Embracing Shakespeare

Finally got a chance to listen to this, olympic comms in London screwed up my connection on the day. A veritable wealth of Shakespearean trivia, particularly liked the section on the Folger library and Brenda Putnam’s statue of Puck overlooking Lady Justice across the road haha

All these Shakespeare festivals sound fantastic. The idea of a remote country town in Oregan going Shakespeare-crazy for a few days… my idea of heaven

Shakespeare’s signet ring, eh? How intriguing… I think the fact it was crossed off his will “as though he had just lost it” is the real clincher! It makes him feel so tangible and close when you picture him doing something as trivial as dropping his ring in the garden, probably when he was pruning the weeds or something (no, not those sorts of weeds… well, maybe, apparently, according to the webinar). I mean, everybody loses stuff all the time don’t we? including Shakespeare! that is what the conspiracy nuts don’t get about Shakespeare; they want to put him on a pedestal and raise him up as some kind of intellectual god, failing to realise he was just like us and it was precisely that connection which gave him such an accurate insight to our daily lives

another classic SBT webinar big up the oxford topic series crew!