This is a place learning, not a convalescent home. Much of what you are about to read has lots of words. Will take time, and some of it, i hope, will upset, alarm and discomfort you. For the time being, try not believing thing or being any one. You're here to study literature, not yourself. If that's unacceptable to you, switch courses now. Medear studies might suit you better. Ask me what explains shakespeare's continuing pre eminence despite the evidence the forts of the relevant revolutionaries. And my answer is his modernity. Read sh Shakespeare's contemporaries, and not one of them feels our contemporary in the way he does.
Created in partnership with Sotheby's, in a debate that spans the centuries, Peabody Award-winning spoken word performer George the Poet and Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson go head-to-head over which form of cultural expression best resonates now and forever. Does hip-hop and slam poetry speak more to society than historical texts that require background knowledge to be fully understood? Or does the lasting appeal of Shakespeare and other great figures from the canon show that some works have a universal value that stands the test of time?
This event was recorded on the 9th of June 2022, at Sotheby's in London and produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye and Audience Development Producer Yosola Olorunshola
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