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Shakespeare’s Plague
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31 minutes
Released:
Jun 2, 2020
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Academic and author of This is Shakespeare Emma Smith joins the Prospect Interview this week to discuss the bard’s much gossiped about life under the plague. While many of us may have come across reminders that Shakespeare spun out King Lear while under lockdown centuries ago, Emma says that there’s another plague-era play of his that shows another side of historic London life—the comic, and unapologetically raunchy, Venus and Adonis.Emma’s article on Venus and Adonis is available here: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/shakespeares-answer-to-the-plague-more-sex-and-comedy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 2, 2020
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