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This is the partially examined life still episode 299, part three now down to three of us

since that had to go, but we're still on the same day.

One of the things that Jonathan had brought up was this that Shakespeare, I guess as he

does in many of his plays, is that he makes comments on the arts itself, right?

On poetry.

And so this whole beginning of the play, you got the poet in the painter and they're

sort of comparing and the poet.

We could read through some of that and when time evaluates the poet in the painting,

when the poet and the painter come back at the end, and he has words to say about them

there and they have some words to say about how because they've just heard that he has

some money, they're not going to actually write anything for him until that's confirmed,

they're just going to promise.

So they come in with a more cynical take and he is one of the interpretations that he

pretends to like what they've done.

But at the beginning, he seems to actually like what they've done and say some things about

how I think we quoted in part two that the drawing is captured the nature of the man

or something like that.

Yeah.

And so that's Shakespeare's plays are often also reflections on art and what it means

to be an artist and they're often very explicitly so like in the tempest.

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