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Young Heretics

Ep. 27: The Blood of the King

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a gory, nail-biting, creepy romp. But it's also a brilliant depiction of how the world caves in upon a man who violates the law of God, and how intimate, personal relationships can change the course of history. In this episode of "Young Heretics," Spencer Klavan dives into his first Shakespeare episode (but certainly not his last) to take a look at how free will and fate overlap to make one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the West.

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0:00.0

Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself?

0:04.5

Has it slept since?

0:06.5

And wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely.

0:13.6

From this time such I account thy love.

0:18.0

Art thou affeared to be the same and thy known act and valor as thou art in desire?

0:24.5

Wich thou have that which thou esteems to the ornament of life and live a coward in my own

0:31.6

esteem, letting I dare not wait upon I would.

0:40.0

Oh boy, it's time to do a little Shakespeare.

0:44.0

I'm excited about this and it's also a little bit daunting.

0:47.3

I'm sure it's daunting for people that haven't encountered a lot of literature before.

0:51.2

He's like Shakespeare, he's such a big deal and he is, he's such a big deal.

0:54.7

I mean for anybody that doesn't know Shakespeare was a playwright, led between 1582 and 1616,

1:00.8

fairly relatively prolific.

1:02.1

We have a lot of material from him and I am going to make a commitment right here and now to do

1:08.7

an episode of every Shakespeare play eventually on this show.

1:12.7

God willing, you know, assuming that I don't drop dead or get hit by lightning,

1:16.2

we will eventually cover every Shakespeare play.

1:18.7

Some I'll do with guests and some I'll do alone, this one I'm going to do alone,

1:21.7

I'm doing with Beth today.

1:24.4

But look, I am one of those guys who really does think that Shakespeare is as great as everybody

1:29.2

says he is. I mean, I'm not going to give you some, you know, hyper fancy take about like,

1:35.1

well, actually it was Christopher Marlow or whatever.

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