Ep. 50: Manhood and Womanhood, Body and Soul

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In Twelfth Night, a comedy first performed at the turn of the 17th century, Shakespeare demonstrates a subtler and more sophisticated understanding of how sex and gender work than all our modern ideologues put together. As Spencer Klavan explains this episode of "Young Heretics," the play acknowledges the delicate counterplay between male and female, before ultimately affirming that each is a unity of body and soul.

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0:00.0	You are spirit and flesh, both together.
0:08.6	If music be the food of love, play on.
0:13.0	Give me access of it, that surfacing,
0:16.4	the appetite may sicken and so die.
0:19.8	That strain again, it had a dying fall.
0:23.0	Oh, it came or my ear like the sweet sound
0:26.6	that breathes upon a bank of violence, stealing and giving odor.
0:32.4	Enough, no more.
0:34.6	It is not so sweet now as it was before.
0:37.4	Oh, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,
0:42.1	that notwithstanding thy capacity receiveeth as the sea,
0:46.4	not enters there of what validity and pitch-so-air
0:50.5	but falls into abatement and low price even in a minute.
0:55.3	So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high, fantastical.
1:01.9	You know that speech, you know if music be the food of love, right?
1:05.1	One of the most famous things that William Shakespeare ever wrote
1:08.3	and it is the opening of his comedy,
1:10.7	Twelfth Night.
1:11.7	I have made a pledge on this show to do every Shakespeare play
1:16.2	because I love him that much.
1:18.3	And so this is our second one, we did Macbeth, which is a tragedy.
1:21.3	Now we're doing Twelfth Night, which is a comedy.
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