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Jesuitical

Faith and wonder in Shakespeare

Jesuitical

America Media

News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We’re changing things up a bit today and bringing you a preview of a new podcast we’re enjoying and think you will, too. Where There’s a Will searches for the surprising places Shakespeare shows up outside the theater. Host Barry Edelstein, artistic director at one of the country’s leading Shakespeare theaters, and co-host, writer and director Em Weinstein, ask what is it about Shakespeare that’s given him a continuous afterlife in all sorts of unexpected ways? You’ll hear Shakespeare doing rehabilitative work in a maximum security prison, helping autistic kids to communicate, shaping religious observances, in the mouths of U.S. presidents, and even at the center of a deadly riot in New York City. Join Barry and Em as they uncover the ways Shakespeare endures in our modern society, and what that says about us. In this preview, Barry and Em take a deep dive into how Shakespeare informs contemporary religious practices and faith traditions, and explore one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays—The Winter's Tale. Hear more from Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sometimes you can feel a vibration in Orkney. It takes over the whole island.

0:06.0

Based on the memoir by Amy Lipprot's, critics are calling the Outrun a masterpiece.

0:11.0

I miss it. I miss how good it made me feel.

0:16.7

Sasha Ronan gives a magnificent performance.

0:19.8

The waves roll into the shore in time with my beating heart.

0:24.4

The Outrun in cinema September 27th.

0:28.7

Book tickets now.

0:30.2

Hey, Zach and Ashley here.

0:32.1

We'll be back with our regular episode soon, but in the meantime,

0:34.8

we wanted to share a preview of a podcast we've been enjoying and think you will too.

0:38.6

Now, you're probably used to seeing Shakespeare in your high school English slit class,

0:42.0

or on the big stage. But did you know that

0:44.7

Shakespeare turns up in so many other places?

0:47.0

On the new podcast, Where There's Will, Finding Shakespeare, Barry Edelstein, the artistic

0:52.4

director of one of the country's leading

0:54.5

Shakespeare theaters, and co-host, writer, and director M Weinstein, ask, what is

0:59.4

it about Shakespeare that's given him a continuous afterlife in all sorts of unexpected ways.

1:05.0

You'll hear Shakespeare doing rehabilitative work in a maximum security prison,

1:09.0

helping autistic kids to communicate in the mouths of US presidents,

1:12.0

and even at the center of a deadly riot in New York City.

1:15.0

And as you'll hear in this preview, shaping religious observances and bringing wonder to all of us.

1:21.0

Barry and M take a deep dive into how Shakespeare informs contemporary

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