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Tue. 12/06 - Gory, Graphic Shakespeare & Those Who Tried to Erase Him in the 1800s

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Candles will play stunt double for actors in a new staging of Shakespeare’s most violent play. Plus, we take a detour down the path of Shakespearean conspiracies. And, in other news, the moon just got its own infrastructure package. Sponsors: Uncommon Goods, Get 15% off your next gift at uncommongoods.com/cool Up First from NPR, Listen wherever you get your podcasts Links: Candles take the brunt in gore-free production of Titus Andronicus (The Guardian) Shakespeare by Bill Bryson  The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro  NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon (Nextgov) NASA, ICON Advance Lunar Construction Technology for Moon Missions (NASA) ICON To Develop Lunar Surface Construction System With $57.2 Million NASA Award (ICON) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Tuesday, December 6th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, Candles will play stunt double for actors in a new staging of Shakespeare's most violent play. Plus, we take a detour down the path of Shakespearean conspiracies. And in other news, the moon just got its own infrastructure package. Here's some

1:13.7

cool stuff for your ride home. To keep audiences going to see Shakespeare four centuries

1:22.2

after his death, you have to get creative sometimes. Maybe you set the play in the 1950s or in the present day.

1:29.9

Maybe you swap the gender of all the characters, perform it in British or American Sign Language,

1:35.5

give it a sci-fi bent, add some augmented reality elements, an immersive, choose-your-own-adventure-adventure-set,

1:42.1

or situate the play in South Harlem with a community of West

1:45.8

African immigrants like Shakespeare in the Park here in New York did with Mary Wives of Windsor last year.

1:51.1

All of those examples and much more have actually been produced.

1:55.4

And most of the time, they can actually tie a really deep and interesting reason for their

1:59.6

adaptation to the original text

2:01.7

or to the context of Shakespearean productions in the playwright's day.

2:06.3

But a new production of Titus Andronicus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe

2:10.9

Theatre in London is getting really creative.

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