, does that mean it's high marginal value or does it mean, in some sense, they're immue from the bug and you can't actually get them interested? It can go either way. Am I glad that Peter Singer has specialized in being Peter Singer, even though I disagree with much of it? I would say yes. Peter had his own homecoming. As far as I know, it was not Shakespearean, but when he wrote that book about the history of Vienna and his own family background, that was in a sense Peter doing his version of turning Shakespearean. It was a good book and it deepened his thought, but at the end of the day, I also see he's still Peter Singer, so I don't know. I think the Shakespearean perspective itself militates a bit against telling people they should read Shakespeare.Henry Sure. Patrick Collison today has tweeted about, I think, 10 of the great novels that he read this year. It's a big, long tweet with all of his novels.Tyler Yeah, it's wonderful.Henry Yeah, it's great. At the end, he basically says the reason to read them is just that they're great. Appreciation of excellence is a good thing for its own sake. You're not going to wrench a utilitarian benefit out of this stuff. Is that basically your view?Tyler I fully agree with that, but he might slightly be underrating the utilitarian benefits. If you read a particular thing, whatever it is, it's a good way of matching with other people who will deepen you. If it's Shakespeare, or if it's science fiction, or if it's economics, I think there's this big practical benefit from the better matching. I think, actually, Patrick himself, over time in his life, he will have a different set of friends, somewhat, because he wrote that post, and that will be good.Henry There's a utilitarian benefit that we both love Bleak House, therefore we can talk about it. This just opens up a lot of conversation and things for us that we wouldn't otherwise get.Tyler We're better friends, and we're more inclined to chat with each other, do this podcast, because we share that. That's clearly true in our case. I could name hundreds of similar cases, myself, people I know. That's important. So much of life is a matching problem, which includes matching to books, but also, most importantly, matching to people.Henry You're what? You're going to get better matching with better books, because Bleak House is such a great book. You're going to get better opportunities for matching.Tyler Of course, you'll understand other books better. There's something circular in that. I get it. A lot of value is circular, and the circle is how you cash in, not leaving the circle, so that's fine.Henry You don't think there's a ... I mean, some of the utilitarian benefits that are claimed like it gives you empathy, it improves your EQ or whatever, I think this is all complete rubbish.Tyler I'd love to see the RCTs, but in the prediction markets, I'll bet no. But again, I have an open mind. If someone had evidence, they could sway me, but I doubt it. I don't see it.Henry But I do think literature is underrated as a way of thinking.Tyler Yes, absolutely, especially by people we are likely to know.Henry Right. And that is quite a utilitarian benefit, right? If you can get yourself into that mindset, that is directly useful.Tyler I agree. The kind of career I've had, which is too complicated to describe for those of you who don't know it, but I feel I could not have had it without having read a lot of fiction.Henry Right. And I think that would be true for a lot of people, even if they don't recognize it directly in their own lives, right?Tyler Yes. In Silicon Valley, you see this huge influence of Lord of the Rings. Yes. And that's real, I think. It's not feigned, and that's also a great book.Henry One of the best of the 20th century, no doubt.Tyler Absolutely. And the impact it has had on people still has. It's an example of some classics get extremely elevated, like Shakespeare, Austen, and also Tolkien. It's one of them that just keeps on rising.Henry Ayn Rand is quite influential.Tyler Increasingly so. And that has held up better than I ever would have thought. Depends on the book. It's complicated, but yes, you have to say, held up better than one ever would have thought.Henry Are you going to go and do a reread?Tyler I don't think I can. I feel the newspaper is my reread of Atlas Shrugged, that suffices.Henry Is GPT good at Shakespeare, or LLMs generally?Tyler They're very useful for fiction, I've found. It was fantastic for reading Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate. I have never used them for Shakespeare, not once. That's an interesting challenge, because it's an earlier English. There's a depth in Shakespeare that might exceed current models. I'd love to see a project at some point in time to train AI for Shakespeare the way some people are doing it for Math Olympiads. But finding the human graders would be tough, though not impossible. You should be one of them. I would love that. I hope some philanthropist makes that happen.Henry Agreed. We're here, and we're ready.Tyler Yes, very ready.Henry What do you think about Shakespeare's women?Tyler The best women in all of fiction. They're marvelous, and they're attractive, and they're petulant, and they're romantic, and they're difficult, and they're stubborn, or whatever you want, it's in there. Just phenomenal. It's a way in which Shakespeare, again, I don't want to say anti-woke, but he just gives you a much deeper, better vision than the wokes would give you. Each one is such a distinctive voice. Yeah, fantastic. In a funny way, he embodies a lot of woke insights. The ways in which gender becomes malleable in different parts of stories is very advanced for his time.Henry It's believable also. The thing that puzzles me, so believable. What puzzles me is he's so polyphonic, and he represents that way of thinking so well, but I get the sense that John Stuart Mill, who wrote the Bentham essay and everything, just wasn't that interested in Shakespeare relative to the other things he was reading.Tyler He did write a little bit on Shakespeare, didn't he? But not much. But it wasn't wonderful. It was fine, but not like the Bentham Coleridge.Henry I think I've seen it in letters where he's like, oh, Shakespeare, pretty good. This, to me, is a really weird gap in the history of literature.Tyler But this does get to my point, where I don't think Shakespeare was that important for liberalism or individualism. The people who were obsessed with Shakespeare, as you know, were the German romantics, with variants, but were mostly illiberal or non-liberal. That also, to me, makes sense.Henry That's a good point. That's a good challenge. My last question is, you do a lot of talent spotting and talent assessing. How do you think about Shakespeare's career?Tyler I feel he is someone I would not have spotted very well. I feel bad about that. We don't know that much about him. As you well know, people still question if Shakespeare was Shakespeare. That's not my view. I'm pretty orthodox on the matter. But what the signs would have been in those early plays that he would have, say, by so far have exceeded Marlowe or even equaled Marlowe, I definitely feel I would have had a Zoom call with him and said, well, send me a draft, and read the early work, and concluded he would be like second-tier Marlowe, and maybe given him a grant for networking reasons, totally missed the boat. That's how I assess, how I would have assessed Shakespeare at the time, and that's humbling.Henry Would you have been good at assessing other writers of any period? Do you think there are other times when you would have?Tyler If I had met young Thomas Mann, I think there's a much greater chance I would have been thrilled. If I had met young Johann Sebastian Bach, I think there's a strong chance I would have been thrilled. Now, music is different. It's like chess. You can excel at quite a young age. But there's something about the development of Shakespeare where I think it is hard to see where it's headed early on. And it's the other question, how would I have perceived Shakespeare's work ethic? There's different ways you could interpret the biography here. But the biography of Bach, or like McCartney, clearly just obsessed with work ethic. You could not have missed it if you met young Bach, I strongly suspect. But Shakespeare, it's not clear to me you would see the work ethic early on or even later on.Henry No, no. I agree with that, actually.Tyler Same with Goethe. If I met early Goethe, my guess is I would have felt, well, here's the next Klopstock, which is fine, worthy of a grand. But Goethe was far more than that. And he always had these unfinished works. And you would, oh, come on, you're going to finish this one. Like you'd see Werther. OK, you made a big splash. But is your second novel just going to bomb? I think those would have been my hesitations. But I definitely would have funded Goethe as the next Klopstock, but been totally wrong and off base.Henry Right. And I think the thing I took away from the A.N. Wilson biography, which you also enjoyed recently, was I was amazed just how much time Goethe didn't spend working. Like I knew he wasn't always working, but there was so much wasted time in his life.Tyler Yes, but I do wonder with that or any biography, and I don't mean this as a criticism of Wilson, I think we know much less than we think we do about earlier times in general. So he could have been doing things that don't turn up in any paperwork. Sure, sure, sure. So I'm not sure how lazy he was, but I would just say, unlike Bach or say Paul McCartney, it's not evident that he was the world's hardest worker.Henry And Mozart, would you have? How do you feel about Mozart's early career?Tyler Well, Mozart is so exceptional, so young, it's just very easy to spot. I don't I don't even think there's a puzzle there unless you're blind. Now, I don't love Mozart before, I don't know, like the K-330s maybe, but still as a player, even just as a lower quality composer, I think you would bet the house on Mozart at any age where you could have met him and talked to him.Henry So you think K-100s, you can see the beginnings of the great symphonies, the great concertos?Tyler Well, I would just apply the Cowen test at how young in age was this person trying at all? And that would just dominate and I wouldn't worry too much about how good it was. And if I heard Piano Concerto No. 9, which is before K-330, I'm pretty sure that's phenomenal. But even if I hadn't heard that, it's like this guy's trying. He's going to be on this amazing curve. Bet the house on Mozart. It's a no-brainer. If you don't do that, you just shouldn't be doing talent at all. He's an easy case. He's one of the easiest cases you can think of.Henry Tyler Cowen, this was great. Thank you very much.Tyler Thank you very much, Henry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk/subscribe

