Shakespeare's work is filled with harrowing scenes of war,

but it's fair to say you've never heard it presented like this.

All right, shoot back, Alpha Team, online, M60, on me,

laid on suppress a fire, Bravo team,

bound around the right flank and kill those fuckers,

once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,

or close the wall up with our English dead!

From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited.

I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folcher's director.

That is actor Stefan Wolfert performing his one-man show Cry Havoc.

Wolfert, a U.S. Army veteran, draws together lines in Shakespeare's plays spoken by soldiers and former soldiers,

including Macbeth, Othello, and Richard III. He puts those words to the task of explaining the toll that soldiering in war can take on the psyches of the men and women who volunteer for military duty.

Audiences of veterans, their families, and others love this show.

Many also love Stefan's free weekly veterans-only acting classes, aimed at helping them readjust to life as civilians.

Stefan came into the studio to talk with us about the two labors of love that animate his life.

We call this podcast to the battle came here.

Soft I did but dream. How are conscience how does that afflict me?

Stefan Wolfert is interviewed by Barbara Bogave.

Cold, fearful drop stand on my trembling flesh.

What do I fear myself?

There's none else by.

Whenever I hear the St. Crispin's Day speech, or if I see Julius Caesar or Macbeth or, you know, any of the scenes with soldiers and former soldiers in the plays, I always wonder how well Shakespeare, who never served in the military, conveyed what wars like and what it does to people who are caught up in it, what it feels like if you're a soldier to watch Shakespeare.

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