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Hello, it's the time of year when we celebrate and give thanks for family and life and

the bounty of the harvest. We also give thanks to friendship and Shakespeare. We'll look at

Shakespeare's sonnet 73 and then his autumnal play the temp Tempest, in our traditional Wednesday Before Thanksgiving episode

with our traditional guest, Lori Frankel, today on the history of literature. Hello, hello, hello,

welcome to the podcast.

I'm Jack Wilson feeling thankful for the good men and women

who have written all this great literature

to give us all this stuff to think about and talk about and also thankful for all of you

who have been in this dialogue and community with me for something

like eight years now.

It's hard to believe we're growing old together aren't we?

Which brings me to our first main subject today.

Shakespeare's sonnet number 73, the poet of an old man to his fair youth.

Who is that fair you?

Old man, older man, I should say.

And who is that fair youth?

We don't know.

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