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Skulle våra politiker bli mindre slätstrukna om de kryddade sina tal med ordvitsar? Carl Magnus Juliusson berättar om hur ordlekarna använts historiskt och kan utgöra en nödvändig ventil. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Det finns de som hatar ordvitsar. Det är något jag blev varse när jag läste Thomas de Quinceys självbiografiska ”En engelsk opieätares bekännelser” som första gången gavs ut anonymt 1821. 1856 publicerade De Quincy den på nytt i en reviderad utgåva. I denna utgåva har han bifogat en fotnot. Och i denna fotnot ber han om ursäkt för att en mening rymmer för många allitterationer. 8 av 36 ord börjar på bokstaven f, något som De Quincey hävdar är helt och hållet oavsiktligt.Varför han känner sig tvungen att be om ursäkt är, med hans ord, för att vissa människor ”blir irriterade, eller till och med inbillar sig själva vara förolämpade, av uppenbara allitterationer, som många blir av ordvitsar”.Förolämpade av allitterationer och ordvitsar? Allitterationen är ju en av den klassiska retorikens främsta stilfigurer! Den romerske talaren Cicero staplar allitterationer på varandra. Han gör det så ofta att det blivit ett kännetecken för hans stil – en stil som lyfts fram som den främsta inom latinsk formuleringskonst. Men även ordvitsar var ett vanligt inslag i förmodern litteratur – och det inte bara i humoristiska sammanhang. Det finns gott om ordvitsar även inom allvarliga ämnen som juridik, filosofi och till och med tragedi. Den franske antikhistorikern Jean-Pierre Vernant har lyft fram att det inte finns någon antik genre i vilken det förekommer så mycket ordvitsar som den grekiska tragedin. Flest har ”Kung Oidipus”. Syftet med ordvitsarna är dock inte att de ska vara roliga. De ska visa hur Oidipus jakt på kungens mördare hela tiden leder tillbaka till honom själv. En sådan tvetydighet finns redan i Oidipus namn. Namnet kommer av att han har en svullen fot, oidi-pous. Men också av att han vet – oida – svaret på fotens och sfinxens gåta. Att det är han själv som i själva verket är orsak till alltihop.Samma funktion har ordet homosporon. När Oidipus använder det om Iokasta vill han säga att han har gift sig med samma fru som den tidigare kungen. Men ordet kan också betyda, som när det tas i mun av siaren Tiresias, att de tillhör samma släkt. Ja oj oj.Cicero skriver mest utförligt om ordvitsar – eller ”dubbeltydiga yttranden” – i andra boken av ”Om talaren”. Där kan man läsa att de ”anses vara de allra fyndigaste”. De förekommer inte bara i skämt ”utan också i allvarliga sammanhang”. De kräver ett särskilt ”skarpsinne”. Och de framkallar ”sällan formliga gapskratt utan prisas snarare som uttryck för lärdom och elegans”.Lärdom och elegans alltså. Ordvitsen hade länge kvar sin plats inom filosofin, juridiken och inte minst tragedin. Hamlets första replik – i Shakespeares tragedi – är exempelvis en ordvits: ”A little more than kin, and less than kind”. Raden anspelar på ett talesätt – ”the nearer in kin, the less in kindness” – vars innebörd är att släkten är värst. Ordleken lyfter fram att Claudius som gift sig med Hamlets mor nu är mer släkt, ”kin”, med Hamlet än tidigare. Nu är han både farbror och styvfar. Men han är inte särskilt snäll, ”kind”, och inte av samma sort, ”kind” igen, som den avlidne fadern, utan korrupt och fördärvad.Men detta lekande med ords innebörder förändrades under 1600-talet. Förespråkare för den nya moderna vetenskapen menade att orden inte längre fungerade som de skulle för att förmedla kunskap. Att ord har flera betydelser förvanskar idéer och förvirrar tanken, snarare än att främja den. Mångtydighet lyftes därför fram som den främsta anledningen till missförstånd – något som till och med kunde orsaka krig.Filosofen John Locke yrkade på att matematik istället för vardagsspråk skulle användas för att beskriva världen. Matematiken kunde frigöra vetenskapsmannen från ordens bedräglighet, ”the Cheat of Words”, som han skriver. Och sedan dess kanske man kan säga att ordvitsen befunnit sig i ett visst nummerärt underläge. Talen fick ersatta, ja talet.Det här är något som slår igenom också i litteraturen. Det kan man se till exempel hos de brittiska romantikerna som, till skillnad från Shakespeares ordlekar, undviker tvetydigheter i ordval och syntax till förmån för ett tydligare, mindre konstlat och mer direkt tilltal.Och under 1800-talet kan man alltså till och med bli förolämpad av en ordvits.Men i en sådan värld, den värld vi fortfarande lever i, kan jag inte undgå att känna att något gått förlorat. Om allt ska uttryckas klart och tydligt, eller inte alls, om mångtydighet är något man föraktar eller suckar åt – vad händer då med allt som vi av olika anledningar inte kan, vill eller får uttrycka på ett entydigt vis?Förutom sina litterära poänger har ordvitsar historiskt inte sällan rört ämnen som det är svårt att tala om. Det kan handla om åsikter som man inte får säga rätt upp och ner, eftersom de är impopulära eller rentav olagliga, eller berör aktiviteter som det inte passar sig att tala om alltför naket och oblygt.Ett exempel från Cicero. Scenen är en rättegång. En åklagare lägger fram bevis för att Titus Annius Milo ska ha inväntat tidpunkten då Publius Clodius Pulcher lämnade sitt gods för att slå ihjäl honom.Cicero försvarar den anklagade mördaren. När man gång på gång frågar vid vilken tid Clodius ska ha blivit mördad svarar Cicero ”sero”.”Sero” betyder ”sent” på latin. Men det kan också betyda ”alltför sent”. Cicero svarar alltså att Clodius blev ihjälslagen sent på dagen. Men med hjälp av ordets mångtydighet kan han även ge uttryck åt en åsikt som kanske inte bör sägas rakt ut – att Clodius borde ha tagits av daga för länge sedan.Ja, Cicero är en dräpande försvarsadvokat. Nu menar jag så klart inte att det är bra att gå runt och önska livet ur folk. Men kanske finns det saker som man ändå måste kunna ventilera även om de är svåra att uttrycka utan omskrivning. Ordvitsen kan då utgöra en unik möjlighet att säga något utan att faktiskt säga det.I en tid där allt kan spelas in och spelas upp igen, verkar våra politiker – med vissa uppenbara undantag – bara bli mer och mer försiktiga med vad de säger. Tillsammans med sina pressekreterare printar de ner propra uttalanden som säger exakt så lite som de avser och som inte kan misstolkas av någon. Därefter viker de inte en tum från sitt manus. Klart och tydligt. Varken mer eller mindre. Men också intetsägande. Nej, i dag vimlar det kanske inte av politiker med Ciceros lärdom och elegans. Det är klart att man, mot en sådan fond, lätt kan vinna politiska framgångar med en motsatt mediestrategi för att – ursäkta – trump-eta ut sitt budskap.Humor och mångtydighet kan – också i allvarliga sammanhang – utgöra en nödvändig ventil. Hjälpa till att lätta på trycket. Och bli en politisk superkraft.Carl-Magnus Juliussonlitteraturvetare och kulturjournalist

