Is Shakespeare American? From Where There’s a Will

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Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We’re bringing you an episode of a new Pushkin podcast we’re enjoying and think you will, too. Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare 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 children to communicate, in the mouths of U.S. presidents, and even at the center of a deadly riot in New York City. In this episode, Barry and Em take us back in time to 1849 – a riot at a Shakespearean theater has left dozens of people dead. But as it always is with the Bard, there's more here than meets the eye. Why did some people think Shakespeare was important enough to die for? How did the work of one man writing in Victorian England capture the tensions brewing in a newly independent America? And who, if anyone, is Shakespeare really for?

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1:09.7	Hey last archive listeners, this week we're sharing a preview of another Pushkin Show,
1:14.8	where there's a will, which searches for the surprising places Shakespeare shows up
1:18.9	outside the theater.
1:19.9	You'll hear Shakespeare doing rehabilitative work in a maximum security prison, helping
1:24.8	autistic kids to communicate, shaping religious observances, even in the Oval Office.
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