Hi, this is Dr. John G. West, editor of The Magicians Twin. You're listening to Pints with Jack.

A critic who makes no claim to be a true Shakespearean scholar, and who has been

honored by an invitation to speak about Shakespeare to such an audience as this, feels

rather like a child brought in at dessert to recite his piece before

the grown-ups. I have a temptation to furbish up all my meager Shakespearean scholarship and

to plunge into some textual or chronological problem in the hope of seeming for this one hour,

more of an expert than I am. But it really won't do.

I should not deceive you.

I should not even deceive myself.

I have therefore decided to bestow all my childishness upon you.

This is Pints with Jack, season six, episode 33, Jack's bookshelf, William Shakespeare.

After Hours with Dr. Sarah Waters.

Hello everyone.

Here on Pites with Jack, we are reading through the works of C.S. Lewis.

But this month, we're working through Jack's bookshelf,

looking at the authors and the books which shaped the life and writing

of C.S. Lewis. Last week we considered Dante Alighieri, and today we are considering

William Shakespeare. And the opening quotation was from an essay that Lewis wrote called

Hamlet, The Prince or the Poem. Today, guiding us through the Bar's life and works is Dr. Sarah

Waters. Dr. Sarah Waters.

Dr. Sarah Waters is a lecturer in English Literature and Honorary Junior Research Fellow at the

University of Buckingham. Her main research areas are Shakespeare, early modern drama,

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