In this episode, Christine Horne from the Leadership Collective sits down with author Peter Darbyshire to chat about his trilogy The Book of Cross and in particular, the second book in the series The Dead Hamlets. Listen in!

There is a legend in the Chianti HIlls about a race for territory and a black rooster. In reality, the history the story is based on establishes the wine region we see today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raidījumā Grāmatai pa pēdām iepazīsim jauno enciklopēdisko domāšanu 19. gadsimta beigās un Jēkaba Dravnieka nozīmīgo darbu “Konversācijas vārdnīcas” izveidē, ko vēlāk turpinās Rīgas Latviešu biedrība un Ansis Gulbis. Runāsim arī par Ausekļa, Gētes un citu autoru kopotajiem rakstiem un to attīstību no 19. gadsimta beigām līdz mūsdienām. Plašāk stāsta Latvijas Nacionālās bibliotēkas vadošais pētnieks, Latvijas Universitātes profesors Viesturs Zanders un Latvijas Universitātes Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūta pētnieks Jānis Oga. Mēs īpaši runāsim par dažādiem posmiem konkrētas enciklopēdijas, proti, “Konversācijas vārdnīcas” vēsturē Latvijā - kā šo darbu sāka Jēkabs Dravnieks, vēlāk, jau 20. gadsimtā, turpināja Rīgas Latviešu biedrība, bet trešo posmu īstenoja Ansis Gulbis. Viens no jautājumiem, kas varētu rasties - vai tiešām 19. gadsimta nogale ir tas laiks, kad vispār sākam runāt par enciklopēdijām? Šajā raidījumu ciklā taču esam stāstījuši par Vecā Stendera “Augstas gudrības grāmatu” 18. gadsimtā, par ceļojumu aprakstiem un padomu grāmatām ar enciklopēdisku raksturu 19. gadsimtā jau agrāk. Tomēr - 19. gadsimta beigās parādās jaunā enciklopēdiskā domāšana. Viens no mūsu sarunas galvenajiem varoņiem būs Jēkabs Dravnieks - pirmās latviešu enciklopēdijas izdevējs, grāmatu apgāda īpašnieks Jelgavā, kurš izdevis Rūdolfa Blaumaņa stāstu krājumu “Pie skala uguns”, Aspazijas drāmu “Vaidelote”, un arī Viljama Šekspīra “Hamlets” pirmo reizi latviešu grāmatniecībā iznācis tieši Dravnieka apgādā.  Savā “Konversācijas vārdnīcā” Dravnieks gribējis skart visplašāko tematu loku, vēloties iespēju robežās runāt arī par Latviju un latviešu personībām, bet impēriskās cenzūras politikas dēļ tajā laikā tas bija nosacīti iespējams. Tematu daudzveidību ir noteicis arī autoru loks, kas sagatavojis vārdnīcas šķirkļus. Pirmajās Dravnieka “Konversācijas vārdnīcas” burtnīcās vairāk nekā 100 šķirkļu sarakstījis Jānis Pliekšāns - Rainis, kurš tobrīd Jelgavā ir advokāta Stērsta Andreja palīgs. Taču Viesturs Zanders norāda, ka vēl svarīgāks aspekts par vārdnīcā ietvertajām nozarēm ir sabiedrības rezonanse par izdevumu. Savu dzirksteli te piešķiļ laikraksta “Dienas Lapa” veidotāji. Plašāk par projektu šeit:

Atklāts Latvijas paviljons Venēcijas biennāles 60. starptautiskajā mākslas izstādē. Tā māksliniece Amanda Ziemele ar ekspozīciju "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange... and therefore as a stranger give it welcome*" aicina izstādes apmeklētājus ieņemt "atvērtu un pieņemošu nostāju, lai pēc iespējas labāk sajustu viņas izvēlēto glezniecības oriģinālvalodu". Iespaidos par Venēcijā pieredzēto, kā Amandas Ziemeles būtnes no prāta telpas nonākušas Latvijas paviljonā, dalās Laima Slava. *O day and night, but this is wondrous strange. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. Nosaukumā izmantotas rindas no Viljama Šekspīra lugas "Hamlets", kas atrodamas arī jau pieminētās Edvīna Abota novelē "Plakanzeme. Izdomāts stāsts vairākās dimensijās" (Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions).

