Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar

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Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Lend Me Your Ears is 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? Learn more about Lend Me Your Ears at slate.com/shakespeare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there listeners, I'm Isaac Butler, host of Slate's new podcast, Lend Me Your Ears.
0:05.3	The show is a six-part mini-series exploring how Shakespeare dramatized the political anxieties of his day
0:11.2	and how his plays speak to our own. In this episode that you're about to hear,
0:15.2	we talk about Julius Caesar and why a playwright living under a monarchy in the late 16th century
0:20.1	might be so fascinated by the fall of the Roman Republic.
0:23.4	You can find out more at slate.com slash Shakespeare and subscribe to Lemme Your Ears
0:28.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening and enjoy.
0:32.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker, you know me, Tim and Eric Bridesmaids, and fantastic four.
0:37.2	I'd like to personally invite you to listen to Office Hours Live with me and my co-hosts DJ Doug Pound.
0:42.8	Hello.
0:43.3	And Vic Berger.
0:44.4	Howdy.
0:44.9	Every week we bring you laugh fun games and lots of other surprises.
0:48.3	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:50.0	We love having fun, excuse me.
0:51.6	My song's.
0:52.3	Vic said something.
0:53.1	You said music.
0:53.9	I like having fun.
0:55.9	I like to laugh.
0:57.9	I like to meet people who can make me laugh.
1:01.6	Please subscribe.
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