Ep. 91: All the World's a Social Construct

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Shakespeare's As You Like It is a reflection on social roles: how they work, and what happens when they don't. Escape with Spencer Klavan to the Forest of Arden, where you can be free from the expectations of society, MAN. Or can you?

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0:00.0	Do you ever feel like the world is just too much
0:03.2	and you want to check out of everything, like politics,
0:06.4	and life, and adulting?
0:08.9	Today on Young Heretics, I am taking you on a vacation,
0:13.1	courtesy of our old pal, William Shakespeare.
0:19.7	We are on a quest on this show to do every Shakespeare play.
0:23.3	One episode on every Shakespeare play
0:25.0	we're cycling through the three kinds
0:27.2	as enumerated in the first folio,
0:30.3	and those are tragedies, histories, and comedies.
0:33.9	So we just, the last one that we did was a tragedy,
0:37.2	and that was Romeo and Juliet.
0:39.4	Now we're going to move on to a comedy.
0:41.2	One of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies called,
0:44.7	as you like it, it is a great play,
0:47.2	a beautiful play with lots of famous speeches,
0:49.0	the All the Worlds of Stage speeches in this play,
0:51.6	which we're going to talk about.
0:52.7	It's also kind of a funny play because
0:54.6	almost nothing happens in it.
0:56.4	And that's part of the point.
0:58.4	It's about, it's part of a genre called Pastoral,
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