Venēcijas mākslas biennāles trīs pirmsatklāšanas dienas un Latvijas paviljons tajā. Stāsta Laima Slava. Latvijas paviljonu Venēcijas biennāles 60. starptautiskajā mākslas izstādē atklās šodien, 18. aprīlī. Tā ir mākslinieces Amandas Ziemeles ekspozīcija "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange…and therefore as a stranger give it welcome*". *O day and night, but this is wondrous strange. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. Nosaukumā izmantotas rindas no Viljama Šekspīra lugas "Hamlets", kas atrodamas arī jau pieminētās Edvīna Abota noveles "Plakanzeme. Izdomāts stāsts vairākās dimensijās" (Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions).

18. aprīlī atklās Latvijas paviljonu Venēcijas biennāles 60. starptautiskajā mākslas izstādē – mākslinieces Amandas Ziemeles ekspozīcija "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange…and therefore as a stranger give it welcome*". To organizē Latvijas Republikas Kultūras ministrija sadarbībā ar kultūras projektu aģentūru "Indie". Paviljona komisāre ir Daiga Rudzāte, kurators ir Adams Budaks (Adam Budak), mākslas biedrības "Kestner Gesellschaft" (Hanovere, Vācija) direktors, un arhitekts ir Niklāvs Paegle ("Ēter"). Sekojot pavedienam, ko Abots, 19. gadsimta skolotājs un teologs, savā darbā ir aizņēmies no Šekspīra, Amanda Ziemele pārvērš paviljona interjeru par tādu apdraudētu mikrokosmu, atdzīvinot dimensijas, kas mūs ieskauj savā viesmīlībā. Kurators Adams Budaks Amandu Ziemeli dēvē par telpas poligloti.  Venēcijas biennāles 60.Starptautiskā mākslas izstāde ar nosaukumu „Foreigners Everywhere” būs atvērta apmeklētājiem no 20.aprīļa līdz 24.novembrim. *O day and night, but this is wondrous strange. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome/ Ak, diena, ak, nakts, tas ir tik brīnišķīgi, dīvaini un tāpēc kā svešinieks sveicini to. Nosaukumā izmantotas rindas no Viljama Šekspīra lugas "Hamlets", kas atrodamas arī Edvīna Abota noveles "Plakanzeme. Izdomāts stāsts vairākās dimensijās" (Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions) titullapā.  

For our landmark 900th episode, Mya Gosling and her pocket dramaturg Kate Pitt discuss the epically comic A Stick-Figure Hamlet, Mya's hysterical and surprisingly rich retelling of Shakespeare's play from the creative mind behind GoodTickleBrain, the internet's greatest (and possibly only) Shakespearean webcomic. Mya and Kate reveal the Hamlets they have known and loved; the marvelous elasticity of the comic form; whether Hamlet is legitimately a great play or merely an influential one; the fun of going behind the scenes of the play; how artists can transform the source material; the importance of bringing Ophelia to the fore; having a place to put all your favorite Hamlet Fun Facts; completely bonkers 19th-century productions of the play; and the immense value of taking not only Shakespeare's play but the conversations about the play off their hifalutin pedestals. (Length 23:14)

I denna julspecial går Alla tiders podcast igenom Charles Dickens berömda "A Christmas Carol", samt dess plats i sin tids debatter om fattigdom – och om julen (liksom hur den egentligen ska firas)! Räkna med industriell revolution, humbug, medeltidens julfiranden och Hamlets spöke!Besök gärna vår hemsida: www.delfyne.se och köp någon av våra utgivna böcker!Foto: Charles Dickens av Jeremiah GurneyMusik: "Joy to the World" och "Deck the Halls" i arrangemang för brass med Michel Rondeau (från Musopen) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Šekspīra ikoniskais “būt vai nebūt” kara laikā iegūst jaunas nokrāsas. Hamleta dilemmas kā atspēriena punktu savam stāstam izvēlējies poļu režisoru duets Elvīra Nieviera (Elwira Niewiera) un Pjotrs Rosolovskis (Piotr Rosołowski), dokumentējot piecu Maidana paaudzes jauniešu pieredzes Ukrainā. Nerādot karu uz ekrāna, filma jūtīgā pietuvinājumā parāda drupas, ko kara traumas atstāj cilvēku dvēselē. Īpašu skaudrumu tam piešķir fakts, ka filma uzņemta vēl pirms Krievijas pilna mēroga iebrukuma sākuma. „Hamleta sindromu” šovakar. 30. novembrī, vienā seansā rādīs kinoteātrī „Kino Bize” Rīgā, bet pirms tam filmas veidotājus uz sarunu aicināja Māra Rozenberga. „Es esmu Hamlets, jo esmu kontuzēts,” saka Slaviks, kurš pēc Krimas okupācijas karojis Austrumukrainā. „Es esmu Hamlets, jo es baidos,” stafeti pārņem Katja. Arī viņa ir kareive. „Es esmu Hamlets, jo vēl esmu dzīvs,” piebilst Romans. Viņš frontē Austrumukrainā bija paramediķis. „Es esmu Hamlets, jo esmu feministe,” saka aktrise Oksana, kuru plosa ar karu nesaistītas dilemmas un sajūta, ka uz kara traumu fona tās vairs neskaitās svarīgas. „Es esmu Hamlets, jo esmu no Donbasa,” noslēdz Rodions, kurš cīnās par savas seksuālās orientācijas pieņemšanu Ukrainas sabiedrībā. Pieci jaunieši ar ļoti dažādiem dzīvesstāstiem satikušies uz vienas skatuves, lai iestudētu savu versiju par „Hamletu”. Viņi spīvi diskutē, raud, dejo tango un caur aktiera šķietamo atsvešinājumu atklāj arī ļoti sāpīgas dzīves pieredzes. „Kad Ukrainā sākās Maidana revolūcija, šiem jauniešiem bija 18 – 19 gadu. Viņi pārstāv ļoti interesantu paaudzi – tā ir pirmā, kas izaugusi neatkarīgā Ukrainā pēc 1991.gada. Vērojot šo revolūciju, kam sekoja karš Austrumukrainā, es daudz domāju par šo jauniešu motivāciju cīnīties un aizstāvēt savu valsti. Mēs gribējām caur viņu stāstiem parādīt, ko nozīmē iet karā un cik grūti viņiem pēc tam ir atgriezties normālā dzīvē.” Tā saka viena no filmas režisorēm Elvīra Nieviera, kura kopā ar Pjotru Rosolovski darbu pie filmas sāka jau 2018.gadā. Meklējot iespējamos filmas varoņus, radās ideja ar viņiem iestudēt teātra izrādi un caur spēcīgu galveno varoni ļaut dziļāk reflektēt par pašu piedzīvoto. Trīs no pieciem filmas varoņiem šobrīd ir atgriezušies frontē, vēl viens šuj armijas uniformas, bet vēl kāds organizē palīdzību no ārvalstīm. Palīdzības organizāciju filmas varoņu un viņu vienību atbalstam nodibinājusi arī režisore Elvīra Nieviera, kura turpina regulāri apmeklēt Ukrainu un pašlaik strādā pie jaunas filmas, kurā dokumentē vairāku Mariupoli pametušo iedzīvotāju rehabilitāciju.  Filma „Hamleta sindroms” pēdējo gadu ceļojusi pa daudziem pasaules kinofestivāliem, plūkusi laurus Lokarno, un režisorei Nievierai ir īpaši svarīgi par to runāt tieši tagad, kad kara ziņu nogurums arvien vairāk vedina novērst acis un uzmanību no Ukrainā notiekošā.

