Shakespeare and Solace

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

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4.7 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Do you have a passage from Shakespeare that you return to in difficult times? Is there a sonnet or soliloquy you keep coming back to for comfort or wisdom? This episode of Shakespeare Unlimited will be a little different. We sat down with the Folger’s director, Michael Witmore, and his predecessor in that office, Director Emerita Gail Kern Paster, to talk about the bits of Shakespeare that bring them solace. We also reached out to a few friends of the podcast and asked them to share a little Shakespeare with us. In the 52 minutes traffic of our episode, you’ll hear from Molly Booth, Ian Doescher, Lauren Gunderson, Keith Hamilton-Cobb, Derek Jacobi, Iqbal Khan, Fran Kranz, Ryan North, James Shapiro, Paul Werstine, Casey Wilder Mott, and Stephan Wolfert about the words they’ve been pondering in these troubling times. We hope you'll take some solace in those words too. From our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published April 28, 2020. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, “One Thing to Rejoice and Solace In” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer.

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0:00.0	In times like the ones we're facing now, what artists do you turn to when you need some comfort?
0:06.8	If the answer is Shakespeare, you've come to the right podcast.
0:15.9	From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited.
0:22.3	I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folgers director.
0:25.1	We're doing things a little differently in this episode.
0:28.0	It's a special edition of Shakespeare Unlimited for what we might call special times.
0:33.3	A conversation among friends on the idea of turning to Shakespeare for comfort in times of stress and uncertainty.
0:41.6	You'll also be hearing from a number of friends of the podcasts and people who've appeared here before.
0:47.3	We ask them to share the Shakespeare passages they turn to when times are rough.
0:52.5	You'll hear those throughout the show. As always, Barbara
0:56.0	Bogave is our host, and surprise, one of the guests, is me. The other is the woman who
1:02.5	preceded me in the Folger Director's Office, our Director Emerita and the editor of Shakespeare
1:08.0	Unlimited, Gail Kern Pastor. We call this podcast, One Thing to
1:13.2	Rejoice in. And now, Barbara, I'm going to toss it to you, as I always do, take it away.
1:20.8	Oh, thank you so much, Mike. And first, it is so nice to have you on the podcast with Gail as well.
1:26.8	Delighted. I'm so glad to have you here. And with Gail as well. Delighted.
1:27.8	I'm so glad to have you here.
1:29.4	And I hear both of you are in good health, which of course is the very first thing I wanted to know.
1:34.0	It's just an embarrassment of riches.
1:35.8	Welcome to the show.
1:36.9	Thank you.
1:37.4	Thanks, Barbara.
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