Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hey Trumpcast listeners we wanted to introduce you to a new show! It's called Lend Me Your Ears and it's a six-part podcast miniseries exploring how Shakespeare’s works have shaped our modern views on politics. Each month, host Isaac Butler will dig into a different Shakespeare play to explore how Shakespeare was responding to his current events, and how they map onto our own. In this first episode, Lend Me Your Ears is looking at one of Shakespeare’s most accessible works: Julius Caesar. Why was the Bard so fascinated with the fall of the Roman Republic? Why do we tend to turn to this play when we worry about society’s future? How have contemporary theater makers reinvented Shakespeare’s version of the story for their audiences, especially in troubled political times? Subscribe to Lend Me Your Ears on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Slate Plus members get a bonus episode of Lend Me Your Ears every month. Learn more at slate.com/shakespeare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Trumpcast listeners, Jacob Weisberg here.
0:02.6	This is not an episode of Trumpcast.
0:04.8	It's another show that I want to recommend to you.
0:07.5	It's called Lennie Uriars, and it's about Shakespeare and politics.
0:12.4	The last show I recommended to you was Slow Burn about Watergate.
0:15.6	I think you're really going to like this one, too.
0:18.0	It's hosted by Isaac Butler, who is a terrific Shakespeare
0:22.4	dramaturg theater person.
0:24.5	And in the show, he's going to explore six different Shakespeare plays
0:28.5	that bear directly on politics in a lot of different senses.
0:33.0	I really urge you to subscribe to this show.
0:35.1	It's super interesting, and you can find it wherever you get podcasts.
0:40.0	And we are going to do a Trumpcast show about Shakespeare and politics.
0:43.8	It's the next one in our feed with Isaac Butler and Steven Greenblatt of Harvard University,
0:49.0	who's one of the foremost Shakespeare experts in the world.
0:52.0	He's the author of a new book called Tyrant.
0:54.6	I think you get the reference.
0:55.9	It's intentional.
0:57.1	And here is the first episode of Lennie Uriars.
1:21.0	Welcome to Lennie Uriars, a podcast about Shakespeare and politics.
1:24.6	I'm Isaac Butler.
1:26.4	In this episode, we're going to be talking about a play that still has the
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