Ceturtdien, 23. novembrī, Dailes teātrī norisinās gadskārtējā "Spēlmaņu nakts" ceremonija, kurā pasniedza balvas 15 kategorijās. Kāda bija pati ceremonija un kā vērtēt žūrijas lēmumu, iespaidos dalās teātra kritiķi Atis Rozentāls, Līga Ulberte un Zane Radzobe. Ierakstos uzklausām laureātus. Žūrija par Gada lielās formas izrādi atzinusi "Malleus Maleficarum. Jaunais līgums". Gada mazās formas izrādes titulu saņēma iestudējums "Nelabie. Pēc Dostajevksa", bet par mūža ieguldījumu teātra mākslā balvas šogad pasniegta Latvijas Nacionālā teātra aktrisei Lolitai Caukai un Valmieras Drāmas teātra aktierim Agrim Māsēnam. Spēlmaņu nakts balvas: Gada mazās formas izrāde – iestudējums "Nelabie. Pēc Dostojevska" Valmieras Drāmas teātrī; Gada izrāde bērniem un/vai pusaudžiem – "Paolo un Frančeska" Valmieras Drāmas teātrī; Gada režisora godu "Spēlmaņu nakts" ieguva Elmārs Seņkovs par režiju Valmieras Drāmas teātra izrādē "Nelabie. Pēc Dostojevska"; Par gada aktieri atzīts Arturs Krūzkops; Gada aktrises titulu saņēma Dārta Daneviča; Par otrā plāna lomām balvas ieguva – Anna Nele Āboliņa un Rūdolfs Apse; Mārtiņš Vilkārsis saņēma Gada scenogrāfa balvu par izrādi "Sēras piestāv Elektrai"; Balvu kategorijā "Gada jaundarbs mūzikā" šogad saņēma komponists Jēkabs Jančevskis par mūziku izrādē "Brands"; Par gada kustību mākslinieci atzīta Kristīne Brīniņa par darbu Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātra izrādē "Hamlets"; Par gada kostīmu māksliniekiem atzīti laikmetīgās modes un mākslas duets "Mareunrol's" par darbu Čehova teātra izrādē "Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos"; Gada jaunais skatuves mākslinieks/-ce – Sandis Runge un Diāna Krista Stafecka no Valmieras Drāmas teātra; Par gada labāko video mākslinieci atzīta Katrīna Neiburga par darbu izrādē "Malleus Maleficarum. Jaunais līgums"; Balvu kategorijā "Gada jaundarbs dramaturģijā" saņēma Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce par darbu Liepājas teātra izrādē "Dziesmu svētki"; Skatītāju balvu kā gada aktieri saņēma Maksims Busels un Ieva Segliņa, savukārt par gada izrādi skatītāji atzina iestudējumu "Zēni nav meitenes" Dailes teātrī; Teātra inovācijas balva pasniegta laikmetīgās mākslas telpai "Kurtuve" par Valmieras Drāmas teātra ātro adaptāciju.

Tuvojoties „Spēlmaņu nakts” ceremonijai, turpinām iepazīstināt ar aktieriem, kuri atzīti par labākajiem kategorijā „Gada aktieris”. Viņu vidū ir arī Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātra aktieris Aleksandrs Maļikovs par Klavdina lomu izrādē „Hamlets”. Šajā uzsvērti politiskajā iestudējumā, ko veidojis režisors Viesturs Kairišs, Elsinora diezgan nepārprotami ir Putina Krievija, un galvenajā lomā ir nevis Hamlets, bet slepkavnieciskais karalis Klaudijs jeb šajā versijā – Klavdins. Aleksandrs Maļikovs pirms sešpadsmit gadiem ieradies Latvijā no Karēlijas galvaspilsētas Petrozavodskas, pievienojoties Čehova Rīgas krievu teātra trupai. Darbs pie Klavdina lomas viņam sakrita ar atteikšanos no Krievijas pilsonības. Ap Valsts svētkiem viņš saņems Latvijas pasi. Bet tūlīt dzirdēsim viņa izvēlēto fragmentu no Šekspīra rakstītās Klaudija lūgšanas, ko Maļikovs izrādē runā krieviski, bet latviski tas skan šādi: (..) Bet, ja šī lāsta roka Ar brāļa asinīm vēl vairāk triepta, Vai debess laipnībai gan lietus trūkst, Lai mazgātu to sniega baltumā? Kam žēlastība, ja ne grēku dēļ?

This is an excerpt of a roundtable discussion on Hamlet. We explore the major themes, Hamlets character and character flaws, and explore the sources of tragedy.  There is another two hours of this discussion on my substack at Astralflight.Substack.com, and if you follow me on twitter @astralflite, you can listen live and get in on these discussions.

This is an excerpt of a roundtable discussion on Hamlet. We explore the major themes, Hamlets character and character flaws, and explore the sources of tragedy.  There is another two hours of this discussion on my substack at Astralflight.Substack.com, and if you follow me on twitter @astralflite, you can listen live and get in on these discussions.

This is an excerpt of a roundtable discussion on Hamlet. We explore the major themes, Hamlets character and character flaws, and explore the sources of tragedy.  There is another two hours of this discussion on my substack at Astralflight.Substack.com, and if you follow me on twitter @astralflite, you can listen live and get in on these discussions.

Hur mår Hamlets käresta Ofelia 2023? Skådespelaren Isabelle Kyed vet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I helgen är det premiär för ”Hamlet”. Igen. Den här gången på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern i Stockholm med rapartisten Silvana Iman som den danske prinsen i Shakespeares kolsvarta tragedi. Hamlet så många gånger utsedd till världens mest kända pjäs. Numera ofta omtolkad, omkastad, moderniserad, uppochnervänd men också då och då spelad i sin helhet. Men en roll som allt oftare stryks är en av världsdramatikens knepigaste kvinnor, Ofelia! Skådespelaren Isabelle Kyed gästar studion och berättar om hur det är att spela plågade Hamlets runtboxade kärlekspartner.Programledare: Jenny TelemanProducent: Anna Tullberg

