14: The Four Groans

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🗓️ 13 August 2009

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Another meditation on what happens after the moment of death, this time as Shakespeare envisions it.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
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0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
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0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	See?
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0:16.5	And NPR.
0:19.5	Number 14, the four groans.
0:21.6	There is a moment in Shakespeare.
0:32.6	It is a very, very famous moment when Shakespeare allows his actors to step right up to the edge
0:40.4	of death, almost into death itself. It's from Hamlet. Yeah, that sounds good. Okay, so we'll start.
0:47.8	So what's going on in the play at the very end? Well, at the very end, there's a pile of bodies.
0:55.8	This is Ron Rosenbaum. He's the author of a book called The Shakespeare Wars.
1:00.9	Hamlet and Laertes have fought a duel.
1:07.7	And the queen has drunk a draft of poison.
1:13.1	A drink.
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