#1254 Magic of the Word

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

"Nobody ever used the English language to greater effect than William Shakespeare."

— Clay

Clay discusses his new show, "Clay Jenkinson's Shakespeare the Magic of the Word" — which held its world premiere in Norfolk, VA in September — and shares Jefferson's thoughts and regard for the work of William Shakespeare.

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Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0	Our podcast.
0:01.0	Our podcast.
0:02.0	We are up to that, sir.
0:03.3	And this week we talk about Shakespeare.
0:06.3	And your recent performance at the Roper Theater, what is it, the UTTC Roper Performing
0:12.4	Arts Center in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. I did a
0:15.4	Premier of this thing I want to do everywhere. An evening about William Shakespeare.
0:20.2	I don't pretend to be Shakespeare. I just talk about about him and Jefferson only came up in one sentence and that was Jefferson saying the earth belongs to the living not the dead
0:29.2	But we did in the program we did bring up Jefferson we did bring up Jefferson and found a few connections
0:34.0	that i didn't realize he had seen
0:37.0	Shakespeare and king'slier and plays and
0:40.0	12th night and kind of talked about Jefferson as a writer and Shakespeare as a writer and some of the other
0:45.3	presidents as writers.
0:46.8	Correct.
0:47.8	You know one thing I didn't get to say in the show.
0:49.8	Yes sir.
0:50.8	And I'll add it now.
0:51.8	I should have.
0:52.0	But in the early part of the show you talked about how busy you've been and one of the things you did was to do a
0:58.3	your annual symposium with theater Roosevelt symposium in Dickinson., and you know what I heard some very good things.
1:05.0	Well, your spouse was there and I'm not going to say that she was the one who told me some very good things.
1:11.0	It was maybe the best symposium we've ever done. We have world-class people.
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