Brett Easton Ellis är äntligen tillbaka med ny roman, om sig själv som ung och kåt. Följ med hem till kultförfattaren. Hur mår Hamlets käresta Ofelia 2023? Skådespelaren Isabelle Kyed vet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Våld, sex och känslomässig avtrubbning är sådant man tänker på när man hör författarnamnet Bret Easton Ellis. En del har kanske hängt med Ellis ända sedan han debuterade som 21-åring med ungdomsskildringen ”Noll att förlora”. Andra tänker mer just på satiren ”American psycho”, där åttiotalets yuppiekultur får psykopatiska drag. Ett tag såg det ut som Ellis övergivit litteraturen för pengarna i filmindustrin. Men nu är han tillbaka. Nästa vecka kommer romanen ”Skärvorna” ut på svenska. Den skrev han med Ultravox låt ”Vienna” som ledmotiv. Sveriges Radios USA-korrespondent Roger Wilson har träffat Bret Easton Ellis i hemmet i Los Angeles. HUR MÅR DAGENS OFELIA? ISABELLE KYED VET I helgen är det premiär för ”Hamlet”. Igen. Den här gången på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern i Stockholm med rapartisten Silvana Iman som den danske prinsen i Shakespeares kolsvarta tragedi. Hamlet så många gånger utsedd till världens mest kända pjäs. Numera ofta omtolkad, omkastad, moderniserad, uppochnervänd men också då och då spelad i sin helhet. Men en roll som allt oftare stryks är en av världsdramatikens knepigaste kvinnor, Ofelia! Skådespelaren Isabelle Kyed gästar studion och berättar om hur det är att spela plågade Hamlets runtboxade kärlekspartner.SÖK TILL ROMANPRISETS LYSSNARJURY!Vill du vara med och bestämma vilken författare som ska få Sveriges Radios Romanpris 2024? Nu söker vi nästa Lyssnarjury! Fyra svenska romaner från det gångna året kommer nomineras. De läsande lyssnare som väljs ut till Lyssnarjuryn läser de fyra romanerna och pratar sig fram till vilken som ska vinna. Lina Kalmteg berättar hur du gör för att söka till Lyssnarjuryn! VI SIMMAR I TEXT - VAD GÖR DET MED OSS SOM LÄSARE?Läser vi för mycket? I dagens essä från OBS driver en författare den tesen. Vi hör Torbjörn Elensky reflektera över hur och varför vi alla är dåliga läsare. Programledare: Jenny TelemanProducent: Anna Tullberg

Rough and tired

Stepping foot into the Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is like taking in a deep, calming breath. The atmosphere is warm and cozy and the shopkeepers couldn't be friendlier or more knowledgeable. And even though the shop itself is on the smaller side, it's packed to the brim with books from every genre you can think of including children's books, fantasy, art & architecture, urban planning, cookbooks - and even some rare & vintage finds for collectors. It's truly something you can't miss on your next visit. In this episode, Monica and Steve chat with Hills & Hamlets owner Josh Niesse about getting started in the bookselling business, opening a second location here in Serenbe, and why bookshops are a great ‘indicator species' for the health of a community. Show NotesHills & Hamlets BookshopUnderground BooksSupport Josh on BookshopLibro.fmChatt Hills GalleryPaige Crutcher Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Happiness, and Creating Calm by Anita YokotaKey Words: Book Store, Bookshop, Bookstore, Library, Literature, Reading, Bookworm, Serenbe, Community, Book Launch, Author, Nature, Rare Books, Vintage Books, Retail 

Get ready for an episode filled with theatrical brilliance as Natalie and Darren delve into a wide range of incredible productions! They'll immerse themselves in the dazzling world of Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre, featuring a cast of theatre royalty including Daniel Mays, Andrew Richardson, Celinde Schoenmaker, Marisha Wallace, and Cedric Neal. Prepare to be enchanted by the classic charm and toe-tapping tunes of this beloved musical, promenade style. Next, they'll explore the comic gem How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Southwark Playhouse, a delightful show that combines sharp wit, catchy songs, and uproarious humour and starring Olivier Award and Tony Award legend Tracie Bennett. Get ready to laugh out loud as they uncover the hilarious escapades of ambitious office worker J. Pierrepont Finch. Intrigue awaits as they discuss Philip Ridley's gripping narrative of memory, manipulation, and power in Leaves of Glass, which recently had a revival at Park Theatre. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking journey through the complexities of human relationships and the haunting echoes of the past starring Eastenders favourite actress Kacey Ainsworth. Prepare for laughter aplenty as they uncover London's bleaking hilarious new comedy, Bleak Expectations, based on the award-winning comedy by Mark Evans, with the talented Sally Phillips as our narrator. Join them at the Criterion Theatre for a rollicking adventure through the absurd and absurdly funny world of Dickensian parody. And don't miss the mesmerising performance by Dickie Beau in Re-Member Me at Hampstead Theatre, where he expertly channels the voices of past Hamlets in a captivating lip-sync show. Get ready to be swept away by the artistry and emotional depth of this truly unique theatrical experience. Tune in for an episode that celebrates the magic of the stage, showcasing a variety of genres and performances that will leave you entertained, inspired, and eager for your next theatre-going adventure.

Svaret på Hamlets berömda citat "Varför dricker man öl?" har låtit vänta på sig till kulturstrategen och Gamla Enskede Bryggeriets ägare Robin Johnander delger hemligheten. Ett "så funkar det avsnitt" i lärandet att brygga öl och spela gubbdöds. Spetsa öronen lite extra till musiktipsen, det var vi själva tvungna att göra.

Get ready for a captivating episode as Natalie and Darren dive into the mesmerising world of Re-Member Me. Join them as they discuss this unique show brought to life by the theatrical master of lip-sync, Dickie Beau, at Hampstead Theatre for a strictly limited run. Discover the process of building a human Hamlet mix-tape, where Dickie Beau takes recordings of great Hamlets from the past, including Sir Ian McKellen, Daniel Day Lewis, Richard Burton, and Ian Charleson, to channel them into an epic one-man lip-sync performance. But amidst the collection, there is one exceptional rendition that left an indelible mark on all who witnessed it—a ghost from Hamlet's past. However, this particular performance can never be "re-membered" because no recording of it exists. Prepare to be enthralled by the mysteries and artistry of this remarkable production. This episode also includes an exclusive interview with the show's creator, Dickie Beau, providing unique insights into the creation and inspiration behind Re-Member Me. Tune in for a thought-provoking and extraordinary episode that delves into the magic of theatre and the power of performance.

