Ep 022 - Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 16 July 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What is Antony and Cleopatra ? Tragedy? Romance? History? Comedy ? The conventional wisdom is to pick tragedy, but this messy entry in the later chapters of Shakespeare's canon dances between the Bard's genres like a "high-coloured" Lepidus.

This week we struggle with Shakespeare's portrayal of the titular heroine, get lost in the play's globe-trotting plot, and - for good measure - debate the finer points of Sister, Sister.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.0	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:31.0	Do you want to talk about how hot it is again?
0:38.0	It's still hot.
0:40.0	It's still really hot.
0:42.0	Well, I need to talk about how hot it is again.
0:45.0	All right.
0:46.0	I know it's what the weather will be like in a week.
0:48.0	Yeah, it's still hot.
0:49.0	That's true.
0:50.0	Probably still really hot.
0:51.0	It's probably really rainy.
0:52.0	You know, worse than not, than what's not worse than the heat.
0:56.0	But I didn't realize that we were going to have a monsoon season this summer.
1:01.0	You mean like where every day it rains for like an hour and it's like the worst rain?
1:08.0	Because it's combining with the heat.
1:11.0	The rain is?
1:12.0	Yeah.
1:13.0	Wait.
1:14.0	Is that how it works?
1:15.0	It's like a thousand percent humidity.
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