When you're born with a gift like this, you share it with the world.

Let me not think, Kant.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

A little month.

For ere those shoes were old with which he followed my poor father's body like Niobe, all tears,

why she, even she, oh God, a beast that once discourse

of reason would have more and longer, married with my uncle, my father's brother, but no more

like my father than I to Hercules.

Within a month,

ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her gallant eyes she married.

From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited.

I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folger's director.

The actor you were just enjoying a few seconds ago is, of course, the remarkable Derek Jacoby.

We got to sit down for an extended conversation with Jacoby at the end of 2017. This is part two of that talk. You don't need to listen to part one in order to understand this interview,

but we hope you will anyway, mostly because we think you'll really enjoy it.

In part one, Jacoby talked about playing Hamlet. This is a more

general conversation about his career at large. And what a career it's been, starting when he was

just a high school boy in the 1950s and moving on to the West End, Broadway, movies, and television.

We call this podcast,

Oh, for the muse of fire.

Derek Jacoby is interviewed by Barbara Bogave.

You know, you'd think that being a Shakespeare podcast that we get to talk to a lot of actors,

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