In this squishy jelly baby episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Ava are chatting about a cluster of funstuff they've been hanging out with recently! First off, Ava apologises for her callous disregard of engine-building classic Gizmos, and Tom slightly loses his mind during a game of Rolling Heights. Finally, our two intrepid boardsplorers (?!?) chat about Ava's latest, smallest video review for Hamlet. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 06:09 - Gizmos 19:43 - Rolling Heights 33:38 - Hamlet

Ar jauniem projektiem par diskusijas telpu, lai veidotu dialogu un iesaistītu skatītāju sabiedrībā aktuālu jautājumu pārspriešanā, klajā nācis Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātris. Saruna ar  teātra direktori Danu Bjorku. Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātri turpinās vadīt Dana Bjorka, mākslinieciskajai komandai ir piesaistīta režisore Laura Groza, kuras režijā 19. maijā gaidāma pirmizrāde iestudējumam "Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos" pēc Sandras Kalnietes grāmatas. Tikko bijusi arī pirmizrāde Viestura Kairiša "Hamletam", kas raisīja ļoti pretrunīgas skatītāju reakcijas. Kādi ir teātra plāni turpmāk un ko nozīmē būt krievu teātrim Rīgā jaunajos apstākļos? Lai arī repertuārs ir saplānots līdz 2024. gada beigām, droši atklāt plānus par teātra darbu direktore vēlas atklāt tikai nākamajam pusgadam, jo teātrī bieži daudz kas mainās. Līdz maija beigām, kad teātris slēgs sezonu, paredzētas vēl divas pirmizrādes. Viena būs 18. maijā - "Viss sākas ar mīlestību", otra jau minētā -  "Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos".  Jau augustā teātrī būs iespējas skatīties repertuāra izrādes, bet nākamā pirmizrāde - 1. septembrī. Dace Pūce iestudē "Rubinu Hudu".  "Tas būs iesākums tradīcijai, ka katru gadu uz lielās skatuves būs pirmizrāde bērniem," atklāj Dana Bjorka. Ierakstā par topošā iestudējumu "Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos" stāsta režisore Laura Groza. Dana Bjorka sarunā atklāj, ka šobrīd mainās Mihaila Čehova Rīgas Krievu teātra repertuāra politika, kā galveno akcentējot vēstījumu. Teātra repertuārā klāt nāk atklāts un ass dialogs par politiskām tēmām, tas ir kaut kas nebijis teātrī, tas līdz šim nebija raksturīgs. "Mēs dzīvojam tādā šodienā, kur krievu kultūra pēc 24. februāra notikumiem ir zem liela sitiena, ka krievu kultūrai šodien ir bieži jāattaisnojas, kāpēc mums būt, kāpēc mums runāt, kāpēc mums radīt kultūras vērtības krievu valodā. Un kāpēc kultūras nav piesaistīta tiem politiskiem lēmumiem un tiem politiķiem, kuri rīko to neprātu, uzsākot karu," skaidro Dana Bjorka. "Līdz ar to mums bija jādomā, kā mūsu teātris pēc iespējas aktīvāk, skaļāk un nepārprotamāk var izteikt šodien savu politisko nostāju pret to, kas notiek pasaulē. Visspēcīgākais ir mūsu izrādes, nevis aktieru intervijas un Danas ieraksts pirms katra izrādes, kas skan teātrī, bet tieši mākslas darbs, ko radām. Līdz ar to, Viestura Kairiša "Hamlets", kas tika iestudēts ļoti asā politiskā stilā un ar ļoti neinterpretējamām frāzēm un nostādnēm uzreiz ieskicē teātra nostāju šajā politiskajā šodienā." "Izrāde "Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos" nebūs tik ļoti asi politiski risināta, kā "Hamlets", bet pati tēma ir sāpīga un aktuāla šodien Latvijā. Mēs gribētu pieskarties šai tēmai un aicināt visus Latvijā dzīvojošos cilvēkus ieklausīties citam citā," turpina Dana Bjorka.  

Matthew Marisa and Galen have been playing too much civ 6, so they decided to just do an episode over it. Keywords: Trailer Blazes, Culture Victory, Trading Posts, Hamlets, Yongle

Sir Richard Eyre is a cornerstone of contemporary British theatre, who has given us Jonathan Pryce and Daniel Day Lewis as Hamlets, Ian Holm as King Lear, Mary Poppins in the West End and 5 Olivier awards along the way. In the first part of his chat with Jonathan, he charts his rise from a country boy with no knowledge of the form whatsoever to becoming director of the National Theatre. Along the way, we discover which legend he saw playing Hamlet on his first ever trip to see a proper play, why he got drunk on stage performing with Stephen Frears at university, how his complex relationship with his father may have informed much of his greatest work and plenty more besides ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month, Eileen and Eric are visiting the episode A Tale of Two Hamlets, the story of Upper and Lower Warden and their battle of the classes that turns explosive. We discuss the strange family relations of the Smythe-Websters, the history of Communism, the wonderful performance of Anne Reid, and just why does everyone like Danny so much! Send us email! We love it and crave validation! Write to us at welcometomidsomer@gmail.comCreated, produced, and hosted by Eileen Becker and Eric BuscherLinksWebsite - www.welcometomidsomer.comFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/welcometomidsomerTwitter - @WelcometoMidsomerInstagram - welcometomidsomerLogo and Podcast art - Smeedrai Theme Music - The Infamous Space

Hamlet is everywhere right now. But this isn't the same play you read in high school English. We meet the minds behind a singing Hamlet, The Northman's Amleth, and Pulitzer prizewinner Fat Ham's Juicy – and ponder what makes this Shakespearean tragedy speak directly to our time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hamlets fråga var fasansfullt motiverad. Det finns goda skäl över att fundera över Hamlets kända monolog, även så här 420 år senare. Så det gör vi i veckans Creepypodden, med hjälp av allt från reborn babies-dockor till historier om flugor, ägg och dödsbäddar. Creepypodden är producerad av Ludvig Josephson, som också gjorde musiken i det här avsnittet. Vill du läsa fler creepypastor kan klicka dig runt bland våra tidigare avsnitt, eller följ oss på Facebook eller Instagram där vi heter Creepypodden. Mejla oss gärna med tips på bra creepypastor eller med egna skrämmande upplevelser: creepypodden@sverigesradio.se.

They're coming to get you...In the mist-clad lands of Ustalav, where vampires stalk the night and ghosts moan in the dark... three heroes make their way from town to town, only to stop when they discover a ripped note and a plea for help. Something terrible has happened in the town of Fiorna's Faith... and they may be the only ones who can find out the truth of what happened here. Guts, gore and gruesomeness await Angelo, Voltaire and Arseris as they investigate the MARCH OF THE DEAD and overcome the horrors that overcame this small village! As a warning... this episode is very, VERY fleshy! Listeners beware... you're in for a scare!Umbrellas get shared.Barricades get made.Caves get crawled in.All this and more in this VERY spooky episode of Dice Will Roll, the SCARIEST Pathfinder Podcast on the Planet, where we ask the Hard Questions like... is it okay to flirt with someone after they find out their family is dead?!CONTENT WARNINGS: Suicide, themes of existientialism and nihilism, intense claustrophobia, animal harm and death, intense body horror and gore, questionably requited flirting and romantic advances, a really cool bird

The Six search for an assassin amongst the nobles during the Grand Ball, and uncover a secret that none of them expected... STORE OPEN NOW! CHECK IT OUT HERE! BUY MERCH AND SUPPORT US! https://www.stubbornheroes.com/etsy-shop https://linktr.ee/stubbornheroes

Starless and AJ get into the history and meaning of all things from Hamlets to Hermits --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thirstywitchessociety/message

Pour yourself a glass of tomato water, Pat & Jim are back with one more week of summer camp! The guys reminisce on a couple of legends before reimagining a hit song. From canceled flights to shattered hoop dreams, nothing can stop the momentum before our next Live AOTP in Rosemont August 14th. Come on out!!

