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The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
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30 minutes
Released:
Feb 27, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Discover the real-life history that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s history plays, and learn the distinctive ways in which Shakespeare and George R.R. Martin each transform history into art
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Released:
Feb 27, 2023
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Alan Nadel, “August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle” (University of Iowa Press, 2010): Many scholars consider August Wilson to be the premier American playwright of the 20th Century. Alan Nadel is surely one of their number. In the early 1990s, he focused our attention on Wilson’s plays in the outstanding collection of essays May All You... by New Books in Literary Studies