King Lear I.I - The Play's the Thing (premier)

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This first episode of The Play's the Thing is a preview. For future episodes, please subscribe to The Play's the Thing's own feed.

Welcome to the premier episode of The Play's the Thing, a podcast dedicated to an ongoing examination and celebration of Shakespeare's entire canon. In this episode, David Kern, Matt Bianco, and Tim McIntosh dive into act I of King Lear, focusing primarily on scene I. Topics of conversation include: the Mount Rushmore of Shakespeare's plays, what makes a good Shakespearean tragedy so good, whether Lear should have divided his kingdom the way he did, how to read Cordelia's response, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of The Plays the Thing here from the
0:12.0	Close Reeds Podcast Network.
0:14.0	We are going to be discussing Shakespeare's entire canon one act at a time.
0:20.0	I'm David Kern and I am joined by Matt Bianco and Tim McIntosh.
0:24.6	Tim McIntosh and Matt Bianco.
0:26.3	We're still working out who's going to be named first on the show,
0:28.6	who gets first billing.
0:30.0	But those are the people I'm joined by Matt, Tim.
0:32.1	Welcome to the plays a thing.
0:33.1	Thanks for joining me.
0:34.5	Thanks for having us, David.
0:35.8	You're welcome.
0:37.1	We are here. We are here to discuss
0:40.4	King Lear first. It's going to be the first play we discuss here on the place that thing. And for those
0:44.7	who did not listen to the podcast trailer thing that we put up or just haven't heard us discussing
0:50.5	it on other podcasts, we are going to be discussing one act for each episode.
0:54.9	Thus, each play will take us five episodes. But then we're also going to do a Q&A episode,
1:01.0	added on to it. So we'll do six episodes over six weeks for each play. We'll do about three plays
1:06.4	and then we'll take a few weeks off. So it'll be like a three little three play cycle.
1:10.0	Where do the cues come from?
1:11.2	From the listeners.
1:13.0	How do the listeners give us cues?
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