Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Chronicles where we're going to be talking all about the Bard himself,

William Shakespeare. I'm joined by the artist, formerly known as Roland Rat, Dr. Neiman Parvini.

Thank you for joining me.

Hi there, you're right. Yeah, really well, really well.

I've never been introduced as that before.

Thank you. I'll take that. So Shakespeare, you're obviously an authority.

You've written five books, is it, on Shakespeare?

Five books on Shakespeare.

And there's probably going to be a sixth coming out later this year.

Yeah, and I've just completed a course on Shakespeare.

So it was relatively fresh in mine because it'd been the first time I'd

worked on Shakespeare since 2018 or something. So yeah, it's all there. Right. It's all fresh. Yeah.

And I will just say as well that even though I would say it to you, I have actually myself started

at Nima's foundations of of Shakespeare, and it is thoroughly

engaging. You tell it in a really compelling way. And this isn't the loatocy. It's like

tapping me on the shoulder. This is just me as Lucas saying, it's a wonderful course, and I'd

highly recommend it. So one of the things that I wanted to start with was let's just rip off

the band-aid and get the irritating little normie question out the way. Did he write the plays,

AA? Did he write all the plays? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, there was a couple at the start of his

career that he collaborated on and a couple at the end of his career that he collaborated on.

But all the ones in the middle, all the famous ones that you all have heard of. Yeah, he did. He wrote them all.

Exactly. And one of the things that you say is that it's because there are certain, you know, things that happen

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