All That Glisters Is Not Gold

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's a widely accepted truth: reading Shakespeare is good for you. But what should we do with all of the bigoted themes in his work? We talk to a group of high schoolers who put on the Merchant Of Venice as a way to interrogate anti-Semitism, and then we ask an expert if that's a good idea.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Coatswitch from MPR. I'm Jean Demby.
0:03.8	And I'm Shireen Marisel-Maragie.
0:05.7	So Shireen, I know you to be a pretty artsy creative person.
0:09.0	This is true.
0:10.0	Samba, you solve the dance, you used to play cap war for a long time. Like decade.
0:13.7	Mm-hmm.
0:14.3	You like musicals.
0:16.0	How did you know that I like musicals?
0:17.5	Because every week before we start rolling, you start singing the piano.
0:20.5	Oh yes.
0:21.3	Papa, are you here me?
0:23.1	Papa, can you hear me?
0:25.1	I do know all the words, all the songs in Yantle.
0:27.5	You see? I mean...
0:28.8	I love Yantle.
0:36.5	Did you perform musicals?
0:38.6	No, I actually never did perform in a musical.
0:41.5	Did you ever do a play?
0:42.3	Yes, I did a play.
0:43.4	I've done two...
0:45.1	No, three plays.
0:46.0	I didn't want in high school and then two in junior high school.
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