This interview features Josh Niesse, owner of Hills & Hamlets Bookshop and Underground Books

On this episode of Long Island Tea, Kristen & Sharon are diving into Long Island's unique towns, villages and hamlets. Setting the record straight on our some odd 239 municipal organizations, because let's be honest Long Island has more towns than Hollywood has movie stars. Plus, we share the inside scoop on our favorite Long Island-isms, festive events and how to get into the holiday spirit with local celebrations. Listen in for ways to redeem exclusive savings when shopping small this holiday season, trip planning ideas and more. During this episode, Kristen and Sharon sip on a Cabernet Franc from Pellegrini Vineyards and a Petit Verdot from Sannino Vineyard. Pellegrini Vineyards offers a picture perfect North Fork experience with gorgeous trellised walkways dripping with wisteria and a two-story tasting room that overlooks the production process. Enjoy an overnight wine country escape at Sannino Vineyards featuring a top-rated Bed & Breakfast overlooking acres of vineyards. Visit..... http://discoverlongisland.com/tea for details. Catch the video of this podcast on YouTube at... https://www.youtube.com/c/DiscoverLon... Sponsored by Long Island Wine Country. Home to one of the top wine regions in the country. Visit https://liwines.com/ for more info. Also check out Long Island TV, a weekly YouTube Series featuring LiLi, Discover Long Island's mobile visitor's center as she travels all around Long Island .....https://www.discoverlongisland.com/tv/ Shop Long Island gear at https://shop.discoverlongisland.com Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @LongIslandTeaPodcast Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

To be, or no to be..... HAMLET!!!!  SOOOOOO many famous actors have given their collective eye-teeth to have a go at this role, and not just on stage. In this continuation episode, we go through a bunch of the many film and/or video Hamlets we've been watching lately.And BTW... who knew how sexy Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek or Quint from Jaws as the unctuous Claudius could be?!?!? (pant pant) Angels and ministers of grace defend us!!!!Like us?!? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!To give us money on Patreon, go here!! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueTo visit our website go here!!https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo donate to an awesome charity, go here!!https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-reliefEpisode Sources:Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen: David Bevington, Anne Marie Welsh, Michael L. Greenwald A History of Shakespeare on Screen - A Century of Film and Television: Kenneth S. RothwellThe Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film: Russell Jacksonwww.IMDB.comwww.Wikipedia.com

主播 / 珂珂 艾谁谁 嘉宾 / 刘晓松 昂哥 凡哥 大完颜 Lyndon 大灵芝 Kenneth Qu Anna & Michael封面设计 / 珂珂 音频剪辑 / 珂珂 艾谁谁万众期待的中秋特辑终于上线了！！！这个中秋，无时差研究所惊喜策划十大直击心灵深处的灵魂拷问，力邀北京、杭州、纽约、三番，中美两地四岸八组重磅嘉宾隔空激辩，陪伴今夜无数去国怀乡，空虚寂寞冷的灵魂。您真以为我们是在普及古代神话故事吗？不不不，您错了，其实我们聊的是自由恋爱，是六道轮回，是社会阶级，是门当户对，是念念不忘，必有回响，是长幼有序，男女有别，更是露从今夜白，月是故乡明。就像“一千个人眼里有一千个哈姆雷特，There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes”，八组嘉宾脑洞大开，旁征博引，给出了八个完全不同的天马行空的答案，如果今夜的你远离故土，那么请让无时差研究所陪你遥借远方一轮明月，从此每个孤独的夜晚不再空虚寂寞冷。嘉宾出场顺序如下：⭕️刘晓松   00:27⭕️昂    哥  15:28⭕️凡    哥  29:39⭕️大完颜  46:38⭕️Lyndon  53:49⭕️Kenneth Qu  1:10:58⭕️大灵芝  1:27:49⭕️Anna&Michael  1:39:08中秋之夜十大灵魂拷问，⭕️ 嫦娥老公是谁？⭕️ 嫦娥奔月的真相究竟是什么？⭕️ 嫦娥到底爱不爱后羿？⭕️ 嫦娥奔月是不是一个教化古代女子要遵循三纲五常的故事？⭕️ 为什么嫦娥与后羿的爱情故事成不了七夕节？⭕️ 古代自由恋爱和封建社会有何冲突？⭕️ 吴刚和嫦娥为什么没有互生情愫？⭕️ 从嫦娥与八戒的故事谈十八岁未完成之魔咒。⭕️ 浅谈吴刚伐树与西西弗斯之石。⭕️ 从嫦娥与玉兔看古代人爱养的宠物。

主播 / 珂珂 艾谁谁 嘉宾 / 刘晓松 昂哥 凡哥 大完颜 Lyndon 大灵芝 Kenneth Qu Anna & Michael封面设计 / 珂珂 音频剪辑 / 珂珂 艾谁谁万众期待的中秋特辑终于上线了！！！这个中秋，无时差研究所惊喜策划十大直击心灵深处的灵魂拷问，力邀北京、杭州、纽约、三番，中美两地四岸八组重磅嘉宾隔空激辩，陪伴今夜无数去国怀乡，空虚寂寞冷的灵魂。您真以为我们是在普及古代神话故事吗？不不不，您错了，其实我们聊的是自由恋爱，是六道轮回，是社会阶级，是门当户对，是念念不忘，必有回响，是长幼有序，男女有别，更是露从今夜白，月是故乡明。就像“一千个人眼里有一千个哈姆雷特，There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes”，八组嘉宾脑洞大开，旁征博引，给出了八个完全不同的天马行空的答案，如果今夜的你远离故土，那么请让无时差研究所陪你遥借远方一轮明月，从此每个孤独的夜晚不再空虚寂寞冷。嘉宾出场顺序如下：⭕️刘晓松   00:27⭕️昂    哥  15:28⭕️凡    哥  29:39⭕️大完颜  46:38⭕️Lyndon  53:49⭕️Kenneth Qu  1:10:58⭕️大灵芝  1:27:49⭕️Anna&Michael  1:39:08中秋之夜十大灵魂拷问，⭕️ 嫦娥老公是谁？⭕️ 嫦娥奔月的真相究竟是什么？⭕️ 嫦娥到底爱不爱后羿？⭕️ 嫦娥奔月是不是一个教化古代女子要遵循三纲五常的故事？⭕️ 为什么嫦娥与后羿的爱情故事成不了七夕节？⭕️ 古代自由恋爱和封建社会有何冲突？⭕️ 吴刚和嫦娥为什么没有互生情愫？⭕️ 从嫦娥与八戒的故事谈十八岁未完成之魔咒。⭕️ 浅谈吴刚伐树与西西弗斯之石。⭕️ 从嫦娥与玉兔看古代人爱养的宠物。