Ep 022 - Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
Overdue
English - July 16, 2013 03:23 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsBooks Arts Comedy books comedy literature podcasts craig getting andrew cunningham Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep 021 - Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
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What is Antony and Cleopatra ? Tragedy? Romance? History? Comedy ? The conventional wisdom is to pick tragedy, but this messy entry in the later chapters of Shakespeare's canon dances between the Bard's genres like a "high-coloured" Lepidus.
This week we struggle with Shakespeare's portrayal of the titular heroine, get lost in the play's globe-trotting plot, and - for good measure - debate the finer points of Sister, Sister.
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