The Shakespeare edition. Recorded live before a global audience on September 30, 2021
https://youtu.be/12zWE-qnVcE
5 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 299”
Bill – not sure who was complaining during the live stream. I have eventually watched every episode of TSL, and this was one of the best. Put me right there with you; that speech from Henry V got me teary. I was wondering what I was going to read next, the Bard is now front and center.
This is a great episode. I wish Bill had been around when I was forced to read Shakespeare in school and dreaded it. I tried to wade through the language without an interpreter. Bill does a great service to the Bard in bringing the stories into modern day and providing historical setting so we can appreciate and learn from Shakespeare’s plays. Well Done!
I hadn’t heard this sort of analysis of Shakespeare before (although I had seen the Shakespeare in original pronunciation stuff, which is fascinating) – but it’s exactly why Huck Finn works so well too. And why they want to cancel it.
“Shakespeare was the Quentin Tarantino of his day”
I’m now laughing with an image running through my head of high school theater classes 200 years from now acting out The Gimp scene from Pulp Fiction
5 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 299”
Bill – not sure who was complaining during the live stream. I have eventually watched every episode of TSL, and this was one of the best. Put me right there with you; that speech from Henry V got me teary. I was wondering what I was going to read next, the Bard is now front and center.
This is a great episode. I wish Bill had been around when I was forced to read Shakespeare in school and dreaded it. I tried to wade through the language without an interpreter. Bill does a great service to the Bard in bringing the stories into modern day and providing historical setting so we can appreciate and learn from Shakespeare’s plays. Well Done!
I hadn’t heard this sort of analysis of Shakespeare before (although I had seen the Shakespeare in original pronunciation stuff, which is fascinating) – but it’s exactly why Huck Finn works so well too. And why they want to cancel it.
“Shakespeare was the Quentin Tarantino of his day”
I’m now laughing with an image running through my head of high school theater classes 200 years from now acting out The Gimp scene from Pulp Fiction
In a hoighty-toighty British accent!